Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes.
Alternative Title:
Orator; Orationes
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible., Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., On paper, Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81., and Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed copying the text
Subject (Name):
Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Oratory--Early works to 1800, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Manuscript commonplace book, in a single hand, containing copies of several letters of advice and copies of many lyric poems, sonnets, and epitaphs. Authors represented include Byron, Burns, Anna Barbauld, and R. S. Hawker. In addition, there are verses identified as written by members of the owner's social circle, including "Miss Bode."
Description:
Binding: original full diced calf, worn.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, English poetry--19th century, and English prose literature--19th century
Bound autograph manuscript in several unknown hands.
Description:
Bound in vellum., Stamp of St. Francis Xavier College Library inside front cover. From the library of St. Francis Xavier College, New York. From the collection of Otto Dümler. Gift of Mrs. Otto Dümler., and Title in English from inside front cover, written by later owner. Manuscript in Spanish.
Subject (Name):
Dümler, Otto--Ownership and Saint Francis Xavier College--Ownership
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
5
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 182, 212., Copied in Italy, perhaps in Rome, in 1456 (see colophon in art. 1) by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri probably for his personal use, Imperfect: Water stained at end, f. 57 marginalia excised at fore-edge margin., On parchment, One illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 28r, gold against blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, joined to a partial border, white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar on blue, green and deep red ground with white dots on blue, grey on red and pale yellow on green. Headings and running titles in red., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand., and Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De divinatione and Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Divination--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Inscription on back flyleaf recto. and Manuscript on paper in a secretary hand of the complete text of Stephen Hopkins' translation of de Granada's Libro de oracion y meditatcion.
Alternative Title:
Of prayer and meditation, wherein are conteined fowertien deuoute meditations for the seuen dayes of the weeke..., [circa 1584]
Description:
Annotation on blank p. 684: "Elizabeth Cottan.", Annotation on p. 1: "Ex Bib. S. Wilfredi.", Binding: blind-ruled parchment; fragments of parchment ms. (ca. 1600) used as liners., No title page, but Hopkins is identified as the author in the Prologue to the Dedicatory Epistle, which includes his attack on the English Puritans and which opens the work., Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2003., and Text follows the 1584 Rouen edition.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--English, Hopkins, Stephen,--d. 1594?, and Luis, de Granada,--1504-1588--Translations
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Meditations (Religious), Meditations--Catholic Church, and Puritans--England--Controversial literature
Box 1 | Folder Moving to California in 1849 by E. L. Christman
Image Count:
15
Abstract:
Enos Christman's journals describe his 1849 sea voyage around the Horn from Philadelphia to San Francisco, his work in the gold fields and for the Sonora Herald. Pasted into the back of one journal are newspaper clippings of Christman's letters to Pennsylvania newspapers from his vacations in southern California, dated 1891-1896. There is correspondence between Christman and his fiancée Ellen A. Apple, his patron Henry S. Evans, his companion DeWitt Clinton Atkins, his friend Enos Prizer, and others.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel and California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
Apple, Ellen A, Atkins, DeWitt Clinton, Evans, Henry S, and Prizer, Enos
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, Journalism--California, Sonora Herald (1850), and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Ethe, H. India Office,, Islamic binding, in black., Masnavi poem; part of the Khamsah quintet. Incomplete at end., Modern (19th century) nastaliq; with crude miniatures in colors., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.