- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1435]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 6
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a private compilation. The two well known works entered into the codex deal with magical properties ascribed to certain gems and the supernatural significance of the carving of stones. Together with these formal texts are found other extremely varied materials: procedures for restoring wine which has suffered various accidents, for making glass of different colors, for the early ripening of grapes, for making an ass bray loudly, for frightening dogs, and so forth
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Watermark: unidentified flower-petal., Script: Probably written by a single hand, employing a Gothico antiqua on ff. 1-11r, with a less formal treatment of the same elsewhere, and more cursive writing for the passages in Italian; the writing relatively careful at the beginning, progressively less so until the end., Red ink for most headings, red capitals and paragraph marks, except on f. 11v-12r and 16v-17r, which are without color., Lower margins affected by damp throughout and partly repaired with blank paper., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper boards, more recent gilt-stamped label on backstrip.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Magic, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1399]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1026
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Apocryphal Gospel Books and Miracles of the Virgin, including 1) Evangelium infantiae; 2) Liber passionis et resurrectionis Iesu Christi; 3) miracle legends about the Virgin
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Copied by two scribes. Hand 1, the notary Franciscus Salvator (Francesco Salvatore) from Ventimiglia, copied artt. 1-4 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Mercantesca). Hand 2 copied artt. 5-6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca)., Decoration: Long red headings up to f. 29r (artt. 1-2). In artt. 3-4, space for headings was provided, but they were not executed. Space was reserved for 2-line initials, but these were not executed. Artt. 4 and 5 are undecorated; there are no guide letters for the 1-line initials at the opening of each of these articles, for which space was reserved., and Binding: 20th century, brown leather and wooden boards. Spine has three raised bands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bible
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Apocryphal Gospel Books and Miracles of the Virgin
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 398
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks: unidentified mountain) and parchment (inner and outer bifolios, of poor quality) of Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus; translated into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by three persons in round gothic script: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-33v (except f. 8, replaced in 16th century); Scribe 2, ff. 33v-36v; Scribe 3; ff. 37r-74r. In portions written by Scribes 1 and 2 some elaborate ascenders and descenders in upper and lower margins, touched with red., Initials, 3- to 2-line, in red or blue, sometimes with red penwork. Rubrics throughout. Initial added [date?], f. 2v, to replace one removed: blue, with leafy filler in green outline, and foliage extending down margin and across top and bottom of column, drawn in green, red, and blue., Initial removed from f. 2v; leaf was then reinforced with paper covering f. 2r, col. b (blank). Lower margins of ff. 1, 33 and 37 cut off., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum spine and fore-edge strip with marbled paper sides. Label on spine: "Donne Illust. del Boccacc. MS".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De claris mulieribus
- Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Published / Created:
- [between 1385 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 428
- Image Count:
- 177
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dante Alighieri, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata. 2) Bosone de' Raffaelli da Gubbio, "Capitolo" on the Divine Comedy, in 64 terzine. 3) Iacopo Alighieri, "Divisione" of the Divine Comedy in 50 terzine (thus of the B group).
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in round gothic script., Very fine initials and borders. Three historiated initials, each with a personification with attributes. Each initial with a full border of fleshy acanthus, blue, orange, olive green, pink, grey and gold, with tooling; birds in lower margin of ff. 1r and 54r; on f. 1r a coat-of-arms, in lower margin: azure, a chevron or, between two roses in chief argent, a mount of 6 in base argent, probably of the Bini family, Florence. 3-line initials, red or blue, with mauve or red penwork with long intricate flourishes often extending the length of the page. Opening text of Inferno adjacent to the initial of f. 1r in display capitals with penwork panels in brown ink. Capitals on the beginning of each stanza stroked in yellow. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on five double supports attached to wooden boards. The spine is square with well defined bands and red and green endbands. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled in mudejar style in two sets of concentric frames; DO.IOAN.DE gold-tooled in the center of one, BORGA in the other. Trace of two fastenings. Gilt edges. Restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. and Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Divina commedia
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- 1415, [between 1300 and 1369]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 222
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, written in two stages. Part II was copied in the mid-14th century (before 1369) in Tuscany, possibly in Pisa. Part I was copied by Niccolo di Giovanni Cinuzi da Siena in Ferrara, Italy, by 1 Sept. 1415. Part I: Boccaccio, Filostrato. Part II: Articles 2-35 and 38-39 consist of a collection of Italian canzoni by various authors as well as anonymous poems. Artt. 36 and 37 are fragments of Petrarch, Rerum vulgarum
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Monts 11678. Part II: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3737., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-78v): Written by a single scribe in a bold upright notarial script. Part II (ff. 91r-110v): Written in a clear notarial script by a single scribe; later writers have added the initials, offset in margins, for the major sections of text (sometimes inaccurately) and the notes on ff. 109v-110v., Crude drawings include a falconer with birds, f. 103v, and a ghost (?), f. 103r., The pattern of stains suggests the two parts were originally bound separately. Stained throughout; some ink blotches affect text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Red-brown, gold-tooled label. Parchment reinforcements between quires.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Filostrato, etc
- Creator:
- Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 679
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: main text copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Capitals and headings in red in main text. Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r., and Binding: S. XX binding: plain parchment over cardboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber marescalcia equorum
- 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):
- Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Merchant's commonplace book