Manuscript on parchment (hair side yellow and speckled) of Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum; an abridged translation that contains only 77 lives.
Description:
Belonged to Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini from whom it was acquired by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Tan calf, blind- and gold-tooled. Head and fore edge bluish green; lettering on tail edge. In panels on spine: "Detti de' filosofi/ MSS. in Perg./ Sec. XV"., Script: Written in a humanistic hand both above and below top line by Johannes Nydenna de Confluentia, who would sometimes complete the final word of the final line of text (recto only) by writing the letters down between the outer vertical bounding lines., and Space left for decorative initial on f. 1r later filled with plain initial and a stylized sprig of flowers, in turquoise. Plain intials throughout text alternate in red and blue.
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Novella 8 and Novella 9 of the Second Day of Boccaccio's Decameron.
Description:
Layout: double columns of 43 lines., Leaves were originally a conjoint bifolium, but were separated for later use in a binding, with some resultant staining and damage., and Script: early Italian humanist script.
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni,--1313-1375.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden.
Description:
Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Delle Imboccature De'i Cavalli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century binding: Vellum case; stubs of two green ties., Manuscript on paper of Eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Followed by Descriptive index for drawings (incomplete). Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden whose name appears on f. 1r. Written in small neat italic., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base.
Subject (Topic):
Horses--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Pattern books
Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica.
Subject (Name):
Minucci, Minuccio,--1551-1604 and Sixtus--V,--Pope,--1520-1590
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of 1) Note on the reign of the first Doge of Venice, Pauluccio Anafesto (697-717). 2) History of Venice from its legendary foundation to 695. 3) Alphabetical list of Venetian noble families, with their coats of arms and notes on their history. 4) History of the Doges of Venice up to Francesco Venier, elected 1554, d. 1556, with their coats of arms.
Description:
Binding: Date? Pasteboard., In Italian., Painted coats of arms, those in art. 3 in decorative cartouches. Large decorative painted initials for each family name., Script: Copied by two hands. A (ff.IIr and 1r-84v): Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; B (ff. 85r-170r): Humanistica Cursiva Currens., and The top and the lower corners of the final leaves badly damaged by moist, with loss of some text.
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)--History
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Nobility--Italy