Imperfect: damage repaired, with negligible loss of text on leaf A4. Ownership inscription mostly trimmed off. From the library of Ludovico de Torres, Cardinal Archbishop of Monreale. and Signatures: A-D⁴ (A1v blank).
Publisher:
Per Francesco Marcolini,
Subject (Name):
Marcolini, Francesco, ca. 1500-ca. 1559 and Torres, Ludovico de, 1551-1609
Rime and Sonetti e canzoni di messer Francesco Petrarca.
Description:
Capitolo: leaves 193-206., Imperfect: wanting leaves 205 and [216] (S1.12). Book label of Renzo Bonfiglioli. Stamp on rear endpaper: 416. Title page repaired., Imprint from colophon; year also on t.p., Printer's device on verso of leaf [216] (S12v)., Signatures: A-S¹² (S12 recto blank)., Title vignette: Portrait of Petrarch in profile., and Trionfi: leaves 149-191.
Description of the funeral of Archbishop Carlo Gaetano Stampa, held 21 January, 1743 in the Duomo di Milano., In Latin, with Italian oration., Plates engraved by Marc'Antoinio dal Re after designs of Francesco Croce., and Signatures: A-L⁴ M⁶(-M6, blank?).
Publisher:
Apud Beniamin de Sirturis, Impressorem Archiepiscopalem,
Subject (Name):
Croce, Francesco, 1696-1773., Dal Re, Marc'Antonio, 1697-1766., Sirturis, Benjamino de, printer., and Stampa, Carlo Gaetano--Death and burial.
Description of the temporary architectural construction erected to celebrate the marriage of Louis of Spain and Luisa Isabel de Orleans on 1 January, 1722, in the Piazza di Spagna, Rome.
Description:
"Del sig. Gaetano Catteucci"--At end., Caption title., Description of the temporary architectural construction erected to celebrate the marriage of Louis of Spain and Luisa Isabel de Orleans on 1 January, 1722, in the Piazza di Spagna, Rome., and Imprint from colophon.
Publisher:
Nella stamperia di Pietro Ferri sotto la Libreria della Minerva incontro la porticella di S. Ignazio, si vendono da Martino Giovannelli libraro in Piazza Navona e dal medesimo stampatore,
Subject (Name):
Ferri, Pietro, printer., Giovannelli, Martino, bookseller., Louis--I,--King of Spain,--1707-1724--Marriage., and Luisa Isabel,--Queen, consort of Louis I, King of Spain,--1709-1742--Marriage.
Subject (Topic):
Marriages of royalty and nobility--Italy--Rome--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on paper of a play in five acts, written for an audience of nuns by a Dominican friar. The only surviving manuscript containing this text.
Description:
Binding: early paper binding., Play (Commedia) in five acts, in verse, about S. Catherine of Alexandria, written for an audience of nuns (see the frequent allusions to Christ as “sposo celeste”) by a Dominican friar whose initials are F.N.F. There are many important changes and additions by a slightly later, rapid hand., and Script: the original text copied by a single hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. The changes and additions are written in Humanistica Cursiva Currens under Gothic influence.
Subject (Name):
Catherine,--of Alexandria, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Commedia dell’arte, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Statvto e tassa de mercedi che si devono al governatore
Description:
Manuscript. and Separate title-pages for Statvtvm Montisfortini giving the date for the enactment of the laws as 1606, and showing a fortress as the symbol of the town; and for Tassa della mercede showing heraldic shield within ornamental border.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Italian -- Connecticut -- New Haven and Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Italy -- Artena
Manuscript on paper of Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 B.C.), Stichus, in an Italian adaptation in verse.
Description:
Binding: Loose grey paper cover., No decoration. There are numerous pointing hands with exaggeratedly long forefingers, generally accompanied by the name of a character., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva., and Written in campo aperto in one narrow column of mostly seven 6-line strophes on the page.
Subject (Name):
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library