Manuscript on paper of a Papal bull dated 22 October 1463 in unidentified Italian translation, announcing the adherence of Pope Pius II to the Hungarian-Venetian league
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified horn in gutter., Script: Written in upright mercantesca bookhand (no loops)., One initial, 4-line, in black ink on f. 1r., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case.
Collection contains: "Discorso sulla Potesta del Principe," a bound autograph manuscript with a table of contents in the hand of Fulgenzio Micanzio, Sarpi's disciple, with notes in Greek and Hebrew added in red ink in an unidentified hand; seventeenth century copies of nineteen letters (parts of which are written in numeric code) written by Sarpi to various scholars, with a verification of their authenticity signed by Robert Ubaldini, Bishop of Montepulciano (1607-1622); and a manuscript copy in an unidentified hand of "In qual modo debba governarsi la Republica di Venezia internamente per havere perpetuo Dominio ...L'Anno 1615," a tract falsely attributed to Sarpi until 1685
Description:
Venetian theologian, scholar and patriot. and Available on microfilm
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 and Ubaldini, Roberto, fl. 17th century.
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
Added illustrated title page., Imperfect: large stain of ink along top; small tears with no loss of text., and In ink after author's name: not then 20 years old.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rome --Antiquities --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
Manuscript on parchment (thick, repaired) of a Collection of original documents, copies, translations (from Greek and Turkish) of other documents of the Venetian doges of Candia, dated between 1299 and 1472, mostly in Latin with some later documents in Venetian dialect
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Written throughout by multiple scribes in mercantesca scripts., Many of the leaves are illegible due to severe water damage and damp rot throughout; the codex emits a foul odor., and Binding: Ca. 1800, Italy. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a gold-tooled red label on spine: "Monum. di Cand. Sotto il Dom. Ven. Cod. Memb".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Crete (Greece), Ērakleion (Greece), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
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
