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Virtues and vices, exempla
Title
Virtues and vices, exempla.
Created
Northern Italy, [between 1400 and 1425]
Physical Description
ff. i + 151 + i : paper ; 216 x 145 (165 x 100-115) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands.
2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red.
Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167".
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 73, no. 80. Ullman, p. 456, no. 50. Dutschke, pp. 176-77, no. 70.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 27, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 80.
Virtues and Vices, Exempla. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Virtues and Vices, Exempla. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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