- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- 1415, [between 1300 and 1369]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 222
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Filostrato, etc
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 642
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Landulphus senior (Landulphus Mediolanensis, 12th century), Historia Mediolanensis. 2) Catalogue of the Archbishops of Milan up to Galdinus (1166-1176). 3) Arnulf of Milan (Arnulphus Mediolanensis, d. ca. 1077), Liber gestorum recentium
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Marginal notes in Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Annotations in the hand of Francesco della Croce., Plain red 1-line initials in the verses at the end of art. 1, Book I (f. 10v) and in art. 2; alternately red and blue 2- or 3-lines initials in the other parts; 5-line littera duplex in the same colours at the beginning of art. 3; 6-line littera duplex with penwork and marginal extensions at the beginning of art. 1, Book I (f. 1v); 9-line foliate initial on square background in yellow, mauve, red, green, blue and with left-margin Gothic illuminated acanthus border on f. 1r., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain white parchment over pasteboard. Remnants of title-label at the top of the spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Milan (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Della Croce, Francesco, 1391-1479.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > History of Milan
- Published / Created:
- [between 1390 and 1410].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.6-7
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of an initial; De Ricci records two manuscript numbers for this fragment; however, it contains only one initial
- Description:
- In Latin. and Decoration: initial "N" in light pink decorated with white foliate patterns around the outer edge of the letter and white dots around the inner edge; the ends of the letter terminate in green and yellow; the letter is on a gold geometric ground that is outlined in black and filled with green, pink, and red leaves attached to a blue vine and with balls that are half white and half blue or green.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Initials
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Initial (fragment).