• Material is open for research.
• Manuscript on paper of St. Jerome, 96 Epistles. With 1) Hieronymus Stridonensis (c. 348-420), Epistulae, and related texts. 2) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Vita Malchi. 3) Table of contents of artt. 1-112. A later hand has added in the right margin the folio numbers where the various texts are to be found.
• Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
• Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva on ff. ...... . The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded.
• Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters in artt.1-111. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in ... at the opening of the various texts (3-line initial at the opening of art. 112). On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti.
• Binding: Seventeenth Century (?). Brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames.
• Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
• Jerome, Letters and Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.
• Latin letters.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.