Littleton, Thomas, Sir, d. 1481 West, William, fl. 1568-1594
Published / Created:
1617
Call Number:
Osborn pb106
Image Count:
516
Alternative Title:
Tenures
Description:
13 x 8 cm., inlaid and interleaved to 24 x 17 cm. with copious manuscript notes, includes original blank leaves R5-6 at end., Imperfect: leaves 21 and 22 wanting., and In Law French.
Publisher:
Imprinted [by Adam Islip?] for the Companie of Stationers,
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800 and Real property--England--Early works to 1800
Montfaucon writes to Baluze (in exile) about the state of printing business in Paris and with general news of "la republique des lettres". He notes volumes recently published or in press, including: Lodovico Antonio Muratori’s Anecdota Graeca, Origen’s Hexapla, and Jean Mabillon’s Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti.
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Binding: Seventeenth Century (?). Brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames., Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters in artt.1-111. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in ... at the opening of the various texts (3-line initial at the opening of art. 112). On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva on ff. ...... . The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Manuscript on paper containing letters by or related to Lapo da Castiglionchio (d. 1381), and his family: 1) Lapo da Castiglionchio, Letter, written in 1377, to his son Bernardo, canon of the cathedral of Florence, then 14 years old, containing an elaborate treatise in three parts dealing with political and historical questions. 2) Bernardo da Castiglionchio (1363-1383), Letter to his father Lapo, in which he thanks him for the education and protection his father has provided and in particular for the extensive letter he has written in reply to his questions. 3) Bernardo da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Lapo, of about the same time, in which he resumes the theme of the nobility of the Castiglionchio family and provides a panegyric of his father with details about his career. 4) Francesco da Castiglionchio (second half of the fourteenth century), Letter to his father Alberto, brother of Lapo, written 8 June 1381 or slightly later. Describes the coronation of Charles III, King of Naples and Sicily (1381-1386) by Pope Urban VI in the church of St. Peter in Rome on 2 June 1381, an event in the preparation of which Lapo had an important role. 5) Francesco da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Alberto staying at Verona, dated 17 July 1381 and relating the death of Alberto's brother Lapo, which happened in Rome on 27 June of the same year after a short illness, a couple of weeks after the coronation of Charles III, which had been so important for the improvement of the Castiglionchio family. 6) Niccolò Acciaiuoli (1310-1365), Extracts from a letter, dated 26 Dec. 1364, to the Florentine merchant Angelo Soderini (d. 1377) established in Avignon.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown leather with artificial cross grain over cardboard. Blind-tooled spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled inscription in the second compartment: “CASTIGLIONCHIO / EPISTOLE”. Below a small oval paper label with the number “7” in red ink. Yellow spine., Headings and explicit formulas in pale red ink; marginal captions and notes in the same colour or in black; paragraph marks in pale red ink. 4-line initials (Capitalis) in blue (missing f. 2v), at the opening of each art. and of the subdivisions of art. 1. On f. 1r 7-line white vinestem initial integrated into left margin border of the same style. In the lower margin, in a wreath, the Volognano-Castiglionchio coat of arms: silver, with four chains azure in saltire and castle azure. Running headlines in pale red Capitalis in art. 1 only., On the author, a Florentine poet, friend of Petrarch, professor of Canon Law, lawyer, diplomat, politician, see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 22 (1979), pp. 40-44., and Script: Copied by one hand in careful Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The first line of each text and some headings are in Capitalis.
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)--History
Subject (Name):
Castiglionchio, Lapo da,--d. 1381
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Nobility--Italy
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429 Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322
Published / Created:
s. XV mid [mid 15th century]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 753
Image Count:
87
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
De arte audiendi confessiones
Description:
MS includes one letter and one postcard addressed to Reinhold Schmidt by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa; dated 1895 June 29 and November 9, respectively., On paper., Other bibliographic notes by Heydebrand und der Lasa on free endpaper and flyleaf., and With: De arte audiendi confessiones by Jean Gerson; paragraphs 1-21.
Subject (Name):
Heydebrand und der Lasa, Tassilo von, 1818-1899 and Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322. De ludo scachorum
Subject (Topic):
Chess --Early works to 1800, Confession -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800, and Sin -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800