Epistulae et tractatus
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Description
- Title
- Epistulae et tractatus
- Creator
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Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20 - Contributor
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Published / Created
- 1439-1440.
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy,
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of St. Jermone, Epistulae et tractatus. With Ambrosius Mediolanensis (St. Ambrose, 339-397), De excessu fratris.
- Description
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Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown leather over cardboard boards, the covers blind-tooled with a triple fillet lozenge inside a floral roll frame, the center and the corners gold-tooled with two different floral tools. Spine with four raised bands and remnants of gold-tooled lilies in the compartments. Edges painted blue. Marks of two pairs of ties.
Headings in red. Red heightening (stroking) of the majuscules. 2-3-line flourished initials (with guide letters) in red with penwork varying from pale red to purple. A large (10 lines) decorated flourished initial in red, with developed purple penwork (“R” instead of “D”) in littera duplex style on f. 229v. Two Gothic historiated initials on gold background with floral marginal extensions: f. 1r: St. Jerome with lion and boy holding open a book (damaged); f. 25v: a monk copying.
Script: Apparently four scribes: A, Iohannes de Carnago, is the main scribe and copied ff. 1r-260v (with the exception of 8 lines at the bottom) in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; B copied from the bottom lines of f. 260v to f. 270v, in Humanistica Textualis Libraria; C copied ff. 271r-275v in Gothico-Humanistica Textualis Libraria; and D copied ff. 276r-304v in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria.
The codex belonged to the Diocesan Library of Dunedin, New Zealand. Sotheby sale, London, 27 March 1950 (catalogue, no. 35). - Extent
- ff. 304 + ii : parchment ; 235 x 170 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 766
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Annotations
Decorated initials
Historiated initials
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics - Material
- parchment
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic)
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Christian literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- St. Jerome and others, Epistulae et Tractatus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9868141
- Object ID (OID)
- 10929364
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS766.pdf