Two letters

Creator:

Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20

Published/Created:

Italy,
[between 1400 and 1500]

Physical Description:

ff. v + 8 + vii : paper ; 340 x 240 mm.

Materials:

paper

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS788.pdf

Notes:

Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis Libraria.
Art. 1 opens with a 4-line Gothic flourished initial in blue with red penwork extending in the inner margin; art. 2 opens with a 4-line Gothic plain initial in red.
Binding: Twentieth century (?). Half binding was removed and the codex restored and rebound in 2000 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The new binding is grey cloth over heavy pasteboard. On the spine a new black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription “SANCTI JERONIMI EPISTOLAE MS 788”. Among the flyleaves, the two following f. 50 are earlier than the others, which are yellowish machine-made paper belonging to the discarded binding. A modern hand wrote on the last front flyleaf r the title “Sancti Ieronimi epistolae ad Salvinam et Ageruchiam”.
Foliated 43-50. Modern binding and binder's blanks not digitized.

Abstract:

Manuscript on paper of Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, 347-420), 1) Epistula 79 (Ad Salvinam). 2) Epistula 123 (Ad Geruchiam).

Topics:

Latin letters
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Topics:

Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Correspondence
Manuscripts

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 788

Orbis Record:

9869064

Orbis Barcode:

39002104686473

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

10949286

Citation:

St. Jerome, Two Letters. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

10948422

PID:

digcoll:3917136