Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
anno Domi[ni] 1400 octuagesimo t[er]cio, 18 die me[n]sis Augusti [1483]
Call Number:
2000 1552
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Vocabularius praedicantium
Description:
Contemporary ms. notes. Presentation inscription on inside of back cover to Abbot Johannes (probably Johannes Scherzwadel, abbot of Lambach from 1474-1504): Reuerendo hono[rabili]b[i] ac religiosis in [Christo] pri[ori]bus [et] fr[atr]ibus d[omi]no Johannj Abbati Andree priori totiq[ue] Couentuj Monasterii in Lambaco nob[is] semp[er] colendj., Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Leaves e1 and x10 repaired, with missing text supplied in facsimile., Imprint from colophon, supplied in facsimile in CtY-BR copy., Initials in red; rubricated throughout., Manuscript waste used in binding, including a vellum flyleaf with 92 lines of hexameter verse., Text begins on leaf a2: Si te materne remoratur inercia lingue, quo minus ad populu[m] funde[m] uerba queas ..., and Title and author from Goff.
Publisher:
Per Petrum Currificem ciue[m] Nurenbergensem,
Subject (Name):
Benedictines Austria Lambach Ownership., Klosterkirche Lambach Ownership., Scherzwadel, Johannes--Presentation inscription., and Wagner, Peter, fl. 1483-1500.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library., Latin language--Dictionaries--German--Early works to 1800., and Monasteries--Austria--Lambach--Ownership.
Cordiform projection., From: "Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber geographiae cum tabulis...", From: Clavdii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cvm tabvlis...1511., Lanman collection; dgvmp2008., Map is printed in two colors, red and black., Outer map border shows decorative windheads and zodiacal signs., The author's name is often given as Bernard Sylvanus (see Shirley entry 32, plate 35) or Bernardus Sylvanus., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho,
Subject (Name):
Pencio, Jacopo, active 1486-1530 and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia
Cordiform projection., From Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber geographiae cum tabulis ... [Venice : Jacopo Pencio, 1511]., Lanman Collection; dgvmp2008., Left side of the map indicates climates; right side shows zodiacal signs., Map is known as the Bernardus Sylvanus world map., Map is printed in two colors, red and black., Silvani does not show any part of the new world on this map., The verso of the right part of map is showing the western part of the British Isles., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Jacopo Pencio,
Subject (Name):
Gastaldi, Giacomo, ca. 1500-ca. 1565, Pencio, Jacopo, fl. 1486-1530, and Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Geographia
Appears in Mercator's Galliae tabula geographicae ... [Duisburg ca.1595]., Latin text on verso., Page number on verso "163-164"., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 45.5 x 56.2 cm., and Title supplied by Koeman.
Publisher:
Gerardum Mercatorem,
Subject (Geographic):
Basel (Switzerland : Canton)--Maps--Early works to 1800, Switzerland--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Zurich (Switzerland : Canton)--Maps--Early works to 1800