Tractatus de varys et virtutibus

Notes:

In modern limp vellum, smooth spine, title in blue and red ink on spine; armorial stamp of Comte Chandon de Briailles on front and back covers., Spine inscription: enlarged capitals in red with blue pen florishes, Spine and boards of a treatise on the Virtues and Vices that includes an eighteenth-century forgery of its medieval provenance with armorial stamp of Comte Chandon de Briailles on front and back., Inscription on spine in modern hand with title “sermones ass. saec XIII.”, and Written, probably in Italy, in the late 14th or early 15th century. From the book-label: au Cte. Chandon de Briailles. mss. 68. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2011.

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Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Virtues--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts (document genre)--Italy--1400, Armorial bindings (Binding)--France, Gothic cursive--Italy--1400, and Bookbinding--Specimens

Language:

lat

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