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
Manuscript on paper of 1) Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Paradoxa. 2) Prophecy in 11 verses added by a slightly later hand on the blank lower half of the page. The text is corrupt. 3) Two rhetorical exercises by an unrecorded author addressed to an emperor, who is praised with all possible exaggeration. 4) Astronomical or computistical table, recording for each month 3 up to 7 days, of which two are superscribed with a cross and an hour, the remaining ones only with the letter "p". The crosses are crutched crosses up to September inclusive, afterwards simple crosses. 5) Notes added by slightly later hands on a blank page; notes on ancient Roman abbreviations; various Latin names applied to the Greeks. 6) Ps.-Cicero, Synonyma, printed from 1487 onward, with 17th century Italian annotations, in the same hand as in art. 1, found in the margins of ff. 23v-25r. 7) Ps.-Sallustius, Invectiva in Marcum Tullium Ciceronem.
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Binding: Twentieth century. Yellow parchment over light cardboard, with turned edges., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California (MS 211). Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., In the original parts all initials are missing; at the opening of art. 6 the upper half of f. 17r is blank (in view of a picture which was not executed?) and a later hand has entered a large and coarse initial “C” (8 lines) containing a human face; in that art. there are guide letters for the small initials which were intended to open each entry; a few of these initials were added afterwards. The initial planned at the opening of art. 7 is 6 lines high. The opening lines of art. 1 are in a large fanciful display script overdecorated with flourishes and almost illegible. There is some pale red stroking of the majuscules on ff. 68v, 69r and 70v., Script: The original parts are copied by two scribes: A copied art. 1 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens; B, writing a bold Gothica Cursiva Formata with “northern” features and marked by lengthened and decorated ascenders on the top line, copied artt. 4, 6 and 7. The additional texts, copied on blank spaces or pages, are in badly shaped Humanistica Cursiva (art. 2), slovenly executed Gothica Semihybrida Currens (art. 3), Humanistica Cursiva (art. 5, [1] and [2]) and Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva (art. 5, [3] and [4])., and There are remnants of an early foliation in arabic numerals (17th century?) in the upper outer corner of the recto pages, starting f. 16 ("1").
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Stoics
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Claudius Claudianus (ca. 400), De raptu Proserpinae. 2) Plinius Maior (23-79), Naturalis Historia, C. Mayhoff, ed. (Teubner, 1906 ff.), 10.3-5: note on the phenix, as an introduction to art. 3. 3) Claudius Claudianus, Phoenix (Carmina minora 27). 4) Fictitious epitaph of Claudius Claudianus. 5) Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17), Metamorphoses, 11.592-615: description of the dwelling of the god Sleep. 6) Titus Vespasianus Strozza (Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, 1424-1505), Laus Bacchi (poem in praise of wine). 7) Note on the question whether Claudianus was a Christian. A quotation from Paulus Orosius (d. after 418), Historiae adversus paganos, 7.35.2, followed by verses 1-5 of the poem De Salvatore, by or attributed to Claudianus (Carmina minora, 32). 8) Three verses from Claudius Claudianus, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti, 96-98. 9) Final three verses of Claudius Claudianus, Deprecatio ad Hadrianum (Carmina minora, 22), 56-58. Followed by a conclusion about Claudianus's nationality.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brownish mottled paper over cardboard. The preceding binding had wooden boards as appears from the worm holes in the first and final leaves., Headings and explicit formulas in pale red; the heading of art. 5 in Capitalis. Space for 3- or 2-line initials reserved in art. 1. The first words of artt. 2 and 5 are written in pale red capitals., and Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Formata; artt. 7-9 in a more sloping and more rapid script.
Subject (Name):
Claudianus, Claudius
Subject (Topic):
Latin fiction, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Manuscript on paper of an Anonymous comedy in five acts in prose, based on various amorous plots, the scene being laid in Florence.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, marbled paper over cardboard and parchment spine. On the spine red leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “COMMEDI / MANOSCRITT / XVI SECOL”., No decoration., and Script: One hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. Corrections by a contemporary hand very close to the scribe's hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--Fiction
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, of the commentary on the fourth book of Peter Lombard's Sentences by Petrus de Tarantasia's (later Pope Innocent V). This manuscript is a palimpsest; the parchment is from at least three unidentified thirteenth century Italian manuscripts. The first, apparently a glossed legal text, is most apparent at f21-22v.
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Binding: eighteenth-century half sheep; patterned paper over pasteboards., Decoration: two-line initials in pen and ink., Ex libris Convent of San Domenico, Gaeta; HIspanic Society of America (MS B2566). Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. on the Asahel Henry Grant Fund, 2014., Ff. 89-80, back flyleaf and former pastedown, is a bifolium in a different, round gothic book hand, containing part of an alphabetical index to an unidentified legal text., Foliation given as found in the manuscript, including six foliated stubs., Laid in: fragment of a description of the manuscript, in French, in a nineteenth-century hand., Layout: double columns throughout, mostly of 60-65 lines each. Four-column list of chapter headings on f87v-88v., Ownership inscription in the lower margin of f1r: Iste liber est conventus sancti dominici de gayeta ordinis predicatorum..., and Script: semi-cursive gothic book hand.
Subject (Name):
Dominicans, Innocent--V,--Pope,--approximately 1224-1276, Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--approximately 1100-1160.--Sententiarum libri IV, and San Domenico (Church : Gaeta, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Palimpsests, and Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Iacobus de Blanchis de Alexandria OFM (Giacomo Bianchi, 1300-1350), Commentum in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis. 2) Table of contents of art. 1. 3) Gonsalvus de Vallebona OFM (Gonsalvus Hispanus, c. 1255-1313), Conclusiones Metaphysicae Aristotelis. 4) Table of Contents of Aristoteles, Metaphysica.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1900. "Bound by Birdsall, Northampton" (blind-stamped inscription on the inside front cover): blond-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, spine with four raised bands. Gold-tooled title on spine in Gothic script: "Jacobus / Alexan/driae / Com-/pilatio / Metrice [sic] / distincta / Capitu-/lorum / MS. / xiv Cent.", MS 217 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Numerous alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials with penwork in the opposite colours; there are 3-line initials of the same type at the beginning of each book in art. 1 and at the opening of art. 4 (in the latter case a red letter with mauve penwork). A 4-line flourished initial in the same colours with develped penwork at the opening of art. 1, and space for a similar one has been reserved at the opening of art. 3. There is space and there are instructions for the rubricator in view of the adding of headings in art. 2, but these have not been executed. The headings of artt. 1 and 3 have been deleted or rubbed off., Script: Copied in a small, highly abbreviated Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with southern features., and Uneven lower edges. First and last page dampstained, with loss of some text.
Subject (Name):
Bianchi, Giacomo and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (de Mediolano, d. c. 1496), OFM, Confessionale. 2) Ps.-Anselmus Cantuariensis (Pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury), Interrogationes faciendae infirmo morienti.
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over bevelled beech boards, both covers blind-tooled with fillets and small tools in ropework design. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Spine damaged. Remnants of three clasps, one at the top, one at the bottom and one at the side edge of the covers, each attached with three engraved nails to the front cover; quadrangular decorated brass catches on the rear cover, engraved with the initial “S” and each fixed with four nails., Headings in purplish red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 1- and 2-line plain initials with guide letters. Decorated initials: f. 1r (Prologue), 7-line white vinestem initial followed by text line in fancy Capitalis; f. 2r (Part 1), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 12r (Part 2), 4-line white vinestem initial; f. 18v (Part 3), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 127v (Part 4), idem. Running headlines in Capitalis in purplish red., and Script: Copied by one hand writing a small and rather uneven Humanistica Textualis Libraria, highly abbreviated, especially in the quotations of authorities.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Confession--Catholic Church, Extreme unction, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library