- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 63
- Image Count:
- 354
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of classical Orations, Lives, and Exempla, followed by Excerpts from Valerius Maximus, Excerpts from Xenophon (translated into Latin by Francesco Filelfo), Seneca's Tragedies, Comedies by Terence and Plautus, and other miscellaneous works
- Description:
- In Latin., Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include hat, ladder, crossed arrows, cross bow., Script: Written by two scribes: Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-152v) wrote in a careful humanistic script for text and modified capitals for headings; Scribe 2 (ff. 153r-167v) retained the overall format but used a less elegant style of writing., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Plain sheepskin case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Classical literature, Latin drama (Comedy), Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc, and Latin drama (Tragedy)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Excerpts from Greek & Latin authors
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- Creator:
- Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?, author
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1110].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.16
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 7-line initial "L" is in red, the horizontal stroke decorated with two round balls; 1-line initials are brown uncials; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text, but in a larger module; punctuated with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Homiliaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Homiliary (fragment).
- Creator:
- Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?, author
- Published / Created:
- [between 1140 and 1160].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.17
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Paul the Deacon's Homiliary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: on fol. 1r there is a fine 7-line decorated initial "E" in yellow filled with red geometric penwork on a ground of blue, green, and dark red, with four vine stems originating from the lower bar of the "E"; a guide letter appears in the margin opposite the decorated initial; 1-line initials are black uncials; rubrics written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation and accents were added by a later hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Homiliaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Homiliary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1475-1499.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.28
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- about 20 poems by named authors, including
- Description:
- In Latin. and Script: humanist cursive.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book (fragment).
- Creator:
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1464.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 557
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Doge and the Senate of Venice, the author
- Description:
- The author, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De navigatione
- Creator:
- Speciano, Cesare
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 36
- Image Count:
- 561
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- the author states that he completed the
- Description:
- In Italian., Unidentified watermarks: paschal lamb, with countermark PP plus clover; bird on mountain enclosed in a circle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat italic hand., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Italian red morocco gilt, with unidentified arms of a cardinal (vair) stamped in gilt on both covers. Edges gilt and gauffered. Unobtrusive repairs at head and tails of spine and joints.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Speciano, Cesare.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio
- Creator:
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 111
- Image Count:
- 624
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- several Saints' Vitae by various authors. Part
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe who made neat corrections, often on lines ruled in the margins. Part II written in well formed gothic textura., Part I: Border decorations: long stems, inner and top margins or between text columns, in blue, pink, and grey segments divided by small balls, sprouting curling foliage (blue, light blue, and orange), concentrated at corners, with large spiky leaves at terminals and large spiral angular returns filled with mauve or gold in the lower margins; large gold dots tucked under leaves and trailing from the tips of leaves on thin brown pen lines. Initials, 4- to 3-line, attached to stems, pink and grey with white highlights; foliage serifs, as above; letters filled with blue and gold, with some vine work (green and grey), against gold grounds with thick black edging. 2-line initials, set into text columns, blue or red, with very elaborate, minute penwork, blue, red, and occasionally green, built up of small spirals, roundels, and long "caterpillar"-like segments, often extending the full length of text columns; with curling flourishes in margin. 1-line initials in Table of Contents red or blue, with thin vertical strokes in the opposite color; chapter numbers in red. Headings and paragraph marks in blue or red; rubrics throughout., Part II: Plain initials, 5- to 3-line, alternating red and blue, with large serifs; one on f. 300v in red and blue. Headings and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Pinkish brown calf case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legenda aurea, etc
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- 1415, [between 1300 and 1369]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 222
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- various authors as well as anonymous poems
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Monts 11678. Part II: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3737., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-78v): Written by a single scribe in a bold upright notarial script. Part II (ff. 91r-110v): Written in a clear notarial script by a single scribe; later writers have added the initials, offset in margins, for the major sections of text (sometimes inaccurately) and the notes on ff. 109v-110v., Crude drawings include a falconer with birds, f. 103v, and a ghost (?), f. 103r., The pattern of stains suggests the two parts were originally bound separately. Stained throughout; some ink blotches affect text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Red-brown, gold-tooled label. Parchment reinforcements between quires.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Filostrato, etc
9.
- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1500
- Call Number:
- Osborn a17
- Image Count:
- 280
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- In addition to the Oratio, the manuscript contains: quotations from Plato, Plutarch, Pliny, St. Jerome, Aristotle; notes in Italian on painters in Padua (beginning with Giotto); a speech in Italian, dated Padua, January, 1556; Francesco Contarini, Dialogus; Lombardo della Seta, Epistula de dispositione sue vite ad celeberrimum vatem F. Petrarcham; a note on the office of the cardinal; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio funebris pro Nanni Strozza (Giovanni Strozzi), milite florentino; Poggio Bracciolini, Oratio in funere Francisci Zabarelle (Francesco Zabarella), cardinalis, florentini; Girolamo Maggi, Oratio pro D. Thadeo Quirino; Philippus [Arimineus], Symphosion de paupertate; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron IV.1, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni, with dedication letter to Bindaccio Ricasoli; Giovanni Boccaccio, Novella di Griselda, translated into Latin by Petrarch; Francisco Petrarca, Note on Laura; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Funeral orations for Francisco (Sr.) da Carrara; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Vita Francisci Petrarcae; Leonardo Bruni, Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum. Manuscript, on paper, in humanist script, produced in Italy around 1500.
- Alternative Title:
- Oratio iuvenis licentiam sui necandi a iudicibus petentis, [circa 1500].
- Description:
- quotations from classical authors) are rubricated.
- Subject (Name):
- Maggi, Girolamo,--d. 1572, Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374, Seta, Lombardo della, and Vergerio, Pietro Paolo,--1370-1444
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism--Italy and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oratio iuvenis licentiam sui necandi a iudicibus petentis. Bound with other Latin pieces by him and other Italian humanists
10.
- Creator:
- Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 723
- Image Count:
- 187
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Girolamo Morlini (c. 1480-after 1528), Novellae. The manuscript is an exact copy of the edition Naples, Giovanni Pasquet de Sallo, 1520. It reproduces all the features of its printed model, including frontispiece woodcut, foliation and signatures. Soon after its publication the book was suppressed because of the obscenities many Novellae contain
- Description:
- , showing the author in his study, seated at his
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novellae