Newberry Library, VAULT folio Wing MS ZW 141 .46

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18233

Shelfmark:

VAULT folio Wing MS ZW 141 .46

Title:

Alphabet; showing geometrical construction and proportions of gothic majuscule (lombard) and minuscule (rotunda) letters

Alphabet

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 48 leaves : paper ; 300 x 200 mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Paper (very thick). fol. 48 ; 12 (1 is front pastedown) 2-38 46 5-68 78 (8 is the rear pastedown).
Origin: Written in northern Italy. Formerly in the library of the Benedictine abbey of Saint John the Evangelist in Parma.
Note on flyleaf: "Iste liber est monasterii [written over monachorum] congregationis s[an]cte Iustine ordinis sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatus monasterio s[an]cti Ioannis euangeliste de P[ar]ma [three preceding words written over an erasure], signatus nu[m]o 68."
On rear flyleaf: drawing of a male head captioned as "Pietro nasone"

Keyword:

uncial

Italian rotunda (script)

rustic capitals

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Lettering

Early works

Alphabets

Calligraphy--Technique

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991932558805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPBBWW7

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library