Giovanni del Virgilio, fl. 1319 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 758
Image Count:
110
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, in prose and verse.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown leather (sheepskin?) over cardboard (replacing worm-eaten wooden boards), blind-tooled with a frame of fillets and rolls; in the central panel a motif made of small rhomboid stamps. Parchment front pastedown. Remnants or marks of four clasps attached to the front cover., Copied by one hand in extremely small Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. In the poetical sections the majuscules at the opening of each verse are set apart., Headings (“liber secundus” etc.) in clumsy Capitalis (several times erroneous: “LIBE”). Space for a 2-line initial left free on the first line of f. 1r, although this is not the beginning of the text., and Watermark: tower, var. Piccard, Turmwasserzeichen 611-613; var. Briquet, 15911?.
Subject (Name):
Giovanni del Virgilio,--fl. 1319
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Ptolemy, Almagest in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. With Calendar with computistical information, January through December.
Subject (Name):
Gherardo,--da Cremona,--1113 or 14-1187 and Ptolemy,--2nd cent
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Ancient, Calendars, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Ancient, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
America. pars 4. Latin, Americae pars qvarta, Insignis & admiranda historia, and Insignis et admiranda historia
Description:
2nd. ed. Cf. Chruch. T.p. signed: A.E. Arabic numbers on plates. Plate XI with catchword "Indi.", Engraved t.p., Imperfect: wormed with some loss of text. Map (32 x 43 cm, on sheet 34 x 45 cm) bound following leaf R6., Includes Urbain Chauveton's Latin translation of bk. 1 of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo, with additional notes., Map: Occidentalis Americae partis, vel earum regionium quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit ... praesertim verò ex Hieronyni Benzoni (qui totis XIIII annis eas provincias diligenter perlustravit) historia, conflata & in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leod' anno MDXCIIII. Scale not given., and Signatures: 2):(⁴, ²2):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-E⁴ F⁶ (R6, ²F6 blank)
Publisher:
Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800., America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800., America--Early accounts to 1600., America--Maps--Early works to 1800., Latin America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Latin America--History--To 1600., and Latin America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572? Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin., Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598., Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616., and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599, printer.
Description of the festival held in Milan on 12 June, 1743, honoring the newly elected Archbishop Giuseppe Pozzobonelli., Illustrations: 5 etched plates, 3 of them depicting triumphal arches. [1.] (impression size 25 x 18 cm.) Portrait with caption: Joseph Puteobonellus Mediolanensis & ecls. Archiepiscopus S.R.E. Cardinalis creatus die 9. Septembris 1743; signed: Dal Rè fec. [2.] (impresion size 51 x 36 cm.) Caption: A capo il Corso di P.T. nel soleñe ingresso nella Citta di Milano del. Em.mo Giuseppe Pozzobonelli li 21. Giugno 1744; signed : Antonius Quadrius Inu. et del., Lapoer Sculp. [3.] (impression size 42 x 30 cm.) Caption: A capo della contrada de Piatti in P.T.P.S. Gior.o in Palazzo di Milano li 21. Giugno 1744; signed: I. Ricardus del. et pins.t, C. Lapoer sc. Mediol.i. [4.] (impression size 42 x 30 cm.) Caption: Alla Piazza del Duomo p[er] il solenne ingresso nella Citta di Milano dell' Em.mo Giuseppe Pozzobonelli li 21 Giug.no 1744; signed: Antonius Quadrius In. et del., Lapoer Sculp.it. [5.] (impression 50 x 74 cm.) Procession leading to the Cathedral in Milan with caption: Solenne ingresso seguito nella Città di Milano dell'Eminentiss.mo Cardinale Giuseppe Pozzobonelli Arciuescouo di detta Metropoli; listing 49 participants, signed: Marc'Ant.o DalRè., In Italian, with some Latin., and Signatures: *⁶ a-i⁴ k⁶.
Publisher:
Nella Regio-ducal corte, per Giuseppe Richino Malatesta stampatore regio-camerale e della città,
Subject (Geographic):
Milan (Italy)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church.--Archdiocese of Milan (Italy)--History., Dal Re, Marc'Antonio, 1697-1766., Lapoer, Gaetano., Malatesta, Giuseppe Richino, printer., Pozzobonelli, Giuseppe,--1696-1783., Quadrio, Antonio., and Riccardi, Giovanni Battista.
Subject (Topic):
Ceremonial entires--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., Processions--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., and Triumphal arches--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800.
"An alphabetical dictionary, wherein all English works according to their various significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical tables, or explained by such words as are in those tables": [157] p., with special title page. and Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, a-d2B-Z4Aa-Zz4Aaa-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank) aaa4Aaa-Ttt4 (Ttt4 [blank?] wanting). Imperfect: lacks leaf Mmm4 (blank) and all plates and tables. With manuscript note on 1st preliminary leaf: "Eliphalet Adams. 1702/3 Donum D. Chip Medici."
Publisher:
Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal society,
Subject (Name):
Medici, D. Chip--Presentation inscription to E. Adams