- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 62
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris, with dedication to Andrea Acciaiuoli.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays from contemporary document adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps fastened in channels in flush wooden boards. A primary endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on tawed skin cores. Remains of red secondary embroidery. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin between central supports. Covered in kermes pink, tawed skin with corner tongues, the sides divided into triangles with right angled and diagonal fillets. Three fastenings, the catches on the lower board and stubs of green fabric straps on the upper board which is cut in to accomodate them. Eight star-shaped bosses on the upper board (one wanting) and five on the lower, each board with four bosses on their spine edges. Inscription on upper cover: "de mulieribus claris". Written in ink on fore edge: "LXXXVIII" with a helmet on each side. Label on lower board wanting., Folio 3r, partial border, of poor quality: in lower margin, a patch of green grass with two women seated, one dressed in red, the other in green and white, supporting a shield with unidentified arms (gules, 3 helmets sable [in outline only]), a later addition. From the patch of grass oak branches with leaves and acorns extend into inner and upper margins. In inner margin, a fox chasing a hare. Folio 80r, a medallion framed in red and pink and four small gold flowers, with an unidentified monogram in gold against blue ground. One pen-and-ink initial, 8-line, blue with pale red penwork. Plain initials alternate in red and blue. Headings in red (ff. 1r-7r only). Many initials touched with red. Guide letters for decorator throughout., Purchased in 1954 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Text written in a well spaced gothic bookhand with humanistic features by a single scribe, below top line. Art. 1 and rubrics added in similar script by another hand., Unidentified arms, with "Cretulia" and "Thurj" added on either side, and inscription in the lower margin of f. 2v: "Quid spectas Thurum [with 3 helmets] sunt hec insignia. Thuris/ Donarunt Sacre Iuno Minerua Venus/ Cretulia., and Watermarks: Briquet Tete de boeuf 14717 and similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.123.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De mulieribus claris
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- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Homer
Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 7-1458 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450 or between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 91
- Image Count:
- 370
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of 1) Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. 2) Mapheius Vegius, Declamatio seu disputatio inter solem, terram et aurum. 3) Selected speeches from Homer, Iliad IX (Oratio Ulixis, Responsio Achillis, Oratio Phoenicis) translated into Latin and with a preface by Leonardo Bruni.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Straight-grained brown leather, gold tooled. Edges gilt. Bound by F. & T. Aitken. Title on spine: "Diogenis Laertii Philosophorum Vita et Dicta. Codex MS. Saec. XV"., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, above top line., The decoration consists of an elaborately illuminated page (f. 1r) in a style influenced by the "Master of the Vitae Imperatorum" who was active in Milan in the second quarter of the 15th century. Included in the full border of curling inkspray with heart-shaped and trefoil leaves in green, flowers in blue, red, pink and mauve, a strawberry, and gold balls is a standing figure of a naked boy holding a scroll inscribed with the motto "Seul e la fin." At the corners four quatrefoil medallions bordered in gold with portraits of philosophers against blue grounds with gold filigree. In lower border unidentified arms (quarterly, 1 and 4 or a millrind gules, 2 and 3 or a lion azure; with a bishop's mitre and crozier); in upper border a scroll with same motto as above. One historiated initial, f. 1r, 7-line, formed of acanthus leaves, mauve and red on gold ground, containing a portrait of the author against blue ground with gold filigree. One illuminated initial, 6-line, in mauve on gold ground with stylized foliage in green and blue with yellow highlights. In the text blank spaces for headings and initials., and Watermarks: unidentified crown over five-pointed star in upper margin, trimmed.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Epic poetry, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Philosophy, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De vita et moribus philosophorum
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1430-40]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 198
- Image Count:
- 232
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Jerome, Dialogus contra Pelagianos, Books I-III. 2) Rufinus Tyrannius, Apologia contra Hieronymum. 3) Jerome, Apologia contra Rufinum, Books I-II. 4) Jerome, Ad Algasium liber quaestionum undecim (Letter 121). 5) Anonymous, Disputatio de ratione anime. 6) Origen (?), translated into Latin by Jerome. 7) Jerome, Ad Hebydiam de quaestionibus duodecim (Letter 120). 8) Jerome, Ad Algasium liber questionum undecim (Letter 121), ending abruptly in the tenth questio. 9) Epistola ad Demetriadem de virginitate et vitae perfectione. 10) Jerome, Epistola CVIII ad Eustochium virginem, on St. Paula. 11) Jerome, Epistola CXLII ad Augustinum.
- Description:
- Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rigid vellum case with the title in ink on the spine: "Dialogi Pelagii et Attici"., One 4-line illuminated initial, f. 1r, shaded pink with red and green acanthus leaves on dark blue with white filigree against a gold ground edged thickly in black. In the upper left corner a red, blue and gold flower with spiralling acanthus in the upper and inner margins, forming a partial border, green, blue, red, brown, the spirals filled with gold or blue with white filigree. Large gold dots with four black spikes. Numerous pen and ink initials, 5- to 1-line, alternating in red and blue with purple or red penwork. Headings in red. Instructions to the rubricator at lower edge, f. 1r., Purchased in 1958 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by two scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-76v) in a fere-humanistic hand with features of round humanistic; Scribe 2 (ff. 76v-109v) in a more angular fere-humanistic hand., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11895 and 11702; unadorned anvil similar to Harlfinger Enclume 5; unidentified letter (D?) similar in general design to Harlfinger Lettre 14.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Apologetics--Early works to 1800, Celibacy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogus contra Pelagianos, etc.
- Creator:
- Aurispa, Giovanni, ca. 1376-1459
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483
Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C
Plutarch
Tibullus - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 100
- Image Count:
- 224
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 2) Unidentified couplet. 3) Ps.-Brutus, Epistolae, translated by Rinuccio Aretino and dedicated to Pope Nicholas V. 4) Ps.-Plutarch, Epistola ad Traianum. 5) Ps.-Philip of Macedon, Epistola ad Aristotelem. 6) Plutarch, Pyrrhus (extract), Lat. tr. of Leonardo Bruni. 7) Ps.-Caesar, Epistola ad Ciceronem. Arts. 8-11 are excerpts from an 11th- or early 12th-century supplement to Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni. 12) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistula ad Demotelem, Lat. tr. Giovanni Aurispa. 13) Tibullus (attributed), Priapea I.
- Description:
- Binding: Date? Italy (?). Sewn through pieces of vellum. Limp vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Phalaridis Epistole". Badly worm eaten., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Arts. 1 and 3-12 written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; arts. 2 and 13 added in a more flamboyant style of humanistic cursive., Two illuminated initials, 4-line, gold against blue, green and dark red grounds with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. From the corners issue penwork inkspray with leaves, green with yellow or gold highlights, and blue or red blossoms, extending into margins to form partial border. Plain initials alternate in blue and red. Headings in pale red., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6597, 6601.
- Subject (Name):
- Phalaris,--Tyrant of Agrigentum,--6th cent. B.C
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae, etc.
- Creator:
- Lescuyer, Denys, bookseller
Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581
Vidoue, Pierre, d. 1543, printer - Published / Created:
- [1538]
- Call Number:
- 2007 957
- Image Count:
- 43
- Abstract:
- Most widely known today for his studies of Near Eastern languages Guillaume Postel was a pioneer in the study of Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Aramaic in Western Europe. He was better known in his own time as a prophet, millennialist, and Utopiast. His writings deal largely with his effort to promote world peace, but he was condemned as a heretic for his belief that he was divinely inspired; he claimed, in fact, that he was the reincarnation of the Virgin of Venice. As a scholar he was instrumental in promoting the teaching of Arabic and Syriac, and participated in editing and publishing a number of early Christian works. His theories of language origin (he thought all languages were derived from Hebrew) are no longer considered valid, but his work in comparative linguistics earned him the reputation as the founder of that discipline.
- Alternative Title:
- Lingvarvm duodecim characteribvs differentivm alphabetvm introdvctio and Lord’s prayer. Polyglot
- Description:
- Imperfect: leaf H2 (signed ’G’) misbound after H3. and Originally intended to form part of a projected treatise De affinitate linguarum et Hebraicae excellentia.
- Publisher:
- Apud Dionysium Lescuier ...
- Subject (Name):
- Lord’s prayer. Polyglot
- Subject (Topic):
- Alphabets --Early works to 1800, Aramaic language --Early works to 1800, Armenian language --Early works to 1800, Grammar, Comparative and general --Early works to 1800, Language and languages --Grammars --Early works to 1800, Samaritan Aramaic language --Early works to 1800, and Syriac language --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Linguarum duodecim characteribus differentium alphabetum, introductio, ac legendi modus longe facilimus. : Linguarum nomina sequens proxime pagella offeret. / Guilielmi Postelli Barentonij diligentia. ...
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- 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
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 245
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus, preceded by prologues. With two short prayers.
- Description:
- 16th-century inscription of Heinrich Schkor von Stranov on verso of front flyleaf: "1542/ diss puechle gehert zu dem Edlen vnd Vesten [?] hainrichen schkor [followed by hole in parchment] von stranoff [Stranov in Bohemia] derzait haubtman zu prukh an der layta [Bruck an der Leitha, Southeast Austria]/ 15 A 47 [sic]..."., Acquired from B. M. Rosenthal in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Fifteenth century, Bohemia. Sewn on three supports, with two half bands near head and tail, fastened to wooden boards. Yellow edges and kermes pink place marks. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with floral designs, with a central and four large corner fittings on each board. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; four leafy flower bud tools pointing inward in the two central panels. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board and the lower one cut in for tawed skin, cream colored straps (only stubs remain). Small pieces of liturgical manuscript (Northern Italy, 14th century) used for front and rear pastedowns. Head and tail of spine and the upper joint very unobtrusively repaired., Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with floral designs, with a central and four large corner fittings on each board., For prologues and beginning of each book partial borders constructed of a thin bar, unburnished gold, pink or green with burnished gold balls, terminating in sprays of stylized foliage, green, pink, and blue with gold accents. One large illuminated initial, f. 1r, 13-line, blue with light blue foliage shading against a red and pink ground; foliage serifs in green. 6 smaller illuminated initials, blue, pink, green or gold against blue or pink ground with white or gold filigree and/or gold crosshatching. Numerous pen-and-ink initials, 2-line, alternate in blue with red penwork designs and gold with blue penwork designs. Running titles in red and blue. Headings in red. Initials touched with yellow., Script: Written in hybrida script by a single scribe. Arts. 2-3 added by later hands., Small pieces of liturgical manuscript (Northern Italy, s. XIV) used for front and rear pastedowns., and Written in hybrida script by a single scribe. Arts. 2-3 added by later hands.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Wisdom of Solomon, Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Bible.--O.T.--Proverbs, Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Wisdom literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus
- Creator:
- Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241
Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 127
- Image Count:
- 287
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Raymundus de Pennaforte, Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio (Libri I-IV). With 61 selections from the Decretales of Gregory IX compiled by Raymundus de Pennaforte; Raymundus de Pennaforte, Dubitalia cum responsionibus (Responsio canonica).
- Description:
- Binding: Date? The covers are wanting but were probably of limp vellum. Original sewing on twisted tawed skin, slit ribbons, the sewing beaded in the center. A fragment of a parchment bifolium from a 14th-century breviary (mostly rubbed and illegible) is glued to the spine and cut out for the sewing supports; a portion of the fragment extends along the front and back of the text block., Fine flourished initial, 5-line, divided red and blue, with penwork designs in both colors and long marginal tail of letter Q, f. 1r. Smaller flourished initials incorporating the heads of bird-like grotesques and cross-hatching designs. 1-line initials alternate red and blue for chapter lists. Paragraph marks and running headlines in red and blue. Rubrics throughout; instructions for rubricator along outer edges of leaves, some perpendicular to text., Parchment, ff. i (early parchment flyleaf) + 138 (medieval foliation i-l begins on f. 2)., Purchased from Enzo Ferrajoli in Geneva in 1957 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Raymond,--of Peñafort, Saint,--1175?-1275
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Marriage (Canon law), Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Penance (Canon law), and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio, etc.
- Creator:
- Venetus, Paulus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 32
- Image Count:
- 358
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Summulae naturalium, composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429).
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373". Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges., Brittle. Acidic ink damage with some loss of text., Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, filled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, below top line; inital words of each section in gothic bookhand., Watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfinger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder., and Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle, Augustinians, and Venetus, Paulus
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Physics--Early works to 1800, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summulae naturalium