Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 Cicero, Marcus Tullius Petrus, Diaconus, of Monte Cassino, ca. 1107-ca. 1140 Plato Plutarch Probus, Marcus Valerius
Published / Created:
1465
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 313
Image Count:
22
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato.
Description:
Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown/red calf, gold-tooled. Paste decorated edges. On spine, stamped in gold but nearly effaced: "Ciceronis et aliorum varia. MSS 1465"., Initials, 5- to 2-line, ff. 1r, 39v, 71r (space for additional initials on ff. 105v and 149r), gold edged in black with white-vine ornament, against crimson, green and light blue; white-vine extensions in upper and inner margins. On f. 1r a coat of arms in lower margin surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout., Script: Written in humanistic bookhand below the top line by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-128r and 149r-191v; Scribe 2) ff. 129r-148v and 192r-207v., and Water damage has obliterated several words in the lower left of f. 1r.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy--Early works to 1800, and Roman law
[Atlas factice of 50 maps, primarily by Johann Baptist Homann and/or issued by the Homann Erben
Image Count:
1
Publisher:
Edita sumtibus Homannianorum Heredum
Subject (Geographic):
Bremen (Germany : Duchy) --Maps --Early works to 1800, Hannover (Germany : Province) --Maps --Early works to 1800, Lower Saxony (Germany) --Maps --Early works to 1800, and Westphalia (Germany) --Maps --Early works to 1800
An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais. and Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and cream, blue-green, and red paste-paper sides. Red and olive green paste-paper pastedowns in a chevron pattern. Red edges. and Script: Written in a small neat got
Subject (Name):
Vincent,--of Beauvais,--d. 1264
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Vice, and Virtue