Manuscript on parchment of St. Bonaventure's Commentary on Book IV of the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, Germany. Cream colored pigskin, blind-tooled. Gilt edges. Green and cream endbands. Title on spine: "De septem/ Sacrament. Tract. Mst."., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, beige with foliage serif, red, against blue ground with white filigree, containing an apothecary (unguentarius) mixing ingredients in a mortar with two pestles. Numerous flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate in red with blue, and vice versa, or often plain initials in red or blue. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks, alternating red and blue, appear sporadically (ff. 1r-36v)., and Script: Written by several scribes in small gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800, America --Early accounts to 1600, Latin America --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Latin America --History --To 1600
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]