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Beinecke MS 985
Italy, [ca. 1450]
Recipes for scribes and painters and a few other recipes.
In Latin and Italian.
ff. 14 : paper ; 230 x 145 mm.
- Material is open for research.
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian
recipes.
- Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA (MS 225). Purchased from him on the
Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Script: Art. 1 is copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under
Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Art. 2 (Hand B) is in Italian Gothica
Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of
d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation
"Yhesus".
- Binding: Paper binding, 20th Century. On the front board a small parchment label with
the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r
and 12r).
- Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
- Recipes for Scribes and Painters and a Few Other Recipes. General Collection, Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects:
- Art -- 15th century.
- Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 15th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.