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- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 327
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Merchant's commonplace book
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1650]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 717
- Image Count:
- 225
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- , commonplaces, recipes etc. This is followed by
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Various scribes, mostly writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens difficult to decipher. Some parts are written by a more calligraphic hand, especially the original parts of artt. 4, 6 and 7., There is no decoration., The paper badly damaged by the acid ink, often impairing legibility. Some texts much faded., and Binding: Modern blue paper wrappers; on the spine a paper label with the printed inscription "ITALIAN MISCELLANY. MS. c. 1650".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Senigallia (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Italian
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellany
4.
- Published / Created:
- [after 1457]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 48
- Image Count:
- 510
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti
- Description:
- In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Strambotto
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanistic commonplace book
