- Creator:
- Christopher, of Paris
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1540]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 31
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the writings of Christopher of Paris (pseudonym for a Venetian exile), including his major work, Lucidario, with its supplementary alphabet, plus three letters.
- Description:
- Binding: Original plain parchment wrapper without ties, back with three raised bands, soiled and worn. Plain edges., ff. 1r-167r correctly paginated 1-333 and the pagination used in the detailed description, the remainder unnumbered, of ff. 170 originally, single leaves apparently canceled originally and cut away by the copyist after ff. 162 and 164, as noted in the detailed collation, but not noted in the description as the original pagination is consecutive., Mary Mellon, acquired from William Gannon (bookseller), New York, 1941; Mellon MS 145. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Rubricated, headings often in red., and Script: Written by a single good italic hand, sometimes hasty toward the end of the codex.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Alphabet books, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical writings, with some additional related matter by others
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2.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1065
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an Italian prose paraphrase of Virgil's Aeneid. With an incomplete text on the labors of Hercules.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Hercules (Roman mythology), Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
3.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1360]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1067
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Virgil, Aeneis, in an Italian prose abridgement by Andrea Lancia.
- Description:
- Stitched but unbound.
- Subject (Name):
- Lancia, Andrea,--ca. 1280-ca. 1360 and Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1505]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 24
- Image Count:
- 191
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a group of shorter works by Christopher of Paris (pseudonym), probably a Venetian alchemist. With John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown calf, the covers blind-ruled to a rectangular pattern, the large center rectangle diagonally ruled to a lozenge pattern, a single quatrefoil impressed in blind in each of the rectangles and lozenges so formed, edges partly renewed and rebacked in the style of the period of the binding with compartments formed by three double raised bands, a gold stamped title label in the second compartment from top reading: "CHRISTOPHE | DE PARIS | - | RUPESCISSA | MANUSCRIPTS | ITALY | 15TH C". The endpapers are modern insertions, though of old paper, and the binding, while of the period of the manuscript, probably had no original connection with this codex., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 45, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Italian and Latin., No headlines, headings and some capitals in pale red., Script: Written by a single scribe in a late humanistic cursive hand sloping slightly to the right., and Watermarks: 1) anchor with ring atop the shank, all within a circle; 2) plain and ill-drawn anchor with thick flukes, the top of the shank forming a small, neat cross with the short stock. Both probably Italian papers, not directly comparable to the varieties illustrated by Briquet.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
- Creator:
- Ivani, Antonio, 1430-1482
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1066
- Image Count:
- 170
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Ivani, Antonio,--1430-1482
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arengae et informationes
- Creator:
- Cecchi, Giovanni Maria, 1518-1587
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 842
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Atto recitabile da fare avanti che nella compagnia si dieno panellini benedetti composto dal Cecchi.
- Alternative Title:
- Atto recitabile da fare avanti che nella compagnia si dieno panellini benedetti composto dal Cecchi.
- Subject (Name):
- Cecchi, Giovanni Maria,--1518-1587
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Atto recitabile
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 179
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Gallicum
- Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 73
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Historica
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 989
- Image Count:
- 120
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Tobit, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Tobias
10.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 806
- Image Count:
- 538
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours