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1. Arengae et informationes
- Creator:
- Ivani, Antonio, 1430-1482
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1066
- Image Count:
- 170
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Ivani, Antonio,--1430-1482
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arengae et informationes
2. Bellum Gallicum
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 179
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
- Description:
- Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Gallicum
3. Bulla Ezechielis
- Creator:
- Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
- Published / Created:
- [between 1463 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 132
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a Papal bull dated 22 October 1463 in unidentified Italian translation, announcing the adherence of Pope Pius II to the Hungarian-Venetian league.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case., One initial, 4-line, in black ink on f. 1r., Script: Written in upright mercantesca bookhand (no loops)., and Watermarks: unidentified horn in gutter.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Venice (Italy)--History
- Subject (Name):
- Pius--II,--Pope,--1405-1464
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bulla Ezechielis
4. Confessionale
- Creator:
- Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 786
- Image Count:
- 331
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of St. Antoninus, Confessionale. With several other texts, including papal bulls and confessional manuals.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Confession--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessionale
5. Credo
- Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1069
- Image Count:
- 200
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Confortatorio per i condannati a morte, Florilegium, and Laudi
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Credo
6. Cronica, libri II-XI
- Creator:
- Villani, Giovanni, d. 1348
- Published / Created:
- 15th century.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 931
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a summary of Giovanni Villani's Croniche.
- Description:
- Script: copied by a single hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Libraria on the basis of Italian Hybrida. Pale red headings. Flourished initials with penwork and marginal extensions, 2-line up to f. 16r, generally 3-line from f. 16v onwards. On f. 1r 2-line white vinestem initial incorporated into a border corner piece of the same style. In the lower margin two marks of oval seals (?) and the early number or date “1264”.
- Subject (Name):
- Villani, Giovanni,--d. 1348
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--To 1400
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica, libri II-XI
7. Curam illius and Summa della penitentia
- Creator:
- Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
- Published / Created:
- 15th century.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 947
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Antonius Florentinus's Confessionale in Italian.
- Description:
- Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459), Confessionale, Italian version beginning “Curam illius habe”, also known as Medicina dell anima., Binding: binding is missing. Sewn on four leather thongs., and Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence. Headings in smaller handwriting. On f. 1r a 2-line plain initial in red, with guide letter.
- Subject (Name):
- Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Italian, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Repentance--Christianity
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Curam illius and Summa della penitentia
8. De centum metris, etc.
- Creator:
- Servius, active 4th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 142
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Servius, De centum metris. With Brief notes on accents followed by Latin word list with Italian equivalents.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum stays outside the quires. Paste-paper case in shades of deep purple., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: unidentified quadruped in gutter.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius,--4th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De centum metris, etc.
9. De disciplina claustralium
- Creator:
- Lawrence Justinian, Saint, 1381-1456
Tavelli, Giovanni, 1386-1446 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 796
- Image Count:
- 466
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Laurentius Iustinianus (Lorenzo Giustiniani, 1381-1456), De disciplina et spirituali perfectione monasticae conversationis (De disciplina spiritualium), Italian translation by Iohannes de Tossignano (Giovanni Tavelli da Tossignano, 1386-1446, bishop of Ferrara 1431-1446).
- Description:
- Binding: Of the original binding the wooden boards (and the gilt and gauffered edges) survive. The boards are now covered with brown 19th-century marbled paper and the spine with cloth-reinforced beige marbled paper. On the latter (now detached) a paper label with handwritten 19th-century inscription: "146. / Anonimo. / Della disciplina et perfectione / de la monastica conversatione. / Cartaceo. / secolo XV."., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 136). Purchased from him in 1994 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Headings in red ink of various darkness. On f. 1r the Prologue opens with an 8-line Gothic foliate initial L in purple and blue, heightened with white penwork, on a square golden background, containing a stylized flower in purple and yellow with green foliage and ending in blue, purple and green acanthus leaves; on the same page a full floral border in blue, purple and green with a multitude of hairy gold balls. On all the remaining pages the decoration was not executed: the rectangular spaces with guide letters for initials are blank. A 4-line initial was planned f. 5r at the beginning of the text, a 3-line initial at the beginning of chapter 2 (f. 10r), and 2-line initials at the beginning of the other chapters., and Script: Copied by one hand in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens.
- Subject (Name):
- Lawrence Justinian,--Saint,--1381-1456
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De disciplina claustralium