- Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Published / Created:
- [between 1385 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 428
- Image Count:
- 177
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dante Alighieri, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata. 2) Bosone de' Raffaelli da Gubbio, "Capitolo" on the Divine Comedy, in 64 terzine. 3) Iacopo Alighieri, "Divisione" of the Divine Comedy in 50 terzine (thus of the B group).
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in round gothic script., Very fine initials and borders. Three historiated initials, each with a personification with attributes. Each initial with a full border of fleshy acanthus, blue, orange, olive green, pink, grey and gold, with tooling; birds in lower margin of ff. 1r and 54r; on f. 1r a coat-of-arms, in lower margin: azure, a chevron or, between two roses in chief argent, a mount of 6 in base argent, probably of the Bini family, Florence. 3-line initials, red or blue, with mauve or red penwork with long intricate flourishes often extending the length of the page. Opening text of Inferno adjacent to the initial of f. 1r in display capitals with penwork panels in brown ink. Capitals on the beginning of each stanza stroked in yellow. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on five double supports attached to wooden boards. The spine is square with well defined bands and red and green endbands. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled in mudejar style in two sets of concentric frames; DO.IOAN.DE gold-tooled in the center of one, BORGA in the other. Trace of two fastenings. Gilt edges. Restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. and Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Divina commedia
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- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- 1415, [between 1300 and 1369]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 222
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, written in two stages. Part II was copied in the mid-14th century (before 1369) in Tuscany, possibly in Pisa. Part I was copied by Niccolo di Giovanni Cinuzi da Siena in Ferrara, Italy, by 1 Sept. 1415. Part I: Boccaccio, Filostrato. Part II: Articles 2-35 and 38-39 consist of a collection of Italian canzoni by various authors as well as anonymous poems. Artt. 36 and 37 are fragments of Petrarch, Rerum vulgarum
- 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
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- Creator:
- Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 328
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks buried in gutter) of Gregorio (or Leonardo?) Dati, La Sfera. This rhyming treatise (ottava rima) is divided into two parts: 1) a treatise on astronomy; 2) rules for navigation and the determination of the position of the sea
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one person in neat mercantile script., One 4-line initial, f. lr., gold capital with white-vine foliage against a blue, pink and green ground, connected to a 3/4 white-vine border with brown penwork and gold dots; a coat of arms in wreath at center of lower margin. Two 3-line initials, ff. 7r and 14v, gold, against pink and green grounds with yellow and white filigree. Folios 1r-14v illustrated in margins with astronomical and geographical diagrams, all of them circular, tinted drawings in brown pen with red, yellow, blue and green washes. Folios 15r-24v decorated with unframed maps and illustrations drawn in brown pen, and tinted green, brown and red. Most illustrations unlabeled., Some leaves repaired; the manuscript shows signs of heavy use., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Resewn on three vegetable fiber supports. Rounded spine. Covered in black/brown sheepskin over wooden boards with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with five line fillets forming diamonds. There are traces of four bosses on each board and two clasp-and-catch fastenings, the catches on the lower board. Fastenings and bosses are wanting. Concentric circles are scratched in the center of the lower board. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Italian poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Early maps, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La Sfera
4.
- Creator:
- Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 612
- Image Count:
- 116
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Jacopone da Todi (c. 1236-1306), Laude. 2) Poem in quatrains, each beginning with the name "Yhesu" (attributed to Jacopone da Todi). 3) Jacopone da Todi (attributed), Tractatus utilissimus. 4) On the five steps of spiritual illumination. 5) Hymn on the name of Jesus attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Bernardus Claraevallensis, 1090-1153). 6) Bonaventura (1221-1274), Rhythmus de operationibus Iesu Christi, an addition to his Lignum vitae. 7) On the name of Jesus. 8) Lauda on the love of Jesus, attributed to Bianco da Siena (ca. 1350, d. between 1400 and 1450). 9) Lauda on the Virgin, attributed to Gianotto Sachetti
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Script: In spite of the very uneven script, probably copied by one hand hesitating between Southern Gothica Textualis and Semitextualis Libraria/Formata., Headings in red, often missing. Initials with guide-letters: 1-line plain initials alternately red and blue; 2-line flourished initials in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork; those on the first pages are 3- or 4-line. On f. 1r 11-line historiated initial on gold background containing a profile portrait of Jacopone da Todi with nimbus and holding medallion with the "Jesus"-monogram; the initial has floral extensions in the inner margin. In the lower margin a coat of arms (made illegible by means of black paint) in a wreath., and Binding: Ancient limp parchment. At the top of the spine in 17th-century handwriting: "Imni di F. Jacopone. M.S. D.27" ; at the bottom the shelfmark "T 1 15".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306. and Franciscans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious poetry, Italian
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Laude
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 329
- Image Count:
- 293
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a miscellany including texts by Leonardo Bruni, Petrarch, Stefano Porcari, Matteo Palmieri, and Giovanni Boccaccio
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fleur 6651, Briquet Echelle 5910, Briquet Etoile 6070 and one unidentified., Script: Written in a mercantile script (mercantesca) by one hand., Calligraphic initials, 4- to 2-line, in red with purple or blue with red. Rubrics in brownish-red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper binding "alla rustica". On spine, "Miscella di belle lettere".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Italian poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Renaissance miscellany
6.
- Creator:
- Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 352
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (one leaf) of Three poems. MS 352, f. 88 from a larger volume, may be Benivieni's working copy, since words and verses have been added and deleted throughout; all three columns on both recto and verso have been struck out. The three poems were once thought to be the autograph works of Lorenzo de' Medici
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in a vigorous notarial script., Leaf is mutilated and has been repaired extensively., and Boxed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benivieni, Girolamo, 1453-1542.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Three poems