In ink and in pencil. Two of the caricatures are accompanied by verses with the titles, "W---m G---g's life indoors and out" and are signed "G.R.G", [Lindow Grove, Alderley Edge, Cheshire?]. Gissing's two brothers, William and Algernon, are the subjects of two of the caricatures; Gissing is himself the subject of the third. The sketch is a copy from Doré's Don Quixote.
Manuscript on parchment of 1) The author, Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus (1449-1499) of Vicenza, speaking to his book of poetry, 6 lines. 2) 28-line encomium dedicated to Niccolo Donati, Patriarch of Aquileia, 1493-97. 3) Rhapsodia I. 4-7) Rhapsodia I-V. 8) De mysteriis christianis. 9-10) Poems to Angelus Padavinus.
Description:
Binding: Date?, Italy. Tacketed to a limp vellum wrapper made from a parchment document: Agostino Barbarigo, doge of Venice (1486-1501), writes on behalf of the secretary Joannes B[remainder of name missing due to hole in parchment], dated Venice, 5 May 14[8?]8. Filing notes on upper cover. Title in majuscules on upper cover: "Quintii Haemiliani Cimbriaci Vti [for Vincentinus?]"., Half-page coat of arms (argent [oxidized], a chief with 3 roses gules above 2 bars gules; crest: bishop's mitre surmounted by gold cross) enclosed by a wreath with flowers and fruit and four ribbons, f. 1v. Plain gold majuscules outlined in black, 4- to 2-line, mark beginning of arts. 2-8; headings for each poem in black epigraphic square capitals., and Script: Written in a well-formed upright humanistic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a Cartulary of the abbey of Sant Cugat del Vallés. The manuscript also contains documents pertaining to a lawsuit between the monastery and the town of Sant Cugat.
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Binding: no covers., Copy of the charter of Lothaire, King of the Franks (954-986), for the abbey of Sant Cugat, dated Compiègne, 986 January-February. The copy was made by Bernard of Caderita, notary at Barcelona, 1044 January 17. The manuscript contains confirmations of this charter by James I, King of Aragon (1213-1276), dated 1233 January 23, and Pedro IV, King of Aragon (1336-1387), dated 1338 April 20. The manuscript also contains documents about a lawsuit before the court of the bishop of Barcelona between the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallés and the town of Sant Cugat at the occasion of a fight between two inhabitants of the town and the wounds they received, 1273-1380. The Latin language of these documents is very ungrammatical., Script: probably copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with Spanish features. Paragraph marks and headings in pale red ink. Red initials with reserved interior shapes, of various heights., and Wanting f. 30.
Subject (Topic):
Cartularies, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Autograph manuscript list of books from the library of Count Antonio d'Este on the Italian code of honor, with emphasis on the art of duelling. List includes works in support of, and in opposition to duelling. Among the 16th and 17th century authors represented are Andrea Alciati, Francesco Sansovino, and Torquato Tasso.
Description:
Purchased from Diana Parikian Rare Books on the David Wagstaff Memorial Fund, 1971.
Subject (Name):
Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550, Este, Antonio d', Count, fl. 1700, Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586, and Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
Manuscript on paper, incomplete, containing a catalogue of acts of Parliament from approximately 1488 to 1610 ("septimo Jacobi Reg."). Formerly part of a larger volume; the leaves are numbered 280-370.
Description:
Binding: disbound., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: secretary script.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Session laws--England--