- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 465
- Image Count:
- 37
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Le Debat du Faucon et du Levrier. G. Holmer believes that Beinecke MS 465 is the only manuscript to preserve the complete Latin text which was later translated into French by Robert du Herlin, Secretary of King Louis XI. 2) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in fine upright batarde script., 3- to 2-line spaces for decorative initials unfilled., Lower margin chewed by rodent; parchment stained throughout; no loss of text., and Binding: Ninteenth century (after 1881). Dark brown goatskin, gold-tooled with medallion of falcon on upper cover. Bound by Riviere and Son (London, 1881-1939).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and France
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Concertacio leporarii et falconis, etc
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- Creator:
- Calderia, Giovanni
- Published / Created:
- [between 1750 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 715
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a facsimile of Iohannes Calderia (Giovanni Calderia, 15th century), member of a Venetian family, Politica (De praestantia Venetae politiae libri V ad Antonium Vinciguerra).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria., No decoration; the space provided for the initials is not used., Each page consists of two leaves of extremely thin paper pasted together. The paper is now dark brown and brittle (causing loss of text in the lower margins of pp. 1-6). For reasons of conservation the bifolios have now been cut into singletons and these have been encapsulated in transparent Mylar sleeves united in an album., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Kept separately. Marbled brown leather over pasteboard, each cover decorated with a gold-tooled floral border and gold-tooled doublure margin; gold-tooled spine with paper label containing the hand-written number "24068". Marbled paste-downs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Calderia, Giovanni.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Politica