Each piece signed with a small woodcut, the signature (likewise cut in wood) "Fonseca epus archieps", and a wax seal covered with paper., Imperfect: wormed, with damage to woodcuts and seals., and The recipient’s name "Luis Gimenes [?]" is written in the blank space provided for it.
Publisher:
Ano del nascimiento del Senor de mill y qnientos y qnze anos
Manuscript on paper (sized) of Vincent Ferrer, Sermones. In this version of the sermons the text begins in Latin, presents the main points of the sermon in Spanish, and then returns to the body of the text in Latin.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1500, Spain. Wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into the wooden boards. Plain wound natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn on cores laced into the boards and pegged. They are tied down around a strip of tawed skin. There is a coarse cloth spine lining. Back pastedown is part of a bifolium from a liturgical manuscript with Aquitanian musical notation. Covered with reddish-brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a rope interlace tool, fleurs de lis and annular dots. Spine: supports outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with double fillets with annular dots at the intersections. There are traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, and traces of five round bosses on each board. Damage from a chain attachment (?) near the tail of the upper board; remains of a paper or vellum label near the head., Plain red intials for each sermon; headings, foliation and paragraph marks in red. First words of each sermon in large gothic bookhand for display script., Script: Written in gothic cursive script, above top line., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3694-3702, and unidentified cross bow in a circle.
Subject (Name):
Vincent Ferrer,--Saint,--ca. 1350-1419
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
"Satira dezena del juuenalen ... Traduzida por dõ geronimo de villegas": p. [654-661] (leaves Q2v-Q6v)., Armorial bookplates: Henry Hucks Gibbs; Thomas Ewart Marston. Binder's stamp: Bound by Holloway. Scattered ms. annotations in early part of book., Pagination supplied by cataloger., Printed in gothic letter, title in red; large coat of arms on t.p. and at end; initials; colophon device (Haebler IIIc)., Signatures: (8(?)(2-7a-z8(symbol)8(symbol)8A-O8P-Q6., The Yale copy is without the title-page as given in Cornell univ. library cat. of Dante, v. 1, p. 67-68; bound at front instead, is the leaf of Villegas' arms with title at foot and with blank verso (8th leaf in the Cornell copy, with arms of Juana of Aragon on verso) The leaf is facsimile 766b in Vindel: "Esta pagina se halla en algunos ejemplares al principio en lugar de la Suma o indice, que entonces se halla al final"., and Translation of the Inferno only, including Landino's commentary.
Publisher:
Friedrich Biel,
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, Henry Hucks,--1819-1907--Bookplate., Juvenal. Satura 10. Spanish., Juvenal. Villegas., Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504., Marston, Thomas E.--Bookplate., Villegas, Jeronimo de, d. 1504., and Villegas, Pero Fernandez de, d. 1525.