Manuscript on paper of a group of shorter works by Christopher of Paris (pseudonym), probably a Venetian alchemist. With John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown calf, the covers blind-ruled to a rectangular pattern, the large center rectangle diagonally ruled to a lozenge pattern, a single quatrefoil impressed in blind in each of the rectangles and lozenges so formed, edges partly renewed and rebacked in the style of the period of the binding with compartments formed by three double raised bands, a gold stamped title label in the second compartment from top reading: "CHRISTOPHE | DE PARIS | - | RUPESCISSA | MANUSCRIPTS | ITALY | 15TH C". The endpapers are modern insertions, though of old paper, and the binding, while of the period of the manuscript, probably had no original connection with this codex., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 45, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Italian and Latin., No headlines, headings and some capitals in pale red., Script: Written by a single scribe in a late humanistic cursive hand sloping slightly to the right., and Watermarks: 1) anchor with ring atop the shank, all within a circle; 2) plain and ill-drawn anchor with thick flukes, the top of the shank forming a small, neat cross with the short stock. Both probably Italian papers, not directly comparable to the varieties illustrated by Briquet.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Alcune composizioni di diversi autori in lode del ritratto della Sabina and Alcvne composizioni di diversi avtori in lode del ritratto della Sabina
Description:
Dedication signed by the compiler, Michelagnolo Sermartelli., Illustrated collection of verses in praise of Giambologna's sculpture, the Rape of a Sabine, by Bernardo Vecchietti and others., Illustrations: 3 large woodcuts showing the sculpture from two angles as well as its position in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence., Imperfect: damp-stained and foxed. Unidentified bookplate. Blindstamp: Ex libris Giannalisa Feltrinelli. Latin verses written in a contemporary hand below the woodcuts of the sculpture., and Signatures: *⁴ A-G⁴ (G4 blank).
Publisher:
Nella stamperia di Bartolomeo Sermartelli,
Subject (Name):
Feltrinelli, Giannalisa--Stamp., Giambologna,--1529-1608.--Rape of a Sabine--Poetry., Sermartelli, Bartolomeo, fl. 1563-1600., Sermartelli, Michelangelo., and Vecchietti, Bernardo.
Manuscript in an Italic hand of a satirical allegory on the events of the Russo-Turkish war, in which the various sovereigns are represented by animal figures. A key to the allegory follows the poem. The manuscript also includes a sonnet based on verse by Voltaire and a longer poem satirically comparing a poor student to a herring.
Description:
Purchased from Bennett Gilbert on the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mokarski Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Voltaire, 1694-1778--Influence
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Italian poetry--18th century, Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792, and Verse satire, Italian
Description based on: Anno 1, n. 1; title from caption., From the collection of Peter Eisenman. Mailing Label: De Stil Arte Costruttivisti, Dir. Theo Van Doesburg., and Latest issue consulted: Anno 1, n. 1.
Publisher:
Stab. Tip. Cavenaghi e Pinelli,
Subject (Name):
Doesburg, Theo van,--1883-1931--Ownership and Eisenman, Peter--Ownership