Blanks not digitized., Mr. Gold of the Aldine Book Co. said these were originally in the genizah of the synagogue at Urbino., and Purchased from the Aldine Book Co.; their sales-catalogue "Americana-Judaica & Hebraica" [Brooklyn, 1938?], no. 1913; in 1940.
Autograph (in part) manuscript, consisting of papers in Italian, English and other languages concerning the contemporary political history and the intellectual and social life of England (f. 1-262), Holland (f. 265-422), Denmark (f. 424-476) and Poland (f. 477-503). The collection includes autograph rough notes and drafts of memoranda, often with extensive revisions, copies and translations of political papers, a few original letters and a few printed papers. The English section includes "Memorie del'ingresso del Duca d'Oranges in Inghilterra e dell'uscita de Giacomo;" sketches of the careers and characters of politicians, courtiers, etc.; memoranda concerning English domestic and foreign politics; a list of "le donne piu belle di Londra;" lists of publications concerning the Popish plot (1679-83) and other books published in England; translations of parliamentary speeches and 11 letters from a Tuscan diplomat in London to Magalotti's secretary, May to July, 1678.
Alternative Title:
Danimarca e Pollonia
Description:
Title on spine: "Inghilterra Oland Danimarca Pollonia."
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark--Politics and government, Great Britain--Court and courtiers, Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714, Netherlands--Politics and government, and Poland--Politics and government
Description of Bolognas annual Porchetta festival (""Festa della porchetta""), held in 1736. Full-size folded sheet engraved illustration depicting fall of the city of Faenza (occupied by the Lamberazzi) to the Bolognese Guelfs in ca. 1280.
Alternative Title:
Nella festa popolare fatta in Bologna dagl'illustrissimi ed eccelsi signore anziani consoli, e confaloniere di gistizia del quarto bimestre dell'anno 1736.
Description:
Description of Bologna's annual Porchetta festival ("Festa della porchetta"), held in 1736. Full-size folded sheet engraved illustration depicting fall of the city of Faenza (occupied by the Lamberazzi) to the Bolognese Guelfs in ca. 1280; signed "Domenico Tagliatti invent., e pitore del teatro" and "[AAS] delineò & incise" (i.e. Antonio Alessandro Scarselli) , with caption: "Nella festa popolare fatta in Bologna dagl'illustrissimi ed eccelsi signore anziani consoli, e confaloniere di gistizia [sic] del quarto bimestre dell'anno 1736 ...", Imperfect: Beinecke copy has plate only, wanting text., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Lelio dalla Volpe?,
Subject (Geographic):
Bologna (Italy)--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Dalla Volpe, Lelio, 1685-1749, printer., Scarselli, Antonio Alessandro, 1684-1773., and Tagliatti, Domenico.
Historia del valoroso cavallier Polisman : nelle quale, oltre alla sua origine, vita, & imprese
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Translation of Libro del valeroso caballero Polisman Florisio, que por otro nombre se llamo´ el Caballero del Desierto ... por Fernando Bernal. Valencia, 1527, which in turn was issued, 1517, under title: Floriseo, que por otro nombre es llamado el Cauallero del Desierto.
Manuscript on parchment of theological and moral treatises.
Alternative Title:
[Trattato di teologia morale in quattro libri:] ms., on parchment, in Italian. With Viridarium consolationis, and Tractatus scale: ms., on parchment, in Italian
Description:
Binding: 19th century (?). Quarter binding, parchment (from a music manuscript with 4-line red staves?) and paper printed in a rose and white decorative pattern over cardboard. On the front cover, in s. XIX handwriting: "Trattato di morale e teologia"; on the spine, in 19th century handwriting: "M.S. / 1421". Blue sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 2- and 3-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue with very developed penwork in the contrasting colours in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space; at both ends the penwork terminates in conspicuous corkscrew ornament. 3- and 4-line litterae duplices with a yet more elaborate execution of the same type of penwork on ff. 2r (beginning of art. 2), 35v (2, beginning of art. 3), 52v (beginning of art. 4). The additional artt. 5-9 are undecorated., Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: main text is copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Formata. The additional artt. 5-9 and the notes are written in extremely small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, all probably by Dominicus de Seraphinis., The first page is badly soiled., and The manuscript contains: 1) Gerardus de Prato OFM, Breviloquium in sententias. 2) Iacobus de Benevento OP (s. XIII2 , Ps.-Bonaventura), Viridarium consolationis. 3) Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella OP (1250-1300), Scala fidei, second recension. 4) Note on the ten virtues. 5) Quodlibet questions with answers based on Raymundus de Pennaforti (d. 1275). 6) Note on the real existence of Purgatory. 7) A legal note on the conditions on which toll must not be paid for the transportation of goods, quoting Henricus de Segusio (Hostiensis, d. 1271). 8) A note about the four senses of Scripture.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics., Christian literature, Latin., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.