Manuscript on paper of Domenico Cavalca OP (c. 1270-1342), Esposizione del Credo.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, brown paper over cardboard, the spine in brown leather with five raised bands, the second compartment gold-tooled with the title “CAVALCA / ESPOSIZIONE / DEL CREDO”. Marbled endpapers., Parchment stays in the center and at the outer side of the quires; the fold of many bifolios is repaired by means of strips of parchment. The top, outer and lower margins water-stained, the upper outer corners of the leaves defective. Many lower margins repaired by means of strips of paper., Script: Written in many different hands., and Unevenly spread decoration.
Subject (Name):
Cavalca, Domenico,--d. 1342 and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Creeds, Italian literature--15th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on paper, in a number of hands, containing a variety of religious and devotional texts, many related to the Franciscan order. Contents include lives of Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, and Anthony of Padua; a poem on the day of judgement in ottava rima; lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary in Italian; writings of St. Bridget of Sweden in Italian; an account of the dedication of St. Lawrence's cathedral in Genoa; St. Anselm's Miracles of the Virgin; and two itineraries of visits to the Holy Land.
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 21). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 69) on the T. Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, Binding: modern full red leather., and Modern binder's blanks (ii + ii) not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, a comedy in Italian by Alessandro Donzellini.
Description:
Binding: limp parchment binding., Comedy in Italian about the love affairs of various young men and women, with a complicated plot, changes of names, disguises, etc. Donzelli's work was printed in 1585 in Florence by Bartolomeo Sermartelli, but the present version, dated thirteen years earlier and purportedly by an “Afflitto Accademico Stordito” (an Accademia degli Storditi existed in Bologna in the sixteenth century), differs in many respects from the printed text., and Script: copied, probably by one hand, in Humanistica Cursiva in various degrees of rapidity.
Subject (Name):
Donzellini, Alessandro
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into Italian and supplemented with material from Plutarch by Pier Candido Decembrio. 2) Pier Candido Decembrio, Comparazione di Cesare e d'Alessandro Magno.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and pegged. Gilt edges. Covered in brown goatskin with corner tongues, and blind-tooled with a ropework star inside painted (red) and blind-tooled circles inside a floral border, all with metallic annular dots. There are traces of four leaf-shaped fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for fabric straps attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked twice., One illuminated intial, 6-line, gold against blue, green and pink ground with white vine-stem ornament, extending into inner margin to form a partial border; terminating at top and bottom in pen inkspray with buds in green and pink and gold balls with hair-line extensions. Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue, mark text divisions; headings in pale red., Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a slightly rounded humanistic bookhand with many cursive elements, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius, Decembrio, Pier Candido,--1399-1477, Plutarch, and Rufus, Curtius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature--15th century, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, translated into Italian. With Office of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus de aeterna sapientia), composed by Henry Suso; and several anonymous, miscellaneous texts.
Description:
[Notes on back pastedown refer to the Venetian monastery for Benedictine nuns, San Zaccaria], Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of wooden boards to channels on the outside and nailed. A tawed skin endband core is laid in grooves and covered with plain, wound primary and red secondary embroidery. Spine: supports outlined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Covered in light brown goatskin with corner tongues, and decorated with interlace squares on their points within concentric frames. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the lower board and the upper one cut in for a red fabric strap attached with star-headed nails. The cover has been varnished., For main text divisions good blue initials with plain parchment designs and red penwork flourishes; elsewhere 2-line initials alternate red with blue harping designs and blue with red. On f. 11r red rectangular page filler at bottom of text space. Small plain 1-line initials alternate red and blue. Headings and paragraph marks in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Remains of guide letters., and Script: Main text written in gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV"., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., Imperfect: Some worming at end of volume with slight loss of text., In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Strambotto
Manuscript on paper of Francesco Mercati da Bibbiena, Il Sensale. Commedia, with the musical Intermezzi dealing with the Ages of the World by Tommaso Soderini. With a survey of the characters of the play.
Description:
Binding: original (?) quarter cardboard binding, the spine in stained parchment., Mis-foliated; no folio 31., Script: one scribe, writing a sloping cursive Humanistic script., and Some outer or upper margins (ff. 12, 27), and on f. 1 the outer lower corner, are defective, causing the loss of small text parts. The leaves are stained (ff. 20-21 especially), and the paper is badly damaged by the corrosive ink.
Subject (Name):
Mercati, Francesco
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor.
Description:
Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”., Recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 4 is copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of articles 2-3 are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 5 is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The tables of article 23 are traced in black ink.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Medieval--Italy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library