Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (Sixteenth century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso. The unrecorded author was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Script: Copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence.
Subject (Name):
Bettini, Michele
Subject (Topic):
Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bound with: Versio trilinguis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorum tractatuum qui adversus episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant : & opusculorum ejusdem quae ex professo in illius commiserandae ecclesiae doctores erroresq[ue] edita sunt / Hironymo Valentino cognomento de Cantoral, interprete ; appositus est ejusdem dialogus appellatus Neophitus, ubi de suscipienda vera fide & gratia evangelij cum silentio, spe, reverentia & humilitate, tractatur, In Latin, Italian, French and Spanish., and Second of two works bound together.
Subject (Name):
Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 786
Image Count:
331
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of St. Antoninus, Confessionale. With several other texts, including papal bulls and confessional manuals.
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Confession--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
Published / Created:
15th century.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 947
Image Count:
64
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Antonius Florentinus's Confessionale in Italian.
Description:
Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459), Confessionale, Italian version beginning “Curam illius habe”, also known as Medicina dell anima., Binding: binding is missing. Sewn on four leather thongs., and Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence. Headings in smaller handwriting. On f. 1r a 2-line plain initial in red, with guide letter.
Subject (Name):
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Repentance--Christianity
Manuscript on paper of Servius, De centum metris. With Brief notes on accents followed by Latin word list with Italian equivalents.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum stays outside the quires. Paste-paper case in shades of deep purple., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: unidentified quadruped in gutter.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--4th cent
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Lawrence Justinian, Saint, 1381-1456 Tavelli, Giovanni, 1386-1446
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 796
Image Count:
466
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Laurentius Iustinianus (Lorenzo Giustiniani, 1381-1456), De disciplina et spirituali perfectione monasticae conversationis (De disciplina spiritualium), Italian translation by Iohannes de Tossignano (Giovanni Tavelli da Tossignano, 1386-1446, bishop of Ferrara 1431-1446).
Description:
Binding: Of the original binding the wooden boards (and the gilt and gauffered edges) survive. The boards are now covered with brown 19th-century marbled paper and the spine with cloth-reinforced beige marbled paper. On the latter (now detached) a paper label with handwritten 19th-century inscription: "146. / Anonimo. / Della disciplina et perfectione / de la monastica conversatione. / Cartaceo. / secolo XV."., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 136). Purchased from him in 1994 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Headings in red ink of various darkness. On f. 1r the Prologue opens with an 8-line Gothic foliate initial L in purple and blue, heightened with white penwork, on a square golden background, containing a stylized flower in purple and yellow with green foliage and ending in blue, purple and green acanthus leaves; on the same page a full floral border in blue, purple and green with a multitude of hairy gold balls. On all the remaining pages the decoration was not executed: the rectangular spaces with guide letters for initials are blank. A 4-line initial was planned f. 5r at the beginning of the text, a 3-line initial at the beginning of chapter 2 (f. 10r), and 2-line initials at the beginning of the other chapters., and Script: Copied by one hand in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens.
Subject (Name):
Lawrence Justinian,--Saint,--1381-1456
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica.
Subject (Name):
Minucci, Minuccio,--1551-1604 and Sixtus--V,--Pope,--1520-1590
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library