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    • Author/Creator:Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
    • Title:Facetiae.
    • Published/Created:Lombardy, [ca. 1450]
    • Physical Description:ff. ii + 37 : paper ; 226 x 157 (147 x 95) mm.
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    • Notes:Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre S 9050; watermark on back pastedown similar to Briquet Fleur 6596-97, 99 and 6602.
      Script: Written in a round humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
      One illuminated initial on f. 1r, 6-line, gold against deep red, green, and blue cusped ground with white filigree and white dots. From left corners penwork sprays issuing forth into inner margin, with blue and red blossoms and green leaves. Plain initials, placed between vertical rulings, alternate blue and red, some omitted.
      Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires cut in V's. Brown goatskin case faintly blind-tooled with concentric frames and spiralling dragon motifs that incorporate flowers and long beaked birds. Rebacked.
      In Latin.
      Purchased in 1952 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston.
      Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
    • Access and use:Material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript on paper of Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae.
    • Publications:Faye and Bond, p. 73, no. 79.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • References:Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 79.
    • Cite as:Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
      Fabliaux.
      Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
      Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9807603