- Published / Created:
- 1608
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 458
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden.
- Description:
- Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Delle Imboccature De'i Cavalli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century binding: Vellum case; stubs of two green ties., Manuscript on paper of Eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Followed by Descriptive index for drawings (incomplete). Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden whose name appears on f. 1r. Written in small neat italic., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Pattern books
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Delle imboccature de'i cavalli
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- Published / Created:
- 1579-85.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 467
- Image Count:
- 248
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of a hunting diary of Ferdinando de' Medici (1549-1609), Cardinal, and Grand Duke of Tuscany; this portion of the manuscript covers the period 15 October 1579 to 21 March 1585
- Description:
- In Italian., Written in a sprawling cursive script., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green, hard-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 90. Front cover of original limp vellum binding bound in at front of manuscript, with contemporary inscription: "Libro della Caccia che si fe (?)/ Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Signor Cardinale d'/ Medici mio Signore e padrone".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Tuscany (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hunting, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting diary
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- Creator:
- Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 612
- Image Count:
- 116
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Jacopone da Todi (c. 1236-1306), Laude. 2) Poem in quatrains, each beginning with the name "Yhesu" (attributed to Jacopone da Todi). 3) Jacopone da Todi (attributed), Tractatus utilissimus. 4) On the five steps of spiritual illumination. 5) Hymn on the name of Jesus attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Bernardus Claraevallensis, 1090-1153). 6) Bonaventura (1221-1274), Rhythmus de operationibus Iesu Christi, an addition to his Lignum vitae. 7) On the name of Jesus. 8) Lauda on the love of Jesus, attributed to Bianco da Siena (ca. 1350, d. between 1400 and 1450). 9) Lauda on the Virgin, attributed to Gianotto Sachetti
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Script: In spite of the very uneven script, probably copied by one hand hesitating between Southern Gothica Textualis and Semitextualis Libraria/Formata., Headings in red, often missing. Initials with guide-letters: 1-line plain initials alternately red and blue; 2-line flourished initials in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork; those on the first pages are 3- or 4-line. On f. 1r 11-line historiated initial on gold background containing a profile portrait of Jacopone da Todi with nimbus and holding medallion with the "Jesus"-monogram; the initial has floral extensions in the inner margin. In the lower margin a coat of arms (made illegible by means of black paint) in a wreath., and Binding: Ancient limp parchment. At the top of the spine in 17th-century handwriting: "Imni di F. Jacopone. M.S. D.27" ; at the bottom the shelfmark "T 1 15".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306. and Franciscans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious poetry, Italian
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Laude
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 741
- Image Count:
- 155
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Anonymous biography of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia, 1430-1503). Copied by one hand in rapid Humanistica Cursiva.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth-century. Half parchment over pasteboard, covered with brown and blue marbled paper. On the spine brownish red leather label with the gold-tooled title VITA D'ALESSAND. VI. / MS. and small paper label with the number of the Phillipps collection., Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., and On the front pastedown armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Collection of Thomas Phillipps, no. 7235. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography -- 16th century, Italian literature -- 16th century, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia)
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1525
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 735
- Image Count:
- 60
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles., Binding: Sixteenth-century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges., Cite as: Moral Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., In Italian and Latin., and Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. Several later corrections on f. 10v. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk. Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moral treatises