De legendis gentilium libris

Creator:

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379

Published/Created:

Italy
13th-16th centuries

Physical Description:

ff. 664 : vellum and paper ; 206 x 148 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms532.htm

Notes:

Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end.
Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing. The printed text, which is not foliated, is bound between ff. 454 and 455. It is missing the final page of the first quire (Cf. Gfp 83. n518).

Abstract:

Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris. Bound with various treatises on grammar and rhetoric, including works of Constantinus Lascaris, Georgios Choeroboskos, Manuel the Rhetorician, Theodorus Prodromus, Maximus Planudes, Corinthus, Phrynichus, and Tryphon, and several literary texts, including the Aurea carmina of Pythagoras, Hymni Orphici, Epistolae of Michael Apostolios and Synesius Cyrenaeus, and the Dialogus of Theophylactus Simocatta, and a printed text: Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, Rome, 1518.
Bound with various treatises on grammar and rhetoric, including works of Constantinus Lascaris, Georgios Choeroboskos, Manuel the Rhetorician, Theodorus Prodromus, Maximus Planudes, Corinthus, Phrynichus, and Tryphon, and several literary texts, including the Aurea carmina of Pythagoras, Hymni Orphici, Epistolae of Michael Apostolios and Synesius Cyrenaeus, and the Dialogus of Theophylactus Simocatta, and a printed text: Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris, Rome, 1518.

Topics:

Classical literature
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Fathers of the church
Grammar, Comparative and general--Early works to 1800
Language and languages--Grammars--Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Rhetoric--Early works to 1800

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin

Genre:

Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

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.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Creator:

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379

Source Title:

De legendis gentilium libris

Source Created:

Italy, 13th-16th centuries

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 532

Orbis Record:

9600958

Orbis Barcode:

39002091598426

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1240238

Citation:

Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

2055862

PID:

digcoll:3570747