Ballatette del magnifico Lorenzo de Medici & di messere Agnolo Politiani & di Bernardo Giamburlari & di molti altri and Se intender uuoi della storia leffecto
Description:
Contemporary ms. notes, corrections and pagination., Most sources identify the printer of this work as Bartolomeo di Libri, printing for Piero Pacini. Libri was active as a printer in Florence from ca. 1482-1511. Pacini was active from 1495-1514. BM STC Italian gives the date of printing as 1505?; Proctor, BMC and Sander all list it as undated., Printer statement from colophon., Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁶., Title from caption on recto of leaf a2., Woodcut hand-colored., and Woodcut on recto of leaf a1.
Publisher:
Finite lecanzone aballo a petitione di ser Piero Pacini da Pescia,
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
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least seven hands, containing the text of the wills of Jankyn (or John) Smyth and his wife, Margaret Odeham, detailing their bequests to the Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds, as well as to other religious foundations, and the funeral expenses for Smyth. Also included are the grant of probate for Smyth's second will, dated 1481; and lists of lands donated by the couple, by name and location.
Description:
Binding: contemporary binding of tawed white leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four leather thongs. Remains of clasp; brass pin and mount on lower cover., Decoration: Rubricated. Large blue initial with red penwork (f. 8)., Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns, mostly of 32 lines., Numerous marginal annotations in both contemporary and later hands., and Script: manuscript is in at least seven hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Bury St. Edmunds (England)--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Finance--Early works to 1800., Odeham, Margaret,--1492., Smyth, Jankyn,--1481., and Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Charitable bequests--Early works to 1800., Endowments--Catholic Church., Legacies--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
BEIN: Imperfect: slightly mutilated; apparently removed from a binding. and Proofsheets of the recto of ff. cxliij and ccliiij and the verso of fol. cclxiij.
Manuscript on paper (watermarks in gutter) of 1) Petrarch, Boccacii Griseldis historia. 2) Pope Pius II, Epistola. 3) Petrarch, Famil. rerum., 12, 2. 4) Pope Pius II, Bulla retractationum. 5) Pope Pius II, Epistola de fortuna
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in similar styles of informal gothic scripts (batarde influence). Scribe 1) ff. 1r-7r; 2) ff. 7v-14v; 3) ff. 15r-26v., One calligraphic initial, f. 1r, 4-line, blue with white floral motifs; infilled with red penwork floral designs tinted with green; penwork trails into inner margin, with plain green dots. Four initials, ff. 1v, 7v, 10v, 21v, red ink, 6- to 2-line. Paragraph marks in red. Numerous capitals stroked in red; rubrics throughout; explicits underlined in red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum spine (verso of an unidentified manuscript) with "Petrarcae et Aeneae Silvii Epistoles" inscribed; grey-blue paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
Binding: comtemporary half pigskin over wooden boards, remains of a single fore-edge clasp; pastedowns from a 13th-century vellum Homiliary., Bought Nov. 11 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Bound with: De disciplina scholarium. Colonia : Impressus in domo Henrici Que[n]tell ..., 1498 mensis die quinta -- Catonis disticha. [Cologne] : Impresse ... M.cccc.xcvi p[er] Henricum Quentell in Colonia, [1496]., Printer and date from colophon., Provenance: "F. Georgius Schmaller de Ratispona Ordinis predicatoru[m] 1549" (ms. on p. [1]); "Co[n]ue[n]tus Fra[n]ckford. Ord. p[re]dicator[um]" (ms. on p. [13]); "Ex libris Estelle Doheny" (bookplate on front pastedown)., Rubricated in red: initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes; copious interlinear and marginal notes in an unidentified hand., and Text surrounded by commentary by Thomas Wallensis.
Publisher:
Per Henricum Quentell ...,
Subject (Name):
Doheny, Estelle,--1875-1958--Bookplate., Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main Inscription, 1549., and Schaller, Georgius--Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Happiness., Incunabula in Yale Library., and Philosophy and religion.