- Creator:
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
- Published / Created:
- 1762.
- Call Number:
- 1977 Folio 185 1
- Image Count:
- 149
- Description:
- BEIN 1977 Folio 185: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use. Accompanied by facsimiles of plates, housed separately and classed as 1977 Folio 185 2; some original plates removed from volume and replaced with facsimiles; original plates which have been removed are housed with volume., At head of title: Ioannis Baptistae Piranesii. Antiqvariorvm regiae societatis Londinensis socii., Engraved t.-p.; there is also an added engraved t.-p.: Il Campo Marzio dell' antica Roma., With dedication: Roberto Adam Britanno architecto celeberrimo., In Latin and Italian., and Engraved illus. signed: Piranesi F.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome., Rome, and Campo Marzio (Rome, Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Architecture, Antiquities, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ... Campvs Martivs antiqvae vrbis ...
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- Creator:
- Livy
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1
- Image Count:
- 685
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Livy, Ab urbe condita libri I-X.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in round humanistic script., On f. 1r: the initial F historiated with a view of Rome, full-page illuminated border in gold and colors into which are introduced the Trivulzio arms of Milan (paly of 6, or and vert) and a set of unidentified arms (gules, a cross saltire sable). Initials of books, 8-line, of painted gold on background of blue, green and red, and partial floral border., Initial on f. 2r damaged by crease., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown leather, gold-tooled, edges marbled and gilt, rebacked, with T. LIVII DECAS PRIMA on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Livy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ab urbe condita libri I-X.
- Creator:
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 143
- Image Count:
- 457
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Tacitus, Annales XI-XVI. 2) Tacitus, Historiae I-V. Possibly written for Alfonso II, Duke of Calabria, King of Naples
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes; Scribe 1) ff. 1r-126r in a neat, slightly rounded gothic bookhand; Scribe 2) ff. 126v-218v, in a neat humanistic bookhand., Full border, f. 1r, attributed to Nicola Rapicano: white vine, infilled blue, red, and green, with white dots; framed and divided into panels by thin gold bands, the inner frame with a second band in two shades of purple, with white highlights. Outer and lower margins divided by band of fruit, in the outer margin, black with gold highlights, in the lower margin, red with green and gold highlights; divided into sections and at corners by English frets, infilled blue or green with white dots. In center of outer margin, a medallion after a classical coin or cameo, bust of a man in profile with a laurel wreath against a blue ground with fine white filigree; in center of lower margin, coat of arms of Alfonso II, Duke of Calabria, King of Naples (quarterly, first and fourth paly of 4 or and gules [Aragon], second and third argent, a cross potent sable [Calabria]), in a gold and purple quatrilobe frame, a gold diadem above, against a blue ground, as above, supported by four putti. Putti, birds (including a large peacock, center of inner margin), insects, and a bowl of fruit, symmetrically arranged in corners and around swags, often overlapping or passing behind decorative elements. Both inner and outer frame broken by text and marginalia, suggesting that the border is a later addition. Two lines of gold capitals open the text on f. 1r. On f. 136v, a 5-line white vine initial, gold, infilled red, green, and blue, against a blue ground, of inferior execution compared to f. 1r. Two 3-line initials, ff. 25v and 40v, gold or blue with purple or red penwork; each with guide-letters for illuminator., and Binding: Between 1890 and 1900, or 20th century. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with rope work interspersed with copper colored dots in Italian style (15th century) by Leon Gruel (active under his own name between 1891 and 1923).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Alfonso II, King of Naples, 1448-1495. and Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annales and historiae
- Creator:
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Call Number:
- Bg44 27y
- Image Count:
- 3
- Description:
- BEIN Bg44 27y: Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto: Nec impetu, nec imperio., Signatures: pi² A-R⁸ S⁴(-S4, S3v blank)., and Title in red and black.
- Publisher:
- Chez Jaques [sic] Desbordes, MDCCXXXIV [1734]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
- Creator:
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Published / Created:
- M. DCC XXXIV [1734]
- Call Number:
- 2004 77
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- BEIN 2004 77: Shelfmark label on front pastedown. Undeciphered autograph on t.p. Red chalk marks throughout., Pirated ed. based on the octavo true first ed., Signatures: pi2 A-Y⁸·⁴ Z⁸(-Z8)., Final p. blank., and Includes bibliographical references.
- Publisher:
- Chez Jacques Desbordes
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence
6.
- Creator:
- Herodian
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 182
- Image Count:
- 238
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of a translation by Diego Guillen de Avila (active 1487-1516), from Politian's Latin translation of Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus (in eight books covering the years 180 to 238, in Greek).
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks somewhat similar to Briquet Main 10793., Script: Written by three scribes, in gothic cursive (cortesana) script. Scribe 1 (ff. 1v-3v) uses a large, sprawling hand; Scribe 2 (ff. 5r-86v) a compact, regular one; Scribe 3 (ff. 87r-112r) a large and sprawling one., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Worn red velvet with 2 brass clasp-and-catch fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Herodian.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > History
- Published / Created:
- [between 300 and 325]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 544
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on vellum (2 conjugate folios) from the Septuagint. This is the oldest vellum manuscript in the collection
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: Uncial script., and Torn on all sides and lacking half of second column of first folio and the greater part of the second folio.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > I and II Samuel
8.
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 87
- Image Count:
- 403
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico; Commentarii de Bello Civili; De Bello Alexandrino; De Bello Africo; and De Bello Hispaniensis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small elegant humanistic bookhand., Fine initials, gold capitals, 9- to 5- line, edged in yellow, filled with white-vine ornament, on blue, green, and red ground, decorated with yellow dots. Headings in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Wound sewing on four slit straps. Colored beaded endbands sewn onto cores of tawed skin laced and nailed into wooden boards. All edges gilt. The sewing straps are laced through tunnels in the edges of the boards and nailed in channels on the outside, protruding well above the face. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with an eight-pointed star and corners filled in with rope-tool interlace interspersed with copper-colored dots, in a border of rectangular tools. Four catches on the lower board and stubs of red cloth (velvet?) straps lined with parchment held to the upper with star headed nails
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera omnia
- Published / Created:
- MDXCVIII [1598]
- Call Number:
- 2016 +333
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Alternative Title:
- Peutinger table and Tabvla itineraria ex illvstri Pevtingerorvm Bibliotheca
- Description:
- BEIN 2016 +333: Imperfect: title panel mutilated, with some loss of text. Sheets joined together to form a roll; backed in linen., Relief shown pictorially., "MD" in publication date in apostrophic forms., Appears in Ortelius' Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon. Antwerp, 1624., and "Peutinger Table: Road map of Western Roman Empire about 250 A.D. bought by Conrad Peutinger and published in Venice by Aldus in 1591 (2 sections only), in Antwerp 1598 (12 sections) ... The only record of Roman map making that has survived to the present day."--Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. New York, 1979.
- Publisher:
- È typographeio nostro [i.e. that of Jan Moretus]
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- Roads, Geography, Ancient, and Maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tabula itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca quae Augustae Vindel est beneficio Marci Velseri Septemuiri Augustani in lucem edita. Nobilissimo viro Marco Velsero r.p. Augustanae Septemuiro Ioannes Moretus typographus Antverp s.p.d. ... [cartographic material].
- Creator:
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Image Count:
- 396
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thin, good quality) of 1) Tacitus, Annales XI-XVI. 2) Tacitus, Historiae I-V. Written for King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1458-90), perhaps by Italians at his palace of Buda
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a well formed humanistic script., Twelve initials, 7- to 2-line, at beginning of each book (2 at the beginning of the Annales), gold edged in black, with white vine ornament, against a panelled ground of blue, green and mauve, with white dots, outlined with one or two thin white and one black line; ivy, drawn or pen, with triangular gold leaves or dots, projecting from corners into margins. On f. 1r, the initial includes a putto in the vinework; in the lower margin, coat of arms of Corvinus, type A (quarterly, first and fourth barry of 8 gules and argent [Hungary]; second and third gules, a lion rampant and queue-fourche argent [Bohemia]; an inescutcheon azur with raven sable holding an annulet or, with bordure or [Hunyadi family]. Workmanship of fair quality; style Northern Italian (?)., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on three tawed, slit straps laid in channels in beech boards. The straps are pegged and the channels filled in with plaster as are the endband grooves and the edge channels cut out for the clasps. The primary endband is plain, wound, and sewn on a tawed core and the secondary is beaded and colored. The core is laid in a groove and pegged. The square spine is given a slightly round shape by the bevelling of the boards and is lined with a tawed skin. Covered in dark, brick-red goatskin with a cusped shield azur, charged with a crow sable (Hunyadi family), in the center of each board; blind-tooled rope work, punch dots and other ornamentation gilt, gold-tooled or painted. "Cornelius Tacitus" is tooled along the head of the lower cover and is also written down the fore-edge with black ink. There are four fastenings, the brass catches on the lower board, with three of them covered over with added leather. The clasps are the same color as the cover and are reinforced with parchment. They are pegged in channels at the edges of the board, underneath the cover. The clasps and a little leather of the spine and the upper board are wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490. and Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Corvinus Tacitus