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• Author/Creator:Mago, Agogo.
  
• Title:Libro medesynal delli spariueri.
  
• Published/Created:Italy, [between 1450 and 1475]
  
• Physical Description:ff. i + 10 + i : parchment ; 220 x 142 (155 x 100) mm.
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Beinecke MS 76
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
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• Notes:Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand.
  One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and blue throughout.
  Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.
  In Italian.
  Purchased from Quaritch, 26 Oct. 1946, by the Yale Library Associates, with funds contributed by Mrs. Samuel Milbank.
  Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
  
• Access and use:Material is open for research.
• Summary:Manuscript on parchment of Agogo Mago, Libro medesynal delli spariueri.
  
• Publications:Faye and Bond, p. 26, no. 76.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• References:Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 76.
  
• Cite as:Agogo Mago, Libro Medesynal delli Spariueri. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Mago, Agogo.
  Game and game-birds.
  Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
  Italian literature--15th century.
  Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
  Medicine--Early works to 1800.
  Medicine, Medieval.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
  
• Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century.