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10. Treatise on falconry, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 127
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, parts 1-3. 2) Treatise of Dancus rex. 3) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. Artt. 4-5: Anonymous treatises on horses. 6) Moamin, part 4, on dogs
- Alternative Title:
- Moamin
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a small round gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37v, 67v-75v; Scribe 2) ff. 39r-67r., One 6-line initial, red and blue, filled with red and blue penwork in a floral pattern. 4-, 2-, and 1-line pen initials, red, with long trailing serifs and blue calligraphic flourishes. 2- and 1-line initials outside text column. On f. 1r, arms of the duchy of Austria (crudely executed; later addition?):, or, two eagles palewise displayed and crowned sable (Hungary): impaled with barry of 6 gules and argent; supported by griffins passant gules; the whole set between thick pink bands. Line-fillers red undulating lines. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on three supports, the two outer ones leather, the central one tawed skin, laid and nailed in channels in wooden boards. Plain wound primary endbands sewn on a tawed core at the head and a leather one at the tail, laid in grooves and nailed, with a secondary embroidery added. The square spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in dark red goatskin, blind-tooled, with four brass catches on the lower board. Leather cracking along joints, clasps wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Animal culture, Dogs, Falconry, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on falconry, etc
11. Vita Nicolai Albergati
- Creator:
- Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 684
- Image Count:
- 20
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Iacobus Zeno (d. 1481), De vita et moribus Nicolai Albergati
- Description:
- Niccolo Albergati (1375-1443) became bishop of Bologna in 1417 and cardinal in 1426. See about him Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 1 (Rome, 1960), pp. 619-621., In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Undecorated., Several margins and folds strengthened by means of strips of paper pasted on them., and Binding: Half blue marbled paper, the covers of white cardboard. On the front cover a large paper label with engraved flowery cartouche and 18th-century handwritten title: "Vita B. Nicolai Albergati a Iacobo Zeno descripta. Ms.". At the top an oval label with the number "33" (19th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albergati, Nicolò, 1375-1443. and Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita Nicolai Albergati