Contains descriptions of temporary architectural decorations, including triumphal arches, erected in Milan on the occasion of the queens arrival.
Description:
Contains descriptions of temporary architectural decorations, including triumphal arches, erected in Milan on the occasion of the queen's arrival., Dedication signed: Guido Mazenta., Imperfect: Offset ink throughout., In Italian, with Latin text of inscriptions., Signatures: A-D⁴, E²., and Title page within elaborate woodcut ornamental border, armorial title vignette, tail-piece and initials.
Publisher:
Nella Stampa del quon. Pacifico Pontio ...,
Subject (Geographic):
Milan (Italy)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Margarita,--de Austria, Queen, consort of Philip III, King of Spain,--1584-1611. and Ponte, Pacifico da, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Decoration and ornament--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., Royal visitors--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., and Triumphal arches--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800.
Metamorphoses. Italian, Apvlegio volgare, Apulegio volgare, Apulegio, and Apvlegio
Description:
BEIN 2011 1469: Unidentified ownership stamp on title page. Book label of Renzo Bonfiglioli. Stamp: A. Lauria, Paris. Buckram wrappers with gilt lettering on spine. Author and title wriiten in ink on bottom edge. Few scattered corrections (pencil) and chapter divisions (ink) in later hand(s)., Signatures: A-N⁸ (N8 blank)., Imprint from colophon., Translation of Apuleius' Asinus aureus or Metamorphoses., Title within ornamental border; 32 woodcut illustrations throughout ; printer's device(?) on p. [206]., and Sander 487 records "tradocto" instead of "tradotto" in title.
Publisher:
Per io Nicolo Daristotele da Ferrara, & Vincenzo de Polo da Venetia mio co[m]pagno regna[n]te lo inclito principe Leonardo Lauredano
Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204., Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe., Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers., Stained throughout; final folio repaired., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets., Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships