Manuscript on paper of Gaspare da Verona, Regulae de constructione.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays adhered inside each quire. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. A natural color endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on a tawed skin core which is laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. Tied down through brown leather. Quarter bound in mottled brown tawed skin cut out around the head and tail supports. Two fastenings, the leaf-shaped catches (wanting) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps. The letter R written in ink on head edge., ff. 53v-60r blank, not digitized., Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Guide letters for initials in margin., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, buried in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6647-49, Briquet Croix grecque 5576 and Piccard Kreuz II.607, Piccard Einhorn III.1648.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare,--da Verona,--ca. 1400-1474
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest throughout, from many different manuscripts, 15th century, primarily documents that were previously folded and a large service book with musical notation) of Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Charles Lewis (London, 1807-36) in brown diced calf with a gold-tooled title: "Ciceronis Rhetorica MS in Membr". Edges gilt., Red initial, 5-line, with purple penwork flourishing that extends down inner margin, marks beginning of text, f. 3r. Plain red initial, 3-line, f. 3v. Spaces with guide letters are unfilled for remainder of codex. Initial letter for each sentence stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r only., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script with numerous abbreviations.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Cicero
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI (with XVI preceding XV). With the argumenta of Guarino of Verona added at the beginning of each satire. 2) Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-VI. 3) Notes on the moon in the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Description:
Argumenta of Guarino of Verona in red rustic capitals preceding each title; spaces for decorative initials never filled., Binding: Sixteenth century (?). Vellum stays. Original sewing on three slit, tawed straps. Primary, plain and secondary, beaded endbands on twisted, tawed cores, laid in grooves and pegged or nailed. Spine lined with tawed skin, mostly lacking. Straps laced and pegged or nailed into beech boards covered in (originally) brick-red leather, blind-tooled with an inscription in a border around an inner panel of overlapping circles interspersed with dots. Four flower-shaped bosses on each board and two catches on the lower one. Two bosses and clasp straps wanting., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre R.8941 and Harlfinger Fleche 12., and Written in humanistic script by three scribes. The principal scribe, Franciscus Seroddi Centinomius Phylaretus, wrote ff. 1r-72v and 79r-84v; he signed the manuscript on ff. 72v and 84v. Scribe 2 wrote ff. 74r-78v and Scribe 3 the notes on ff. 85r-87v. Marginal and interlinear glosses in several contemporary hands.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
Education, Medieval, Latin language--Composition and exercises, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and School notebooks
Manuscript on paper of La Sfera, by either Gregorio Dati (1362-1435), or Leonardo Dati O.P. (1360-1425).
Description:
Manuscript on paper of La Sfera, by either Gregorio Dati (1362-1435), or Leonardo Dati O.P. (1360-1425). A contemporary hand has numbered the Books in the following way: Book I (f. 1r): “Terzo”; Book II (f. 7r): “Quarto”; Book III (f. 13r): “Primo”; Book IV (f. 19r): “Secondo”. and Script: copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; the first majuscule of each strophe written between the double bounding lines. The four books open with a 3-line red plain initial with or without interior reserved shapes.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436 and Dati, Leonardo, d. 1425
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse, some deckle edges; watermarks indistinguishable) of William of Ockham, Summa logicae. With Walter Burley, De puritate artis logicae tractatus brevior, beginning of text only.
Description:
Binding: Date?, Italy? Backs of quires cut in for sewing. Plain limp vellum case with holes in each cover for two ribbons., Crude penwork initials on f. 1r in red and blue, 3-line. The first incorporates a five-pointed star in red, with blue dots, and terminates with a full-length marginal border in inner margin. The second incorporates a fleur-de-lis. Other plain initials in red and/or blue throughout. Headings and strokes on paragraph marks and majuscules in red., and Script: Written by a single scribe in small, cramped and highly abbreviated gothic cursive. Art. 6 added by two different hands.
Subject (Name):
William,--of Ockham,--ca. 1285-ca. 1349
Subject (Topic):
Logic, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Terence. 2) Terence, Andria. 3) Terence, Eunuchus. 4) Terence, Heautontimoroumenos. Artt. 5-24: Cicero, Epistolae. 25) Commentary, partly in Italian, on the first letter of Cicero to Lentulus Spinther (some loss due to trimming).
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp vellum case with title lettered in ink down the spine., Crude initials mark beginning of each section; rubrics throughout; many letters stroked in red., Script: Written by multiple scribes in various styles of round humanistic and gothic scripts. One hand supplied most of the glosses on Terence and Cicero and the texts on ff. 143r-145v in italic., and Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include horn, mermaid in a circle; two distinct birds in circles similar to Briquet Oiseau 12203 and 12220.
Subject (Name):
Terence
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama (Comedy), Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Binding: Twentieth century, England. Quarter bound in alum tawed pigskin, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Title, in ink, on head edge: "Statij. thebaidos". Title on spine: "Statii Thebais/ MS. 1406"., One garishly painted initial, 16-line, red and blue divided with penwork designs in both colors. Spaces left for decorative initials at beginning of remaining books are unfilled. For ff. 1r-13r only: headings, paragraph marks, underlining of passages glossed in marginalia and running headlines, all in red; for ff. 1r-16v: first letter of each verse touched with yellow., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1952 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in scripts ranging from calligraphic mercantesca to a more formal gothic bookhand., and Watermarks, obscured by text: similar in type to Piccard Horn VI.110-29.
Subject (Name):
Statius, P. Papinius--(Publius Papinius)
Subject (Topic):
Epic poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)