- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 335
- Image Count:
- 96
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Joannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. 2) Unidentified Cosmographicae libellus. 3) Nicolas Oresme, Traite de la sphere, in a Latin translation apparently extant only in this manuscript
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by one person in small fere-humanistic script bordering on cursive, verso., Simple decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in red. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on majuscules at beginning of sentences, and marginal notes, in red., Seventeen carefully executed astronomical drawings and two tables, in red, black, yellow and beige, accompany arts. 1 and 3., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc
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- Creator:
- Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 586
- Image Count:
- 158
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pier Candido Decembrio (Petrus Candidus Decembrius, 1392/1399-1477), 1) Peregrina historia. 2) Grammaticon, a Latin grammar in two Books, dedicated to the Milanese lawyer Guarniero Castiglione
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermark: var. Briquet 6654 (?)., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under some Gothic influence (occasionally uncial d)., Pale red headings and explicit formulas. The scribe wrote guide-letters but the initials (height: 2 lines) are wanting., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Italian brown morocco over wooden boards bevelled at the inside, blind-tooled with rope interlace and other tools, with some gold. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Rebacked. On the spine a paper label with the handwritten title "Historia di Publio [sic] Candido". Parchment pastedowns. On the yellow-coloured fore-edge the title "P. Candid*" is inscribed.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cosmography, Grammar, Comparative and general, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Language and languages, and Grammars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peregrina historia and Grammaticon