Collection of photographs of, relating to, or once owned by Ezra Pound. Subjects include a series of photographs of factories and manufacturing processes collected by Pound in the 1930s.
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet. and Purchased in 1973 with a few additions from various sources.
Autograph manuscript, in brown red and yellow inks with many fine calligraphic ornaments (animals, heads, flourishes, etc.); some of the arithmetic rules are in verse.
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.
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