Letters and treatises

Creator:

Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

Published/Created:

Italy,
[ca. 1450]

Physical Description:

ff. i + 240 + i : parchment.

Materials:

parchment

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms932.htm

Notes:

Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva on ff. ...... . The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded.
Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters in artt.1-111. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in ... at the opening of the various texts (3-line initial at the opening of art. 112). On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti.
Binding: Seventeenth Century (?). Brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames.
Some errors in contemporary foliation.

Topics:

Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven

Topics:

Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Historiated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century
Marginalia
Miniatures (Illuminations)

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 932

Orbis Record:

9885218

Orbis Barcode:

39002092699942

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

10675703

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

10563077

PID:

digcoll:3791697