Saints' lives
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2065207
Description
- Title
- Saints' lives
- Published / Created
- 1465
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse) of Lives of the Saints, preceded by accounts of events in the Bible from both the Old and New Testaments. Folios 51 and 61 interchanged in rebinding.
- Description
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Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case with two red labels on spine: "Trattati di storia sacra" and "Manuscritto 1360".
Crudely executed title page, f. 1r, consisting of floral and foliage motifs in upper margin, scroll around column in inner margin, and, in outer margin, scroll around column terminating in elongated arm with text on the scroll (much rubbed and stained). In lower margin a coat of arms (damaged; probably: or, two columns gules); the letters B and C on either side in the bases of columns in inner and outer margins. The decoration of title page in bright red and green. Plain initials (some with simple foliage designs), headings, paragraph marks, pointing hands, and hands holding crosses or symbols of passions of martyrs (e. g., gridiron for Laurence), all in bright red, green, and/or black.
Folio 1 damaged; no loss of text.
Script: Written by several scribes in unruly mercantesca script, above top line. Script becomes smaller and tighter toward end of codex.
Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3708 dated Genoa, 1465. - Extent
- ff. i + ii + 187 : paper ; 332 x 236 (242 x 162) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 56
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Hand coloring
Illustrations
Manuscripts
Marginalia - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic)
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Christian hagiography
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature--15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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Saints' Lives. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 56.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9807149
- Object ID (OID)
- 2065207
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars056.htm
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