Esseqvie della regina di Spagna and Esseqvie della sacra cattolica e real maesta di Margherita d'Avstria regina di Spagna
Description:
3 full-page etchings of the funeral decorations designed by Giulio Parigi, possibly etched by Parigi himself, and 26 half-page scenes from the life of the queen, etched by Antonio Tempersta, Raphael Sciaminossi and Jacques Callot., Description and illustration of the memorial service for Margarita of Austria, Queen of Spain, sister-in-law of Cosimo II., Signatures: A-N² (N2v blank)., and Stamp of Gustavo C. Galletti on t.p. Bookplate of Horace de Landau. From the library of Charles Fairfax Murray. Ms. note on t.p.: "Lo figure sono incise dal Callot, & da Ant. Tempesta."
Publisher:
Nella stamperia di Bartolommeo Sermartelli e fratelli,
Subject (Name):
Bartolomeo Sermartelli e fratelli, printer., Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635., Cosimo--II,--Grand Duke of Tuscany,--1590-1621., De Landau, Horace,--barone,--1824-1903--Bookplate., Galletti, Gustavo Camillo,--1805-1868--Stamp., Margarita,--de Austria, Queen, consort of Philip III, King of Spain,--1584-1611--Death and burial., Murray, Charles Fairfax,--1849-1919--Ownership., Parigi, Giulio, 1571-1635., Schiaminossi, Raffaello, ca. 1570-ca. 1620., and Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630.
Subject (Topic):
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.
Title in pencil upper right., Signed by the artist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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