- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 499
- Image Count:
- 352
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (deckle edges) of 1) Chronicle of Pisa (from the founding of the city to 1342). 2) Chronicle of Pisa, covering the years from creation to 1400, with the Chronicle of Ranieri Sardo beginning at 1355; the final paragraph, dealing with 1422, was added by a later continuator after Sardo's death
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified sun within circle, in gutter., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum spine and fore-edge strip, with gold tooling on spine and dark red label: "Cronica Pisano./ 1342/ Annali di Pisa./ 1422/ MS." Marbled paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Pisa (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicles of Pisa
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- Published / Created:
- 1615-1656.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 716
- Image Count:
- 349
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book
- Creator:
- Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 588
- Image Count:
- 270
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Antonio Beccadelli (Antonius Panormita, 1394-1471), De dictis et factis Alfonsi regis, Ital. translation. With Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus, 1426-1503), De principe, Ital. translation
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in a slightly shaky Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda), the majuscules partly in Roman Capitals. Headings in clumsily executed Capitals with crossed letter I., Headings in red. 2- or 3-line plain initials alternately red and blue, with guide-letters. Larger initials with some flourishing at the beginning of each work., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). White parchment over cardboard. On the spine the title is written "Panormit: de' Fatti d'Alfonso, e Pontano del Princip: MS." and at the bottom, partly worn off, the early shelf-mark "Cass. 1 58 an (?) x9".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
- Subject (Name):
- Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De dictis et factis Alfonsi regis
- Creator:
- Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 30
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Jeronymo Osorio, Della nobilta civile, translated into Italian by Bernardo Gandino
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified angel similar to Briquet 662, but with BFF as countermark., Script: Written in a calligraphic italic script by Bernardo Gandino of Treviso, with frequent corrections., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Paper case with decorated paper sides. Bookblock detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy.
- Subject (Name):
- Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Della nobilta civile
5.
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 151
- Image Count:
- 372
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aristotle, Ethica. An anonymous Tuscan translation made for Nuno de Guzman from the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Text written in a well formed humanistic bookhand by a single scribe; the rubrics, in majuscules, by another scribe who used excessive punctuation., The decoration is by Gioacchino de' Gigantibus. A gold initial, 5-line, on f. 1r embedded in white vine ornament, extending into sides, top, and lower margin, filled in with green, red, and blue, with small section at regular intervals filled with gold; a green bird near the initial; in lower margin, an empty laurel wreath supported by putti filled later with a coat of arms (unidentified) in pen, now effaced; a few gold dots with hair-spray in brown ink. Other initials, gold, 5- to 4-line, on ff. 7r, 93v, 106v, 126r, 161v, in same manner, but with gold infilling., Significant stains in margins of first few leaves., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges gilt. Green calf with tan, gold-tooled label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethics, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ethica
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 194
- Image Count:
- 244
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy), composed of two volumes formerly bound as one. Volume I (ff. 1-55): Historia Alexandri Magni compiled largely from the version of Archpresbyter Leo, translated into Italian. Volume 2 (ff. 56-115): Leonardo Bruni, De primo bello punico, translated into Italian
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Chapeau 3369-70, unidentified mountain., Script: Written by a single scribe in careless notarial script., Blank spaces for headings that would have also included the first few words of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. Brown decorated paper cases with blank and inscribed labels.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia Alexandri Magni, etc
- Creator:
- Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
- Published / Created:
- 1475.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 321
- Image Count:
- 285
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (lightly burnished) of Poggio Bracciolini, Historia Florentina, translated into Italian by his son Jacopo. With Prefatory letter of Jacopo di Poggio to Federico da Montefeltro
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387., Script: Written in sloping humanistic bookhand with cursive elements., Illuminated initial in gold, f. 1r, 10-line, infilled and surrounded by flowers in rose and blue (yellow centers), rayed gold discs, winding green stems and leaves, and hair-line decoration. Gold initial, f. 3r, 6-line, on ground composed of blue, green, and rose panels, all decorated with gold scroll designs. Headings in red rustic capitals., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf spine, blind- and gold-tooled, with Strozzi arms and "Poggio istoria tradotta da Iacopo suo figlio" and "M. S. Cartaceo del S. XV". Blue and white decorated paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia florentina
- Published / Created:
- 1579-85.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 467
- Image Count:
- 248
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of a hunting diary of Ferdinando de' Medici (1549-1609), Cardinal, and Grand Duke of Tuscany; this portion of the manuscript covers the period 15 October 1579 to 21 March 1585
- Description:
- In Italian., Written in a sprawling cursive script., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green, hard-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 90. Front cover of original limp vellum binding bound in at front of manuscript, with contemporary inscription: "Libro della Caccia che si fe (?)/ Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Signor Cardinale d'/ Medici mio Signore e padrone".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Tuscany (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hunting, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting diary
- Creator:
- Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 679
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: main text copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Capitals and headings in red in main text. Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r., and Binding: S. XX binding: plain parchment over cardboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber marescalcia equorum
10.
- Creator:
- Cortona, Giovanni Battista
- Published / Created:
- 1574.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 655
- Image Count:
- 37
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giovanni Battista Cortona, Libro di Abbaco, probably an autograph manuscript
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: anchor, var. Piccard, Ankerwasserzeichen?, V.102?., Script: Written by one hand in calligraphic Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The poem on f. A1r (art. 1) is in calligraphic Humanistica Cursiva Formata. A few titles in Capitalis., The decorative frames on ff. A1r and B1r are traced in brown ink. The upper half of the former contains a baroque cartouche in brown and red, containing a monogram apparently consisting of the letters A, K and M. Art. 2 opens with a flourished initial, art. 7 with a calligraphic initial, both in red., and No binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cortona, Giovanni Battista.
- Subject (Topic):
- Abacus, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libro di abbaco