Manuscript on paper of Gregory I, Pope, Moralia in Iob. Books 1-4 translated into Italian by Zanobi de Strata
Description:
In Italian., Several watermarks, most indeterminate, but one resembling Piccard, vol. 10, II 307 (Pavia, 1397-99)., Copied in Italian humanist cursive., and Binding: Plain vellum over boards. Endleaves from a 14th-century breviary.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of an album of 105 water-color drawings of Italian costumes and scenes of daily life (some with titles), including two maps of Venice
Description:
In Italian., Drawings mounted, framed by narrow gold strips., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, straight-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, with light blue, watered silk doublures and flyleaves. Possibly bound by one of the Bozerians (Paris, 1793-1817), but the foot of the spine where their signature usually appears was destroyed in rebacking. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
Manuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialect
Description:
In Italian (Venetian dialect)., Script: Written by one scribe in black ink except for five lines in red; of these lines 145 and 171 are no entries, but rubrics introducing the sections dealing with the Sea of Azov and the islands of the Aegean Sea respectively. The handwriting is a small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Cancelleresca influence; the latter is most apparent in the shape of the letter g and in the horizontal approach strokes at the top of the ascenders., The majuscules are heightened in red., and Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and Manuscript maps
Manuscript on paper of Cesare Speciano, Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio. With a Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 1597
Description:
In Italian., Unidentified watermarks: paschal lamb, with countermark PP plus clover; bird on mountain enclosed in a circle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat italic hand., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Italian red morocco gilt, with unidentified arms of a cardinal (vair) stamped in gilt on both covers. Edges gilt and gauffered. Unobtrusive repairs at head and tails of spine and joints.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Speciano, Cesare.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Prudentius (beginning of the fifth century), Psychomachia, with interlinear and marginal glosses by various hands in Latin and Italian, variant readings and corrections
Description:
In Latin, with Italian glosses., Script: Copied by one hand writing an uneven Southern Semitextualis Libraria with some two-compartment a's. The scribe Ciutus is not recorded., Red stroking of the majuscules. 2-line red plain initials. Larger and more elaborate initial in red and black at the opening of the text. Numerous pointing hands., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellow parchment over pasteboard, both covers framed with a gilt running scroll. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "PRUDENTII PSYCHOMACHIA . COD. SEC. XV (?)".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prudentius, 348-
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Christian poetry, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of a miscellany including texts by Leonardo Bruni, Petrarch, Stefano Porcari, Matteo Palmieri, and Giovanni Boccaccio
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fleur 6651, Briquet Echelle 5910, Briquet Etoile 6070 and one unidentified., Script: Written in a mercantile script (mercantesca) by one hand., Calligraphic initials, 4- to 2-line, in red with purple or blue with red. Rubrics in brownish-red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper binding "alla rustica". On spine, "Miscella di belle lettere".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Jacopo Ariani (?), 200 Sonnets addressed to a lady called Laura. With Alberto Maffei, Colophon in the form of a sonnet addressed to the readers
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by Alberto Maffei in a small calligraphic Humanistica Semitextualis Formata., Each sonnet opens with a Capital in gold ink, the three subsequent stanzas with alternating red and blue Capitals. On the opening page (f. 2r), however, the opening Capitals are in gold on a square blue background dotted with gold, above each of the two sonnets floral ornaments have been painted in red and gold ink and in the lower margin there is a medallion within a gold wreath adorned with ribbons and containing the coat of arms of the Ariani family flanked by the initials "I.A.". ff. 1 and 52 are stained purple and the text of artt. 1 and 3 is written in gold ink, the headings being executed in silver ink. On both pages silver and gold floral ornaments in three margins. The ones in the lower margins end in Capital "A" (for "Albertus")., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue velvet over cardboard with blue watered-silk doublure. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ariani, Jacopo.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Autograph manuscript notes and translations from chiefly Italian sources on the subject of tarot probably compiled by Abner Doubleday, circa 1870-1886, including extensive discussion of tarot in relation to the Cabala, The volume includes material about tarot attributed to Alliette, Jean Belot, Thomas H. Burgoyne, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Antoine Court de Gébelin, Éliphas Lévi, R. Palmer-Thomas, Moreau de Dammartin, M. Le C. de M. (Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, Comte de Mellet), Ramon Llull (cited as Raymond Lulli), Thomas Moore Johnson, Papus, Guillaume Postel (cited as William Postel), and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, as well as extracts from the Journal of the Theosophical Society, which later became The Theosophist, and The Platonist, The volume includes astrological charts and a group of 78 hand-drawn and colored copies of Italian tarot cards, including examples made by Farinone Battista in Varallo, and Typescript front matter tipped in the volume by Stuart R. Kaplan includes an index and page notes, and a description of the volume from Charles Hamilton, Auction No. 77, May 2, 1974, Lot 283, as well as a photocopy of an entry for Doubleday from Charles Lincoln Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster's American Biographies (Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Co, 1974).
Description:
Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) was a United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War, as well as a prominent member of the Theosophical Society., In English and Italian., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Alliette, 1738-1791., Battista, Farinone., Belot, Jean., Burgoyne, Thomas H., Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795., Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 1725-1784., Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893., Fayolle, Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de, Comte de Mellet, 1727-1804., Johnson, Thomas Moore, 1851-1919., Kaplan, Stuart R., Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875., Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316., Moreau de Dammartin., Palmer-Thomas, R., Papus, 1865-1916., Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581., and Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de, 1743-1803.
Manuscript on paper (one leaf) of Three poems. MS 352, f. 88 from a larger volume, may be Benivieni's working copy, since words and verses have been added and deleted throughout; all three columns on both recto and verso have been struck out. The three poems were once thought to be the autograph works of Lorenzo de' Medici
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written in a vigorous notarial script., Leaf is mutilated and has been repaired extensively., and Boxed.