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1. Collection of rhetorical texts on theology, rhetoric, diplomacy, astrology, and literature
- Published / Created:
- [1350-1399]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1059
- Image Count:
- 340
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts, including: 1) A number of works by Albertano da Brescia, 2) Robertus Grosseteste's Templum De, 3) Laurence of Aquileia's Practica sive usus dictaminis, 4) Correspondence between Charles of Anjou and Peter III, King of Aragon, 5) Henry VII, Emperor, Letter to the citizens of Bologna. Manuscript also includes a number of other works
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: except for the table of contents (and possibly the final section) copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); the orthography is very incorrect., A collection of texts, including: 1) Albertano da Brescia, De doctrina dicendi et tacendi, Liber consolationis et consilii, De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vitae, a sermon delivered before a congregation of Genoese notaries and causidici 1243 December 6, and Sermo. 2) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus hominum in saeculo viventium. 3) Pantaleon Barbo, Sermon on the Incarnation and Nativity. 4) Robertus Grosseteste, Templum Dei. 5) Laurence of Aquileia, Practica sive usus dictaminis. (In tabular form, each table covering two facing pages). 6) Iohannes Bondi de Aquilegia or Laurentius de Aquilegia, Theorica sive ars dictaminis. 7) Charles of Anjou (1226-1285), Letter to Peter III, King of Aragon 1276-1285, after the latter's conquest of Sicily, 1282, and a response by Peter III, King of Aragon, to Charles of Anjou. 8) Letter of the cardinals to the newly elected pope Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux (pope Clemens VI, 1305-1314). 9) Henry VII, Emperor (1308-1313), Letter to the citizens of Bologna, 1311. 10) Astrological treatise ascribed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy, 2nd century) with extensive gloss. 11) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Historia Griseldis, Latin translation by Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374). 12) A number of other letters, poems, and treatises., and Binding: parchment wrappers over pasteboard made from leaves of a 15th or 16th century printed book; three white leather straps preserved.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Brescia, Albertano da, active 13th century., Damiani, Petrus, Saint, 1007?-1072., Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253., Charles, of Anjou, 1226-1285., Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., and Peter III, King of Aragon, 1239-1285.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Diplomacy, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of rhetorical texts on theology, rhetoric, diplomacy, astrology, and literature
2. De claris mulieribus
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 398
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks: unidentified mountain) and parchment (inner and outer bifolios, of poor quality) of Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus; translated into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by three persons in round gothic script: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-33v (except f. 8, replaced in 16th century); Scribe 2, ff. 33v-36v; Scribe 3; ff. 37r-74r. In portions written by Scribes 1 and 2 some elaborate ascenders and descenders in upper and lower margins, touched with red., Initials, 3- to 2-line, in red or blue, sometimes with red penwork. Rubrics throughout. Initial added [date?], f. 2v, to replace one removed: blue, with leafy filler in green outline, and foliage extending down margin and across top and bottom of column, drawn in green, red, and blue., Initial removed from f. 2v; leaf was then reinforced with paper covering f. 2r, col. b (blank). Lower margins of ff. 1, 33 and 37 cut off., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum spine and fore-edge strip with marbled paper sides. Label on spine: "Donne Illust. del Boccacc. MS".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De claris mulieribus
3. De mulieribus claris
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 62
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris, with dedication to Andrea Acciaiuoli
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Tete de boeuf 14717 and similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.123., Script: Text written in a well spaced gothic bookhand with humanistic features by a single scribe, below top line. Art. 1 and rubrics added in similar script by another hand., Folio 3r, partial border, of poor quality: in lower margin, a patch of green grass with two women seated, one dressed in red, the other in green and white, supporting a shield with unidentified arms (gules, 3 helmets sable [in outline only]), a later addition. From the patch of grass oak branches with leaves and acorns extend into inner and upper margins. In inner margin, a fox chasing a hare. Folio 80r, a medallion framed in red and pink and four small gold flowers, with an unidentified monogram in gold against blue ground. One pen-and-ink initial, 8-line, blue with pale red penwork. Plain initials alternate in red and blue. Headings in red (ff. 1r-7r only). Many initials touched with red. Guide letters for decorator throughout., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays from contemporary document adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps fastened in channels in flush wooden boards. A primary endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on tawed skin cores. Remains of red secondary embroidery. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin between central supports. Covered in kermes pink, tawed skin with corner tongues, the sides divided into triangles with right angled and diagonal fillets. Three fastenings, the catches on the lower board and stubs of green fabric straps on the upper board which is cut in to accomodate them. Eight star-shaped bosses on the upper board (one wanting) and five on the lower, each board with four bosses on their spine edges. Inscription on upper cover: "de mulieribus claris". Written in ink on fore edge: "LXXXVIII" with a helmet on each side. Label on lower board wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De mulieribus claris
4. Decameron (fragment).
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1400.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 967
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decameron (fragment).
5. Decamerone
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 978
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Decamerone, 7.8, 30-50 and Decamerone, 7.9, 1-5.
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria., and Binding: The leaf has been used as a cover for an archival register (?), the upper part of f. 1r being the front cover. It carries the inscriptions "A", "Gioan Giacomo Saba***".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decamerone
6. Filostrato, etc
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- 1415, [between 1300 and 1369]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 222
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, written in two stages. Part II was copied in the mid-14th century (before 1369) in Tuscany, possibly in Pisa. Part I was copied by Niccolo di Giovanni Cinuzi da Siena in Ferrara, Italy, by 1 Sept. 1415. Part I: Boccaccio, Filostrato. Part II: Articles 2-35 and 38-39 consist of a collection of Italian canzoni by various authors as well as anonymous poems. Artt. 36 and 37 are fragments of Petrarch, Rerum vulgarum
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Monts 11678. Part II: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3737., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-78v): Written by a single scribe in a bold upright notarial script. Part II (ff. 91r-110v): Written in a clear notarial script by a single scribe; later writers have added the initials, offset in margins, for the major sections of text (sometimes inaccurately) and the notes on ff. 109v-110v., Crude drawings include a falconer with birds, f. 103v, and a ghost (?), f. 103r., The pattern of stains suggests the two parts were originally bound separately. Stained throughout; some ink blotches affect text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Red-brown, gold-tooled label. Parchment reinforcements between quires.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Filostrato, etc
7. Guido delle Colonne, Il Troiano; Boccaccio, Il Filostrato
- Creator:
- Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century
- Published / Created:
- 1414.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1137
- Image Count:
- 359
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment of (1) Guido delle Colonne (13th cent.), Historia destructionis Troiae: Italian version by Filippo Ceffi (14th cent.); and (2) Boccaccio, Filostrato; with (3) notes on deceased military figures, poems, and pen and ink drawing
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Copied by the Florentine scribe, Tedice di Ghuigliadore, while a prisoner in Naples in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca)., Decoration: Artt. 1, 2, 6 and 7 are undecorated. In art. 4, there are red headings and paragraph marks; and 4-line red initials at the opening of each book. In art. 5, there are red headings and 2-line red initials. On f. 1r, a 3-line red flourished initial with penwork and a border in a wavy serrated pattern, suggesting a plant issuing from a vase. On f. IVr (art. 3), a full-page pen-and-ink drawing of a battle between the Greek and Trojan armies, with Achilles ("Achille"), Hector ("Ettore"), and Troilus ("Troiolo") in the foreground, and ships at the port and city of Tenedos ("Tenedon") in the background., and Binding: Quarter, reddish brown leather and wooden boards, sewn on four split thongs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. and Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Guido delle Colonne, Il Troiano; Boccaccio, Il Filostrato
