Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV"., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., Imperfect: Some worming at end of volume with slight loss of text., In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Strambotto
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Edizione nazionale dei manoscritti e dei disegni di Leonardo da Vinci
Description:
BEIN 1994 +59: Copy no. 386 signed by a notary in prospectus to v.1. "La presente opera ... è stata impressa per tutto il mondo in 998 esemplari numerati 1-998 et 25 esemplari fuori commercio numerati I-XXV"--Prospectus to case 1. Supplementary text v. in English accompanying C, H, and M are wanting from Beinecke copy. Propsectus laid in each case., Each case contains a ms. in facsim. and a text vol. containing critical and diplomatic transcriptions in parallel columns; mss. A and B contain an additional facsim. ms., Manuscripts C, H, and M are accompanied by a supplementary text vol. in English., and Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Publisher:
Giunti Barbèra
Subject (Name):
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 and Institut de France.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Edizione nazionale dei manoscritti e dei disegni di Leonardo da Vinci
Description:
BEIN 1994 +59: Copy no. 386 signed by a notary in prospectus to v.1. "La presente opera ... è stata impressa per tutto il mondo in 998 esemplari numerati 1-998 et 25 esemplari fuori commercio numerati I-XXV"--Prospectus to case 1. Supplementary text v. in English accompanying C, H, and M are wanting from Beinecke copy. Propsectus laid in each case., Each case contains a ms. in facsim. and a text vol. containing critical and diplomatic transcriptions in parallel columns; mss. A and B contain an additional facsim. ms., Manuscripts C, H, and M are accompanied by a supplementary text vol. in English., and Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Publisher:
Giunti Barbèra
Subject (Name):
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 and Institut de France.
Manuscript on paper of Francesco Mercati da Bibbiena, Il Sensale. Commedia, with the musical Intermezzi dealing with the Ages of the World by Tommaso Soderini. With a survey of the characters of the play.
Description:
Binding: original (?) quarter cardboard binding, the spine in stained parchment., Mis-foliated; no folio 31., Script: one scribe, writing a sloping cursive Humanistic script., and Some outer or upper margins (ff. 12, 27), and on f. 1 the outer lower corner, are defective, causing the loss of small text parts. The leaves are stained (ff. 20-21 especially), and the paper is badly damaged by the corrosive ink.
Subject (Name):
Mercati, Francesco
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor.
Description:
Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”., Recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 4 is copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of articles 2-3 are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 5 is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The tables of article 23 are traced in black ink.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Medieval--Italy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of part of a collection of letters by Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli, 1394-1471), written during his teaching at the Studio of Pavia, 1429-1434.
Description:
2-line plain red initials with guide letters in the margin. Red stroking of the majuscule following an initial., Binding: Unbound., Foliated 11-20. Wanting ff. 1-10., and Script: Copied by one hand in a wide Gothica Hybrida Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Epigrams, Italian, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
ff. 64-69 lined but otherwise blank. Not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Catherine,--of Alexandria, Saint and Sylvester--I,--Pope,--d. 335
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Devotional literature, Italian, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Printed items include a broadside for a 1718 production of "Lo Scanderbeg", by Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Serantoni; a "Descrizione, e Tabella dei Palchi del nuovo teatro di via della Pergola" dated 6 June, 1755; and an "Avviso" concerning the costs of the 1787 renovation. and The papers consist of letters, memoranda, expense accounts, notarial documents, copies of contracts with impresarios, and printed broadsides documenting the theatrical activities of the Accademia degli Immobili in the eighteenth century. Many of the documents are connected to Francesco or Giuseppe Frescobaldi, and relate to their administrative duties for the Accademia. The collection includes extensive documentation of performance contracts, expenditures, and payment disputes for productions of several works by Metastasio and others; an account of expenditures for the Carnival season of 1752-53; and of the extensive renovations of the Teatro della Pergola in 1755 and 1787.
Description:
Ex libris Giannalisa Feltrinelli. Purchased from Robin Halwas on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1999., Most bound in contemporary vellum over paper boards, with goatskin tie., and The Accademia degli Immobili was founded under the patronage of Cardinal Giovanni Carlo de' Medici in 1649 for the promotion of drama, music, and dance. Revived under the protection of Giovanni Gastone de' Medici in the early eighteenth century, the Accademia reorganized, taking full possession of the Teatro della Pergola and establishing it as a theater for public performances of operas and musical spectacles.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History--1737-1860
Subject (Name):
Accademia degli Immobili, Feltrinelli, Giannalisa--Bookplate., and Frescobaldi family
Subject (Topic):
Impresarios--Italy, Italian drama--18th century, Opera--Italy--18th century, Theater management--Italy, and Theater--Italy--Florence