Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Didymus' interpretation of the Odyssey.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Wooden boards. Quarter bound in brick-red goatskin. Bound for the convent of San Marco, Florence; title in gold on spine with number "232"., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 10371), who purchased it from Payne. Acquired in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston from C. A. Stonehill. Gift of Thomas E. Marston in 1959., Script: Written and signed by the scribe Ioannes Skoutariotes, who finished the manuscript 4 October 1453., Simple initials and headings, in red, at the beginning of each book., and Watermarks: Harlfinger Fleur 108, from a manuscript dated 4 Nov. 1445 and attributed to Ioannes Skoutariotes.
Subject (Name):
Didymus,--Chalcenterus
Subject (Topic):
Classical poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Drawings and plans for various implements and instruments, including printing presses. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591.
Description:
Author possibly an English military adventurer who traveled through the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy., Binding: contemporary brown calf, with gold tooling of Lyonese style with semis of eaglets., Descriptions of military machines are accompanied by colored illustrations., Ex libris Rhys Jenkins. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., In the preface to "The Compound of Alchemy" (Osborn fa16), Rabbards notes that he has "these fortie yeares amongst manie other most commendable exercises and inventions of so warlike Engines, founde out divers devices of rare service, both for Sea and land" and expresses his intention to "impart some other rare experiments of Distillations and Fire-Workes of great service, not hitherto committed in writing or put in practise by any of our nation." This apparently refers to Osborn a8, the only known copy of the work., Raphe (or Ralph) Rabbards, born slightly before 1531, published "The Compound of Alchemy" by George Ripley (see Osborn fa16) in 1591., and Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn.
Subject (Name):
Jenkins, Rhys--Ownership and Rabbards, Raphe
Subject (Topic):
Measuring instruments, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Military art and science--Early works to 1800, Military art and science--Great Britain--History--16th century, and Military art and science--Technological innovations--History
Manuscript roll, on parchment, of a household inventory. The valuation, which totals 36.02.00, includes household furniture such as beds, silver serving pieces and spoons, farm equipment, and livestock.
Description:
In English. and Purchased from Christopher Edwards on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000.
Subject (Name):
Frescheville, Peter,--Sir,--d. 1559?
Subject (Topic):
Inventories, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Probate records
Manuscript on paper of the inventory of the archives kept at Whitehall palace.
Description:
Binding: paper cover., Manuscript on paper of the inventory of the archives kept at Whitehall palace, the principal royal residence in London from 1530-1698., Many leaves blank; modern foliation does not include blanks., and Script: copied by various hands in Gothica Cursiva (Secretary). Many blank pages.
Subject (Name):
Whitehall Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archives, Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Filetico, Martino, ca. 1430-ca. 1490 George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 93
Image Count:
92
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (speckled) of George of Trebizond, Isagoge dialectica. With Extracts from Aristotle, De sophisticis elenchis, in an unidentified Latin translation; logical and syllogistic diagrams; Martinus Phileticus (ca. 1430-ca. 1490), 14-line poem to Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino, written in the hand of the author.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and nailed. The spine is lined with leather between sewing supports. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues and blind-tooled with concentric frames, one filled with rope interlace, and a rope interlace square on a point in the central panel. Annular dots are colored with gold or copper, now green. Spine: very faint diapering with triple fillets. There are five round bosses on each board and two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper one cut in for fabric straps. The front board is detached; one boss wanting., One illuminated initial of poor quality, gold, 3-line, on blue, green, and pink ground. Rubrics and marginal key words (for ff. 1r-6r, 31r only) in pale red. Plain blue intials in art. 2; red or blue elsewhere., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Art. 1 in a small and regular Greek minuscule script; arts. 2-6 in humanistic cursive script, below top line, by a single scribe who also added marginalia; art. 7 in humanistic cursive by a different scribe.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, Federico,--da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino,--1422-1482, and George,--of Trebizond,--1396-1486
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Logic--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment of Biondo Flavio, Italia Illustrata with the dedicatory preface to Pope Nicolas V (d. 1455).
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, England. Red goatskin gold-tooled, with the crest of Charles Chauncy on the sides. Gilt edges. Rebacked. The fine quality of the endleaves and leather, and the tool used on the edges of the boards and the turn-ins are similar to those in Marston MS 102 and Beinecke MS 497, both probably bound by Richard Wier, active in London and France in the 1770s; d. 1792)., Elaborately illuminated title page with historiated initial, 10-line, mauve with silver filigree against gold ground, edged in black, with a portrait of the author, seated and holding a book, against a hilly landscape and blue sky. Partial border of white vine-stem ornament against a predominantly gold ground with blue, green, and red patches with white and pale yellow dots in inner and upper margins, terminating in dense penwork scrolls with gold dots. In outer and lower margin, border of stylized flowers and foliage in red, purple, green, and blue, surrounded by dense penwork scrolls punctuated by gold dots. In center of lower margin, wreathed medallion with unidentified arms, supported by two purple winged putti outlined in blue and wearing red necklaces. 14 illuminated initials, 9- to 6-line, gold, on blue, green, and red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins. Headings, running titles, and marginalia in red., and Script: Written in fine humanistic bookhand, below top line, by a single scribe who also wrote the running titles (epigraphic majuscules) and marginalia, in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Geography, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper, with parchment for inner and outer bifolia, of 1) Petrarch, Itinerarium breve de Ianua usque ad Ierusalem et Terram sanctam. 2) Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus...
Alternative Title:
[De montibus, sylvis, fontibus lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis seu paludibus, et de nominibus maris] and Itinerarium
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, France (?). Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434.", First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text., From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 1025). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Plain red initial, 5-line, f. 1r; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r. Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. 1r., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Autpertus, Ambrosius, d. 784 Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
Published / Created:
[between 1100 and 1200]
Call Number:
Marston MS 24
Image Count:
194
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (endpieces, holes, speckled on hair side) of 1) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis libri XII. 2) Joannes Cassianus, Conlationes XXIV. 3) Miscellaneous notes. 4) Ambrosius Autpertus, Oratio contra septem vitia. 5) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from Conlationes XXIV.
Description:
Binding: Twelfth century, Italy. Original sewing on two tawed pigskin slit straps. The sewing supports and endband cores are laced through a tawed skin spine lining (from a palimpsest?) which extends about 50 mm. on either side and is turned in at head and tail. There is a fragment of finely woven cloth caught up by the lower sewing support and kettle stitch. Chevron endbands on tawed skin straps, one of which extends across the lower side under the lower turn-in. The lower side is reinforced with two irregular pieces of vellum. A flush, tawed skin cover with overlapping corners and irregular turn- ins, wide at the fore edge. Stubs of fastenings which are extensions of the supports. Contemporary title in ink on upper cover: "liber intitulatur de habitu monachorum". Decorative panel containing a drawing of an unidentified animal smeared blue and/or green within a border of brown circles, on lower side., One decorated 5-line initial (rubbed) on f. 1r, constructed of interlacing bands in parchment, outlined in brown ink against an irregular red ground. Plain red initials, some of which are drawn vertically rather than upright, and often with small red pearl designs, appear to be executed by many different hands. Instructions to rubricator in upper margin of f. 1r. Guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written by multiple scribes of varying degrees of accomplishment in late caroline minuscule and early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Vice
Manuscript on parchment of Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Satirae. With a Survey of the Satires copied in Satirae, with their incipits and subjects and Quotations and proverbs, added by a later hand.
Description:
Binding: Original Italian brown leather over thin wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled and decorated with gold dots. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps, attached to the front cover by means of brass nails with engraved heads; palmette-shaped thin brass catches fixed to the rear cover with three nails each. The pastedowns and flyleaves are covered with carefully written notes and quotations on grammar, morals, education, etymology and meaning of rare words, variant readings in classical texts, etc., Script: Copied by one hand in careful Humanistica Textualis., and Space for headings was provided at the head of each Satire, but the headings were not executed. Satt. 2-16 open with a 3-line (6-line Satt. 6 and 7) plain initial (Capitalis) in blue. On f. 1r (Sat. 1) 6-line white vinestem initial integrated in a three-margins left border in the same style and colours; in the lower section of the latter, between two birds, there is a damaged coat of arms in a wreath. Guide letters.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal
Subject (Topic):
Classical education, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, Latin