Avvisi particolari della felice, et gloriosa incoronatione di Henrico III. re di Francia, & IIII. di Polonia
Description:
Ms. shelf-marks on front paste-down endpaper., Signatures: A⁴ B²., and Woodcuts: title vignette depicting the lion of San Marco in Venice, t.p. within ornamental border, ornamental tail-piece and initial.
Publisher:
Appresso Bartolomeo de' Valenti,
Subject (Geographic):
Reims (France)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Henry--III,--King of France,--1551-1589--Coronation., Henry--III,--King of France,--1551-1589--Marriage., Louise,--Queen, consort of Henry III, King of France,--1553-1601--Marriage., and Valenti, Bartolomeo de', printer.
Subject (Topic):
Coronations--France--Reims--Early works to 1800. and Weddings--France--Reims--Early works to 1800.
Ballatette del magnifico Lorenzo de Medici & di messere Agnolo Politiani & di Bernardo Giamburlari & di molti altri and Se intender uuoi della storia leffecto
Description:
Contemporary ms. notes, corrections and pagination., Most sources identify the printer of this work as Bartolomeo di Libri, printing for Piero Pacini. Libri was active as a printer in Florence from ca. 1482-1511. Pacini was active from 1495-1514. BM STC Italian gives the date of printing as 1505?; Proctor, BMC and Sander all list it as undated., Printer statement from colophon., Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶., Title from caption on recto of leaf a2., Woodcut hand-colored., and Woodcut on recto of leaf a1.
Publisher:
Finite lecanzone aballo a petitione di ser Piero Pacini da Pescia,
Imprint from colophon., Nardi's device on final p., Second edition., Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴., Unidentified armorial binding., Woodcut ill. on t.p., and Work written and produced by and for a group of artisans in Siena known as the Congrega dei Rozzi.
Publisher:
Per Francesco di Simeone adistantia di Giouanni d'Alisandro libraro
Subject (Name):
Congrega dei Rozzi, Congrega dei Rozzi Collection, Landi, Giovanni, 1477?-1551, bookseller, and Nardi, Francesco di Simeone, printer
Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
Description:
Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., and Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--History--To 640 A.D
Subject (Name):
Diodorus,--Siculus
Subject (Topic):
History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours. With prayers in Italian. Probably made for a female member of the Augustinian order.
Description:
Binding: Original Italian brown cloth over wooden boards, sewn onto three double leather thongs; the cloth is embroidered with silver thread to a design of stars, squares and maltese crosses. Gilt and gauffered edges., Headings in red. 1-line versals alternately in red and blue; 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions alternately in red and blue, the penwork in the contrasting colour (the normal type of initials throughout the manuscript); 3-line flourished KL ligatures in art. 1; 5-line litterae duplices or initials in the style of litterae duplices with developed penwork at the opening of the various Hours in art. 2; 6-line ditto in art. 3; a 4-line flourished initial at the opening of the Mass of the Virgin in art. 5. All initials are half inset., and Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda).
Subject (Name):
Augustinians and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Description of a festival held in Messina in August 1589 by order of the future King Philip III of Spain, in celebration of the discovery of relics believed to be of the martyr Placitus and his companions. Here, as commonly occurred from the 12th century.
Alternative Title:
Breve raguaglio dell'inventione e feste de gloriosi martiri Placido, e compagni mandato al seren.mo don Filippo d'Austria principe di Spagna
Description:
Description of a festival held in Messina in August 1589 by order of the future King Philip III of Spain, in celebration of the discovery of relics believed to be of the martyr Placitus and his companions. Here, as commonly occurred from the 12th century on, Placitus is confused with the later St. Placidus (companion of St. Benedict, monk of Subiaco, fl. 6th century)., Engraved t. p., illustrated., Errata on p. [7]-[8]., Illustrations: 27 full-page engravings (incl. t. p.; one repeated), chiefly depicting triumphal arches erected for the celebration and funeral biers with tableaux (incidents of St. Placitus' life and martyrdom) borne in the procession. Two plates depicting arches are signed: Rinaldvs Bonanvs inventor., Includes index., Shelf-mark on front paste-down: "5g G." Ms. note on p. [9] at end: "Primog. quad[er]ni de Brunasio.", and Signatures: [sec.]⁴ 2[dagger]⁴ 3[dagger]² A-2A⁴.
Publisher:
Stampato p[er] Fausto Bufalini,
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Bonanno, Rinaldo, approximately 1545-1590., Bufalini, Fausto, d. 1592, printer., and Philip--III,--King of Spain,--1578-1621.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs--Cult--Italy--Messina., Christian Saints--Cult--Italy--Messina., and Festivals--Italy--Messina--Early works to 1800.