Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica.
Subject (Name):
Minucci, Minuccio,--1551-1604 and Sixtus--V,--Pope,--1520-1590
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), note on Lactantius, shortened version of Contra Faustum Manichaeum (CPL 321). 2) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine), note on Lactantius, shortened after Epistula 143.2-3. 3) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from Epistula 58.10. 4) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius (in fact on Origen), after Epistula 62.2. 5) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from De viris illustribus, 80 (CPL 616). 6) Table of Contents (list of chapters) of Divinae institutiones. 7) Firmianus Lactantius (d. c. 325), Divinae institutiones (CPL 85).
Description:
f. 138 excised. and Watermarks: (1) Lion rampant holding a sword and surmounted by a fleur de lis: Piccard, Wasserzeichen Raubtiere, 1699-1700 (1465-1466); (2) and (3) Mountain: var. Briquet 11702, 11709 (1440, 1466).
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of about 57 poems on religious subjects in various verse forms. The collection begins and ends with a pattern poem written in the shape of an altar: the first is titled "The Altar" and the last "Sinnes Sacrifice." The manuscript also contains several acrostic poems on the name of Christ; other poems include "The Lords Supper," "Baptism," "On Humilitie," and On Christ's Passion." The work is prefaced by a dedication to Sir William Saville and an acrostic poem based on his name.
Description:
Binding: parchment; gilt decoration., Dos-a-dos, in a different hand, a pastoral poem in iambic couplets about Daphnis and Lycidas., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and On title page: "By H: C: Philo-poeticus."
Subject (Name):
Colman, Henry.
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics., Concrete poetry., English literature--17th century., English poetry--17th century., Religious poetry, English., and Religious poetry, English--17th century.