Manuscript on parchment of 1) Anonymous grammatical treatise in prose (Grammatica Latina secundum Donatum). 2) Disticha Catonis.
Description:
1-line red versals and 2-line red plain initials. Two large initials: f. 1r, at the beginning of the text of art. 1, historiated 10- line initial in pink on a blue background, containing a half-length profile of a poet or teacher in outline with a yellow dress; f. 10r, at the beginning of art. 2, decorated 9-line initial in pinkon a blue background, filled with red, yellow and green leaves., Binding: Original half brown leather binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; sewn on two split leather thongs; the spine damaged. Remnants of one strap attached to the front cover, with iron pin on the rear cover., Due to intensive use the pages are badly rubbed and the legibility is impaired; whole passages have been rewritten by a later hand. The corners of the leaves are worn off. Holes and sewings., and Script: Copied by one hand in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The opening majuscule of each verse set off in a separate column.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Aurispa, Giovanni, ca. 1376-1459 Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454 Buonaccorso, da Montemagno, ca. 1391-1429 Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460 Lucian, of Samosata
Published / Created:
1465
Call Number:
Marston MS 63
Image Count:
144
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of two closely related parts. Part I: Guarino da Verona, Ipotesia ad Hieronymum (filium) suum, written in 1443. Part II: 3) Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with the prefatory letter to Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici (1395-1440). 4) Anonymous text, 12 lines, listing the moral qualities of a good wife. 5) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris. 6) Lucian, Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Lat. tr. Giovanni Aurispa. 7) Buonaccorso da Montemagno, Controversia de nobilitate. 8) Unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena in 1465. 9) Francesco Pontano, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena. 10) Bartholomaeus Senensis, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena. Part II was written by the jurist and diplomat Rainerius de Maschis of Rimini.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Natural color endbands, beaded on the spine, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards and nailed. There is tawed skin under the endband tie downs. Covered in green (?) tawed skin with a strip of red leather, 19th-20th centuries, added on the spine. Two truncated diamond catches with the IHS monogram within a sunburst (as used by St. Bernardinus of Siena) on the lower board. The upper board is cut in for clasp straps which are a later addition. Both clasps and catches have the word AVE. The title De re uxoria written in ink on both head and tail edges. The boards are badly worm eaten., Illuminated initial, f. 4r, 4-line, gold on blue, green, and red ground with yellow and white filigree. In lower border wreathed medallion with ribbons on either side, bearing the arms of Rainerius de Maschis of Rimini; the initials R and A, in gold, on either side of shield. Headings, paragraph marks, punctuation and marginalia, in red., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Part I (ff. 1-3): Written in a small neat humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line. Part II (ff. 4-67): Written in a slanting humanistic bookhand with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: Part I: unidentified two-wheeled wagon. Part II: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387.
Subject (Name):
Guarino,--Veronese,--1374-1460
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 Hortensius, Martinus, 1605-1639
Published / Created:
Anno Dom. 1665.
Call Number:
QB41 B52 1665
Image Count:
206
Description:
Madan 2694 (not seen); presumably a reissue of the 1663 edition (Madan 2632, also not seen), with a new cancelling title page., Signatures: [a]1A-Aa8., and Title-page in two states, cancelling (1st preliminary leaf) and cancelled (2nd preliminary leaf; lower outer corner, including imprint-date [1663?], missing).
Publisher:
Excudebat W. Hall impensis Joh. Forrest,
Subject (Name):
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 and Ptolemy, 2nd cent.
"An edition of the Pentateuch and the Megilloth in Hebrew and Latin, with Latin notes drawn from Rabbinical sources. Masch states that it is merely a reprint from Münster's Hebrew-Latin O.T." - British and foreign Bible Society library, no. 5094., Signatures: a-z8A-Z8AA10 (AA9 blank, wanting). Presentation inscription from Johann Ulric Hunner to Joseph Hirst, 1865. Bookplate of Charles J. Rosenbloom. Bookplate of Ratcliffe College., Text in parallel columns, the Hebrew inside and the Latin outside; with Latin notes at the end of the chapters., Title in Hebrew at head of title., and Title within architectural border.
Publisher:
ex officina Iustinaianea,
Subject (Name):
Hirst, Joseph--Presentation inscription from J.U. Hunner, Hunner, Johann Ulric--Presentation inscription to J. Hirst, Ratcliffe College. Library Bookplate, and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate
"sub annis 1437 mensis Julii die 22", Facsimile (separately paged) of this manuscript, with transcription of the Latin text (pages 73-128) in: Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 / saggi di Mario Ascheri, Tersilio Leggio, Sandro Notari ; edizione del testo manoscritto a cura di Alda Spotti. Roma : Viella, 2011., Imperfect: leaves 1, 16-17 and last leaf lacking., Manuscript on vellum., Numbered in a later hand form 2-30., and Rubricated.
Subject (Topic):
Criminal law -- Italy -- Montebuono, Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Ordinances, Municipal -- Italy -- Montebuono