Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum). 2) Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand.
Description:
According to a note in library files, the manuscript was purchased from B. M. Rosenthal via L. C. Witten in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. On spine: "Liber Bellial" and "Codex Ms. Saec. XV"., Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r. Plain initials, 10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) in red throughout., and Script: Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Palladinus, Jacobus
Subject (Topic):
Athanasian Creed, Christian literature, Latin, Consolation--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
Description:
Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
BEIN ZZi 1980: F. 218 wanting. Initials painted in blue, red and gold, and first printed folio ornamented with painted border. Running titles painted in red. A few worm-holes and water-stains. Bound in boards covered with stamped leather.
Radziwiłł, Mikołaj Krzysztof, książę, 1549-1616
Published / Created:
[Sept. 4 1563]
Call Number:
1987 Folio 7
Image Count:
10
Alternative Title:
Bible. Polish. Radziwiłł. 1563.
Description:
BEIN: Beinecke copy imperfect: blank leaf [8] (1st count) wanting; leaves [7] (1st count) and 1-148 (2nd count) wormed with slight damage to text; leaves 75 (2nd count) and 313 torn and leaves 142 and 143 (4th count) mutilated and repaired with slight damage to text. (1987 Folio 7), BEIN: In the Beinecke Library copy. 2*⁶ is bound at end. (1987 Folio 7), Imprint information from colophon; date of publication expressed in Polish words in colophon., Includes index., Leaves [8] (1st count), [1] (3rd count) and [8] at end blank., Leaves printed on both sides., and Signatures: *⁸ 2*⁶ A-5D⁶ 5E⁴, ²A-2B⁶.
Publisher:
Drukowano w Brześćiu Litewskim z roskazánia á nakłádem ... Páná Mikoláiá Rádziwiłá, kśiązęciá ná Ołycey ná Nieświezu Woiewody Wilénskiego ...,