Manuscript on paper (trimmed) of Aristoteles, Oeconomica, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni
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In Latin., Watermark: bird (Briquet 12127?)., The main scribe (artt. 1-2) writes Gothica Hybrida (often close to Gothica Semitextualis) Libraria under strong Humanistic influence, visible in the use of Roman Capitals and straight s in final position., Space and partly guide-letters for a few initials were provided but the decoration is missing. In the space for the first initial (f. 1r) a coat of arms (silver, with a bend gules) was afterwards drawn., and Binding: Twentieth century. Half brown leather over pasteboard, the covers covered with brown paper. On the spine the gold-tooled title "ARISTOTLE . OECONOMICA . MS. 15TH CENT.".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle. and Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Copy of passage omitted from Institutiones VII.9 and supplied in a later hand. 2) Prefatory material. 3) Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII. 4) Lactantius, De Opificio Dei. 5) Lactantius, De Ira Dei
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In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a "fractured" gothic script. Marginal notations by several later writers, one of whom made extensive corrections to the text and added Latin translations for the Greek passages., Ten neat gold initials, 9- to 8-line, infilled and surrounded by white vinework on blue, pale green, and pale red grounds, with white dots and pale yellow highlights (ff. 9r, 33v, 53v, 77r, 100r, 119v, 144r, 163r, 163v, 177v). Greek quotations in red (only for ff. 1r-88r). Capitals and paragraph marks, alternating red and blue for ff. 2r-8v., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf case, gold- and blind-tooled with interesting pictorial tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.
Subject (Topic):
Apologies, Christian literature, Latin, Church history, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico; Commentarii de Bello Civili; De Bello Alexandrino; De Bello Africo; and De Bello Hispaniensis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small elegant humanistic bookhand., Fine initials, gold capitals, 9- to 5- line, edged in yellow, filled with white-vine ornament, on blue, green, and red ground, decorated with yellow dots. Headings in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Wound sewing on four slit straps. Colored beaded endbands sewn onto cores of tawed skin laced and nailed into wooden boards. All edges gilt. The sewing straps are laced through tunnels in the edges of the boards and nailed in channels on the outside, protruding well above the face. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with an eight-pointed star and corners filled in with rope-tool interlace interspersed with copper-colored dots, in a border of rectangular tools. Four catches on the lower board and stubs of red cloth (velvet?) straps lined with parchment held to the upper with star headed nails
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius.
Subject (Topic):
Latin prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
In Latin., Script: Written in italic script by Piero Cennini (b. 1444)., Fine border and initials by Mariano del Buono. 3/4 white-vine border, f. 2r, infilled green, pink, and blue, against a blue ground, with white dots; putti and birds; at the periphery, flowers, gold dots, and hair-spray, especially profuse in lower margin; supported by a trellis, gold, which expands at regular intervals to form roundels. In upper margin, a blossom with fruits, in lower margin, in separate roundels, a hound chasing a stag, against deep landscape backgrounds. Between roundels with animals, the arms of Joannes Vitez, bishop of Gran, in a complex braided roundel, infilled green and blue with white and yellow filigree, and supported by four putti, two of which play musical instruments. One historiated initial, f. 1r, gold, Cicero reading a book, against a blue ground with stylized clouds, all against a green ground with yellow filigree. Thirty-two 7-, 6-, 5-, and 3-line initials, gold, with white-vine infilled green, pink, and blue, with white dots, against blue ground, with vines extending into margin, gold dots and hair-spray. Twelve 4- and 3-line initials, following f. 178, gold, against pink and blue or pink and green grounds, with white and/or yellow filigree. Following initials, one line of square capitals in brown or alternating red and brown. 1-line square capitals in text., The entire codex, including the binding, is in an excellent state of preservation., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Resewn on seven tawed, slit straps laid in channels and nailed into wooden boards. The spine is square, the edges gilt. Covered in ruby-red goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric panels. The rectangular central panel is reduced to a square with rope interlace and the central ornament is a four-pointed star protruding from a quatrefoil within a circle. Five foliate brass catches on the lower board. Stubs of green fabric clasp straps on the upper board. Rebacked; headbands and a gold-tooled spine added. Two catches and all clasps wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy
Manuscript on paper of assorted works by Cicero with additional texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: 1) Human bust, var. Briquet 15599?. 2) Balance, var. Piccard, Waage 1.78?. (3) Crown, unidentified?., Script: Written by two scribes, one writing in Italian Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria and the other in a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata with numerous decorative hairlines., Red paragraph marks. Art. 3 has yellow heightening of the majuscules, a 2-line and a 3-line flourished initial in red, blue and yellow. In art. 1 the majuscules are heightened in red; there are plain red initials in art. 5, but its decoration is not consistent., and Binding: Damaged original binding in deerskin over heavy almost unbevelled wooden boards. Parchment pastedowns, the front one detached from the board. On the front cover inscription in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, worn and difficult to decipher. On the spine a 17th-century paper label with the number "2760" and the title "Huma (?)......Marci Tulii de amicitia manu scripta". Marks of two leather straps fixed to the front cover, the pin holes visible in the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Cicero's Orationes Philippicae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a round humanistic bookhand., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown square capitals; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper of Pier Candido Decembrio (Petrus Candidus Decembrius, 1392/1399-1477), 1) Peregrina historia. 2) Grammaticon, a Latin grammar in two Books, dedicated to the Milanese lawyer Guarniero Castiglione
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: var. Briquet 6654 (?)., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under some Gothic influence (occasionally uncial d)., Pale red headings and explicit formulas. The scribe wrote guide-letters but the initials (height: 2 lines) are wanting., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Italian brown morocco over wooden boards bevelled at the inside, blind-tooled with rope interlace and other tools, with some gold. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Rebacked. On the spine a paper label with the handwritten title "Historia di Publio [sic] Candido". Parchment pastedowns. On the yellow-coloured fore-edge the title "P. Candid*" is inscribed.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477.
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Grammar, Comparative and general, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Language and languages, and Grammars
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dedicatory epistle of Leonardo Bruni to Niccolo Niccoli. 2) Plutarch, Vita Ciceronis. 3) Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis. 4) Dedicatory epistle to Niccolo Niccoli. 5) Xenophon, Hiero. All translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni. In this manuscript the treatises are not identified, nor is the translator, but the dedicatory epistles to Niccolo Niccoli serve to indicate both author and translator
Description:
In Latin., Written in humanistic script by a single scribe., No headings or ornamentation; the manuscript was apparently never finished., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Straight-grained black goatskin, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Demosthenes., Niccoli, Niccolò, ca. 1364-1437., and Plutarch.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Dialogues, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) of a Collection of the letters and papal bulls of Pope Pius II. With other texts concerning the Pope's life and prayers for him after his death. The manuscript section of the codex is divided into 13 sections. Articles 1-3 are printed texts that were bound together with the manuscripts (arts. 4-21) in the 16th century
Description:
In Latin., Script: Each of the 13 sections written by a different scribe, usually in a cursive hand. Format and decoration differs from section to section. Rubrication throughout., Stains throughout suggest that the sections were once bound separately., and Binding: Sixteenth century. There are vellum stays from a 15th-century humanistic manuscript in the center of the quires. Original sewing on three double, twisted, vegetable fiber cords laced into square wooden boards. Plain wound endbands, also laced, and covered with the covering leather which is back-stitched around them. Covered in brown leather with corner tongues, blind-tooled with six-petalled flowers at the intersections of diamonds within a linear border. Brass clasp-and-catch fastening, the catch on the upper board. Rebacked, clasp and strap wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Epitaphs, Letters, Papal, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialect
Description:
In Italian (Venetian dialect)., Script: Written by one scribe in black ink except for five lines in red; of these lines 145 and 171 are no entries, but rubrics introducing the sections dealing with the Sea of Azov and the islands of the Aegean Sea respectively. The handwriting is a small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Cancelleresca influence; the latter is most apparent in the shape of the letter g and in the horizontal approach strokes at the top of the ascenders., The majuscules are heightened in red., and Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and Manuscript maps