- Creator:
- Livy
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1
- Image Count:
- 685
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Livy, Ab urbe condita libri I-X.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in round humanistic script., On f. 1r: the initial F historiated with a view of Rome, full-page illuminated border in gold and colors into which are introduced the Trivulzio arms of Milan (paly of 6, or and vert) and a set of unidentified arms (gules, a cross saltire sable). Initials of books, 8-line, of painted gold on background of blue, green and red, and partial floral border., Initial on f. 2r damaged by crease., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown leather, gold-tooled, edges marbled and gilt, rebacked, with T. LIVII DECAS PRIMA on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Livy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ab urbe condita libri I-X.
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- Creator:
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 143
- Image Count:
- 457
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Tacitus, Annales XI-XVI. 2) Tacitus, Historiae I-V. Possibly written for Alfonso II, Duke of Calabria, King of Naples
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes; Scribe 1) ff. 1r-126r in a neat, slightly rounded gothic bookhand; Scribe 2) ff. 126v-218v, in a neat humanistic bookhand., Full border, f. 1r, attributed to Nicola Rapicano: white vine, infilled blue, red, and green, with white dots; framed and divided into panels by thin gold bands, the inner frame with a second band in two shades of purple, with white highlights. Outer and lower margins divided by band of fruit, in the outer margin, black with gold highlights, in the lower margin, red with green and gold highlights; divided into sections and at corners by English frets, infilled blue or green with white dots. In center of outer margin, a medallion after a classical coin or cameo, bust of a man in profile with a laurel wreath against a blue ground with fine white filigree; in center of lower margin, coat of arms of Alfonso II, Duke of Calabria, King of Naples (quarterly, first and fourth paly of 4 or and gules [Aragon], second and third argent, a cross potent sable [Calabria]), in a gold and purple quatrilobe frame, a gold diadem above, against a blue ground, as above, supported by four putti. Putti, birds (including a large peacock, center of inner margin), insects, and a bowl of fruit, symmetrically arranged in corners and around swags, often overlapping or passing behind decorative elements. Both inner and outer frame broken by text and marginalia, suggesting that the border is a later addition. Two lines of gold capitals open the text on f. 1r. On f. 136v, a 5-line white vine initial, gold, infilled red, green, and blue, against a blue ground, of inferior execution compared to f. 1r. Two 3-line initials, ff. 25v and 40v, gold or blue with purple or red penwork; each with guide-letters for illuminator., and Binding: Between 1890 and 1900, or 20th century. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with rope work interspersed with copper colored dots in Italian style (15th century) by Leon Gruel (active under his own name between 1891 and 1923).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Alfonso II, King of Naples, 1448-1495. and Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annales and historiae
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 357
- Image Count:
- 364
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse, brown) of annals of Genoa
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head buried in gutter., Script: Written by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-45v, 158r-163v, 168r-172v, compact fere-humanistic script with exagerrated flourishes at conclusion of most lines. Scribe 2) ff. 46r-157v, 164r-167v, well spaced informal humanistic script. Marginal annotations and arts. 15-16 added, 15th-16th centuries, by several hands., Stained throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum, gold-tooled. Stamped, in gold, on spine: "Caffari Chronica MS.".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Genoa (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annals of Genoa, to 1293
- Creator:
- Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
- Published / Created:
- 1475.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 321
- Image Count:
- 285
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (lightly burnished) of Poggio Bracciolini, Historia Florentina, translated into Italian by his son Jacopo. With Prefatory letter of Jacopo di Poggio to Federico da Montefeltro
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387., Script: Written in sloping humanistic bookhand with cursive elements., Illuminated initial in gold, f. 1r, 10-line, infilled and surrounded by flowers in rose and blue (yellow centers), rayed gold discs, winding green stems and leaves, and hair-line decoration. Gold initial, f. 3r, 6-line, on ground composed of blue, green, and rose panels, all decorated with gold scroll designs. Headings in red rustic capitals., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf spine, blind- and gold-tooled, with Strozzi arms and "Poggio istoria tradotta da Iacopo suo figlio" and "M. S. Cartaceo del S. XV". Blue and white decorated paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia florentina
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 642
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Landulphus senior (Landulphus Mediolanensis, 12th century), Historia Mediolanensis. 2) Catalogue of the Archbishops of Milan up to Galdinus (1166-1176). 3) Arnulf of Milan (Arnulphus Mediolanensis, d. ca. 1077), Liber gestorum recentium
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Marginal notes in Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Annotations in the hand of Francesco della Croce., Plain red 1-line initials in the verses at the end of art. 1, Book I (f. 10v) and in art. 2; alternately red and blue 2- or 3-lines initials in the other parts; 5-line littera duplex in the same colours at the beginning of art. 3; 6-line littera duplex with penwork and marginal extensions at the beginning of art. 1, Book I (f. 1v); 9-line foliate initial on square background in yellow, mauve, red, green, blue and with left-margin Gothic illuminated acanthus border on f. 1r., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain white parchment over pasteboard. Remnants of title-label at the top of the spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Milan (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Della Croce, Francesco, 1391-1479.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > History of Milan
6.
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 87
- Image Count:
- 403
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico; Commentarii de Bello Civili; De Bello Alexandrino; De Bello Africo; and De Bello Hispaniensis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small elegant humanistic bookhand., Fine initials, gold capitals, 9- to 5- line, edged in yellow, filled with white-vine ornament, on blue, green, and red ground, decorated with yellow dots. Headings in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Wound sewing on four slit straps. Colored beaded endbands sewn onto cores of tawed skin laced and nailed into wooden boards. All edges gilt. The sewing straps are laced through tunnels in the edges of the boards and nailed in channels on the outside, protruding well above the face. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with an eight-pointed star and corners filled in with rope-tool interlace interspersed with copper-colored dots, in a border of rectangular tools. Four catches on the lower board and stubs of red cloth (velvet?) straps lined with parchment held to the upper with star headed nails
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera omnia
- Creator:
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Image Count:
- 396
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thin, good quality) of 1) Tacitus, Annales XI-XVI. 2) Tacitus, Historiae I-V. Written for King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1458-90), perhaps by Italians at his palace of Buda
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a well formed humanistic script., Twelve initials, 7- to 2-line, at beginning of each book (2 at the beginning of the Annales), gold edged in black, with white vine ornament, against a panelled ground of blue, green and mauve, with white dots, outlined with one or two thin white and one black line; ivy, drawn or pen, with triangular gold leaves or dots, projecting from corners into margins. On f. 1r, the initial includes a putto in the vinework; in the lower margin, coat of arms of Corvinus, type A (quarterly, first and fourth barry of 8 gules and argent [Hungary]; second and third gules, a lion rampant and queue-fourche argent [Bohemia]; an inescutcheon azur with raven sable holding an annulet or, with bordure or [Hunyadi family]. Workmanship of fair quality; style Northern Italian (?)., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on three tawed, slit straps laid in channels in beech boards. The straps are pegged and the channels filled in with plaster as are the endband grooves and the edge channels cut out for the clasps. The primary endband is plain, wound, and sewn on a tawed core and the secondary is beaded and colored. The core is laid in a groove and pegged. The square spine is given a slightly round shape by the bevelling of the boards and is lined with a tawed skin. Covered in dark, brick-red goatskin with a cusped shield azur, charged with a crow sable (Hunyadi family), in the center of each board; blind-tooled rope work, punch dots and other ornamentation gilt, gold-tooled or painted. "Cornelius Tacitus" is tooled along the head of the lower cover and is also written down the fore-edge with black ink. There are four fastenings, the brass catches on the lower board, with three of them covered over with added leather. The clasps are the same color as the cover and are reinforced with parchment. They are pegged in channels at the edges of the board, underneath the cover. The clasps and a little leather of the spine and the upper board are wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490. and Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Corvinus Tacitus
8.
- Creator:
- Plutarch
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 133
- Image Count:
- 194
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Plutarch, Vitae, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in an upright italic by a single scribe., Small, 4-line, white vine initials, one to commence each work, gold, infilled with pink and green with white dots, all on a blue ground; gold dots and hairsprays., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Green goatskin with red labels on spine. Delicately gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Plutarch.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitae