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Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc
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Title
Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc.
Created
Italy (Florence ?), 1464.
Physical Description
ff. i + 56 + i : paper ; 290 x 115 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Artt. 1-3 are copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with relatively many abbreviations. The numerous marginal lemmata, headings or Nota-marks are, apart from a few later additions, by the same hand. Artt. 4-5 are by two different 16th century Italian hands.
Watermark: a horn (var. Briquet 7686). An unknown number of bifolios is missing between ff. 28 and 29.
Artt. 1-3: a few red or pale red headings; Paragraph marks, capitals and stroking of the majuscules in the same colour. The running headlines indicate the number of the Dialogue or Book excerpted on the page below; they are in black in art. 1, in red (e.g. "Li.// 28") in artt. 2-3. Artt. 4-5 are undecorated.
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Mottled beige paper over pasteboard.
In Latin.
Provenance
Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts from Plato (427-347 B.C.), De legibus, in Latin translation. 2) Excerpts from Plinius Maior (23-79), Naturalis historia, C. Mayhoff, ed. (Teubner, 1906 ff.), Books 27-37. With an additional text: Italian remedy for healing ringworm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
August 04, 2011
References
Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder. 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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