Manuscript on parchment of Biondo Flavio, Italia Illustrata with the dedicatory preface to Pope Nicolas V (d. 1455).
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, England. Red goatskin gold-tooled, with the crest of Charles Chauncy on the sides. Gilt edges. Rebacked. The fine quality of the endleaves and leather, and the tool used on the edges of the boards and the turn-ins are similar to those in Marston MS 102 and Beinecke MS 497, both probably bound by Richard Wier, active in London and France in the 1770s; d. 1792)., Elaborately illuminated title page with historiated initial, 10-line, mauve with silver filigree against gold ground, edged in black, with a portrait of the author, seated and holding a book, against a hilly landscape and blue sky. Partial border of white vine-stem ornament against a predominantly gold ground with blue, green, and red patches with white and pale yellow dots in inner and upper margins, terminating in dense penwork scrolls with gold dots. In outer and lower margin, border of stylized flowers and foliage in red, purple, green, and blue, surrounded by dense penwork scrolls punctuated by gold dots. In center of lower margin, wreathed medallion with unidentified arms, supported by two purple winged putti outlined in blue and wearing red necklaces. 14 illuminated initials, 9- to 6-line, gold, on blue, green, and red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins. Headings, running titles, and marginalia in red., and Script: Written in fine humanistic bookhand, below top line, by a single scribe who also wrote the running titles (epigraphic majuscules) and marginalia, in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Geography, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Anonymous MS. and Detailed descriptions of buildings and art works in various Italian cities, with particularly lengthy descriptions of Rome, Florence, and Venice; "The Author's Preface" at the end of vol. 2 amounts to an essay on the educational values of the Grand Tour and how it should be undertaken.
Description:
Bookplate of J.E.Stonor., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Pages 480-539 blank, not digitized.
Anonymous MS. and Detailed descriptions of buildings and art works in various Italian cities, with particularly lengthy descriptions of Rome, Florence, and Venice; "The Author's Preface" at the end of vol. 2 amounts to an essay on the educational values of the Grand Tour and how it should be undertaken.
Description:
Bookplate of J.E.Stonor. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Copied about 1736. and Life of Muzabbid, the miser.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., For Muzabbid see al-Kutubī, Fawāt al-wafayāt, II, 303., For the author see Brockelmann, S II, p. 414., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Collection of pieces in prose and verse dealing with bores. and Copied about 1736.
Description:
Entire volume preceded by 1 leaf of notes. Leaf incorrectly included in foliation of volume, making counts for all eleven titles off by one leaf., Fair naskhī, in red and black., In Islamic binding, in brown., and With: 10 other titles.
Manuscript on paper, with parchment for inner and outer bifolia, of 1) Petrarch, Itinerarium breve de Ianua usque ad Ierusalem et Terram sanctam. 2) Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus...
Alternative Title:
[De montibus, sylvis, fontibus lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris] and Itinerarium
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, France (?). Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434.", First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text., From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 1025). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Plain red initial, 5-line, f. 1r; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r. Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. 1r., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Geishū Itsukushima zue, Itsuku-shima dzu-ye, Itsukushimazue, 厳島図会, and 嚴島圖會.
Description:
"Description of Itsukushima (Miyajima)." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., "Itsukushima Jinko zōban.", "Zōhanshu, Hiroshima Ginzan-chō Miyazaki Kojūrō"--Colophon., "巌島神庫藏版.", "藏版主・廣島銀山町宮崎小十郎"--Colophon., 507.5-chō, in a case., On double leaves, East Asian binding (fukurotoji)., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Bf5.
Publisher:
Kawachiya Gisuke,, Taruya Sōzaemon, and Yonamiya Ihē
Subject (Geographic):
Itsukushima Jinja (Miyajima-cho, Japan)--Description and travel, Miyajima-chō (Japan)--Description and travel, Miyajima-chō (Japan)--Pictorial works, 宮島町 (Japan)--Description and travel, and 宮島町 (Japan)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Itsukushima Jinja (Hatsukaichi-shi, Japan) and Itsukushima Jinja (Hatsukaichi-shi, Japan)--Pictorial works
Manuscript on parchment of the Iudicium astrologicum, or horoscope, for the year 1475. Prepared for the humanist condottiere Federigo da Montefeltro (1422-1482, lord of Urbino from 1444; named duke by Pope Sixtus IV in 1474), perhaps by his court astrologer Iacobus of Speyer.
Description:
Binding: Rebound ca. 1800 in England (?) in blind-paneled brown diced Russia with doublures of the same, flat back without title label, the original gilt edges now somewhat irregular due to the rebinding, two parchment guards and one of paper at beginning, one parchment guard at end. Preserved in a recent black cloth folding box with gilt-stamped black niger label., Script: Written by a very elegant and uniform humanistic hand., and The dedication on f. 1r written in very pale red. Capitals with guide-letters in plain burnished gold or blue at paragraph divisions set into the left margin, the letters of the final word or words in a paragraph often in capitals and spread to fill out the line. On f. 1r is an illuminated border in the upper, inner, and lower margins consisting of a triple band of narrow gold stripes, quadruple and broader at the bottom margin, containing a very complex "white-vine" pattern, the spaces of which are filled up with red, blue, and green pigment peppered with patterns of three small dots in white lead; set within the lower band of the border is a round wreath incorporating a shield with the arms of Federigo da Montefeltro lord of Urbino; the first capital of the text, f. 1r, 8, is in burnished gold within a square painted frame of blue, red, and green ornamented with white tracery. No illustration.
Subject (Name):
Federico,--da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino,--1422-1482 and Iacobus,--of Speyer
Subject (Topic):
Astrology--Early works to 1800, Horoscopes, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library