Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest: written over an unidentified canon law text, 1250-75) of Epitome of Aristotle's Ethics translated into Italian by Taddeo d'Alderotto (ca. 1235-1295).
Description:
Binding: ca. 1900, England or U.S.A. (?). Quarter bound in orange goatskin with a gold-tooled label on spine ("Aristotle. Ethica, in Italian. XIVth Century") and marbled paper sides. Edges gilt., Script: Written in a calligraphic notarial hand with tall ascenders and strongly looped forms of letters d and b, above top line., and Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled.
Subject (Name):
Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295 and Aristotle
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Italian literature--To 1400, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Title in pencil upper right., Signed by the artist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Manuscript on parchment of Aristotle, Ethica. An anonymous Tuscan translation made for Nuno de Guzman from the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni
Description:
In Italian., Script: Text written in a well formed humanistic bookhand by a single scribe; the rubrics, in majuscules, by another scribe who used excessive punctuation., The decoration is by Gioacchino de' Gigantibus. A gold initial, 5-line, on f. 1r embedded in white vine ornament, extending into sides, top, and lower margin, filled in with green, red, and blue, with small section at regular intervals filled with gold; a green bird near the initial; in lower margin, an empty laurel wreath supported by putti filled later with a coat of arms (unidentified) in pen, now effaced; a few gold dots with hair-spray in brown ink. Other initials, gold, 5- to 4-line, on ff. 7r, 93v, 106v, 126r, 161v, in same manner, but with gold infilling., Significant stains in margins of first few leaves., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges gilt. Green calf with tan, gold-tooled label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of an Italian translation of Book 8, chapters 4-5 of the Facta et memorabilia dicta of Valerius Maximus
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In Italian., Script: humanist cursive., Decoration: rubricated. 9 initials of 2 or 3 lines in alternating red and blue ink., and Layout: single columns of 35/36 lines.
Manuscript on paper, written in two stages. Part II was copied in the mid-14th century (before 1369) in Tuscany, possibly in Pisa. Part I was copied by Niccolo di Giovanni Cinuzi da Siena in Ferrara, Italy, by 1 Sept. 1415. Part I: Boccaccio, Filostrato. Part II: Articles 2-35 and 38-39 consist of a collection of Italian canzoni by various authors as well as anonymous poems. Artt. 36 and 37 are fragments of Petrarch, Rerum vulgarum
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Monts 11678. Part II: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3737., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-78v): Written by a single scribe in a bold upright notarial script. Part II (ff. 91r-110v): Written in a clear notarial script by a single scribe; later writers have added the initials, offset in margins, for the major sections of text (sometimes inaccurately) and the notes on ff. 109v-110v., Crude drawings include a falconer with birds, f. 103v, and a ghost (?), f. 103r., The pattern of stains suggests the two parts were originally bound separately. Stained throughout; some ink blotches affect text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Red-brown, gold-tooled label. Parchment reinforcements between quires.
Manuscript bifolium on parchment, containing text from the Heroides, with the text of the Italian prose translation by Filippo Ceffi framing it in the margins
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: capitals touched in yellow ink. Headings in red ink., and Labeled in a large later hand: "Ricorda...anno...161...."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ceffi, Filippo. and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Manuscript on paper (sturdy), composed of two volumes formerly bound as one. Volume I (ff. 1-55): Historia Alexandri Magni compiled largely from the version of Archpresbyter Leo, translated into Italian. Volume 2 (ff. 56-115): Leonardo Bruni, De primo bello punico, translated into Italian
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Chapeau 3369-70, unidentified mountain., Script: Written by a single scribe in careless notarial script., Blank spaces for headings that would have also included the first few words of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. Brown decorated paper cases with blank and inscribed labels.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of a hunting diary of Ferdinando de' Medici (1549-1609), Cardinal, and Grand Duke of Tuscany; this portion of the manuscript covers the period 15 October 1579 to 21 March 1585
Description:
In Italian., Written in a sprawling cursive script., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green, hard-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 90. Front cover of original limp vellum binding bound in at front of manuscript, with contemporary inscription: "Libro della Caccia che si fe (?)/ Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Signor Cardinale d'/ Medici mio Signore e padrone".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Tuscany (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
Subject (Topic):
Hunting, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Social life and customs