Education, Medieval, Latin language--Composition and exercises, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and School notebooks
Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Medieval, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and School notebooks
Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Dati, Sfera. With 10 maps and views in watercolor and 18 colored circular diagrams, a Libro di ricordi 1422-1424, sermons, portions of Brunetto Latini's Il Tesoro, "prognostication," a "Portolano," and three sonnets.
Description:
Wanting ff. 43, 45.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Leonardo,--1408-1472 and Latini, Brunetto,--1220-1295
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Charts, diagrams, etc, Early maps, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Italian
Manuscript on paper containing 1) A short commentary on Mt. 23:2, against those who wrongly interpret the Scriptures and against simoniacs. 2) Simone Fidati da Cascia OESA (c. 1280-1348), L'ordine della vita cristiana. 3) Italian poetry: (a) Sonnet attributed to Dante (1265-1321); (b) attributed to Petrarch (1304-1374); (c) Dante, Divina Commedia, Inferno 34.1-12 (not a sonnet); (d) Sonnet by Antonio Pucci (1309-1388; often attributed to Domenico di Giovanni, called Burchiello, 1404-1449), Carboni, Incipitario, 785.
Description:
Binding: Early quarter binding, undecorated ... leather and beech boards. Spine with three raised bands and remnants of a printed paper title label: "[Tr]attato / della Vit[a] / Cristian[a] / di F. / Simone / da Casci[a]". Remnants of one clasp, attached to the rear board. On the front board the large 18th century (?) pressmark written in black ink "25.", In art. 2 red headings, heightening of majuscules and 2- or 3-line plain initials in the same colour, with guide letters; some initials have a slight penwork decoration. The additional texts are not decorated., Original foliation in Arabic numerals. Quires strengthened at inner and outer sides by means of parchments stays, cut from an erased manuscript., and Script: Art. 2 is copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Formata (Cancelleresca). The scribe Agniolo Donati is unrecorded. A slightly later hand copied the additional art. 1 in Gothica Cursiva Libraria. Art. 3 was added by a hand writing a rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens difficult to decipher.
Subject (Name):
Simone Fidati,--da Cascia,--d. 1348
Subject (Topic):
Bible--N.T.--Matthew, Christian literature, Italian, Italian poetry--To 1400, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431 Festus, Sextus Pompeius, 2nd cent Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1064
Image Count:
384
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Sextus Pompeius Festus (s. II2), De verborum significatione, epitome by Paulus Diaconus (Eighth Century). 2) Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona, 1374-1460), De vocabulorum observatione (Lexicon Servianum). 3) Gasparinus Barzizius Pergamensis (Gasparino Barzizza, c. 1360-1431), De orthographia (alphabetical part; see art. 4). 4) Gasparinus Barzizius, De orthographia (systematic part), incomplete.
Description:
Binding: Parchment wrappers with turned edges., Contemporary pagination contains some errors., Red stroking of majuscules on pp. 1-11, 22-31, 44-51, 64-73, 88-93 only.There is ample space for headings and initials (with guide letters), but they have not been executed, except headings in Gothica Textualis on pp. 46, 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; plain red Gothic initials (4 lines) on pp. 46 , 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; a few initials have been entered at a later date., and Script: Copied by two scribes: artt. 1-3 copied by a scribe called Stephanus in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; according to Barbero this scribe is perhaps identifiable with Stefano Guarnieri; art. 4 is by a scribe writing a script halfway between Humanistica Textualis Libraria and Cursiva Libraria. The opening majuscules of paragraphs protrude into the margin.
Subject (Topic):
Italian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library