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Manipulus florum, etc
Title
Manipulus florum, etc.
Created
Italy, [between 1400 and 1495]
Physical Description
ff. iv + 285 + iv : paper ; 215 x 145 (ca. 127 x 80) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Huchet 7693.
Script: Written by a single scribe in various styles of italic script; heavy annotations by the scribe and later hands.
Several crude initials: f. 1r, 4-line gold initial on blue ground, infilled red, and 3-line red initial on gold ground; on f. 2r, 5-line red initial on blue ground; f. 72v, 4-line red initial on green ground with some flourishes and gold dots, infilled blue. Initials (2- and 1-line), names of authors (added in margins), paragraph marks and headings in pale red.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled title on spine: "Miscellanea di Seneca, Petrarcha e d'altri". Orange, leather-grained paper sides. Rebacked.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston in 1959; his gift to the Beinecke Library in 1969.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts (De prudentia, De fortitudine, De continentia, De iustitia) from Martin of Braga, Formula honestae vitae, a work often attributed incorrectly to Seneca. 2) Salomonis dicta; excerpts concerning wisdom, including quotes from Seneca, Book of Wisdom, etc. 3) Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum. 4) Excerpts from Petrarch, De remediis utriusque fortunae. 5) Isidore, Chronicon.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 92, no. 244 (while in the collection of T. E. Marston). D. Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi 9 (Padova, 1986) pp. 192-94, no. 76.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 380.
Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus Florum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus Florum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Commonplace books - Italy - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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