Manuscript on paper of Annales Sanctae Iustinae. The Annals deal with the regional history of Lombardy and the March of Treviso, but also with world history and cover the years 1207-1270. With Mantissa. Notes on the history and buildings of Padua from its legendary foundation to the death of Petrarch (1374), together with some facts of general history, written as a supplement to the preceding text.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, pasteboard covered with brown paper, and white parchment; flat spine with black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “MONACHI / PADUANI / CHRONICON / MS.”; below this label an oval label in the same material., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., In the original parts of the Annals, pale red headings; pale red stroking of the majuscules and plain alternately pale red and black 2-line initials, either Gothic with some decoration, or slovenly-made Humanistic ones. The parts copied by the second scribe are undecorated., Script: The Annals are copied by a single scribe writing Italian Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence, using only vertical d. Mantissa, as well as replacement leaves in the preceding text, are copied by a ca. 1600 hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva., and The original part of the manuscript is soiled and waterstained. It had lost two leaves that were later replaced.
Subject (Geographic):
Lombardy (Italy)--History, Padua (Italy), and Treviso (Italy)--History
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history
Manuscript on paper of Renaissance poetry including: 1) Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli,1394-1471), Hermaphroditus. 2) Elegies on various subjects by the scarcely known Pompeius (Pazzalia) Bononiensis. 3) Basinius Parmensis (Basinio di Parma, 1425-1457), Liber Isottaeus. 4) Iohannes Marrasius (Giovanni Marrasio, 1405-c. 1457), Angelinetum. 5) Three poems by Carolus Marsuppinus (Carlo Marsuppini, 1398 [?]-1453). 6) Poems by Gregorius Tiphernus (Gregorio Tifernate, 1414-after 1462). 7) Poems by Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus (Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, 1426-1503), the final one here attributed to Iohannes Sagundinus (see also artt. 48-51). 8) Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (pope Pius II, 1405-1464) , Versus in MahumetumTurcorum regem. 9) Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus, Carmina. 10) Petrus Porcellius (Pietro Porcellio, 1450), Carmina. 11) Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli), Elegia ad Iohannem Lamolam. 12) Petrus Porcellius, Poem in praise of Alberto d'Este (d. 1502). 13) Poem by Antonius Panormitanus. 14) Poems by or attributed to Iohannes Sagundinus. 15) Pompeius Bononiensis, Carmina. 16) Prayer to Mercury, also found in San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca Guarneriana, MS 121, f. 81r. 17) Poem attributed to the emperor Hadrian. 18) Complaint on the decay of Rome. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, v. 6.5, no. 3*h, among the Inscriptiones falsae urbis Romae. 19) Funeral inscription. With short poems by various others.
Description:
4° folding. The s. XVII foliation is erroneous:it has ff. 55 and 55bis, 89 and 89bis, 96 and 96bis, and 118 and 118bis. Damaged by waterstains and tears., 7 postliminary leaves, 17th century binder's blanks, not digitized., Binding: Eighteenth century. Limp parchment with remains of two ties. Handwritten title on the spine: "Elegiae / nonnu/llorum / doctorum"., Headings and initials in brown, pale red, and blue., and Script: Copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Renaissance--Italy
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an illuminated leaf from an Antiphonary.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence.
Description:
Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., Layout: single column of text., Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2014 July 8, lot 48) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., and Script: gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Netherlands--Religious life and customs--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Dutch, Jesus Christ--Passion--Art, Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayers and devotions, Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, and Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library