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1. Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV.
- Creator:
- Enríquez del Castillo, Diego, 1431-1503?
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 27
- Image Count:
- 502
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV of Castile (1425-74). With the Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena; Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics; and Brief law text in Latin
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks: unidentified hand., Script: Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Spain. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, now broken, laced into channels in wooden boards. One plain wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later. Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace. The layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small tools are used in the central panels. Spine: four fillets outlining the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the center of the compartments so formed. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions. The spine is mended at head and tail; some corners repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Castile (Spain)
- Subject (Name):
- Enríquez del Castillo, Diego, 1431-1503? and Henry IV, King of Castile and Leon, 1425-1474.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Canon law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV.
2. Decamerone o ver cento novelle del Boccaccio
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375, author
- Published / Created:
- [20 June 1492]
- Call Number:
- Zi +7046 1
- Image Count:
- 253
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Decamerone
- Description:
- BEIN Zi +4524: For fuller description see collation slip in volume. Variant copy. [7], 2-137, [1] leaves, illustrated, 30 cm (fol). Leaf 2 numbered with a broken numeral "2"; leaf 29 so numbered (misprinted 26 in the preceding). Imperfect copy. Bookplate of A. H. (monogram AH)., BEIN Zi +7046: Imperfect copy: missing leaves pi1-3, pi6, a1, a5, a8, b6, f3, i1, n3, o4, s1, t1, u4, and z4 (blank) wanting. Leaf [4] (first count) bound at end of volume., BEIN Zi +7046: Provenance: Bookplate of Antoine Pol of Paris. Early manuscript ownership note of a certain Ad. de Beauchamp on front pastedown. Modern manuscript note regarding publication in French on first leaf. Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, May 1964., BEIN Zi +7046: Binding: brown leather binding. Red sprinkling on all edges. Gold-tooled title on spine: Opera Politian / Decame., BEIN Zi +7046: Number 2 of 3 titles bound together., Title from leaf [1]/1r., Colophon (leaf z3r): Finisce lo elegantissimo Decamerone: cio e le cento novelle detto: dello excellentissimo poeta Giova[n]ni Bocchaccio da certaldo. Impresso i[n] Venetia per Giova[n]ni & Gregorio de gregorii fratelli. Impera[n]te Augustino Barbarigo felicissimo principe: nellanno della humana recuperatione. MCCCC. Lxxxxii. ad di .xx. de Giugno., Printed in type 23:82R., Signatures: pi⁶; a⁸ b-y⁶z⁴., Leaves pi6 and z4 blank., 113 woodcuts., and Printed guide letters.
- Publisher:
- Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe
- Subject (Topic):
- Plague, History, and Love
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decamerone o ver cento novelle del Boccaccio
3. Del vecchio e nuovo gnomone fiorentino e delle osservazioni astornomiche, fisiche et architettoniche fatte nel verificarne la costruzione, libri IV. A'quali premettesi una Introduzione istorica sopra le coltura dell'astronomia in Toscana
- Creator:
- Ximenes, Leonardo, 1716-1786
- Published / Created:
- 1757.
- Call Number:
- WD 9223
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Title vignette.
- Publisher:
- Nella Stamperia imperiale
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Del vecchio e nuovo gnomone fiorentino e delle osservazioni astornomiche, fisiche et architettoniche fatte nel verificarne la costruzione, libri IV. A'quali premettesi una Introduzione istorica sopra le coltura dell'astronomia in Toscana
4. Foundation document of the Hospital for the Blind, Church of Santa Lorena
- Published / Created:
- 1479 March 15.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 623
- Container / Volume:
- (Box)
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of documents relating to the foundation of a Hospital for the Blind, by the Church of Saint Lorena in Burgos, 15 March 1479. Mostly dealing with the donation or sale of houses for the Hospital
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Written by a single scribe in a highly abbreviated Spanish Gothic cursive script with many later notes and additions., and Decoration: A miniature on f. 2r depicts the hospital, its patron Saint Lorena, and a blind man, with the legend "hospital de los ciegos". Illuminated initials with marginal extensions ff. 2v and 7v. Illuminated arms on f. 8r within roundel with the letters "c b".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Spain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Blind, Hospitals, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Foundation document of the Hospital for the Blind, Church of Santa Lorena
5. Genealogical roll chronicle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1466-67]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 242
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of 15 membranes, of a Chronicle of biblical world history and the genealogy of the kings of England
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat rough textura., The genealogical diagrams, which are fitted into the empty spaces between the columns of text, begin with a roundel formed of concentric bands of blue, gold and red with a miniature of Adam with Eve, who is being handed an apple by the serpent. From the roundel of Adam and Eve to the Ascension of Christ the successive Biblical names, framed in orange or green squares, are linked by a continuous band in blue, red and gold. The names of the ancestors of the Kings of England, starting with Brutus, appear in red or blue circles, surmounted by gold crowns. Other names are in plain red circles. Linking lines in the genealogies are in red or green. At the appropriate places in the text are inserted schematized diagrams in red and green ink of Noah's Ark, a plan of the Israelite camp in the desert and a plan of the city of Jerusalem., One large illuminated initial for the prologue, 8-line, mauve and blue with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. The initial is filled with a large flower, red, yellow and green, and curling acanthus, orange and green extending into the margin and continued as black inkspray with large leaves, heart-shaped or acanthus, blue, pink, orange, white and green with white filigree, a large orange and gold flower, smaller leaves in gold with blue and pink, gold dots and small green leaves, extending into the upper and left margin to form a partial border. Smaller illuminated initial for the beginning of the main chronicle, 5-line, gold on blue and mauve ground with white filigree. Numerous small initials, 2-line, alternate in gold with blue penwork and blue with red. Paragraph marks alternate in red and blue., and Binding: Unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, Manuscripts, Medieval, World history, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Genealogical roll chronicle
6. H. Jalliots map of the seat of war in Italy cont. [the] duchyes of Milan, Mantua, Parma, &c. with the Venetian territoryes
- Creator:
- Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1701]
- Call Number:
- 1973 Folio 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Map of the seat of war in Italy
- Description:
- BEIN 1973 Folio 10: Sheet measures 54.6 x 89.1 cm. Bookplate of José M. Rodriguez. No. 18 of 63 maps bound together., Relief shown pictorially., "I. Harris, sc.", Longitude east from London., and Bar scales given in Italian miles and com[m]on leagues of France.
- Publisher:
- Improved and sold by Robt. Morden and Christopr. Browne at the Atlas in Cornhill and the Globe ye Westend of St. Pauls
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy
- Subject (Topic):
- Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > H. Jalliots map of the seat of war in Italy cont. [the] duchyes of Milan, Mantua, Parma, &c. with the Venetian territoryes
7. Harangues et oraisons des anciens
- Published / Created:
- circa 1530.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1042
- Image Count:
- 341
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. Contains examples of ancient speeches from famous events in both Greek and Roman history. Also includes the funerary speech of Perides [sic], several speeches attributed to Philip of Macedonia, Demosthenes, Alexander, Nero, and many others. Also includes a speech by Ottoman envoys to Rhodes (dated to 1522) and an ultimatum of Suleiman I (1494-1566) to Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
- Description:
- In French., Script: Gothica Semihybrida Formata (Bastarda)., Layout: ff. 2-57 single column of 40 lines; ff. 58-165 sincle column of 41 lines., Decoration: Line-fillers in the shape of a red or blue horizontal stroke heightened with liquid gold. Paragraph marks in liquid gold on a square red or blue background. 4- or 5-line painted initials. On the second front flyleaf verso full-page frontispiece: in an imitation wooden frame a room is depicted, in which twelve men are engaged in discussion., Binding: Original green velvet binding over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands; two velvet straps attached to the front board closing over pins in the rear board with two enamelled brass clasps with the arms of François II, duc de La Rochefoucauld, and his wife Anne de Polignac; gilt edges., and The original foliation in Roman numbers, at right in the upper margin of the rectos, is incomple.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Greece
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin, Church history, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Harangues et oraisons des anciens
8. Inventions of military machines and other devices, [after 1591].
- Creator:
- Rabbards, Ralph
- Call Number:
- Osborn a8
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591
- Description:
- Raphe (or Ralph) Rabbards, born slightly before 1531, published "The Compound of Alchemy" by George Ripley (see Osborn fa16) in 1591., In English., In the preface to "The Compound of Alchemy" (Osborn fa16), Rabbards notes that he has "these fortie yeares amongst manie other most commendable exercises and inventions of so warlike Engines, founde out divers devices of rare service, both for Sea and land" and expresses his intention to "impart some other rare experiments of Distillations and Fire-Workes of great service, not hitherto committed in writing or put in practise by any of our nation." This apparently refers to Osborn a8, the only known copy of the work., Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn., Descriptions of military machines are accompanied by colored illustrations., and Binding: contemporary brown calf, with gold tooling of Lyonese style with semis of eaglets.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Rabbards, Raphe.
- Subject (Topic):
- Military art and science, History, and Technological innovations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Inventions of military machines and other devices, [after 1591].
9. John Stow copy of the opening section of John Leslie's History of Scotland
- Creator:
- Stow, John, 1525?-1605
- Published / Created:
- [between 1570 and 1579]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 37
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of John Stow, of the opening section of John Leslie's Historie of Scotland. This copy ends in the middle of the account of the year 1512
- Description:
- In English., Layout: single column of 46-48 lines., and Script: mixed cursive.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Connecticut, New Haven., and Scotland
- Subject (Name):
- Stow, John, 1525?-1605.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > John Stow copy of the opening section of John Leslie's History of Scotland
