Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, Contra impudice scribentes opusculum, Contra poetas impudice loquentes, F. Baptiste Matuani Carmelite theologi, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum, and Fratris Baptist[a]e Ma[n]tuani Carmelit[a]e theologi, Aureum contra impudice scribentes opusculum
Description:
Commentary by Jodocus Badius Ascensius., Imprint from colophon. Georges Wolf named as additional printer in Proctor, GW, Goff, and ISTC (RLIN)., Includes index., Marginal ms. annotations. Bound with a contemporary ms.: De Orgiis corporis Christi, Signatures: 2A⁸ 2B-2C⁶., and Verso of final leaf blank.
Publisher:
Impressum ... Thielma[n]ni Keruer Teutonis, expensis ... Ioa[n]nis Co[n]flue[n]tini & Ioan[n]is Pusilli, id est ... pour M. Hanse de Coblencz ... & Iehan Petit ... a Paris,
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Four oval portraits, one occupying each quadrant of the plate, of the 41st through 44th Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of Malta). The sitter's name is engraved within the surrounding border of each portrait. A decorative cross fills the space in the center, as do the Roman numerals XLI-XLIV, which number the portraits
Alternative Title:
F. Guido de Blanchefort ; F. Fabritius de Carretto ; F. Philippus de Villers Lisle Adam ; F. Perinus de Ponte
Description:
Titles from text within the borders of the portraits., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem. Rome : [Populus Romanus], [1586-]1588., Imperfect; only the portrait in the lower left quadrant is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away. Description based on a more perfect impression., Mounted on page 148 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Mounted beside a sheet (5.5 x 15.2 cm), trimmed from the bottom of a different portrait plate, with the engraved title: Philippe Villiers de L'isle-Adam, Grand Prieur de France ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Populus Romanus
Subject (Name):
Blanchefort, Guy de, 1446-1513, Carretto, Fabrizio del, 1455-1521, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534, and Ponte, Piero del, 1462-1535
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Greyish green paper case with a black gold-tooled label: "Aesopus. Sec. XIV"., Rubrics on ff. 2r-6v by same scribe who copied text; another hand added rubrics on f. 1r-v. Spaces for initials left unfilled; guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires cut in V's. Brown goatskin case faintly blind-tooled with concentric frames and spiralling dragon motifs that incorporate flowers and long beaked birds. Rebacked., One illuminated initial on f. 1r, 6-line, gold against deep red, green, and blue cusped ground with white filigree and white dots. From left corners penwork sprays issuing forth into inner margin, with blue and red blossoms and green leaves. Plain initials, placed between vertical rulings, alternate blue and red, some omitted., Script: Written in a round humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre S 9050; watermark on back pastedown similar to Briquet Fleur 6596-97, 99 and 6602.
Subject (Topic):
Fabliaux, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with interlinear and marginal glosses
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, marked by a curious form of r resembling c., Undecorated. The spaces for headings and initials are blank, except in the first quires, where a 16th-century hand has added some rubrics and plain initials; red capitals and a few contemporary red headings are added on ff. 77v-91r., Top edges severely trimmed. The top corners of ff. 189-249 repaired. Outer edges of ff. 156-166 damaged by mice (?)., and Binding: Early, brown undecorated leather over pasteboard. Spine with four raised bands. Blue sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of an Italian translation of Book 8, chapters 4-5 of the Facta et memorabilia dicta of Valerius Maximus
Description:
In Italian., Script: humanist cursive., Decoration: rubricated. 9 initials of 2 or 3 lines in alternating red and blue ink., and Layout: single columns of 35/36 lines.