Manuscript on paper (lightly burnished) of Poggio Bracciolini, Historia Florentina, translated into Italian by his son Jacopo. With Prefatory letter of Jacopo di Poggio to Federico da Montefeltro
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387., Script: Written in sloping humanistic bookhand with cursive elements., Illuminated initial in gold, f. 1r, 10-line, infilled and surrounded by flowers in rose and blue (yellow centers), rayed gold discs, winding green stems and leaves, and hair-line decoration. Gold initial, f. 3r, 6-line, on ground composed of blue, green, and rose panels, all decorated with gold scroll designs. Headings in red rustic capitals., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf spine, blind- and gold-tooled, with Strozzi arms and "Poggio istoria tradotta da Iacopo suo figlio" and "M. S. Cartaceo del S. XV". Blue and white decorated paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
Published / Created:
[between 1175 and 1250]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 590
Image Count:
278
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (sheepskin?) of 1) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae. The text, containing the double dedication, to Robert of Gloucester and Waleran Count of Mellent, and wanting the epilogue addressed to Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury, is believed to be the earliest version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work. 2) Unidentified French poem of which the end is missing (1276 verses preserved), on the vanity and corruption of the world. 3) Le Roman des Romans
Description:
In French and Latin., Script: Art. 1: Copied by one hand, writing a large Praegothica. Art. 2: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 3: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Art. 1: The decoration consists of Romanesque flourished (in one or two colours) or plain initials (2 lines, on f. 1r 4 lines), alternately in red and green. Guide-letters in the margins. On f. 55r, at the beginning of the history of Merlin, a male bust is drawn in the margin., and Binding: Original white leather over rounded oak boards; spine with four raised bands. Marks of one strap fixed to the front cover and clutching over a pin in the rear cover. The front pastedown (detached) consists of fragments of a court roll (from a trial of 1334), identified by N.R. Ker (note kept in the documentary folder in the Beinecke Library) and copied in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior (Anglicana).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown capitals; there are brief notes on the text written in the margin in a cursive humanistic script of the fifteenth century; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. and Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, History, and Historiography
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of a translation by Diego Guillen de Avila (active 1487-1516), from Politian's Latin translation of Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus (in eight books covering the years 180 to 238, in Greek).
Description:
In Spanish., Watermarks somewhat similar to Briquet Main 10793., Script: Written by three scribes, in gothic cursive (cortesana) script. Scribe 1 (ff. 1v-3v) uses a large, sprawling hand; Scribe 2 (ff. 5r-86v) a compact, regular one; Scribe 3 (ff. 87r-112r) a large and sprawling one., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Worn red velvet with 2 brass clasp-and-catch fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Herodian.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Landulphus senior (Landulphus Mediolanensis, 12th century), Historia Mediolanensis. 2) Catalogue of the Archbishops of Milan up to Galdinus (1166-1176). 3) Arnulf of Milan (Arnulphus Mediolanensis, d. ca. 1077), Liber gestorum recentium
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Marginal notes in Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Annotations in the hand of Francesco della Croce., Plain red 1-line initials in the verses at the end of art. 1, Book I (f. 10v) and in art. 2; alternately red and blue 2- or 3-lines initials in the other parts; 5-line littera duplex in the same colours at the beginning of art. 3; 6-line littera duplex with penwork and marginal extensions at the beginning of art. 1, Book I (f. 1v); 9-line foliate initial on square background in yellow, mauve, red, green, blue and with left-margin Gothic illuminated acanthus border on f. 1r., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain white parchment over pasteboard. Remnants of title-label at the top of the spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Milan (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Della Croce, Francesco, 1391-1479.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
History of the caliphs, Preceded by 3 leaves of notes, and Copied in Sanʻa, Yemen, in A.H. 1024 (A.D. 1615).
Alternative Title:
Tārīkh al-khulafāʼ 880-02, Taʼrīkh al-khulafāʼ, تاريخ الخلفاء 240-02/r, and تأريخ الخلفاء
Description:
Available on microfilm, Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān. Ammā baʻd ḥamd Allāh alladhī waʻada fa-wafá wa-awʻada fa-ʻafā ...", Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in gold and colors on leaf 1 verso., Occasional marginalia., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., Colophon: "Wāfaqa al-farāgh min raqm hādhā al-taʼrīkh ... yawm al-Jumʻah, ghurrat shahr Ramaḍān ... ʻām arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn baʻda al-alf ... bi-maḥrūs madīnat Ṣanʻāʼ al-Yaman ... bi-rasm ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... bi-yad ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ...", and Translation of the colophon: "This history book was completed ... on Friday, the beginning of the month of Ramaḍan ... of the year 1024 [of the Hijrah = 31 January 1615] ... in the protected city of Ṣanʻāʼ of Yemen ... for ... Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khazrajī ... by the hand of ... Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻUfayr [?] ..."
Manuscript of Honore Bonet, L'Arbre des Batailles. With Diego de Valera, Espejo de verdadera nobleza, translated into French by Hugues de Salve; and other treatises on arms
Description:
In French., Script: Written in formal batarde script. Folios 7r-9r, also in formal batarde, but in a different hand., The fine miniatures, by the Master of Bruges of 1482, are in arched frames composed of thin gold and pink bands. Between ff. 147r and 152r there are sixty-three painted armorial bearings, perhaps a later addition (16th century?) as indicated by the type of pigment, the occasional lack of correspondence with the original preparatory drawings, and the fact that some drawings were never overpainted. 5-, 4-, 3-, and 2-line initials, gold, edged in black, against irregular blue and red grounds with white highlights. 1-line initials in the table of contents, red and blue, with guide-letters to illuminator; ff. 7r-9r (the section for the L'Arbre des batailles) in darker shades and without notes, suggesting, as does the change of hand, that this section of the table as well as the portion of the text to which it refers were added to the manuscript in a second stage of its production. Paragraph marks, 1-line, red and blue. Pages foliated in red, upper right recto. Headings in red throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Edges gilt. Purple goatskin case with brilliant gold tooling and elaborate doublures.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Burgundy (France), and France
Subject (Name):
Bonet, Honoré, fl. 1378-1398.
Subject (Topic):
Chivalry, Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Land grant, manuscript on parchment, originally made to Alonzo Prieto, and awarded after his death to his brother Gonzalo Prieto, following litigation. The grant, valued at 35,000 maravedis annually, was given to defray the costs of preparing land and naval forces to protect Spain and the Catholic Church, particularly from the "Gran Turco" ( Süleyman I). Four ships carrying gold and silver were to arrive from Peru to support this. The text refers to places and dates in the years 1535-1536. The end of the document, apparently written when the authorizing signatures were added, gives the location as Valladolid, and the date as 27 February 1537
Description:
In Spanish., Single quire of 12 leaves containing 21 pages of text., Layout: 1 column, 40 lines., Script: Written in Gothic textura script., and Binding: Vellum cover, worn, with numerous notations on front.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Jerez de la Frontera., Connecticut, New Haven., Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), and America
Subject (Name):
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Subject (Topic):
Land grants, Land titles, Manuscripts, Medieval, Colonies, History, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper of the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada
Description:
In Spanish., Watermark: resembles Briquet 11272 (Toulouse, 1570)., Script: copied by a single scribe in a Spanish version of Humanistica Cursiva Formata. The first word of each paragraph is written in Capitalis. The Latin formula at the end is in Humanistica Textualis Formata. A few marginal notes, mostly by a later hand., The text recounts the history of the final days of the Moorish kingdom of Granada through the conquest by Gonsalvo de Cordoba, the "great captain" in the service of the Catholic Kings of Spain, 1492. This is the final quire of a manuscript that contained the full history of the Moorish Kings of Granada., and Disbound. Extracted from a larger manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Granada (Kingdom), and Spain
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, and History