Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks along upper edge) of Ps.-Dionysius the Aereopagite, De ecclesiastica hierarchia, translated into Latin by John the Scot.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown leather with olive green paper sides. Parts of edges daubed bluish-green., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in a stylized gothic script., and Spaces for decorative initials left unfilled. Headings, paragraph marks and running headlines in red.
Subject (Name):
Erigena, Johannes Scotus,--ca. 810-ca. 877 and Pseudo-Dionysius,--the Areopagite
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800
Manuscript, on paper, in Anglicana and secretary script, with headings in Gothic bookhand, produced in England in the 1540s.
Description:
Binding: modern limp vellum with green ties., Ex libris Sir Geoffrey Pole. Purchased from Sotheby's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 1986., In English., Only two other manuscript texts are known., The title given is "A dyalogue of comforte by an hungaryan in latyne and translated owte of latyne in to Frenche and owte of Frenche in to Englishe.", and Watermark: hand with the initials "PB" resembling Bricquet 11383 (Neuberg, 1537), and a pot.
Subject (Name):
More, Thomas,--Sir, Saint,--1478-1535 and Pole, Geoffrey--d. 1558--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Consolation--Early works to 1800 and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica.
Subject (Name):
Minucci, Minuccio,--1551-1604 and Sixtus--V,--Pope,--1520-1590
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
Subject (Topic):
Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library