Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse) of Lives of the Saints, preceded by accounts of events in the Bible from both the Old and New Testaments. Folios 51 and 61 interchanged in rebinding.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case with two red labels on spine: "Trattati di storia sacra" and "Manuscritto 1360"., Crudely executed title page, f. 1r, consisting of floral and foliage motifs in upper margin, scroll around column in inner margin, and, in outer margin, scroll around column terminating in elongated arm with text on the scroll (much rubbed and stained). In lower margin a coat of arms (damaged; probably: or, two columns gules); the letters B and C on either side in the bases of columns in inner and outer margins. The decoration of title page in bright red and green. Plain initials (some with simple foliage designs), headings, paragraph marks, pointing hands, and hands holding crosses or symbols of passions of martyrs (e. g., gridiron for Laurence), all in bright red, green, and/or black., Folio 1 damaged; no loss of text., Script: Written by several scribes in unruly mercantesca script, above top line. Script becomes smaller and tighter toward end of codex., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3708 dated Genoa, 1465.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature--15th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Agenzia per l’autosoppressione del proletariato Internationale situationniste
Published / Created:
[1977]
Call Number:
2009 +361
Image Count:
5
Description:
The inside of the folded sheet contains two columns of text (on all 8 panels); the outside contains an illustration (on 4 panels), a quote from Guy Debord (on 2 panels), a title panel, and a colophon panel. Folded to 18 x 13 cm.
Silence (Block Poem), 1975. Autograph manuscript poem in Italian accompanied on each leaf by two rectangular collages of text in non-Roman alphabets covered by gauze.
Description:
Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").
Subject (Name):
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Subject (Topic):
Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century