- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-65]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 15
- Image Count:
- 173
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini (1398-1444).
- Description:
- Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. "Alla rustica" with grey-green paper added over the spine and part of the boards. Edges yellow., Partial border in inner margin of white vine-stem ornament, f. 1r, on blue, green and pink ground with white and blue dots. In lower border terminals extending in ink hair spray with green, pink and blue flowers and gold balls frame central medallion with a crude outline drawing of a head in profile (later addition?). Two decorated initials, 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, pink and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r initial joined to partial border. Heading on f. 1r in red., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-gothic script, above top line.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature--15th century, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello italico adversus gothos.
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- Creator:
- Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241
Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 127
- Image Count:
- 287
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Raymundus de Pennaforte, Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio (Libri I-IV). With 61 selections from the Decretales of Gregory IX compiled by Raymundus de Pennaforte; Raymundus de Pennaforte, Dubitalia cum responsionibus (Responsio canonica).
- Description:
- Binding: Date? The covers are wanting but were probably of limp vellum. Original sewing on twisted tawed skin, slit ribbons, the sewing beaded in the center. A fragment of a parchment bifolium from a 14th-century breviary (mostly rubbed and illegible) is glued to the spine and cut out for the sewing supports; a portion of the fragment extends along the front and back of the text block., Fine flourished initial, 5-line, divided red and blue, with penwork designs in both colors and long marginal tail of letter Q, f. 1r. Smaller flourished initials incorporating the heads of bird-like grotesques and cross-hatching designs. 1-line initials alternate red and blue for chapter lists. Paragraph marks and running headlines in red and blue. Rubrics throughout; instructions for rubricator along outer edges of leaves, some perpendicular to text., Parchment, ff. i (early parchment flyleaf) + 138 (medieval foliation i-l begins on f. 2)., Purchased from Enzo Ferrajoli in Geneva in 1957 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Raymond,--of Peñafort, Saint,--1175?-1275
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Marriage (Canon law), Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Penance (Canon law), and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio, etc.