- Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 73
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., and Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt--History--To 640 A.D
- Subject (Name):
- Diodorus,--Siculus
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Historica
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- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-65]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 15
- Image Count:
- 173
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini (1398-1444).
- Description:
- Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. "Alla rustica" with grey-green paper added over the spine and part of the boards. Edges yellow., Partial border in inner margin of white vine-stem ornament, f. 1r, on blue, green and pink ground with white and blue dots. In lower border terminals extending in ink hair spray with green, pink and blue flowers and gold balls frame central medallion with a crude outline drawing of a head in profile (later addition?). Two decorated initials, 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, pink and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r initial joined to partial border. Heading on f. 1r in red., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-gothic script, above top line.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature--15th century, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello italico adversus gothos.
- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 149
- Image Count:
- 128
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Leonardo Bruni, La prima guerra punica, in an anonymous Italian translation. 2) Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Dante. 3) Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Francesco Petrarca.
- Description:
- Binding: Twentieth century, England (?). Hard-grained, brown leather case. Gold-tooled title and date on spine: "L. Bruni Guerra Punica/ Vite di Dante e Petrarca/ MS. Sec. XV". Bright blue marbled edges., Decoration of poor quality: 12-line divided initial in red and blue, f. 1r; 5-line blue initial with red penwork decoration, f. 51v; 5-line divided initial red and blue, f. 51r. Plain red and blue initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate throughout. Headings in bright red., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by two scribes: ff. 1r-51v in humanistic semi-cursive script, above top line; ff. 51v-59v in fere-humanistic script, above top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11684.
- Subject (Name):
- Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321 and Petrarca, Francesco,--1304-1374
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De prima guerra punica, etc.
- 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:
- 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:
- Curlo, Giacomo
Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483
Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C
Pliny, the Younger
Plutarch - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 51
- Image Count:
- 538
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (slightly polished) of 1) Giacomo Curlo, Preface addressed to Ferdinand I of Naples. 2) Giacomo Curlo, Epitoma Donati in Terentium. 3) Antonio Cassarino, Preface addressed to Giacomo Curlo. 4) Plutarch, Apophthegmata, Latin translation by Antonio Cassarino. 5) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 6) Phalaris, four additional Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to King Alfonso I of Naples. 7) Pliny, Epistolae I.1-III.15.
- Description:
- Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Original wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Yellow edges. The beaded chevron endbands are sewn with red and yellow thread on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards. Covered in brown sheepskin with the surface mostly worn off; decorated with concentric frames, the central panel and one frame filled in with square goat (?) and flower tools standing on a point. Title in ink on a paper label, now mostly wanting. Four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board have a raised design of the Virgin and child and a flower., F. 140 lacking., Plain lumpy initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate blue and red. Headings and paragraph marks in red., Script: Written in an unusual style of loose and sloping humanistic script with cursive features; angular, little shading of letters, well spaced., and Watermarks: ff. 1-112, similar to Briquet Lettre R 8941; ff. 113-160 and 209-256, similar to Briquet Echelle 5904, 5908; ff. 161-208, 257-265, similar to Piccard Kreuz II.616, 619, 622.
- Subject (Name):
- Curlo, Giacomo, Donatus, Aelius, Ferdinand--I,--King of Naples,--1423-1494, and Terence
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc.
- Creator:
- Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, d. ca. 430
Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799? - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 218
- Image Count:
- 196
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Paul the Deacon, Historia gentis Longobardorum. 2) Palladius of Helenopolis, Liber de moribus Brachmanorum, translated into Latin.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Quires cut in for sewing. Rigid vellum case with a red, gold-tooled label: "P. Diacon. De Gest. langobar". Early title in ink on fore edge: "De Gest. Longobardo"., One initial, divided red and blue, 5-line, with red penwork flourishes, f. 1r; the initial may have been retouched by a contemporary hand. Plain red initials throughout; spaces for rubrics left unfilled, except for those at beginning of each book. Running headlines in red. Guide letters for decorator., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a cursive minuscule script, above top line; the first words of each chapter in large gothic bookhand., and Watermarks: similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf I.731-35.
- Subject (Geographic):
- India--History--324 B.C.-1000 A.D
- Subject (Name):
- Paul,--the Deacon,--ca. 720-799?
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Lombards, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia gentis Longobardorum, etc.
8.
- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Plato
Xenophon - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440-50]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 78
- Image Count:
- 166
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni and preceded by his prefatory letter to Pope Innocent VII. 2) Xenophon, Hiero (Tyrannus), translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni and preceded by his prefatory letter to Niccolo Niccoli.
- Description:
- Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Rigid vellum case with the title gold-tooled on a label on the spine: "Leon. Aret. Opus". Gilt edges and faint lettering on the head edge., Decorated in the early style of Gioacchino de' Gigantibus. On f. 1r a partial border in upper, lower and inner margins, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and dark pink with grey dots on blue grounds, blue dots on pink grounds, and gold balls. In lower border, medallion framed by gold interlace bands and supported by two putti wearing red necklaces, with a coat of arms, now erased, on green ground. Four illuminated initials, 7- to 5-line, in gold, framed in yellow, on blue, green and red grounds, with dots as above. Initial on f. 1r, inhabited by standing putto wearing a red necklace, is joined to the border. Other initials have vine-stem decoration extending into the margins and terminating with groups of three gold balls. Headings and names of interlocutors in red., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat angular humanistic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Hieron--I,--Tyrant of Syracuse,--d. 467 or 466 B.C, Innocent--VII,--Pope,--1336-1406, Niccoli, Niccolò,--ca. 1364-1437, and Plato
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography--To 500, Dialogues, 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 > Phaedo
- Creator:
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 160
- Image Count:
- 112
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of John Chrysostom, Sermo de dignitate humanae originis, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. The text is preceded by a dedicatory letter, here directed to Rene d'Anjou (King of Sicily and Naples, 1435-42).
- Description:
- 3 large initials of modest quality, 8- to 7-line, gold on blue or blue and red grounds with white dots and white vine-stem ornament. 1 smaller initial, 3-line, gold on red and blue ground with white dots. Plain initials in blue and red, one in gold, some with penwork flourishes in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide letters for initials., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beige and white chevron endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with green tawed skin between supports. Covered in brown, originally tan, calf with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a border of rope interlace. Spine: sewing bands defined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond catches with a flower in a circle on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps attached with star-headed nails., Purchased from Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 and Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechetical sermons, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermo de dignitate humanae originis