Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian.
Description:
Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prussian blue
Alcune composizioni di diversi autori in lode del ritratto della Sabina and Alcvne composizioni di diversi avtori in lode del ritratto della Sabina
Description:
Dedication signed by the compiler, Michelagnolo Sermartelli., Illustrated collection of verses in praise of Giambologna's sculpture, the Rape of a Sabine, by Bernardo Vecchietti and others., Illustrations: 3 large woodcuts showing the sculpture from two angles as well as its position in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence., Imperfect: damp-stained and foxed. Unidentified bookplate. Blindstamp: Ex libris Giannalisa Feltrinelli. Latin verses written in a contemporary hand below the woodcuts of the sculpture., and Signatures: *⁴ A-G⁴ (G4 blank).
Publisher:
Nella stamperia di Bartolomeo Sermartelli,
Subject (Name):
Feltrinelli, Giannalisa--Stamp., Giambologna,--1529-1608.--Rape of a Sabine--Poetry., Sermartelli, Bartolomeo, fl. 1563-1600., Sermartelli, Michelangelo., and Vecchietti, Bernardo.
America. pars 4. Latin, Americae pars qvarta, Insignis & admiranda historia, and Insignis et admiranda historia
Description:
2nd. ed. Cf. Chruch. T.p. signed: A.E. Arabic numbers on plates. Plate XI with catchword "Indi.", Engraved t.p., Imperfect: wormed with some loss of text. Map (32 x 43 cm, on sheet 34 x 45 cm) bound following leaf R6., Includes Urbain Chauveton's Latin translation of bk. 1 of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo, with additional notes., Map: Occidentalis Americae partis, vel earum regionium quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit ... praesertim verò ex Hieronyni Benzoni (qui totis XIIII annis eas provincias diligenter perlustravit) historia, conflata & in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leod' anno MDXCIIII. Scale not given., and Signatures: 2):(⁴, ²2):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-E⁴ F⁶ (R6, ²F6 blank)
Publisher:
Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800., America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800., America--Early accounts to 1600., America--Maps--Early works to 1800., Latin America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Latin America--History--To 1600., and Latin America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572? Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin., Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598., Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616., and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599, printer.
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicting many native people doing various tasks, some carrying another man on a sedia gestatoria, some gathering food and tilling the land.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
On verso of title page owner has written: At Oxforde the yere 1546 browt down to Seynbury by John darbye pryse- 14d when I kepe Mr. Letymers shype I bout thys boke when the testament was obberagatyd that shepe herdys myght not Red hit I prey god Amende th
Publisher:
vvithin the precincte of the late dissolued house of the Grey Friers, by Richard Grafton ...
"The Epistle Dedicatorie" to Robert Dudley., A8, B-Z4, Aa-Cc4.(A1 and A2 (both unsigned) are conjugate; apparently a cancel for the original A1). 4to. 18.3 x 13 cm., In reply to A discouerie of I. Nicols minister, misreported a Iesuite, latelye recanted in the tower of London ..., generally ascribed to Robert Parsons., and Slightly stained; slightly wormholed. Folger Shakespeare Library.
Publisher:
Imprinted by Iohn wolfe, for Iohn Harrison, and Thomas manne, dwelling in Pater noster rowe, and are there to be folde,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Church history --16th century
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church --History --16th century, Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?, and Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Discovery of I. Nichols minister.