Adagia and Adagiorum chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami
Description:
Colophon: Basileae in Officina Frobeniana per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium, mense Martio, anno M.D.LIX., Errata: p. 1071., Imperfect: wormed, with no loss of text. Front paste-down endpaper heavily annotated, with original contemporary drawing. Armorial bookplate and inscription of J. Henryson. Some annotations in text. Bookplate: Teodorg Becu. Bound in blind-tooled pigskin, stamped and dated "C.C.I., 1565.," with metal clasps., Includes index., Page 1056 incorrectly numbered 1065., Printer's mark on t.p. and p. [1072]; initials., Signatures: 2a-2h⁶ 2i⁴ a-z⁶ A-3T⁶ 3V⁸., and Text in Latin with examples in Greek.
Publisher:
In officina Frobenium per Hieronymum Frobenium, & Nicolaum Episcopium,
Subject (Name):
Henryson, J.--Autograph and Henryson, J.--Bookplate
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Limp green vellum case, blue-green edges., Headpiece in black ink, on f. 1r. Headings and chapter notations, in red. 3-line initial, with decoration above and below letter, in red on f. 4r; other small initials in red throughout codex at beginning of each section., Same watermark as Harlfinger Croix 41, from a manuscript signed by Andreas Darmarius and dated 5 April 1582., and Script: Written by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who signed the completed manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Africanus, Sextus Julius
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1600, Geography, Ancient--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
Description:
Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9480). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked., In Greek., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied.
Subject (Name):
Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740, Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, Dionysius,--the Areopagite, Saint,--1st cent, Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, Nicephorus, Blemmydes, 1197-1272, and Pachymeres, George, 1242-ca. 1310
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, Sermons--Early works to 1800, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Delle cose antiche della citta di Roma. and Roman antiquities. Italian
Description:
From the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal. On slip tipped onto the free front endpaper is a note in an 18th cent. hand, probably by Matteo Luigi Canonici, stating that the extensive ms. notes are in the hand of Remigio Fiorentino [i.e. Remigio Nannini]., Imprint from colophon., Multiple folded untrimmed leaves., and Signatures: *⁴ A-4M⁴.
Publisher:
Per Nicolo Bascarini á instantia de miser Michel Tramezzino,
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--Antiquities. and Rome--History.
Subject (Name):
Bascarini, Niccolò, active 1541-1554, printer., Canonici, Matteo Luigi,--1727-1805--Ms. notes., Nannini, Remigio,--1521?-1581?--Ms. notes., Rosenthal, Bernard M.--Ownership., Tramezzino, Michele, -1579, printer., and Venturi, Francesco.