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1. Collection of rhetorical texts on theology, rhetoric, diplomacy, astrology, and literature
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1355-1365?,1374]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1059
- Image Count:
- 340
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts, including: 1) A number of works by Albertano da Brescia, 2) Robertus Grosseteste's Templum De, 3) Laurence of Aquileia's Practica sive usus dictaminis, 4) Correspondence between Charles of Anjou and Peter III, King of Aragon, 5) Henry VII, Emperor, Letter to the citizens of Bologna. Manuscript also includes a number of other works.
- Description:
- A collection of texts, including: 1) Albertano da Brescia, De doctrina dicendi et tacendi, Liber consolationis et consilii, De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vitae, a sermon delivered before a congregation of Genoese notaries and causidici 1243 December 6, and Sermo. 2) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus hominum in saeculo viventium. 3) Pantaleon Barbo, Sermon on the Incarnation and Nativity. 4) Robertus Grosseteste, Templum Dei. 5) Laurence of Aquileia, Practica sive usus dictaminis. (In tabular form, each table covering two facing pages). 6) Iohannes Bondi de Aquilegia or Laurentius de Aquilegia, Theorica sive ars dictaminis. 7) Charles of Anjou (1226-1285), Letter to Peter III, King of Aragon 1276-1285, after the latter's conquest of Sicily, 1282, and a response by Peter III, King of Aragon, to Charles of Anjou. 8) Letter of the cardinals to the newly elected pope Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux (pope Clemens VI, 1305-1314). 9) Henry VII, Emperor (1308-1313), Letter to the citizens of Bologna, 1311. 10) Astrological treatise ascribed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy, 2nd century) with extensive gloss. 11) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Historia Griseldis, Latin translation by Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374). 12) A number of other letters, poems, and treatises., Binding: parchment wrappers over pasteboard made from leaves of a 15th or 16th century printed book; three white leather straps preserved., and Script: except article 1 (and 26?) copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); the orthography is very incorrect.
- Subject (Name):
- Damiani, Petrus,--Saint,--1007?-1072, Grosseteste, Robert,--1175?-1253, and Peter--III,--King of Aragon,--1239-1285
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Diplomacy, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of rhetorical texts on theology, rhetoric, diplomacy, astrology, and literature
2. Elegantie Augstini Dati pro iuuenibus perutiles.
- Creator:
- Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1500?]
- Call Number:
- Rosenthal 39
- Image Count:
- 68
- Alternative Title:
- Elegantiolae
- Description:
- BEIN Rosenthal 39: From the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal. Contemporary ms. notes in a Spanish hand. Imperfect: c8 mutilated., Ends (p. [56]: Augustini Dati Sene[n]sis oratoris primarii Isagogicus libellus in elocutionis precepta finit feliciter., Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁴., and The text is set in Roman type, 30 lines per page. The Proctor type measurement (20 lines) is 97-98 mm. The only ornamental initial is the white-on-black 4-line C at the opening of the text on p. [2].
- Publisher:
- s.n.,
- Subject (Name):
- Rosenthal, Bernard M.--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- Rhetoric, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Elegantie Augstini Dati pro iuuenibus perutiles.
3. Orationes
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1035
- Image Count:
- 36
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseduo-Cicero, Marci Tullii Ciceronis in Catalinam oratio habita in senatu and Lucij Catiline in Ciceronem responsio. 2) Francesco Griffolini, Oratio Catiline habita Rome a magnifico domino Francisco Aretino ducali oratore ad Paulum Pontificem Secundum. 3) Treatise on rhetoric and grammar in episotlary form. 4) Manuel Guarinus, Manuelis Guarini ad eruditum virum Franciscum pendilaquam responsio.
- Description:
- Disbound from a larger collection but retains original wrapper with watermark depicting two crescent moons and a sickle[?] and Watermark of open scissors with additional character at opening.
- Subject (Name):
- Catiline, ca. 108-62 B.C, Griffolini, Francesco,--1418-1483, and Paul--II,--Pope,--1417-1471
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Rhetoric, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes
4. Poetria nova
- Creator:
- Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, fl. 1200
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1400]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa60
- Image Count:
- 100
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in Gothic bookhand by several different scribes, produced in Northern Italy around 1400.
- Description:
- Binding: modern quarter calf binding., Decoration: large initial P, characteristic of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century Northern Italian initials (f. 1r); two heads, one of a bishop (f. 43r); rubricated initials at section headings., Inscription: "Liber elisey de piasiis; Puluis ut inuentum sic desunt septra potentum.", Inscription: "Liber guidini et jacobi de piasiis.", Lines 2081-98 of the printed text, a section missing from many versions, appear at the end (after line 2116)., Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and Watermark: similar to Bricquet 4001 (Venice, 1401) and 4002 (Bergamo, 1402).
- Subject (Name):
- Geoffrey,--of Vinsauf,--fl. 1200
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poetria nova