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
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In Italian., Script: Written in a vigorous notarial script., Leaf is mutilated and has been repaired extensively., and Boxed.
Manuscript on paper of poems by Tibullus and Catullus. With Life of Tibullus and epitaph
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In Latin., Watermarks similar to Briquet Fleur 6690, Harlfinger Fleur 108 (lower example), Harlfinger Fer a cheval 5 (but with cross), Briquet Tour 15865, Harlfinger Monts 78; unidentified watermarks: mountain, ladder, full-bodied unicorn, letter R., Script: Written by two scribes in humanistic script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-20v; Scribe 2) ff. 21r-88r. Marginal notations in several contemporary hands., Two inelegant black initials (ff. 1r, 41r) with vine-work ornament on red and blue ground. Simple red initials, some with penwork designs, mark the beginning of each poem. Headings and initial strokes, in red, throughout., Many leaves stained and/or repaired., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf spine and small corners with marbled paper sides.
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I: Aristoteles, Topica. First folio of De sophisticis elenchis inserted after f. 137. Many folios replaced on 16th-century paper. Part II: 1) Heraclius (attributed author), Brontologion (Rules for interpreting thunder). 2) Ezra the Prophet (attributed author), Prognosis (Weather prophecies). 3) Stories from the Old Testament. The 2 parts of the book were probably bound together in Venice about 1500
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In Greek., Headings in red., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Italian blind-tooled calf with unidentified arms in gilt on both covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Science, Medieval
In Hebrew., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +3487.3 (Pius II, Epistolae in cardinalatu editae), around which it is used as a covering.
Holograph diary of a several months' tour through France and Italy, concluding in Italy. Topics include sights seen, with particular emphasis on gardens and landscape, sites associated with poets, and paintings by Renaissance artists
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Inscription on front flyleaf: J. Mitford. 1822.
Subject (Geographic):
France and Italy
Subject (Name):
Mitford, John, 1781-1859.
Subject (Topic):
Travelers' writings, English and Description and travel
Manuscript on parchment of St. Bernardine of Siena, Tractatus de restitutionibus. The sermons are part of the De christiana religione of St. Bernardine, O.F.M., often copied as a separate work
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In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script., Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red., and Binding: ca. 1900. Vellum case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Catechetical sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv
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In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a monk from the abbey of Lambach, Austria, whose hand appears in of other manuscripts, including Beinecke MS 481.51., and Decoration: In the upper left corner of the verso is a faint sketch of a cat (or possibly a wolf or lion), probably contemporary with the manuscript; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
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In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry