Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden.
Description:
Acquired from the Sporting Gallery in 1967 with the Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Delle Imboccature De'i Cavalli. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century binding: Vellum case; stubs of two green ties., Manuscript on paper of Eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Followed by Descriptive index for drawings (incomplete). Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden whose name appears on f. 1r. Written in small neat italic., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Armoiries - Pomme de pin 2118, but with a majuscule M sitting on the top of left and right upper corners, and with four divisions for the tree base.
Subject (Topic):
Horses--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Pattern books
Manuscript on paper of Anonymous biography of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia, 1430-1503). Copied by one hand in rapid Humanistica Cursiva.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth-century. Half parchment over pasteboard, covered with brown and blue marbled paper. On the spine brownish red leather label with the gold-tooled title VITA D'ALESSAND. VI. / MS. and small paper label with the number of the Phillipps collection., Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., and On the front pastedown armorial bookplate of Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Collection of Thomas Phillipps, no. 7235. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Subject (Topic):
Biography -- 16th century, Italian literature -- 16th century, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles., Binding: Sixteenth-century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges., Cite as: Moral Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., In Italian and Latin., and Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. Several later corrections on f. 10v. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk. Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven