Miscellaneous material relating to Nathan Hale, including illustrations, printed materials, notes by George Dudley Seymour, and documents relating to the controversy over the authenticity of the poem "To Alicia," with a photostatic copy of the poem.
Manuscript in an Italic hand of a satirical allegory on the events of the Russo-Turkish war, in which the various sovereigns are represented by animal figures. A key to the allegory follows the poem. The manuscript also includes a sonnet based on verse by Voltaire and a longer poem satirically comparing a poor student to a herring.
Description:
Purchased from Bennett Gilbert on the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mokarski Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778--Influence
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Italian poetry--18th century, Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792, and Verse satire, Italian
Giovanni del Virgilio, fl. 1319 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 758
Image Count:
110
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, in prose and verse.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown leather (sheepskin?) over cardboard (replacing worm-eaten wooden boards), blind-tooled with a frame of fillets and rolls; in the central panel a motif made of small rhomboid stamps. Parchment front pastedown. Remnants or marks of four clasps attached to the front cover., Copied by one hand in extremely small Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. In the poetical sections the majuscules at the opening of each verse are set apart., Headings (“liber secundus” etc.) in clumsy Capitalis (several times erroneous: “LIBE”). Space for a 2-line initial left free on the first line of f. 1r, although this is not the beginning of the text., and Watermark: tower, var. Piccard, Turmwasserzeichen 611-613; var. Briquet, 15911?.
Subject (Name):
Giovanni del Virgilio,--fl. 1319
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Authors--United States--21st century, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, Poets--United States--20th Century, and Poets--United States--21st Century
Manuscript on paper of Ptolemy, Almagest in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. With Calendar with computistical information, January through December.
Subject (Name):
Gherardo,--da Cremona,--1113 or 14-1187 and Ptolemy,--2nd cent
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Ancient, Calendars, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Ancient, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
African American civic leaders, African American social workers, Civic leaders--United States, Civil Rights movements--United States--20th Century, and Social workers--United States