Manuscript on paper of Servius, De centum metris. With Brief notes on accents followed by Latin word list with Italian equivalents.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum stays outside the quires. Paste-paper case in shades of deep purple., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: unidentified quadruped in gutter.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--4th cent
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Dell' idea dello scriuere, Dell' idea dello scrivere , and Dell'idea dello scrivere
Description:
Engraved throughout, except for letterpress dedication., Imperfect: several leaves with minor repairs. Inscribed on t.p.: Constat. G. Jul[...]., and Imprint taken from dedication (leaf [2]).
Manuscript on paper of a number of ascetical treatises and prayers, including: 1) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Octo versus. 2) Andrea da Pistoia, Epistola a un amico. 3) Aegidius O.S.B. (frate Gillio), Liber virtutum.
Description:
Binding: unbound., Manuscript on paper of a number of ascetical treatises and prayers, including: 1) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Octo versus. 2) Aegidius O.S.B. (frate Gillio), De aedificatione animae, or Liber virtutum, translated from Latin into Venetian and from Venetian into Tuscan. 3) Andrea da Pistoia O.P., Epistola a un amico. (Perhaps the author is to be identified with Andreas Franchi de Pistorio (1335-1401)). 4) Prayers ascribed to St. Augustine. 5) The Apostles' Creed as supposed to be jointly composed by the twelve Apostles; the Seven Sacraments; the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit; the Seven Virtues; the Seven Mortal Sins; the Ten Commandments; the Works of Charity; the Ten Impediments of Penance; the Fifteen Signs announcing the Last Judgment. 6) Prayer to the Virgin., and Script: the main section (articles 2-5) is copied by a single hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the headings in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 6 is in Semitextualis under Hybrida influence; the two final Latin quotations in a large decorative impure Textualis Formata. Article 1 in small rapid Italian Hybrida, the Latin Psalm verses in a larger and more formal form of the same script, with large opening majuscules. In the main section headings and stroking of majuscules in red; 1- and 2-line plain red initials half inserted, with large guide letters in the margin; a 3-line similar initial on f. 2r. Article 1 opens with an outline initial in black, art. 6 with a large initial with interior reserved space, placed in the margin.
Subject (Name):
Andrea da Pistoia
Subject (Topic):
Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Virtue--Early works to 1800
The text includes a description of funeral decorations, including the catafalque.
Alternative Title:
Esequie d' Anna Maria Maurizia d'Austria cristianissima regina di Francia, Esequie della regina di Francia., Eseqvie d' Anna Maria Mavrizia d'Avstria cristianissima regina di Francia, Eseqvie d'Anna Maria Mavrizia d'Avstria cristianissima regina di Francia, Eseqvie d'Anna Maria Mavrizia d'Avstria., and Eseqvie della regina di Francia
Description:
Illustrations: one large, folded, engraved plate depicting a catafalque designed by Ferdinando Tacca, engraved by Adriaen Haelwegh after Jacopo Chiavistelli., No. 1 of 2 works bound together., Signatures: A-K⁴ (K3v, K4 blank)., and The text includes a description of funeral decorations, including the catafalque.
Publisher:
Nella stamp. di S.A.S.,
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Anne,--Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France,--1601-1666--Death and burial., Chiavistelli, Jacopo, 1621-1698., Ferdinando--II,--Grand-Duke of Tuscany,--1610-1670., Haelwegh, Adriaen, b. ca. 1637., Stamperia di S.A.S., printer., and Tacca, Ferdinando, 1619-1686.
Subject (Topic):
Funeral decorations--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800. and Funeral rites and ceremonies--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on paper, in a number of hands, containing a variety of religious and devotional texts, many related to the Franciscan order. Contents include lives of Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, and Anthony of Padua; a poem on the day of judgement in ottava rima; lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary in Italian; writings of St. Bridget of Sweden in Italian; an account of the dedication of St. Lawrence's cathedral in Genoa; St. Anselm's Miracles of the Virgin; and two itineraries of visits to the Holy Land.
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 21). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 69) on the T. Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, Binding: modern full red leather., and Modern binder's blanks (ii + ii) not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Description of the two ceremonies for the funeral of Felice Sandoval Enriquez held in the S. Maria della Scala Church of Milan on 12 and 26 October, 1671.
Alternative Title:
Gloriae theatrum dicatum excellentissimae Dominae D. Felici Sandovaliae Henriquiae, Ucedae Duci extinctae, Gloriae Theatrvm Dicatum Excellentissimae Dominae D. Felici Sandovaliae Henriqviae, Vcedae Dvci Extinctae, Teatro della gloria consagrato all'eccellentissima Signora D. Felice Sandoual Enriquez, duchessa d'Vceda defonta, and Teatro della gloria consagrato all'eccellentissima Signora D. Felice Sandoval Enriquez, dvchessa d'Vceda defonta
Description:
Added t.p. in Italian, which reads: Teatro della gloria consagrato all'eccellentissima Signora D. Felice Sandoual Enriquez, duchessa d'Vceda defonta, dall'eccellentissimo Signore D. Gaspar Tellez Giron duca d'Ossuna, conte d'Vregna, gouernatore dello stato di Milano, e capitan generale in Italia, nelle solenni esequie di essa, celebrate in Milano, l'anno 1671, à 26. di ottobre., Description of the two ceremonies for the funeral of Felice Sandoval Enriquez held in the S. Maria della Scala Church of Milan on 12 and 26 October, 1671., Errata: p. [231]., Illustrations: 10 prints on folded leaves : etching ; plate mark ca. 64 x 52 cm. or smaller. Seven by G.A. Besozzi, G.B. Bonacina or Cesare Fiori after Fiori, who designed the decorations, architecture and funeral machinery; 1 drawn and etched by Besozzi; 2 unsigned (plans). Include ports. (allegorical, with coat of arms) of the deceased and her spouse, exterior and interior decorations of the church of Santa Maria della Scala, Milan, the catafalque, and 2 plans, 1 with figures., Latin and Italian in parallel columns., and Signatures: pi² A-2F⁴.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Milan (Italy)--Kings and rulers--Biography.
Subject (Name):
Besozzi, Giovanni Ambrogio, 1648-1706., Bonacina, Giovanni Battista., Fiori, Cesare, 1636-1702., S. Maria della Scala (Church : Milan, Italy)., Sandoval Enriquez, Felice,--duquesa de Uceda,--d. 1671--Death and burial., and Téllez Girón, Gaspar,--duque de Osuna,--1625-1694.
Subject (Topic):
Funeral decorations--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., Funeral rites and ceremonies--Italy--Milan--Early works to 1800., and Nobility--Spain--Biography.
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:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV"., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., Imperfect: Some worming at end of volume with slight loss of text., In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Strambotto
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527 Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 50-1515, printer
Published / Created:
mense decembri 1499.
Call Number:
Zi +5574
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Description:
Sometimes attributed to Leon Battista Alberti., Variant: Folio z6r ends "diaspre di". Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford., and Woodcuts have been attributed to Giovanni Bellino due to the ones on [10b] and [21a] being signed "b." Others have attributed them to Raffaelle. Alexander Pope thought them by Francia or Andrea de Mantegna. Lake Price attributed them to Carpaccio. Used by others without acknowledgement.
Frontispiece t.p. signed Phil.o Biffo Inuent.te e scul.re.
Alternative Title:
Impetus doloris Excell. Princ. D. Ant. Trivulzio praepropera morte sublato praepropere funere parentatis and Impetus doloris Excellentissimo Principi Don Antonio Trivulzio praepropera morte sublato praepropere funere parentatis
Description:
Caption title: All'adolorata nobilità e generosa gioventu nella morte dell'eccell.mo sig.r prencipe don Antonio Triuulzio., Final [3] p. blank., Frontispiece t.p. signed Phil.o Biffo Inuent.te e scul.re. Three folded plates signed Phil.o Biffo diss.o and Simone Durello fece, one of which has caption: La mole funerale et apparato sontuoso, fatto nella Chiesa Collegiata di S.to Steffano magg.re per l'eseguie dell'Ecc.mo Prencip D. Antonio Teodoro Triuultio, d'inuentione dell'ingegn.re Gio. Domenico Ricchino, architetto regio. The concluding 16 plates of emblematic plaques, Sim. Durello F., Imprint from colophon., and Signature: [A]⁴.
Publisher:
Per Giuseppe Ambrogio Maietta ...,
Subject (Name):
Biffi, Filippo., Durello, Simone, 1641-1719., Maietta, Giuseppe Ambrogio, Ricchino, Giovanni Domenico,--d. ca. 1700., and Trivulzio, Antonio Teodoro,--d. 1678--Death and burial.
Subject (Topic):
Emblems--Italy--Early works to 1800. and Memorial rites and ceremonies--Italy--Milan.
Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor.
Description:
Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”., Recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 4 is copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of articles 2-3 are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 5 is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The tables of article 23 are traced in black ink.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Medieval--Italy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library