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1.
Considerationi sopra la guerra contra il Turco et unione de principi Christiani

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1051
Image Count:
26
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Turks, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerationi sopra la guerra contra il Turco et unione de principi Christiani

2.
Doges and families of Venice

Published / Created:
[ca. 1553-1554]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 736
Image Count:
350
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Note on the reign of the first Doge of Venice, Pauluccio Anafesto (697-717). 2) History of Venice from its legendary foundation to 695. 3) Alphabetical list of Venetian noble families, with their coats of arms and notes on their history. 4) History of the Doges of Venice up to Francesco Venier, elected 1554, d. 1556, with their coats of arms
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by two hands. A (ff.IIr and 1r-84v): Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; B (ff. 85r-170r): Humanistica Cursiva Currens., Painted coats of arms, those in art. 3 in decorative cartouches. Large decorative painted initials for each family name., The top and the lower corners of the final leaves badly damaged by moist, with loss of some text., and Binding: Date? Pasteboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doges and families of Venice

3.
Essortatione alli principi Christiani perche prendano l'armi et si uniscano contra Turchi

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1047
Image Count:
85
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Turks, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Essortatione alli principi Christiani perche prendano l'armi et si uniscano contra Turchi

4.
Mores Italiae

Published / Created:
1575.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 457
Image Count:
115
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of an album of 105 water-color drawings of Italian costumes and scenes of daily life (some with titles), including two maps of Venice
Description:
In Italian., Drawings mounted, framed by narrow gold strips., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, straight-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, with light blue, watered silk doublures and flyleaves. Possibly bound by one of the Bozerians (Paris, 1793-1817), but the foot of the spine where their signature usually appears was destroyed in rebacking. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mores Italiae

5.
Relatione del clarissimo Girolamo Lippomano ritornato ambasciatore dal Serenissimo Re di Polonia

Creator:
Lippomano, Girolamo
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1049
Image Count:
81
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Poland, and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Lippomano, Girolamo.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relatione del clarissimo Girolamo Lippomano ritornato ambasciatore dal Serenissimo Re di Polonia dal Signoria di Venetia del 1575

6.
Relatione del re de' Romani riferita in seneto Veneto

Creator:
Suriano, Michele, fl. 1558-1573
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1050
Image Count:
130
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Suriano, Michele, fl. 1558-1573.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relatione del re de' Romani riferita in seneto Veneto

7.
Venetian Laws

Published / Created:
[1525-1575]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 751
Image Count:
411
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of over 300 decrees issued by various Venetian governmental bodies: Maior Concilium (Maggior Consiglio), Concilium Sapientum (Consiglio dei Sapienti), Concilium X (Consiglio dei Dieci), Concilium Rogatorum (Consiglio dei Rogati), and others, and by several doges, between 1427 and 1540
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: copied by various hands in Humanistica Cursiva. No decoration., The manuscript also includes an oath formula for Jews, as well as a fragment of commentary on Psalm 96 from Pseudo-Jerome's Breviarium in Psalmos., and Binding: contemporary Venetian binding: blind-tooled calfskin over wooden boards, both covers decorated with two frames traced with quadruple fillets, one frame filled with a tulip roll stamp, the other one with various tools: a cherub's head, a ropework diamond, flowerets and a maple leaf. Five engraved brass bosses (four corner pieces and a center piece) on each cover (two are replacements). Four engraved brass clasps in the same style (two at the side edges and one each at the top and at the bottom edge).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Venetian Laws

8.
Venetian document

Published / Created:
1513.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 381
Image Count:
37
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a Ducale issued in the name of Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice (1438-1521), giving instructions to Andrea Marcello as Governor of Dulcigno (now Ulcinj, Yugoslavia). The document is dated 8 August 1513, and signed by "Victor Blanchus Secretarius," the same individual who signed Beinecke MS 104, a Venetian ducale dated 1515. On ff. 12v-13r is a directive from the Venetian Council of the X, signed by Rafael Iordannis, regarding Andrea Marcello, captain of Dulcingo, and the payment of custom duties; followed by a yearly and quarterly outline of salaries owed, in a different but contemporary hand, signed Zune (Giovanni) Spineli [?].
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Written in elegant italic., One full border (f. 1r), flowers and swirling leaves extending from a vase in lower right corner, gold on a dark purple ground, executed in a style related to Benedetto Bordone; two inset panels at top of folio (framed by thick gold bands), the upper containing the lion of St. Mark stepping out of water and holding an open book, dolphins, and a castle on a cliff in the background, the lower an inscription in gold majuscules on blue ground. In lower margin the Marcello arms (azure a bend wavy or) against a landscape., 2-line initials, on f. 1r only, gold on green and on red grounds respectively. 1-line initials, red, for ff. 1v-10r., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rigid vellum gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Venetian document