Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Novella 8 and Novella 9 of the Second Day of Boccaccio's Decameron
Description:
In Italian., Layout: double columns of 43 lines., Script: early Italian humanist script., and Leaves were originally a conjoint bifolium, but were separated for later use in a binding, with some resultant staining and damage.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of an Italian translation of Book 8, chapters 4-5 of the Facta et memorabilia dicta of Valerius Maximus
Description:
In Italian., Script: humanist cursive., Decoration: rubricated. 9 initials of 2 or 3 lines in alternating red and blue ink., and Layout: single columns of 35/36 lines.
Manuscript bifolium on parchment, containing text from the Heroides, with the text of the Italian prose translation by Filippo Ceffi framing it in the margins
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: capitals touched in yellow ink. Headings in red ink., and Labeled in a large later hand: "Ricorda...anno...161...."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ceffi, Filippo. and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
