Manuscript, on paper, in Gothic bookhand by several different scribes, produced in Northern Italy around 1400.
Description:
Binding: modern quarter calf binding., Decoration: large initial P, characteristic of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century Northern Italian initials (f. 1r); two heads, one of a bishop (f. 43r); rubricated initials at section headings., Inscription: "Liber elisey de piasiis; Puluis ut inuentum sic desunt septra potentum.", Inscription: "Liber guidini et jacobi de piasiis.", Lines 2081-98 of the printed text, a section missing from many versions, appear at the end (after line 2116)., Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and Watermark: similar to Bricquet 4001 (Venice, 1401) and 4002 (Bergamo, 1402).
Subject (Name):
Geoffrey,--of Vinsauf,--fl. 1200
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Medieval