Manuscript on parchment (thick, repaired) of a Collection of original documents, copies, translations (from Greek and Turkish) of other documents of the Venetian doges of Candia, dated between 1299 and 1472, mostly in Latin with some later documents in Venetian dialect.
Description:
Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 11868). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Ca. 1800, Italy. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a gold-tooled red label on spine: "Monum. di Cand. Sotto il Dom. Ven. Cod. Memb"., Many of the leaves are illegible due to severe water damage and damp rot throughout; the codex emits a foul odor., and Script: Written throughout by multiple scribes in mercantesca scripts.
Subject (Geographic):
Crete (Greece)--History, Ērakleion (Greece), and Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Georgicorum, Aeneidos et Bucolicorum Vergilii vocabula, an alphabetical compilation of words used by Virgil (and other authors), with their explanations, based on the Virgil commentary by Servius (4th-5th centuries). With two Latin and two Italian proverbs, and an Italian poem (10 verses).
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards (worm-eaten), spine with three raised bands; both covers blind-tooled with a frame of strapwork; in its interior two horizontal rows of quadrangular stamps at the top and at the bottom (a rosette and a Pascal Lamb) and a lozenge-shaped central part of the same strapwork. Five pointed brass bosses on each cover (together eight of them are preserved) and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover by means of two nails with engraved heads; the quadrangular brass catches on the rear cover are engraved with a Pascal Lamb., In art. 3 the opening letter of each lemma is a pale red 1-line capital projecting into the left margin. Each new alphabetical section begins with a 2- or 3-line capital alternately in red and blue (with a guide letter in the left margin), placed within the text area and followed by a black capital. Between the sections a space of two or three lines is left free., MS 108 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (CA). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: Art. 3 copied by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The title on the first front flyleaf (art. 1) is by another hand writing a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (the same hand wrote the beginning of the alphabet on the facing pastedown). Art. 2 is copied by an unexperienced hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens, but the date and the first line are by another hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--active 4th century. and Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Scholia.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes.
Description:
Foliated 11-22.
Subject (Topic):
Art--15th century, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Nelle solenni esequie dell'augustissimo imperator de' romani Francesco Primo, gran duca di Toscana., Pompa Funebris Mdsis Franc. I Aug., and Pompa Funebris Mediolanensis Francisci I Augusti
Description:
Consists of two parts: the first part, in Latin, describes the funeral procession. The second part, in Italian, has title: Nelle solenni esequie dell'augustissimo imperator de' romani Francesco Primo, gran duca di Toscana ec. ec. ec., celebrate in Milano nella regia chiesa di santa Maria della Scala il di XVI. Dicembre MDCCLXV : orazione / di Pasquale Maria Agudi della Compagnia di Gesù, professore di rettorica nella Università di Brera., Engraved t.p signed: Manzonus Ioan Bap. delin.; head-piece on p. V signed: Joseph de Medicis inv., Jacobus Mercorus sculp. mediol.; plate depicting catafalque signed: Franciscus Crucejus inv., Carolus Riccardi delin., Jac. Mercorus sculp. mediol., Imprint from colophon., Memorial inscriptions on p. VIII-XX; emblems on p. [XXI]-[XXIII]., No. 2 of 2 titles bound together., and Signatures: A-G⁴ (A1 blank).
Publisher:
Nella Stamperia di Guiseppe Marelli,
Subject (Name):
Agudi, Pasquale Maria, 1727-1790., Croce, Francesco, 1696-1773., Francis--I,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1708-1765--Death and burial., Manzoni, Giovanni Battista., Marelli, Guiseppe, printer., Medici, Giovanni, fl. 1747., Mercoli, Giacomo, 1745-1825, and Riccardi, Carlo, fl. 1766.
Subject (Topic):
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on paper (watermarks obscured by binding and trimming) of prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary.
Alternative Title:
Questa sie de madona felippa da thano
Description:
Early inscription on front cover.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Italian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
The text describes the catafalque and other decorations at the funeral of Philip III in Milan.
Alternative Title:
Racconto delle sontvose esseqvie fatte in Milano alli 7. di giugno l'anno 1621
Description:
In Italian, with Latin inscriptions., Pref. signed Melchior Malatesta., Signatures: A-F⁴., and The text describes the catafalque and other decorations at the funeral of Philip III in Milan.
Publisher:
Per Pandolfo Malatesta ...,
Subject (Name):
Malatesta, Pandolfo, fl. 1594-1626, printer. and Philip--III,--King of Spain,--1578-1621--Death and burial.