Anno. M. cccc. lxxxi. Quarto Idus dece[m]bris [10 December 1481]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 622
Image Count:
122
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis and Praeclarissimi viri Gualterii Burlei Anglici sacre pagine professoris excellentissimi super artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis expositio sive scriptum feliciter incipit
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Rubrication and large initial in blue (a1r), BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Provenance: Inscription of the Premonstratensian abbey of Weissenau, Baden-Württemberg: Monasterij Augiae Minoris. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund., BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Binding: Brown pigskin over pasteboard, the covers framed with a gold-tooled fillet. Rebacked. Spine with five raised bands and 19th-century red leather label with gold-tooled inscription in Gothic letters "Gualt. Burley 1481"., BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Number 1 of 2 items bound together. Item extent: 1 item (ii + 119 + 48 + ii leaves)., Signatures: a-n⁸ o-p⁶ q⁴ (a1 and q4 blank)., Title from incipit at head of a2r., Imprint details from colophon on q3v., Burley's commentary on Aristotle's and Porphyrys' works on logic., and Initial spaces.
Publisher:
Arte ac impensa Ioannis herbort Alemani ... impressum uero uenetiis
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, Aristotle., Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305., and Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy, Ancient, and Logic
Manuscript on parchment of Jacopo Ariani (?), 200 Sonnets addressed to a lady called Laura. With Alberto Maffei, Colophon in the form of a sonnet addressed to the readers
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by Alberto Maffei in a small calligraphic Humanistica Semitextualis Formata., Each sonnet opens with a Capital in gold ink, the three subsequent stanzas with alternating red and blue Capitals. On the opening page (f. 2r), however, the opening Capitals are in gold on a square blue background dotted with gold, above each of the two sonnets floral ornaments have been painted in red and gold ink and in the lower margin there is a medallion within a gold wreath adorned with ribbons and containing the coat of arms of the Ariani family flanked by the initials "I.A.". ff. 1 and 52 are stained purple and the text of artt. 1 and 3 is written in gold ink, the headings being executed in silver ink. On both pages silver and gold floral ornaments in three margins. The ones in the lower margins end in Capital "A" (for "Albertus")., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue velvet over cardboard with blue watered-silk doublure. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ariani, Jacopo.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN Zi +5140: For fuller description see collation-leaf in volume. and Bound with: 2 binding fragments cataloged separately. To view other titles search by call number: Zi +5140
"Theorica planetarum", by Gerardus Cremonensis: leaves [23-40]., Med: Also available on microfilm., and Med: Later Italian binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
BEIN Zi +4226: Capital spaces. Rubricated throughout. Manuscript quiring, mostly cut away. Fol. 201 and 206 (sig. [x₃,₈]) wanting and supplied in contemporary manuscript. Bound in old stamped sheepskin over wooden boards, with brass clasps, center and corner pieces, and chain-fastening in back cover. and BEIN Zi +4226: All bosses, one clasp-hook and its catch, and the chain-fastening are wanting. Manuscript note on fol. 1a: "Hic liber est mo[na]sterij s[an]c[t]e Elizabeth in Kunkada p[ro]pe Brixina[m]." For fuller description see collation leaf in volume.
BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 1: Worm holes in the beginning and at end. Bound in old wooden boards, rebacked; clasps wanting. Penciled notes on fly-leaf: Lord Orford's copy; Bought in Venice from the Duplicates in St. Marks Library from the Contarini Collection, O. [i.e. Orford?]. Bookplate of Thomas Day Seymour. The last word on BB₁a and the last words on CT₃a struck out with a pen, as in the British Museum copies. With capital M. at beginning of the last line on leaf 100b (sig. nv4b)., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 2: 31 cm. Numerous manuscript marginal and interlinear notes by a contemporary hand. Stained in the beginning and at end. Brown morocco binding, gilt, inside dentelles, gilt edges. Penciled note on fly-leaf: Je l'ai acheté chez Muller, Amst[erda]m ... Anvers 18 [name of month illegible] 1872. Ant. Van Bellingen. The last word on BB₁a and the last three words on CT₃a struck out with a pen, as in the British Museum copies. From the Ionides Collection., BEIN ZI +5551 Copy 2: Without capital M at beginning of the last line on leaf 100b (sig nv4b)., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 3: 31 cm. With copious annotations in Greek by Martin Crusius (1526-1607). Without capital M at the beginning of the last line on leaf 100b., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 1: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume., SML Microtext Room: Negative film available for reproduction., Fol. 280b blank., Capital spaces, mostly with guide-letters., and Hain omits comma on f. 1a, line 2.
Manuscript on paper of Bernardo Giustiniani (Bernardus Iustiniani, 1408-1489), Vita Beati Laurentii Iustiniani, translated into Italian by the Venetian Niccolo Manerbi (Malherbi, 1422-81).
Description:
St. Laurence Giustiniani (1381-1456) was the first patriarch of Venice. The author of this biography was his nephew., In Italian., Watermark: anchor in circle, closest to Briquet 471 (1527)?., Script: Written by one scribe in an unusually bold, angular and decorated Southern Gothica Textualis Formata., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in dark yellow. Red plain initials, 2 lines, at the opening of the chapters. Flourished red paragraph marks. A flourished initial in red with blue penwork, with extension the height of the text area in the left margin, on f. 1r., Many pages are deteriorated by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original blind-tooled half brown leather over wooden boards; two clasps (?) attached to the front cover. Spine with three raised bands and gold-tooled title "VITA DI S. LOREN. IUSTI". Endpapers with coloured floral pattern.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Giustiniani, Bernardo, 1408 or 1409-1489. and Lawrence Justinian, Saint, 1381-1456.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval