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
Americae tertia pars memorabilē provinciae Brasiliae historiam continēs ...
Container / Volume:
BRBL_00658
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
In cartouche in lower left: Chorographia nobilis & opulentæ Peruanæ Provinciæq, atque Brasiliae, quas à decimo ad quintum & quinquagesimum feré gradum ultra Aequatorem in longitudinem patere, diligenti observatione deprehensum est: ex Auctorum, qui eas Provincias perlustrarunt, scriptis recens à Theodoro de Bry concinata. Caesarae matis privilegio ad quadriennium MDXCII., In cartouche in lower right: Ex Geograph: calculo tres gradats confici lxxx leucas gallicas, five ccxl. miliaria Italica : singuli ergo gradus fere xxvvc gal., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[T. de Bry],
Subject (Geographic):
America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Americae tertia pars memorabilē provinciae Brasiliae historiam continēs ...
Container / Volume:
BRBL_00658
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
In cartouche in lower left: Chorographia nobilis & opulentæ Peruanæ Provinciæq, atque Brasiliae, quas à decimo ad quintum & quinquagesimum feré gradum ultra Aequatorem in longitudinem patere, diligenti observatione deprehensum est: ex Auctorum, qui eas Provincias perlustrarunt, scriptis recens à Theodoro de Bry concinata. Caesarae matis privilegio ad quadriennium MDXCII., In cartouche in lower right: Ex Geograph: calculo tres gradats confici lxxx leucas gallicas, five ccxl. miliaria Italica : singuli ergo gradus fere xxvvc gal., and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[T. de Bry],
Subject (Geographic):
America--Maps--Early works to 1800 and Western Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
America. pars 4. Latin, Americae pars qvarta, Insignis & admiranda historia, and Insignis et admiranda historia
Description:
2nd. ed. Cf. Chruch. T.p. signed: A.E. Arabic numbers on plates. Plate XI with catchword "Indi.", Engraved t.p., Imperfect: wormed with some loss of text. Map (32 x 43 cm, on sheet 34 x 45 cm) bound following leaf R6., Includes Urbain Chauveton's Latin translation of bk. 1 of Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo, with additional notes., Map: Occidentalis Americae partis, vel earum regionium quas Christophorus Columbus primu[m] detexit ... praesertim verò ex Hieronyni Benzoni (qui totis XIIII annis eas provincias diligenter perlustravit) historia, conflata & in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leod' anno MDXCIIII. Scale not given., and Signatures: 2):(⁴, ²2):(⁴, A-Q⁴ R⁶, ²A-E⁴ F⁶ (R6, ²F6 blank)
Publisher:
Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration--Maps--Early works to 1800., America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800., America--Early accounts to 1600., America--Maps--Early works to 1800., Latin America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Latin America--History--To 1600., and Latin America--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572? Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin., Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598., Chauveton, Urbain, -approximately 1616., and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599, printer.
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Engraved title page depicting many native people doing various tasks, some carrying another man on a sedia gestatoria, some gathering food and tilling the land.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration
Subject (Topic):
Indians
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]
Covers coastal region from Cape Fear to Chesapeake Bay., From Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, 1590., Has watermark., Oriented with north to the right., Pictorial map., Relief shown pictorially and by hachures., and Sheet measures 34 x 46 cm. Cross Collection no. 208.
Publisher:
De Brÿ,
Subject (Geographic):
North Carolina--Maps--Early works to 1800, Roanoke Colony--Maps--Early works to 1800, and Virginia--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598 and Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621. Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia