Manuscript on parchment of 1) Conditions agreed between Bianca Bentivoglio, Lady of Spilimbergo (d. 1519), and the Jew Daniel, son of Abraham of Modena, for the establishment of a bank by the latter in the castle of Spilimbergo, 15 July 1506. 2) Renewal for a second period of fifteen years, by Bianca Bentivoglio, widow of Niccolo Count Rangoni (d. 1500), of the agreement made at the time between her husband and Daniel, son of Abraham, allowing the latter to establish a bank in the castle of Spilimbergo, 13 Dec. 1507, subscribed by the chancellor Franco Correggi
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 is written by one scribe in Gothica Hybrida Currens (Mercantesca); art. 2, by Franco Correggi, is in Humanistica Currens., and Binding: Original light blue paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, New Haven., and Pordenone (Italy : Province)
Subject (Topic):
Banks and banking, Charters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 532
Image Count:
1416
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
Alternative Title:
Address to young men
Description:
In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing the Fourth Sunday of Advent; the decorations have been added in modern times
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata), with musical notation in black on a four-line staff in red., and Decoration: the parchment and writing appear to be from the sixteenth century, but the decoration was added in modern times; there is a 2-line initial "U" in blue, green, and purple on a gold ground and containing the figure of an angel striking a tambourine; foliage decorations in the same colors as the initial extend from the initial into the left margin; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a document related to Rovereto (?), diocese of Trent, transferring the debts that are owed to Nicolaus de Francinis
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Humanistic notarial script., and Decoration: the document begins with a 7-line initial "I" in brown; 1-line initials within the text are in brown; punctuated with the punctus, the comma, and the punctus versus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract for sale of property by Bernardino a Buscho to the monastery of St. Mark in Trent
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Italian notarial minuscule., and Decoration: the document begins with a 7-line initial "I" in brown; 1-line initials within the text are in brown; punctuated with the colon; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single late Beneventan hand, probably that of a nun, containing a collection of 27 prayers by Saint Thomas Aquinas and others for use at Mass
Description:
In Latin., Ff. 74v-75r contain 20 lines of a prayer: "O sacro sanctissimo ochino di pieta," in an Italic script., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., Script: late Beneventan miniscule., Decoration: Extensive. Many small capitals alternately blue and gold with penwork in red and purple. 30 three-line and rwo-line initials either in burnished gold with purple penwork or dark blue with red penwork; very large illuminated initial on opening page with leafy design and burnished gold outlined in red enclosing formal floral pattern, with full-length bar extending into upper and lower margins., Binding: 16th century limp parchment. Cover is made from a 15th-century portolan chart of part of the Adriatic coast of Apulia (Schøyen Collection title: Portolan map of the Adriatic Coast of Apulia in the kingdom of Napoli from Rinaldo south as far as Port Badisco, including Otranto and inland towns with little hills.) 230 mm x 160 mm (flattened). Lettering of portolan in small humanist hand., and Binding: green gilt quarter morocco folding case, Aquarius, 1995, with Schøyen Collection bookplate.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Portolan charts
Manuscript on parchment and paper of the Alfonsine Tables, a scientific work on astronomy, executed on parchment and decorated, but unfinished, to which paper leaves have been added at a not much later date, and the text completed, probably by a scholar
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: 1) ladder in a circle with star at top, two varieties, similar to Briquet 5920; 2) eagle displayed within a circle, similar to Briquet 203., Script: Four scribes have written the manuscript: (1) the professional, humanistic hand of the parchment section; (2) the rapid, partly illegible cursive hand of the paper leaves; (3) a late humanistic hand which has supplied "radices" in red and brown inks in the lower margins of ff. 33-38; (4) a hand that filled in the numerals on the whole of f. 63r and a part of f. 36v, distinguishable by his numeral "7"., In the parchment section, headlines and part of the writing in red (the sixth place in each table is outlined in yellow glair, except in the table on f. 57r, where the ninth, fifteenth, and twenty-first places are outlined in blues). Longitudinal spaces between columns of the tables in the parchment section, ff. 38v-42v, 53r, and 61r-70v, have been decorated with arabesque patterns of vines, leaves, and flowers in great variety and usually in differing combinations of glair and blue, but the work has been left unfinished toward the end of the section. No illustration., and Binding: Modern. Blue morocco, gilt, matching slipcase of straight-grained blue morocco, by R. Wallis, original gilt edges.