Vita di Piero Soderini, gonfaloniere perpetvo della repvbblica Fiorentina
Description:
Armorial binding of Pope Clement XII. Stamp of Giovanni Lercari., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, *-***⁴ A-2Q⁴ 2R²(-2R2, blank?)., and Title (engraved) and text within engraved border.
Publisher:
Nella stamperia del Seminario con licenza de svperiori,
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737
Subject (Name):
Lercari, Giovanni,--1722-1802--Stamp and Soderini, Piero,--1452-1522
7 leaves of unfoliated binder's blanks inserted at both beginning and end., Armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827)., ff. 1-12 foliated in ink in a hand later than the manuscript, the remaining leaves with modern pencil foliation., ff. 17 apparently a contemporary insertion., and On parchment binder's blanks.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate and North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, bookplate.
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 3. Latin. 1596 Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Published / Created:
1596
Call Number:
E159 +B79 6-9
Image Count:
2
Description:
First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 158., Novae Novi Orbis historiae, liber 3 (by G. Benzoni, tr. and annotated by Urbain Chauveton)--Brevis insvlarvm quae Canariae appellantvr ... descriptio.--De Gallorvm expeditione in Floridam ... 1565 (including the petition on behalf of the families of those massacred there by the Spanish in 1565, repeated from America. pt. 2), The t.p., with a new engr. title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates., and With this is bound the editor's [America. pts. 7-9. Latin] Francoforti, 1599-1602. Imperfect: signature G6 (2nd count) blank, wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600, America--History--To 1600, Canary Islands--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565, and Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
Collection of 73 engraved visiting cards, 55 of which have the visitor's name either printed or written in manuscript. Identified travelers include Lady Mountstuart; Phillipina Deane and her daughter Cornelia; "Il Cavelier Mann" (possibly Horace Mann); Viscountess Hampden; Mrs. Hamlyn of Wimpole Street; the contessa Piccolomini; Columba Danzetta Roncalli; and Le Comte de Collered.
Autograph (in part) manuscript, consisting of papers in Italian, English and other languages concerning the contemporary political history and the intellectual and social life of England (f. 1-262), Holland (f. 265-422), Denmark (f. 424-476) and Poland (f. 477-503). The collection includes autograph rough notes and drafts of memoranda, often with extensive revisions, copies and translations of political papers, a few original letters and a few printed papers. The English section includes "Memorie del'ingresso del Duca d'Oranges in Inghilterra e dell'uscita de Giacomo;" sketches of the careers and characters of politicians, courtiers, etc.; memoranda concerning English domestic and foreign politics; a list of "le donne piu belle di Londra;" lists of publications concerning the Popish plot (1679-83) and other books published in England; translations of parliamentary speeches and 11 letters from a Tuscan diplomat in London to Magalotti's secretary, May to July, 1678.
Alternative Title:
Danimarca e Pollonia
Description:
Title on spine: "Inghilterra Oland Danimarca Pollonia."
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark--Politics and government, Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714, Netherlands--Politics and government, and Poland--Politics and government
Historia del valoroso cavallier Polisman : nelle quale, oltre alla sua origine, vita, & imprese
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Translation of Libro del valeroso caballero Polisman Florisio, que por otro nombre se llamo´ el Caballero del Desierto ... por Fernando Bernal. Valencia, 1527, which in turn was issued, 1517, under title: Floriseo, que por otro nombre es llamado el Cauallero del Desierto.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 256
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary. 2) Litanies of the Virgin, of Christ on Ascension Day, of St. Jerome on his feast day. 3) An account of the visions of St. Magnus, and the story of St. Magnus's burial and subsequent translation to the church of San Geremia in Venice. 4) Legend of the three monks in Paradise. 5) Exhortation to suffer illness patiently citing three exempla from St. Gregory's Dialogues. 6) Lists of the 7 works of spiritual mercy, the 7 works of corporal mercy, the 7 sacraments, the 7 virtues, the 7 mortal sins, the 5 senses, the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. 7) Unidentified sermon. 8) Anselm of Canterbury, Commendatio animae. 9) Short unidentified text attributed to Gregory I.
Alternative Title:
Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary, etc.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and pegged twice. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine is lined with leather between supports. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a central rectangle in concentric frames. Two fastenings; holes from pins on the lower board, the upper one cut in for straps which are fastened with star-headed nails. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; an X of triple fillets in the panels which are bordered with double fillets on the sides., Crudely executed initials red with blue and/or red penwork designs and vice versa; initials on ff. 7v-8v have green added. Blue headings accompany red initials and red accompany blue. Initial letters stroked with red throughout. Line filler in red, blue and yellow on f. 6r., and Script: Written in small round gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Magnus,--of Anagni, Saint,--d. 254, and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library