Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Giovanni del Virgilio, fl. 1319 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 758
Image Count:
110
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, in prose and verse.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown leather (sheepskin?) over cardboard (replacing worm-eaten wooden boards), blind-tooled with a frame of fillets and rolls; in the central panel a motif made of small rhomboid stamps. Parchment front pastedown. Remnants or marks of four clasps attached to the front cover., Copied by one hand in extremely small Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. In the poetical sections the majuscules at the opening of each verse are set apart., Headings (“liber secundus” etc.) in clumsy Capitalis (several times erroneous: “LIBE”). Space for a 2-line initial left free on the first line of f. 1r, although this is not the beginning of the text., and Watermark: tower, var. Piccard, Turmwasserzeichen 611-613; var. Briquet, 15911?.
Subject (Name):
Giovanni del Virgilio,--fl. 1319
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Ptolemy, Almagest in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona. With Calendar with computistical information, January through December.
Subject (Name):
Gherardo,--da Cremona,--1113 or 14-1187 and Ptolemy,--2nd cent
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Ancient, Calendars, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Ancient, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Description of the festival held in Milan on 12 June, 1743, honoring the newly elected Archbishop Giuseppe Pozzobonelli., Illustrations: 5 etched plates, 3 of them depicting triumphal arches. [1.] (impression size 25 x 18 cm.) Portrait with caption: Joseph Puteobonellus Mediolanensis & ecls. Archiepiscopus S.R.E. Cardinalis creatus die 9. Septembris 1743; signed: Dal Rè fec. [2.] (impresion size 51 x 36 cm.) Caption: A capo il Corso di P.T. nel soleñe ingresso nella Citta di Milano del. Em.mo Giuseppe Pozzobonelli li 21. Giugno 1744; signed : Antonius Quadrius Inu. et del., Lapoer Sculp. [3.] (impression size 42 x 30 cm.) Caption: A capo della contrada de Piatti in P.T.P.S. Gior.o in Palazzo di Milano li 21. Giugno 1744; signed: I. Ricardus del. et pins.t, C. Lapoer sc. Mediol.i. [4.] (impression size 42 x 30 cm.) Caption: Alla Piazza del Duomo p[er] il solenne ingresso nella Citta di Milano dell' Em.mo Giuseppe Pozzobonelli li 21 Giug.no 1744; signed: Antonius Quadrius In. et del., Lapoer Sculp.it. [5.] (impression 50 x 74 cm.) Procession leading to the Cathedral in Milan with caption: Solenne ingresso seguito nella Città di Milano dell'Eminentiss.mo Cardinale Giuseppe Pozzobonelli Arciuescouo di detta Metropoli; listing 49 participants, signed: Marc'Ant.o DalRè., In Italian, with some Latin., and Signatures: *⁶ a-i⁴ k⁶.
Publisher:
Nella Regio-ducal corte, per Giuseppe Richino Malatesta stampatore regio-camerale e della città,
Subject (Geographic):
Milan (Italy)--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church.--Archdiocese of Milan (Italy)--History., Dal Re, Marc'Antonio, 1697-1766., Lapoer, Gaetano., Malatesta, Giuseppe Richino, printer., Pozzobonelli, Giuseppe,--1696-1783., Quadrio, Antonio., and Riccardi, Giovanni Battista.
Subject (Topic):
Ceremonial entires--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., Processions--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., and Triumphal arches--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800.
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Manuscript on paper of Annales Sanctae Iustinae. The Annals deal with the regional history of Lombardy and the March of Treviso, but also with world history and cover the years 1207-1270. With Mantissa. Notes on the history and buildings of Padua from its legendary foundation to the death of Petrarch (1374), together with some facts of general history, written as a supplement to the preceding text.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, pasteboard covered with brown paper, and white parchment; flat spine with black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “MONACHI / PADUANI / CHRONICON / MS.”; below this label an oval label in the same material., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., In the original parts of the Annals, pale red headings; pale red stroking of the majuscules and plain alternately pale red and black 2-line initials, either Gothic with some decoration, or slovenly-made Humanistic ones. The parts copied by the second scribe are undecorated., Script: The Annals are copied by a single scribe writing Italian Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence, using only vertical d. Mantissa, as well as replacement leaves in the preceding text, are copied by a ca. 1600 hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva., and The original part of the manuscript is soiled and waterstained. It had lost two leaves that were later replaced.
Subject (Geographic):
Lombardy (Italy)--History, Padua (Italy), and Treviso (Italy)--History
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history
Manuscript on paper of Renaissance poetry including: 1) Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli,1394-1471), Hermaphroditus. 2) Elegies on various subjects by the scarcely known Pompeius (Pazzalia) Bononiensis. 3) Basinius Parmensis (Basinio di Parma, 1425-1457), Liber Isottaeus. 4) Iohannes Marrasius (Giovanni Marrasio, 1405-c. 1457), Angelinetum. 5) Three poems by Carolus Marsuppinus (Carlo Marsuppini, 1398 [?]-1453). 6) Poems by Gregorius Tiphernus (Gregorio Tifernate, 1414-after 1462). 7) Poems by Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus (Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, 1426-1503), the final one here attributed to Iohannes Sagundinus (see also artt. 48-51). 8) Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (pope Pius II, 1405-1464) , Versus in MahumetumTurcorum regem. 9) Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus, Carmina. 10) Petrus Porcellius (Pietro Porcellio, 1450), Carmina. 11) Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli), Elegia ad Iohannem Lamolam. 12) Petrus Porcellius, Poem in praise of Alberto d'Este (d. 1502). 13) Poem by Antonius Panormitanus. 14) Poems by or attributed to Iohannes Sagundinus. 15) Pompeius Bononiensis, Carmina. 16) Prayer to Mercury, also found in San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca Guarneriana, MS 121, f. 81r. 17) Poem attributed to the emperor Hadrian. 18) Complaint on the decay of Rome. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, v. 6.5, no. 3*h, among the Inscriptiones falsae urbis Romae. 19) Funeral inscription. With short poems by various others.
Description:
4° folding. The s. XVII foliation is erroneous:it has ff. 55 and 55bis, 89 and 89bis, 96 and 96bis, and 118 and 118bis. Damaged by waterstains and tears., 7 postliminary leaves, 17th century binder's blanks, not digitized., Binding: Eighteenth century. Limp parchment with remains of two ties. Handwritten title on the spine: "Elegiae / nonnu/llorum / doctorum"., Headings and initials in brown, pale red, and blue., and Script: Copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Renaissance--Italy