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Laudario
Title
Laudario.
Created
Italy, [between 1400 and 1500]
Physical Description
ff. iii + 11 + iii : paper ; 140 x 106 (106 x 79) mm.
Language
Italian
Notes
Watermarks: unidentifed balance (?) along upper edge, trimmed.
Script: Written in a small gothic bookhand; art. 33 added in a large size gothic bookhand by another scribe.
Plain red initials, 2-line, mark beginning of each poem; opening letter for each stanza washed with yellow. In art. 33 two plain red initials, the second with modest penwork designs also in red; first letter of each sentence stroked with red.
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Red velvet case with impression of a very large ornament at fore edge of upper board. Perhaps covered with used fabric, since other impressions appear in unusual locations on boards. Off-set of script on fabric stays.
In Italian.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased in 1960 from Harold Maker (?) by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper (brown, coarse) of a Laudario, a collection of Italian religious songs by Jacopone da Todi and others.
Publications
Faye and Bond, pp. 91-92, no. 239.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 12, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 239.
Laudario. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Laudario. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th century.
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