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1. Commonplace book (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1475-1499.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.28
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on paper, of a commonplace book in a stingle hand, containing about 20 poems by named authors, including Bartolomeus Venetus and Martinus Philecticus
- Description:
- In Latin. and Script: humanist cursive.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book (fragment).
2. De bello civili (fragment).
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.40 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment from an Italian translation of De bello civili, possibly the version by Pier Candido
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Italian gothic bookhand., and Decoration: Rubricated. Two-line initials.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius. and Candido, Pier.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello civili (fragment).
3. De legendis gentilium libris
- Creator:
- Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 532
- Image Count:
- 1416
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
- Alternative Title:
- Address to young men
- Description:
- In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legendis gentilium libris
4. De navigatione
- Creator:
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1464.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 557
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Benedetto Cotrugli (Benedictus de Cotrullis, c. 1410-1469), De navigatione liber (Della navigazione). After the prologue in Latin addressed to the Doge and the Senate of Venice, the author, quoting countless Biblical, ancient, medieval and Renaissance authors and drawing largely on his own experience, discusses the oceans and seas, islands, ports, the history of ship-building and navigation, weather, and astronomy. At the end, he includes portolano maps and describes the coast of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
- Description:
- The author, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), was a businessman and humanist, from 1451 onwards in favour at the Court of Naples. His Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto, written in 1458, was for a long time considered his only surviving work. Our manuscript, written during his lifetime and no doubt under his supervision or by his hand, is the only existing manuscript of Della navigazione and it is unfinished, missing most of its illustrations and the end of the text., In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva close to Humanistica Textualis. Headings and opening words of chapters in pale red capitals., Heightening of majuscules and paragraph marks in pale red up to f. 10r. Space for 2- or 3-line initials at the opening of all chapters, the initials not executed. Illustration largely missing; the few that have been executed are crudely drawn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellowish parchment over cardboard. Marbled paste-downs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De navigatione
5. Decreta (fragment).
- Creator:
- Hormisdas, Pope, -523
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1000-approximately 1099.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.41 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment from the Decreta of Pope Hormisdas
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule; heading in uncial., Decoration: rubricated., and Recovered from use as a binding; damaged.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hormisdas, Pope, -523.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decreta (fragment).
6. Dialogi (fragment).
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1200.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.74
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an Italian copy of the Dialogi of Gregory the Great
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: small initials and initial strokes in red ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogi (fragment).
7. Doctrinale (fragment).
- Creator:
- Alexander, de Villa Dei
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1350-approximately 1399.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.44
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, de Villa Dei.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctrinale (fragment).
8. Epigrammata (fragment).
- Creator:
- Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1350.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.94 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of part of the prose introduction to Epigram 51.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: two line initial letters in blue and red ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epigrammata (fragment).
9. Epistolae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Horace
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1350-approximately 1399.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.76
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, containing text from Horace's Epistolae, Book I.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Italian gothica textualis., Decoration: Initial letters of lines in margin, touched in red ink., and Some interlinear annotations in a gothic cursive hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Horace.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae (fragment).