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- Creator:
- Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 683
- Image Count:
- 243
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on goatskin parchment of 1) St Basil of Ancyra, De vera integritate virginitatis. Translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari between 1423-1424; 2) St John Chrysostom, Adversus oppugnatores vitae monasticae. Translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari in 1420
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one scribe, writing in Humanistica Semitextualis with a few Gothic features., Pale red rubrics. Text undecorated, with the following exceptions: plain 2-4-line initials (Capitalis) in red or blue on pp. 1, 152, 155, 188; 5-line white vinestem initial integrated in a three-margins-left border in the same style on p. 3; the initial and border have been attributed by Albinia C. de la Mare to Giovanni d'Antonio Varnucci (1416-1457)., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries; brown morocco over cardboard. Both covers are blind-tooled with frames of fillets and four different flower tools. Five raised bands are on the spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Translations of Sts Basil of Ancyra and John Chrysostom