YALE UNIVERSITY
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PRE-1600 MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 192 (olim Zi.3692) Italy, s. XV^^2
Jacobus Utinensis
ff. 1r-4v Supplicatio oratoria D. Iacobi Utinensis de duobus
canonicatibus pro nepote. Pollicitus fui praeclara gesta Sanctitatis
tuae litteris mandaturum...plena est promissi gratia nostri et illud
consecutus sum tantopere concupiuj//
Paper (watermarks: unidentified bird), ff. 4, 199 x 144 (135 x 82)
mm. Written in 22 long lines; single vertical bounding lines; ruled in
hard point.
Composed of one gathering of four leaves.
Written in italic with heading of modified square
capitals.
Plain initial, 3-line, in brown, at beginning of text; heading in
red.
Unbound, but with a manuscript fragment as binding reinforcement
in the center of quire.
Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century; formerly
bound in at the end of Cicero, Synonyma, edited by Paulus Alexius
Sulpitianus and printed by Stephan Plannck (Rome, 1491); GKW 7034.
Presented to Yale by Louis M. Rabinowitz in 1946.
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 38, no. 192.
Barbara A. Shailor