- Creator:
- Cesareo, Agostino
- Published / Created:
- 1568.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 562
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Agostino Cesareo (Rome, 16th century), L'arte del navigare
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in careful Humanistica Cursive., Coloured and uncoloured diagrams, illustrations and maps., Many pages are spoiled by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the front cover the inscription "L'arte de ***"; on the rear cover contemporary calculations.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cesareo, Agostino.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Cosmography, Navigation, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arte del navigare
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- 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