Manuscript on paper of Georgicorum, Aeneidos et Bucolicorum Vergilii vocabula, an alphabetical compilation of words used by Virgil (and other authors), with their explanations, based on the Virgil commentary by Servius (4th-5th centuries). With two Latin and two Italian proverbs, and an Italian poem (10 verses).
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards (worm-eaten), spine with three raised bands; both covers blind-tooled with a frame of strapwork; in its interior two horizontal rows of quadrangular stamps at the top and at the bottom (a rosette and a Pascal Lamb) and a lozenge-shaped central part of the same strapwork. Five pointed brass bosses on each cover (together eight of them are preserved) and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover by means of two nails with engraved heads; the quadrangular brass catches on the rear cover are engraved with a Pascal Lamb., In art. 3 the opening letter of each lemma is a pale red 1-line capital projecting into the left margin. Each new alphabetical section begins with a 2- or 3-line capital alternately in red and blue (with a guide letter in the left margin), placed within the text area and followed by a black capital. Between the sections a space of two or three lines is left free., MS 108 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (CA). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: Art. 3 copied by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The title on the first front flyleaf (art. 1) is by another hand writing a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (the same hand wrote the beginning of the alphabet on the facing pastedown). Art. 2 is copied by an unexperienced hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens, but the date and the first line are by another hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--active 4th century. and Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Scholia.
Manuscript volume, on paper, containing two secular vernacular romances attributed in the dedication to a single unidentified author. The first, I Nobili Fatti di Alessandro Magno, is an Italian translation of the Latin version of the life of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes. The second text is The Romance of Troas. Troas, a descendant of Hector, is the king of Thessaly; his son Troiano journeys to Britain and joins the army of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, who is leading an army of Britons, Trojans and Romans against the Greeks.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked., Bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front pastedown; Phillipps MS number inscribed on recto of f1., Decoration: Rubricated (ff. 1-91 only)., Formerly owned by Alessandro dale Carte; Sir Edward Dering. Phillipps MS 23252 On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of variable length., Modern binder's blanks at front [15] and back [15] not digitized., Ownership inscription and drawing of arms of Alessandro dale Carte on rear flyleaf., and Script: Italian cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Legends.
Subject (Name):
Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Early works to 1800., Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Legends., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate., and Pseudo-Callisthenes.--Historia Alexandri Magni.--Itailian & Latin
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Italian prose literature--To 1700., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Uther Pendragon (Legendary
Manuscript on paper of Anonymous biography of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia, 1430-1503). Copied by one hand in rapid Humanistica Cursiva.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth-century. Half parchment over pasteboard, covered with brown and blue marbled paper. On the spine brownish red leather label with the gold-tooled title VITA D'ALESSAND. VI. / MS. and small paper label with the number of the Phillipps collection., Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., and On the front pastedown armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Collection of Thomas Phillipps, no. 7235. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Subject (Topic):
Biography -- 16th century, Italian literature -- 16th century, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Manuscript on paper of the Life of Saint John the Baptist. Manuscript also contains a formulary for addressing Latin letters to ecclesiastical authorities and dignitaries, as well as a sermon and vision about Saint John the Baptist.
Description:
Binding: 20th century marbled brown paper binding., Manuscript on paper containing: 1) Formulary for addressing Latin letters to pope Calixtus III (1455-1458) and various other Italian ecclesiastical authorities and dignitaries, ending with emperor Frederick III (1452-1493) and Charles VII, King of France (1422-1461). 2) Life of St. John the Baptist in Italian. 3) Sermon on St. John the Baptist, attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Vision about St. John the Baptist, incomplete and of difficult legibility., and Script: article 1 is copied in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria (Mercantesca); the other articles in Gothica Semitextualis Currens (Mercantesca), sometimes of difficult legibility. There is no decoration.
Subject (Name):
John,--the Baptist, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Devotional literature, Italian, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a Miscellany of vernacular humanistic prose texts, including works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Francesco Filelfo, and Leonardo Bruni.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays adhered inside the quires. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and nailed. Edges yellow ochre. A green and natural color, beaded endband is sewn on five cores. The primary one laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with tawed skin or vellum extending onto the edge of the boards between supports. Covered in tan leather blind-tooled with a potented cross in a central square with rope interlace panels above and below, and a border also filled with rope interlace. Spine: supports defined with double fillets and the panels diapered. Traces of five bosses on each board. Two ivy leaf fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for green fabric straps attached with star-headed nails. Binding is heavily overoiled., Script: Written in neat humanistic cursive by a single scribe, below top line., Three-quarter border, f. 5r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, red and green ground with grey and yellow dots. In lower border, vine-stem turning into a floral border and brown penwork scrolls with pink, blue and green flowers and gold dots. Illuminated initial, 6-line, gold on blue, green and red ground with white vine-stem ornament joined to inner border. Headings in red. Plain 3-line initials in blue mark text divisions. Guide letters in margins., and Watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6655, Echelle 5908, 5910, and similar to Briquet Chapeau 3370.
Subject (Topic):
Humanism--Italy, Italian literature--15th century, Italian literature--To 1400, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Each pt. has engraved frontispiece by Salomon Kleiner (reworked by Peter Mayer beginning with v. 3, pt. 1); it depicts Maria Theresa, to whom work is dedicated. Plates chiefly by Kleiner, Mayer, Johann Baptist Haas and Georg Nicolai, with some by A. Dischler, Michel d'Ixnard, Franz Rosenstingl, Rugendas, Leopold Schmittner, Anton von Weinkopf. Etched and woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials., Errata in each vol., Includes indexes., t. 1. Sigilla vetera & insignia cum antiqua, tum recentiora varii generis -- t. 2. Nummotheca principum Austriae -- t. 3. Pinacotheca principum Austriae -- t. 4. Taphographia principum Austriae., and Vol. 5 never appeared. Vols. 2-4 each have 2 pts. with special t.p.'s.
Publisher:
Prostant apud Leopoldum Joannem Kaliwoda, Aulae Imperialis typographum,
Subject (Geographic):
Austria--Kings and rulers, Austria--Kings and rulers--Medals, Austria--Kings and rulers--Portraits, and Austria--Kings and rulers--Tombs
Subject (Name):
Felner, Johann Georg, Gerbert, Martin, 1720-1793, Haas, Johann Baptist, 18th cent., Heer, Rustenus, 1715-1769, Kaliwoda, Leopold Johann, fl. 1734-1775, Kleiner, Salomon, 1700-1761, Kloster St. Blasien, Mayer, Peter, 1718-1800, and Nicolai, Georg, 18th cent.
2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles., Binding: Sixteenth-century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges., Cite as: Moral Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., In Italian and Latin., and Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. Several later corrections on f. 10v. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk. Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Manuscript on paper of an unidentified mystical treatise.
Description:
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Headings in red. Gothic plain initials in red or blue, normally 3 lines, sometimes 2 or 4 lines. The first page, now missing except for part of a stub, had a border decoration in ink., Binding: Original binding in bad condition, made at the time the manuscript had more than twice the thickness it has now: undecorated brown pigskin over wooden boards. Bound on three double cords. The binding was strengthened by means of strips of textile, now loose. These and the leather turn-ins show the offset of a page of a 12th-century Latin manuscript from Italy. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover, with two trapezoid brass catches on the rear cover., Numerous pages have been torn out after f. 84. The top inner section of f. 1 is missing. All pages water-stained, seriously affecting the lisibility of the text., and Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under Gothic influence. The scribe often writes the last letters of the final word at the bottom line in vertical sense. Starting f. 40r the descenders at the bottom line frequently have enormous fanciful extensions (loop-shaped, in the shape of a bird [ff. 54v, 65r], etc.).
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--15th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism