Excerpts from the New Testament, etc.

Published/Created:

Italy
[between 1450 and 1500]

Physical Description:

ff. i + 260 + i : paper ; 210 x 140 (writing space varies) mm.

Materials:

paper

Related Links:

http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms714.htm

Notes:

Manuscript on paper. Written by several scribes using various scripts, ranging from humanist miniscule to gothic bastarda and bookhand. Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands, often concerning exemplars.
Formerly in the libraries of the Earl of Guilford and Sir Thomas Phillipps (ms. 6899; shelf number on label on spine).
Some initials and headings in red. Initial and marginal ornamentation on f. 15r in pink, yellow, and olive green. Marginal design on f. 16v in violet and yellow. Ornate pen initials on f. 158r, 207r, and 229r. Smaller initials and rubrics in violet and red throughout.
Binding: Eighteenth-century half leather over boards.
Cite as: Excerpts from the New Testament, Etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Robert G. Babcock and Mark L. Sosower, Learning from the Greeks: An Exhibition Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Aldine Press (New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1994), p. 13, no. 8.
ff. 6v-12v, 122v-123v, 152v-157v, 206r-v blank, not digitized.

Topics:

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin

Genre:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Format:

Mixed Material

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 714

Orbis Record:

9658872

Orbis Barcode:

39002091599507

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

10603628

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

10636663

PID:

digcoll:3838508