- Published / Created:
- [between 1460 and 1470]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 201
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts primarily on virtues and vices.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Strips cut from a parchment manuscript (text washed) are adhered around the fold of each quire. Original sewing on three kermes pink, slit straps. The parchment sides are sewn with the first and last quires., Large decorated initial, f. 2r, 16-line. Body of initial formed of intricate interlace bands, yellow and brown washes, against paper and yellow and brown ground; exhibits strong shading. Display script in red and blue. Rubrics (pale red) in text in humanistic bookhand., Script: Written in a calligraphic and sometimes flamboyant humanistic cursive script by a single scribe, below top line., and Watermarks: unidentified letter (?), in gutter.
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanistic commonplace book
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- Creator:
- Hermonymus, Georgius, 15th cent.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475-1476]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1217
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- of the book's script, contents, and
- Description:
- Binding: original, worn velvet over wooden boards., Decoration: heraldic illumination on f. 1v of two angels holding a coat of arms, overpainted to that of the Totewhill family (sable, three covered cups argent); the mitre associated with the abbacy of St. Albans floats above. Borderwork around the miniature consists of gold leaf and alternating red and blue flowers. 1 four-line gilt initial "M" on 2r with accompanying blue and red design and gold borderwork with blue and red background. Between 1 and 3 two to three-line gilt initials per page with blue and red background. Rubrics in red., Ex libris St. Albans Abbey. Ex libris the Totewhill family of Cornwall. Purchased from Christie's London sale (2017 July 12, lot 13) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2017., Layout: single column of 14 lines., Script: main text in a humanist hand, possibly that of George Hermonymus. Later English and Latin verses in three early modern hands., and The manuscript contains a dedicatory preface from George Hermonymus to "Gulielmum," the Abbot of St. Albans, either William Albon (1465-1475) or William of Wallingford (1476-1492); this manuscript was probably presented while Hermonymus was on a diplomatic mission to England between 1475 and 1476. The coat of arms of the Totewhill family of Cornwall have been overpainted in the heraldic miniature.
- Subject (Name):
- Albon, William,---1476., Hermōnymos, Geōrgios,--15th cent., St. Albans Abbey, and Wallingford, William,---1488?
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical philosophy, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sentences of the philosophers.
- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace
- Description:
- the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq
- Subject (Name):
- Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586.