YALE UNIVERSITY BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND
MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 982
Northern Italy, [between 1300 and 1400]
Fatti di Cesare.
In Latin.
ff. i + 48 + i : parchment ; 295 x 215 mm.
Material is open for research.
Manuscript on parchment of Fatti di Cesare, Italian adaptation of the French prose
romance Li fait des Romains.
Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA (MS 202). Purchased from Bernard
M. Rosenthal.
Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The first word
of a Book, after the (planned) initial, is written in Gothic majuscules.
There are guide letters and space has been reserved for 2-line initials (3-line at
the beginning of a Book), but only a few of these have been executed (plain initials
with the simplest penwork decoration in ... , by a later hand); the large fancy black
initial at the beginning of the Prologue is equally a later addition made by an unexperienced
hand. There are neither headings nor other decoration.
Binding: The binding is lost. The quires are sewn on four double white leather thongs.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Fatti di Cesare. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University.
Subjects:
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 14th century.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.