Description of the festival held in Palermo, July 1694, honoring patron saint Rosalia
Description:
Authorship attributed to Ignazo de Vio. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel., Dedication signed: Simone Varese., Description of the festival held in Palermo, July 1694, honoring patron saint Rosalia., Errata: p. [15] at end., Frontispiece signed: A.G.F., Includes index., and Signatures: pi⁴ A-2Q⁴ 2R² (2R2 blank)
Publisher:
Per Pietro Coppula Stamp. camerale,
Subject (Name):
Coppula, Pietro, printer., Rosalia,--Saint,---1160., and Varese, Simone.
Describes the entry of Charles IX and Catherine de' Medici into Bayonne to meet Elizabeth de Valois., Imperfect: wormed with slight loss of text. Unidentified armorial bookplate., and Signature: a⁴.
Publisher:
[s.n.],
Subject (Geographic):
Bayonne (France)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Catherine de Médicis,--Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,--1519-1589., Charles--IX,--King of France,--1550-1574., and Elizabeth,--of France, Queen, consort of Philip II, King of Spain,--1545-1568.
Subject (Topic):
Festivals--France--Bayonne--Early works to 1800. and Visits of state--France--Bayonne.
Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
Description:
In Italian., Script: main text copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Capitals and headings in red in main text. Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r., and Binding: S. XX binding: plain parchment over cardboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, of an Italian translation of Averroës' Latin Tractatus or Epitome in physicorum libros (ff. 1r-53v)--a text originally written in Arabic. Also includes a treatise on human diseases in 46 chapters (ff. 54r-65r), entitled: In questo libro trataremo de tutte linfermita che posseno avenire nel corpo delomo dentro ede fuora dal capo ai piedii. Concludes with a list of remedies (ff. 65r-68r), written in a different hand; incipit: Per male de pieda cossa provata
Alternative Title:
Trattato di fisica
Description:
In Italian., Title from closing rubric., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: 2-line red initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 30 to 40 lines., and Binding: modern brown leather half-binding over brown and green marbled paper (over pasteboard). Spine title in gold-tooling: Trattato di medicina in volgare.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on parchment in a semi-gothic cursive bookhand of an Italian translation of the Heroides
Description:
In Italian., Large historiated initial "A" depicting Ovid writing at his desk, set within illuminated border on f. 1., Rubricated., With catchwords and contemporary foliation. Some catchwords embellished with line drawings in ink., List of contents in a contemporary hand on verso of front flyleaf., Scribal annotation on rear flyleaf: "Questo libro ascripto belloncio gherardi finito ogi questo di xx di maggio a ore xxi 1/2. 1393.", Partially effaced ownership inscription on rear flyleaf: "1487....[Nicholas de Bernardo?]", Phillipps MS 11865. (Number and ownership stamp on rear flyleaf.), and Binding: Middle Hill paper boards, grey.
Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giovanni Battista Cortona, Libro di Abbaco, probably an autograph manuscript
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: anchor, var. Piccard, Ankerwasserzeichen?, V.102?., Script: Written by one hand in calligraphic Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The poem on f. A1r (art. 1) is in calligraphic Humanistica Cursiva Formata. A few titles in Capitalis., The decorative frames on ff. A1r and B1r are traced in brown ink. The upper half of the former contains a baroque cartouche in brown and red, containing a monogram apparently consisting of the letters A, K and M. Art. 2 opens with a flourished initial, art. 7 with a calligraphic initial, both in red., and No binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cortona, Giovanni Battista.
Subject (Topic):
Abacus, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Agogo Mago, Libro medesynal delli spariueri
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand., One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and blue throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mago, Agogo.
Subject (Topic):
Game and game-birds, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript volume, on paper, containing two secular vernacular romances attributed in the dedication to a single unidentified author. The first, I Nobili Fatti di Alessandro Magno, is an Italian translation of the Latin version of the life of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes. The second text is The Romance of Troas. Troas, a descendant of Hector, is the king of Thessaly; his son Troiano journeys to Britain and joins the army of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, who is leading an army of Britons, Trojans and Romans against the Greeks.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked., Bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front pastedown; Phillipps MS number inscribed on recto of f1., Decoration: Rubricated (ff. 1-91 only)., Formerly owned by Alessandro dale Carte; Sir Edward Dering. Phillipps MS 23252 On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of variable length., Modern binder's blanks at front [15] and back [15] not digitized., Ownership inscription and drawing of arms of Alessandro dale Carte on rear flyleaf., and Script: Italian cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Legends.
Subject (Name):
Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Early works to 1800., Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Legends., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate., and Pseudo-Callisthenes.--Historia Alexandri Magni.--Itailian & Latin
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Italian prose literature--To 1700., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Uther Pendragon (Legendary