- Creator:
- Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517
- Published / Created:
- 1534.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 686
- Image Count:
- 80
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Antonio de Ferrariis (called himself Galateo after his birthplace, d. 1517), De situ Iapygiae. His work is a geographical, historical, epigraphical and literary description of Iapygia, i.e. the Southeastern part of Italy (now Apulia).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Three scribes, all writing Humanistica Cursiva: hand A copied ff. 1r-20v, 24v-26v, 31r-36r line 10, 36v last three lines (Libraria); hand B copied ff. 21r-24r, 27r-30v (Currens); hand C copied f. 36r line 10-36v, except the last three lines (Currens under Gothic influence)., No decoration., Water stains. Some pages badly damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: The damaged covers of the original binding are mounted on the new binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled, featuring two square frames bordered by fillets and rolls.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Puglia (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De situ Iapygiae
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 720
- Image Count:
- 677
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (various sizes and qualities) of a collection of notes and documents mostly related to Italian cities, dioceses and abbeys; Eastern churches and monasticism; and Central Europe; but containing also saints' lives, poetry, letters, archaeological treatises, etc
- Description:
- In Latin, Italian, French and Greek., Script: many different hands writing Humanistica Cursiva or Gothica Cursiva, sometimes in careful, but mostly in rapid execution., A few pen and ink drawings., Composed of numerous detached pieces (numbered and occasionally annotated by an English hand (1890-1900)), in various hands, some original, but mostly copies of documents and manuscript books, and often almost illegible due to the use of acid ink or the cursivity of the script. Many blank pages; many (blank?) leaves got lost after the codex was foliated., and Binding: 18th century (?). Quarter parchment over pasteboard, the covers in marbled paper. Flat spine gold-tooled, with red leather label carrying gold-tooled inscription "MANUSCRIT. / 16. SIÈCLE".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
- Subject (Topic):
- Eastern churches, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellany
- Creator:
- Eickstedt, Valentin von
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 99
- Image Count:
- 1047
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy and rough) of 1) Valentin von Eickstedt, Pommersche Chronik, in German. Contains descriptions of some cities of Pomerania, genealogy of the Dukes of Pomerania, and the Chronicle proper. Written by Valentin von Eickstedt (1527-79) in 1574. 2) Funeral orations for the Dukes of Pomerania (in Latin), by Daniel Cramer (1568-1637), Lutheran theologian and archdeacon of Stettin
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Watermarks: an unidentified letter Z in two concentric circles., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic cursive and italic script., Headings of gothic textura, square capitals, and a large humanistic script, in reddish brown, green, and black., and Binding: Nineteenth century, after 1861. Brown goatskin Jansenist binding by Chambolle-Duru (Paris).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Germany, and Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Cramer, Daniel. and Eickstedt, Valtentin von.
- Subject (Topic):
- German literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, History, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pommersche chronik, etc