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1. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1800]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prussian blue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
2. Bellum Gallicum
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 179
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History, Military
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Gallicum
3. Commentarii in epistolas Senecae
- Creator:
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 168
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (polished) of Gasparino Barzizza, Commentary on Epistolae morales ad Lucilium, 65-124 only
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tour 15909 and Piccard Turm II.617., Script: Written in gothic cursive with humanistic features by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated initial, f. 1r, 8-line, blue with white highlights and burnished gold on gold ground with stylized foliage in green and dark red with yellow highlights. Terminals ending in foliage serifs, red, green with yellow highlights, and gold balls with hairline extensions. Numerous pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate red and bright blue with penwork designs of the other color extending along margin., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays are adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of beech boards. The endbands, which are wanting, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed or held in place by the bosses; they were tied down through a tawed skin spine lining. Covered in sheepskin, originally brick red, with the surface now badly rubbed and shedding. Corner tongues. Blind-tooled with an X in concentric frames. Four leaf-shaped catches with three flowers on each on the lower board, one wanting; the upper board cut in for two kermes pink straps attached with star-headed nails. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and the trace of a chain attachment at the tail of the lower one.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431. and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarii in epistolas Senecae
4. De amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 258
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Cicero, De amicitia. 2) Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Piccard Schere III.918-19., Script: Written in poorly formed humanistic script with some gothic and cursive elements, perhaps by more than one scribe, above top line., Decoration, all of poor quality, executed by several contemporary hands. On f. 1r, black penwork initial with floral design in center, on square pale red-orange ground, outlined in black; large rectangular frame, in black, connects initial to unidentified arms (or a castle [tower?] proper surrounded by vine, in chief azure [with label of cadency of 4 points argent?] with charge [stars or crosses?] argent) in lower margin. On f. 26r, angular scroll, green with pale red and orange trim, unfurls to form the letter A, 5-line, with an arrow shot through the two shafts to serve as crossbar; green foliage sprouting above. Initials, 5- to 2-line, of similar scroll design for each paradoxon. Rubric on f. 1r in a different hand from those in rest of manuscript. Many elegant pointing hands with fancy cuffs in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in vellum with blue, red, and yellow woodblock paste-paper sides. Traces of inscription on fore-edge (contemporary?) and on vellum strip.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Stoics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia, Paradoxa Stoicorum
5. De amicitia, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1465.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 313
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of works by Cicero, Plutarch, Petrus Diaconus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Leonardo Bruni, and Plato
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in humanistic bookhand below the top line by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-128r and 149r-191v; Scribe 2) ff. 129r-148v and 192r-207v., Initials, 5- to 2-line, ff. 1r, 39v, 71r (space for additional initials on ff. 105v and 149r), gold edged in black with white-vine ornament, against crimson, green and light blue; white-vine extensions in upper and inner margins. On f. 1r a coat of arms in lower margin surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout., Water damage has obliterated several words in the lower left of f. 1r., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown/red calf, gold-tooled. Paste decorated edges. On spine, stamped in gold but nearly effaced: "Ciceronis et aliorum varia. MSS 1465".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Roman law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De amicitia, etc
6. De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- 1430.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 61
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe., Historiated initial with partial border contains the portrait of Boethius (f. 14r); four illuminated initials of similar design and colors (dark red, red-orange, green, blue, gold) on ff. 6r, 12v, 22r, 29v (beginning of Books II-V). Small initials and paragraph marks in red throughout., and Binding: Date? Original sewing on two thick, slit leather straps, the endbands sewn on leather cores. Flush beech boards with straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels slanted up to the outer face. The ends of the straps therefore protrude well above the face. Straps nailed and endband cores laid in V shaped grooves and nailed. The spine and about one quarter of the boards covered by brown calf with a nailed parchment strip at the edge, fragments only remaining. No adhesive on the spine. Channels for straps cut in the upper board. Holes for pins in the lower, but no marks of pin plates. This binding could be contemporary or 19th-20th century. It is interesting to note that the manuscript was bought because of the binding and not because of the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
7. De divinatione
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1456.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 181
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand., One illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 28r, gold against blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, joined to a partial border, white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar on blue, green and deep red ground with white dots on blue, grey on red and pale yellow on green. Headings and running titles in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 182, 212.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Divination, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De divinatione
8. Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1420]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 147
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand., Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue., Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
9. Epistolae, etc
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- 1493.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 263
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Jerome, Epistolae, etc., translated into Italian by Ser Nicolaus Berti Martini de Gentiluzis de Sanctogeminiano, a notary in Florence (ca. 1388-1468). With Ps.-Augustine, Epistula ad Cyrillum, concerning the death of St. Jerome
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Piccard Schere III.710, Briquet Chapeau 3387; unidentified eagle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small upright gothic script with both notarial and humanistic influence, above top line., One illuminated initial, f. 4r, 6-line, gold, filled with red and blue penwork in geometric patterns. The penwork extends the whole length of the text column to form a partial border, terminating in the upper and lower margins in a scroll of blue penwork with small flowers, heart-shaped leaves and red dots. Numerous penwork initials of good quality, 5- to 2-line, alternate in red and blue with purple and red penwork respectively, often extending into the margins. Headings in red. Majuscules and display script touched with yellow., and Binding: ca. 1500, Florence. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps attached to oak boards, with brown and natural color endbands (later additions?) sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Covered in orange/brown sheepskin neatly blind-tooled with rope interlace in concentric frames. Spine: double fillets at head and tail and outlining the supports on the spine; fine diapering with double fillets in the panels. Four flower-shaped catches on the lower board, two wanting. Remains of vellum label (worm eaten) on the spine and pieces of string used as place marks. Off-set impressions of medieval liturgical manuscript on front and back pastedowns. Orange edges. Sticky from excessive oiling.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian legends, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae, etc
