Newberry Library - Epistola ad Nepotes de utilitate studii in libros gentilium

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Title Epistola ad Nepotes de utilitate studii in libros gentilium

Creator Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379

Date 1450

Language Latin

Subjects Greek letters

Description Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment (southern preparation), fol. 29 (foliated 1-27, beginning with the third leaf, fol. 1-2, later additions; fol. 1, grafted on old stub) ; 1¹⁰ (-1-3; 2-3 replaced with blanks) 2-3¹⁰ ; formerly part of a larger codex ; quires numbered on verso of last folio in middle of lower margin, "Xm-XIIm" ; quires 1-9 missing since manuscript was bound in the 18th century ; horizontal catchwords on lower inner margins
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; ruled in hard point
Script: Written in humanistic semi-curisva in brown ink; "f's" and "s's" decend below line; occsional used of cursive form of "g" and of hanging short terminal "s"' fol. 1r, headings in violet in rustic capitals, elsewhere also in violet but in script of text; index notes of proper names in violet in script of text in outer margin.
Decoration: fol. 1r (7 lines high) and fol. 2v (5 lines high): two gold initials with white vine stem on grounds of green, blue, and magenta
Origin: Written in Italy in the middle of the 15th century.

Extent 29 leaves : paper ; 157 x 104 (111 x 69) mm

Format Humanistic scripts, Illuminated manuscripts, Manuscripts (Documents), Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Miscellanies, Morocco bindings (Binding)

Archival Collection Title C. L. Ricketts Calligraphy Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number ZW 1 .4b

BibID 264843

Size 2710px × 3933px 61.03 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL122J9E

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