- Creator:
- Villani, Giovanni, d. 1348
- Published / Created:
- 15th century.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 931
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a summary of Giovanni Villani's Croniche.
- Description:
- Script: copied by a single hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Libraria on the basis of Italian Hybrida. Pale red headings. Flourished initials with penwork and marginal extensions, 2-line up to f. 16r, generally 3-line from f. 16v onwards. On f. 1r 2-line white vinestem initial incorporated into a border corner piece of the same style. In the lower margin two marks of oval seals (?) and the early number or date “1264”.
- Subject (Name):
- Villani, Giovanni,--d. 1348
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--To 1400
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica, libri II-XI
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- Creator:
- Villani, Giovanni, d. 1348
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 930
- Image Count:
- 838
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Name):
- Villani, Giovanni,--d. 1348
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--To 1400, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nuova cronica
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 7
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orations.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930) in brown goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled spine "Cicero" and "MS". Yellow edges. Discoloration on early parchment endleaves reveal traces of corner tongues., Blanks at end not digitzed., Script: The manuscript was copied by two scribes who exhibit distinct formats and scripts reflecting the transition from gothic to humanistic types of book production. Scribe I) ff. 1-107r, line 14. Written in a very fine early humanistic bookhand, above top line. Scribe II) ff. 107r, line 15-135r. Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules., and Twenty-three illuminated intials of fine quality, 6- to 2-line, yellow on rectangular bright blue grounds with narrow black frames. Grounds filled with restrained and stylized thin white vine-stem ornament and intricate white filigree. Most spaces for rubrics left unfilled.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, etc.