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10. Marescalcia equorum
- Creator:
- Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 459
- Image Count:
- 166
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum, translated into Italian
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified basilisk in gutter., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script., Crudely executed border design, in red, on f. 1r. Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, in red; some embellished with simple foliate ornamentation or with human and animal grotesques (e.g., ff. 24v, 44v). Headings in red., Upper portion of f. 55 (chs. 146, 149) cut out; ff. 63v-64r (chs. 189-95) crossed out. Some staining and wear affecting text., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Tan, "pasta espanola" paper case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ruffo, Giordano.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marescalcia equorum
11. Marescalcia equorum
- Published / Created:
- 14th or 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 917
- Image Count:
- 119
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Liber marescalciae by Laurentius Rusius. The manuscript also contains a large excerpt of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum in Italian translation, as well as an anonymous treatise on hippiatry, and a number of remedies, prescriptions, and incantations for various diseases
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: there are two main scribes: hand A copied the treatise on hippiatry in large Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; its headings are in Gothica Textualis Libraria; decorative extensions at the ascenders on the top line. Hand B, who identifies himself f. 50r as Cristofano di Piero maniscalco N., copied ff. 12r-52v, upper part, in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The other texts are additional and have been copied by various scribes at various moments. Folios 1r-4v have red rubrics and are decorated with 2-line flourished initials, with abundant foliate marginal extensions. Guide letters in the left margin on ff. 1r-11v., Liber marescalciae by Laurentius Rusius, a treatise in 154 chapters. The manuscript also contains a large excerpt of Giordano Ruffo's De medicina equorum in Italian translation, as well as an anonymous treatise on hippiatry in 38 chapters, and a number of remedies, prescriptions, and incantations for various diseases., and Binding: 15th century: brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets; the central panel filled with rope tools, surrounded by a frame. Flat spine with three bands and partly lost paper label with handwritten title “[MA]SCAL[CIA] / M.S. / DI VARI”. Remnants of two decorated brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Five brass bosses on each cover (the central boss on the front cover lost).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rusius, Laurentius. and Ruffo, Giordano, d. 1256.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marescalcia equorum
12. Marescalcia equorum, etc
- Creator:
- Ruffo, Giordano, -1256
- Published / Created:
- 1456.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 488
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum, in an anonymous Italian translation. With medicinal recipes and prayers
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: unidentified bull's head in gutter., Script: Written in a poorly formed Italian notarial script; notes in contemporary cursive hands., Plain initial, 5-line, in red and black, at beginning of art. 1; initial strokes and rubrics for ff. 1r-9v only., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case. Stamped on upper cover: "Medecine des chevaux/ manuscrit du XV siecle".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ruffo, Giordano, fl. 1250-1260.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Marescalcia equorum, etc
13. Renaissance miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 329
- Image Count:
- 293
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a miscellany including texts by Leonardo Bruni, Petrarch, Stefano Porcari, Matteo Palmieri, and Giovanni Boccaccio
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fleur 6651, Briquet Echelle 5910, Briquet Etoile 6070 and one unidentified., Script: Written in a mercantile script (mercantesca) by one hand., Calligraphic initials, 4- to 2-line, in red with purple or blue with red. Rubrics in brownish-red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper binding "alla rustica". On spine, "Miscella di belle lettere".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Renaissance miscellany
14. Vita di San Petronio, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500, 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 37
- Image Count:
- 347
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (with various watermarks), composed of five separate manuscripts bound together. Parts I and II were written in the 15th century and III-V in the 17th century. Part I: Vita di San Petronio. Part II: Tommaso Nacci Caffarini, Tractatus de stigmatibus extractus, the second part of the book De supplemento legende beate Katerine de senis. Part III: Federico Borromeo, Vita S. Caroli Borromei. Part IV: Pope Pius II, De morte eugenij Quarti creationeque et coronatione Niccolai V oratio. Part V: Thomas Obicinus, Motiuo Celeste diretto in questo segnato tempo
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Part I: Round humanistic by a single scribe. Part II: Small neat round textura in a single hand. Part III: Written by one scribe in a calligraphic italic hand. Part IV: Written in italic hand by a single scribe. Part V: Written in a small italic hand by one scribe., Part I: Simple penwork initials in red or blue, some with penwork designs of the other color. Part II: Uninspired and badly rubbed historiated initial (Christ [?] displaying stigmata) on gold background with three gold dots, f. 19r; small decorative initials in red with black penwork designs, or blue with red. Paragraph marks in red or blue., The manuscript has been damaged and repaired extensively. Parts I and III: Waterstained and mended throughout. Part II: Folios have been trimmed with some loss of marginalia., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum and paste paper case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petronius, Saint, Bishop of Bologna, d. ca. 445.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papal documents, and Stigmatization
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita di San Petronio, etc