- Published / Created:
- [circa 1440].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 986
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor.
- Description:
- Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”., Recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 4 is copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of articles 2-3 are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Article 5 is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The tables of article 23 are traced in black ink.
- Subject (Topic):
- Art, Medieval--Italy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori: artist's manual
Search
Limit your search
- text✖[remove]2
- Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc✖[remove]2
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven✖[remove]2
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library2
- Art, Medieval--Italy1
- Art--15th century1
- Italy,✖[remove]2
Current results range from 1440 to 1460