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19. Marescalcia equorum, etc
- Creator:
- Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
- Published / Created:
- 1456.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 488
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum, in an anonymous Italian translation. With medicinal recipes and prayers
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: unidentified bull's head in gutter., Script: Written in a poorly formed Italian notarial script; notes in contemporary cursive hands., Plain initial, 5-line, in red and black, at beginning of art. 1; initial strokes and rubrics for ff. 1r-9v only., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case. Stamped on upper cover: "Medecine des chevaux/ manuscrit du XV siecle".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ruffo, Giordano, fl. 1250-1260.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marescalcia equorum, etc
20. Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio
- Creator:
- Speciano, Cesare
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 36
- Image Count:
- 561
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Cesare Speciano, Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio. With a Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 1597
- Description:
- In Italian., Unidentified watermarks: paschal lamb, with countermark PP plus clover; bird on mountain enclosed in a circle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat italic hand., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Italian red morocco gilt, with unidentified arms of a cardinal (vair) stamped in gilt on both covers. Edges gilt and gauffered. Unobtrusive repairs at head and tails of spine and joints.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Speciano, Cesare.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio
21. Psychomachia, with glosses
- Creator:
- Prudentius, 348-
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1300?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 691
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Prudentius (beginning of the fifth century), Psychomachia, with interlinear and marginal glosses by various hands in Latin and Italian, variant readings and corrections
- Description:
- In Latin, with Italian glosses., Script: Copied by one hand writing an uneven Southern Semitextualis Libraria with some two-compartment a's. The scribe Ciutus is not recorded., Red stroking of the majuscules. 2-line red plain initials. Larger and more elaborate initial in red and black at the opening of the text. Numerous pointing hands., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellow parchment over pasteboard, both covers framed with a gilt running scroll. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "PRUDENTII PSYCHOMACHIA . COD. SEC. XV (?)".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Prudentius, 348-
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegory, Christian poetry, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psychomachia, with glosses
22. Renaissance miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 329
- Image Count:
- 293
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a miscellany including texts by Leonardo Bruni, Petrarch, Stefano Porcari, Matteo Palmieri, and Giovanni Boccaccio
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fleur 6651, Briquet Echelle 5910, Briquet Etoile 6070 and one unidentified., Script: Written in a mercantile script (mercantesca) by one hand., Calligraphic initials, 4- to 2-line, in red with purple or blue with red. Rubrics in brownish-red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper binding "alla rustica". On spine, "Miscella di belle lettere".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Renaissance miscellany
23. Three poems
- Creator:
- Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 352
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (one leaf) of Three poems. MS 352, f. 88 from a larger volume, may be Benivieni's working copy, since words and verses have been added and deleted throughout; all three columns on both recto and verso have been struck out. The three poems were once thought to be the autograph works of Lorenzo de' Medici
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in a vigorous notarial script., Leaf is mutilated and has been repaired extensively., and Boxed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Three poems
24. Trattati di archittetura ingegneria e arte militare
- Creator:
- Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1515]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 491
- Image Count:
- 129
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of what is probably the first version of the treatise, finished ca. 1476-77. The order of contents is as follows: fortresses; temples, churches and theaters; columns and other architectural details; plans for palaces; aqueducts; measuring and surveying; instruments of war
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: anchor and star similar to Briquet Ancre 478, Bergamo 1502., Script: Written in italic script by a single scribe who left blank spaces for illuminated initials., Outer and lower margins of almost every page filled with architectural or mechanical sketches drawn either directly on the leaves (ff. 1r-5v) or on small strips of paper pasted onto the margins of the leaves (ff. 6r-57v), in brown ink, sometimes with green or pink washes. The drawings illustrate every section of the text; many have explanatory inscriptions., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red edges. Mottled, brown calf, streaked on the turn-ins. Blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502.
- Subject (Topic):
- Architecture, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Military art and science
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Trattati di archittetura ingegneria e arte militare
25. Treatise on falconry
- Creator:
- Balzani, Guglielmo
- Published / Created:
- 1616.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 477
- Image Count:
- 450
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Guglielmo Balzani, of Casale Monferrato, Treatise on Falconry
- Description:
- The 8th Marchese of Monferrato mentioned in the prologue is presumably Guglielmo (1550-1587)., In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified crossbow in circle, with countermark "B A B"., Script: Written by 2 hands in 17th-century cursive: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-177r; Scribe 2) ff. 177v-208r., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Spattered brown calf, blind-tooled. Edges spattered blue/green and red. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Balzani, Guglielmo.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on falconry
26. Vita di San Petronio, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500, 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 37
- Image Count:
- 347
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (with various watermarks), composed of five separate manuscripts bound together. Parts I and II were written in the 15th century and III-V in the 17th century. Part I: Vita di San Petronio. Part II: Tommaso Nacci Caffarini, Tractatus de stigmatibus extractus, the second part of the book De supplemento legende beate Katerine de senis. Part III: Federico Borromeo, Vita S. Caroli Borromei. Part IV: Pope Pius II, De morte eugenij Quarti creationeque et coronatione Niccolai V oratio. Part V: Thomas Obicinus, Motiuo Celeste diretto in questo segnato tempo
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Part I: Round humanistic by a single scribe. Part II: Small neat round textura in a single hand. Part III: Written by one scribe in a calligraphic italic hand. Part IV: Written in italic hand by a single scribe. Part V: Written in a small italic hand by one scribe., Part I: Simple penwork initials in red or blue, some with penwork designs of the other color. Part II: Uninspired and badly rubbed historiated initial (Christ [?] displaying stigmata) on gold background with three gold dots, f. 19r; small decorative initials in red with black penwork designs, or blue with red. Paragraph marks in red or blue., The manuscript has been damaged and repaired extensively. Parts I and III: Waterstained and mended throughout. Part II: Folios have been trimmed with some loss of marginalia., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum and paste paper case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petronius, Saint, Bishop of Bologna, d. ca. 445.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papal documents, and Stigmatization
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita di San Petronio, etc