Franciosini, Lorenzo. Dialogos apazibles compuestos en Castellano y traduzidos en Toscano. 1707
Subject (Topic):
Italian language --Dialects --Italy --Tuscany, Italian language --Grammar --1500-1800, Spanish language --Conversation and phrase books --Italian, and Spanish language --Grammar --1500-1800
Manuscript on paper (polished) of Cecco d'Ascoli (Francesco Stabili), L'Acerba, Bks. 1-4 with the final 214 lines of Bk. 4 and all of the fragmentary Bk. 5 missing.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays adhered inside and outside of quires. Backs of quires cut in for original sewing. Bookblock tacketed to a semi-limp paper case, reinforced at the spine. Handwritten paper label with title and a printed medallion with Flora (?) standing on an anchor and globe (?), both on spine., Blue initial, 6-line, with nice penwork designs, f. 1r. Smaller initials, 2-line, red with purple designs or blue with red designs, alternate throughout. Headings in pale red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Later addition of arms in lower margin, f. 1r, effaced and covered with mending strips., Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in mercantesca script, above top line., and Watermarks: unidentified cherries (?) in upper margin, trimmed.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1600, Italian poetry--To 1400, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Fol. 310, blank, wanting; several ff. are blank on one side., Manuscript note on fly-leaf: "E. Burne-Jones. MDCCC-LXXXIV. London.", Red straight grain morocco binding, gilt; bound by Bozerian, according to a penciled note on fly-leaf., With Sir Edward Burne-Jones' book-plate, and another book-plate, unidentified (armorial, motto: "Amantibvs ivstitiam pietatem fidem")., and Woodcut illustrations, mostly full-page; printer's device at end; capital spaces with guide-letters; initial on fol. a₂a supplied in ink.