Dedication to Pius IV in Latin; all other text in Italian., Engraved title page; architectural border with portrait of Vignola., First issued in 1562; second issue 1563? with the thirty-two plates and without date or place of publication., Imperfect: ownership inscription rubbed from title page. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., and Three states of the first edition exist. None have publication dates or place; The first is the dedication copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence; the second state has a five line printed addition on the preface leaf, and additional printed annotations on plates 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 24 and 25; the third state has an additional 5 plates. Cf. Walcher Casotti.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800 and Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800
Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio Giovanni, dalle Celle, ca. 1310-ca. 1396
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 759
Image Count:
416
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio (Bartholomaeus Pisanus O.P., 1262-1347), Summa de casibus conscientiae (Kaeppeli 436), also called Summa Bartolina, Pisana, Pisanella, Magistrutia), translated into Italian by Iohannes de Cellis (Giovanni dalle Celle, 1310-1394 or 1400). With a preface by the translator, explaining why he has abandoned the alphabetical organization of the original text.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Parchment over cardboard. Spine with three raised bands and handwritten title: “Somma / del / Maestruccio / MS.” Two white leather ties. Paper endleaves., Paragraph marks and headings in red. Space and guide letters for 3-line initials (4-line f. 1r, art. 1; 5-line f. 2r, art. 3), which have not been executed., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria with single-compartment a.
Subject (Name):
Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
One woodcut depicts two men on a flying horse above a castle with a king and queen below; the queen holds a laurel wreath.
Alternative Title:
Valentin et Orson (French romance). English
Description:
Many signature marks omitted or misprinted. From the collection of Richard Heber, One of two known copies; the other, imperfect, in the British Museum. Manuscript notes in the hand of Richard Heber mounted on end paper.
BEIN Lbf48 L3 570a: Imperfect: Last [1] at end wanting, colophon has been trimmed and mounted on flyleaf. Booksellers label: The Brick Row Print and Book Shop, New Haven, Conn., Signatures: [pointing hand]² B-T⁴., The editor's dedicatory epistle signed: Margaret Ascham., and With a final colophon leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by Iohn Daye ...,
Subject (Name):
Ascham, Margaret, ed. and Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Education--Early works to 1800. and Latin language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.