Legenda di San Giusto Paladino di Francia

Published/Created:

Italy (Venice?)
ca. 1460?

Physical Description:

ff. ii + 78 + ii
200 x 130 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms615.htm

Notes:

On paper.
Binding: Eighteenth-century. White parchment over cardboard. Spine with red leather title-label with gold-tooled inscription "LE BATTAGL. DI J. PALLAD. CON IL DEMONIO. MS. 1400". Marbled endpapers and red and blue sprinkled edges.
The first letter of each verse heightened with yellow. Red plain initials (3-4 lines) at the head of each Book (no space had been provided for the last one).
Binder's blanks at end uncut, not scanned.

Abstract:

Manuscript on paper of anonymous epic in ottava rima dealing with San Giusto paladin of Charlemagne. The dialect is North Italian, probably Venetian. Copied by one hand in bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (but f and straight s slightly descending below the base-line), with majuscules under strong Humanistic influence.

Topics:

France --Kings and rulers --Early works to 1800

Topics:

Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Manuscripts
Marginalia
Rubrics

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 615

Orbis Record:

9612581

Orbis Barcode:

39002091547712

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1360399

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

9998568

PID:

digcoll:3682943