At many places the paper is damaged and the reading impaired by the acidity of the ink., Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 887. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Binding: Original presentation binding: light brown leather over pasteboard. Spine with three raised bands, gauffered and gilt edges. Both covers are decorated with two frames of blind-tooled quadruple fillets surrounding rich gold-tooled frames with in the centre on the front cover the coat of arms of the dedicatee (with six-spoked wheel), on the rear cover a large rosette. Remainders of two pairs of ties., On f. 2v, painted coat of arms of Giovanni Ruffo de' Teodoli, Archbishop of Cosenza, surmounted by a cross and placed in a floral wreath, above two distychs. At the head of each part a 6-line silver initial (Capitalis), outlined with black ink, on a square red or blue background with silver foliate decoration. A small purple initial in the space for a 4-line initial on f. 4r., and Script: Copied by one hand in a slightly uneven upright Humanistica Cursiva Formata. Headings and explicit-incipit formulas in capitals.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome (Italy)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Ponti, Antonino
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Visions
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.52
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
thought to be by the same author
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: larger initials in red ink; smaller initials in brown ink touched with red ink., and Layout: single columns of 24 lines each.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts genaempt terra do Natal, item van alle de custen van Coffala, Mozambique, Melinde and Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angôlae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei.
Description:
Appears in the author's Itinerario
Publisher:
Cornelis Claesz?,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Claesz, Cornelis, approximately 1546-1609, Langren, Arnold Florent van, 1580-1644, and Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien
Subject (Topic):
Coasts--Africa, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Abraham--(Biblical patriarch), Abraham--(Biblical patriarch)--Travel--Maps--Early works to 1800, Moflinius, Iohannes, and Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598. Theatrum orbis terrarum
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts genaempt terra do Natal, item van alle de custen van Coffala, Mozambique, Melinde and Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angôlae ultra promontorium Bonae Spei.
Description:
Appears in the author's Itinerario
Publisher:
Cornelis Claesz?,
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Claesz, Cornelis, approximately 1546-1609, Langren, Arnold Florent van, 1580-1644, and Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611. Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien
Subject (Topic):
Coasts--Africa, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800