- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 448
- Image Count:
- 41
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204., Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe., Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers., Stained throughout; final folio repaired., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astrological tables
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- Creator:
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1464.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 557
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Benedetto Cotrugli (Benedictus de Cotrullis, c. 1410-1469), De navigatione liber (Della navigazione). After the prologue in Latin addressed to the Doge and the Senate of Venice, the author, quoting countless Biblical, ancient, medieval and Renaissance authors and drawing largely on his own experience, discusses the oceans and seas, islands, ports, the history of ship-building and navigation, weather, and astronomy. At the end, he includes portolano maps and describes the coast of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
- Description:
- The author, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), was a businessman and humanist, from 1451 onwards in favour at the Court of Naples. His Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto, written in 1458, was for a long time considered his only surviving work. Our manuscript, written during his lifetime and no doubt under his supervision or by his hand, is the only existing manuscript of Della navigazione and it is unfinished, missing most of its illustrations and the end of the text., In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva close to Humanistica Textualis. Headings and opening words of chapters in pale red capitals., Heightening of majuscules and paragraph marks in pale red up to f. 10r. Space for 2- or 3-line initials at the opening of all chapters, the initials not executed. Illustration largely missing; the few that have been executed are crudely drawn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellowish parchment over cardboard. Marbled paste-downs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De navigatione
3.
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 151
- Image Count:
- 372
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aristotle, Ethica. An anonymous Tuscan translation made for Nuno de Guzman from the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Text written in a well formed humanistic bookhand by a single scribe; the rubrics, in majuscules, by another scribe who used excessive punctuation., The decoration is by Gioacchino de' Gigantibus. A gold initial, 5-line, on f. 1r embedded in white vine ornament, extending into sides, top, and lower margin, filled in with green, red, and blue, with small section at regular intervals filled with gold; a green bird near the initial; in lower margin, an empty laurel wreath supported by putti filled later with a coat of arms (unidentified) in pen, now effaced; a few gold dots with hair-spray in brown ink. Other initials, gold, 5- to 4-line, on ff. 7r, 93v, 106v, 126r, 161v, in same manner, but with gold infilling., Significant stains in margins of first few leaves., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges gilt. Green calf with tan, gold-tooled label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethics, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ethica
- Published / Created:
- 1579-85.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 467
- Image Count:
- 248
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of a hunting diary of Ferdinando de' Medici (1549-1609), Cardinal, and Grand Duke of Tuscany; this portion of the manuscript covers the period 15 October 1579 to 21 March 1585
- Description:
- In Italian., Written in a sprawling cursive script., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green, hard-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 90. Front cover of original limp vellum binding bound in at front of manuscript, with contemporary inscription: "Libro della Caccia che si fe (?)/ Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Signor Cardinale d'/ Medici mio Signore e padrone".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Tuscany (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hunting, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Social life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting diary
- Creator:
- Cesareo, Agostino
- Published / Created:
- 1568.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 562
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Agostino Cesareo (Rome, 16th century), L'arte del navigare
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in careful Humanistica Cursive., Coloured and uncoloured diagrams, illustrations and maps., Many pages are spoiled by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the front cover the inscription "L'arte de ***"; on the rear cover contemporary calculations.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cesareo, Agostino.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Cosmography, Navigation, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arte del navigare
6.
- Creator:
- Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 328
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks buried in gutter) of Gregorio (or Leonardo?) Dati, La Sfera. This rhyming treatise (ottava rima) is divided into two parts: 1) a treatise on astronomy; 2) rules for navigation and the determination of the position of the sea
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one person in neat mercantile script., One 4-line initial, f. lr., gold capital with white-vine foliage against a blue, pink and green ground, connected to a 3/4 white-vine border with brown penwork and gold dots; a coat of arms in wreath at center of lower margin. Two 3-line initials, ff. 7r and 14v, gold, against pink and green grounds with yellow and white filigree. Folios 1r-14v illustrated in margins with astronomical and geographical diagrams, all of them circular, tinted drawings in brown pen with red, yellow, blue and green washes. Folios 15r-24v decorated with unframed maps and illustrations drawn in brown pen, and tinted green, brown and red. Most illustrations unlabeled., Some leaves repaired; the manuscript shows signs of heavy use., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Resewn on three vegetable fiber supports. Rounded spine. Covered in black/brown sheepskin over wooden boards with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with five line fillets forming diamonds. There are traces of four bosses on each board and two clasp-and-catch fastenings, the catches on the lower board. Fastenings and bosses are wanting. Concentric circles are scratched in the center of the lower board. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Italian poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Early maps, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La Sfera
- Creator:
- Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 679
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: main text copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Capitals and headings in red in main text. Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r., and Binding: S. XX binding: plain parchment over cardboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber marescalcia equorum
- Creator:
- Mago, Agogo
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 76
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Agogo Mago, Libro medesynal delli spariueri
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand., One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and blue throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Mago, Agogo.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game and game-birds, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libro medesynal delli spariueri
- Creator:
- Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 459
- Image Count:
- 166
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum, translated into Italian
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified basilisk in gutter., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script., Crudely executed border design, in red, on f. 1r. Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, in red; some embellished with simple foliate ornamentation or with human and animal grotesques (e.g., ff. 24v, 44v). Headings in red., Upper portion of f. 55 (chs. 146, 149) cut out; ff. 63v-64r (chs. 189-95) crossed out. Some staining and wear affecting text., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Tan, "pasta espanola" paper case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ruffo, Giordano.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marescalcia equorum
- Published / Created:
- 14th or 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 917
- Image Count:
- 119
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Liber marescalciae by Laurentius Rusius. The manuscript also contains a large excerpt of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum in Italian translation, as well as an anonymous treatise on hippiatry, and a number of remedies, prescriptions, and incantations for various diseases
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: there are two main scribes: hand A copied the treatise on hippiatry in large Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; its headings are in Gothica Textualis Libraria; decorative extensions at the ascenders on the top line. Hand B, who identifies himself f. 50r as Cristofano di Piero maniscalco N., copied ff. 12r-52v, upper part, in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The other texts are additional and have been copied by various scribes at various moments. Folios 1r-4v have red rubrics and are decorated with 2-line flourished initials, with abundant foliate marginal extensions. Guide letters in the left margin on ff. 1r-11v., Liber marescalciae by Laurentius Rusius, a treatise in 154 chapters. The manuscript also contains a large excerpt of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum in Italian translation, as well as an anonymous treatise on hippiatry in 38 chapters, and a number of remedies, prescriptions, and incantations for various diseases., and Binding: 15th century: brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets; the central panel filled with rope tools, surrounded by a frame. Flat spine with three bands and partly lost paper label with handwritten title “[MA]SCAL[CIA] / M.S. / DI VARI”. Remnants of two decorated brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Five brass bosses on each cover (the central boss on the front cover lost).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rusius, Laurentius. and Ruffo, Giordano, d. 1256.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marescalcia equorum