Manuscript on paper of Anonymous biography of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia, 1430-1503). Copied by one hand in rapid Humanistica Cursiva.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth-century. Half parchment over pasteboard, covered with brown and blue marbled paper. On the spine brownish red leather label with the gold-tooled title VITA D'ALESSAND. VI. / MS. and small paper label with the number of the Phillipps collection., Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., and On the front pastedown armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Collection of Thomas Phillipps, no. 7235. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Subject (Topic):
Biography -- 16th century, Italian literature -- 16th century, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Manuscript on paper of the Life of Saint John the Baptist. Manuscript also contains a formulary for addressing Latin letters to ecclesiastical authorities and dignitaries, as well as a sermon and vision about Saint John the Baptist.
Description:
Binding: 20th century marbled brown paper binding., Manuscript on paper containing: 1) Formulary for addressing Latin letters to pope Calixtus III (1455-1458) and various other Italian ecclesiastical authorities and dignitaries, ending with emperor Frederick III (1452-1493) and Charles VII, King of France (1422-1461). 2) Life of St. John the Baptist in Italian. 3) Sermon on St. John the Baptist, attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Vision about St. John the Baptist, incomplete and of difficult legibility., and Script: article 1 is copied in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria (Mercantesca); the other articles in Gothica Semitextualis Currens (Mercantesca), sometimes of difficult legibility. There is no decoration.
Subject (Name):
John,--the Baptist, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Devotional literature, Italian, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Lilly white vinegar three pence a quart, Bon vinaigre a trois sols la pinte, and Aceto forte tre soldi la misura
Description:
Title engraved in English, French, and Italian below image., Tempest also possibly the printmaker. See Hindley, C. History of the cries of London, ancient and modern., 'ML' in M. Lauron forms a monogram., Imprint from title page., No. 25 bound in: The cryes of the city of London. London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1733., and Numbered on verso in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate