BEIN ITA103: Imperfect: 16, K, Q, CS; K, C, JB; KD; QC; trumps Bagatto, Pope, Temperance, Star, Moon, Sun, World, Fool only. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italo-Portuguese suit system., Type: Original design., and Composition of deck unknown.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of an Italian translation of Book 8, chapters 4-5 of the Facta et memorabilia dicta of Valerius Maximus
Description:
In Italian., Script: humanist cursive., Decoration: rubricated. 9 initials of 2 or 3 lines in alternating red and blue ink., and Layout: single columns of 35/36 lines.
Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, containing part of a didactic poem about Latin grammar
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothic. Marginal annotations in a contemporary cursive gothic hand., Decoration: Initial letters in red and blue ink., and Ownership? inscription in gutter of bifolium: "Al molto nobilo Messer Antonio R----."
Manuscript bifolium on parchment, containing text from the Heroides, with the text of the Italian prose translation by Filippo Ceffi framing it in the margins
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: capitals touched in yellow ink. Headings in red ink., and Labeled in a large later hand: "Ricorda...anno...161...."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ceffi, Filippo. and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Manuscript on paper of Agostino Cesareo (Rome, 16th century), L'arte del navigare
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in careful Humanistica Cursive., Coloured and uncoloured diagrams, illustrations and maps., Many pages are spoiled by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the front cover the inscription "L'arte de ***"; on the rear cover contemporary calculations.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cesareo, Agostino.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Cosmography, Navigation, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an Italian lectionary, containing readings from Luke 7.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothic bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Capitals in alternating red and blue ink., and Top of leaf trimmed, with margin and text loss.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an Italian lectionary, possibly containing Advent readings
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Caroline minuscule; headings in uncials., Decoration: rubricated. Three elongated initials in red ink., and Layout: two columns of 32 lines.