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1. Antiphonal
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 56
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the responsories and antiphons for the octave of Epiphany (one bifolium with continuous text).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic script., and Four red staves with black square notes; crude initials in red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Antiphonaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonal
2. Catalogus librorum (Aldine Press).
- Published / Created:
- 1534 (?).
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 59
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy, brown; watermarks: unidentified coat of arms in gutter) of Catalogus librorum (Aldine Press). The catalogue consists of four sections: Libri graeci, Alii libri graeci, Libri latini, Italici libri
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in humanistic cursive by one scribe., All folios are stained, damaged, and/or repaired., and Binding: 1850. Bound by George Bretherton in quarter red-brown leather with blue-black cloth sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catalogs and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Catalogus librorum (Aldine Press).
3. Collection of legal documents
- Published / Created:
- 1541.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 213
- Image Count:
- 46
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of A collection of copies of grants and concessions made to Jacobo Probo, conte di Pianelle, from Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1466-1519), and his son Federico II (1500-40). The three documents of Francesco are dated 1496 (ff. 8r-10r), 1514 (ff. 6v-7v), 1516 (ff. 1r-2r); the two of Federico are dated 1519 (ff. 2v-5r) and 1526 (ff. 5v-6r). On f. 10v there is a statement by the notary "Castantius [sic] Iottus" authenticating these copies (dated 18 Oct. 1541). Two documents of Ferdinand II of Aragon, King of Sicily (1452-1516) confirming title to the property in question (ff. 11r-14r) seem to have been added later by another writer
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in inelegant italic for ff. 1-10; a sprawling running hand for ff. 11-14., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Levantine? A single gathering backstitched to the vellum lining of a semi-limp pasteboard folder covered with red-brown goatskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with a cross on a pedestal in a border on the upper board and an X on the lower. The design made up of fleurs-de-lis, diamonds with concave sides and flowers, the flowers bordering the turn-ins. Two ribbon fastenings, missing. Some mold and worm damage.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Mantua (Duchy)
- Subject (Name):
- Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1500-1540. and Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1466-1519.
- Subject (Topic):
- Legal documents and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of legal documents
4. De situ Iapygiae
- 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
5. Diploma
- Published / Created:
- 1598.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 98
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Diploma for a doctorate in Theology accorded to Iosephus Prudentius from the University of Padua, June 1598
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by Franciscus de Oddis, in an elegant italic., On f. 1r, a full vine-scroll border, in purple ink with grapes and highlights in gold, outlined in double purple lines; a 5-line initial, gold, with purple and gold vines. Headings and names of persons in humanistic bookhand or square capitals, in gold., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown leather wrapper, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Padua (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diploma
6. Poetica
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 708
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Aristoteles, Poetica, anonymous Latin translation of chapters 1-7. On f. 2r the translator has replaced Homer and Empedocles, cited by Aristotle, by Virgil and Lucretius ("Nihil tamen commune est Virgilio et Lucretio nisi carmen").
- Description:
- In Latin and Greek., Watermark: coat of arms with a bend, surmounted by a star and with a roundel depending from it, not in Briquet., Script: Copied by one scribe in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; words in Greek written by the same hand., Undecorated., and Binding: Sewn on a gilded leather thong; no cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poetica
7. Prayers for use at Mass
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1500-1549.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1262
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 159
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single late Beneventan hand, probably that of a nun, containing a collection of 27 prayers by Saint Thomas Aquinas and others for use at Mass
- Description:
- In Latin., Ff. 74v-75r contain 20 lines of a prayer: "O sacro sanctissimo ochino di pieta," in an Italic script., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., Script: late Beneventan miniscule., Decoration: Extensive. Many small capitals alternately blue and gold with penwork in red and purple. 30 three-line and rwo-line initials either in burnished gold with purple penwork or dark blue with red penwork; very large illuminated initial on opening page with leafy design and burnished gold outlined in red enclosing formal floral pattern, with full-length bar extending into upper and lower margins., Binding: 16th century limp parchment. Cover is made from a 15th-century portolan chart of part of the Adriatic coast of Apulia (Schøyen Collection title: Portolan map of the Adriatic Coast of Apulia in the kingdom of Napoli from Rinaldo south as far as Port Badisco, including Otranto and inland towns with little hills.) 230 mm x 160 mm (flattened). Lettering of portolan in small humanist hand., and Binding: green gilt quarter morocco folding case, Aquarius, 1995, with Schøyen Collection bookplate.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Portolan charts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayers for use at Mass
8. Vita Nicolai Albergati
- Creator:
- Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 684
- Image Count:
- 20
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Iacobus Zeno (d. 1481), De vita et moribus Nicolai Albergati
- Description:
- Niccolo Albergati (1375-1443) became bishop of Bologna in 1417 and cardinal in 1426. See about him Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 1 (Rome, 1960), pp. 619-621., In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Undecorated., Several margins and folds strengthened by means of strips of paper pasted on them., and Binding: Half blue marbled paper, the covers of white cardboard. On the front cover a large paper label with engraved flowery cartouche and 18th-century handwritten title: "Vita B. Nicolai Albergati a Iacobo Zeno descripta. Ms.". At the top an oval label with the number "33" (19th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albergati, Nicolò, 1375-1443. and Zeno, Jacopo, 1417-1481.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita Nicolai Albergati