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Psychomachia, with glosses

Creator:: Prudentius, 348-
Published / Created:: [between 1200 and 1300?]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 691
Image Count:: 40
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Prudentius (beginning of the fifth century), Psychomachia, with interlinear and marginal glosses by various hands in Latin and Italian, variant readings and corrections
Description:: In Latin, with Italian glosses., Script: Copied by one hand writing an uneven Southern Semitextualis Libraria with some two-compartment a's. The scribe Ciutus is not recorded., Red stroking of the majuscules. 2-line red plain initials. Larger and more elaborate initial in red and black at the opening of the text. Numerous pointing hands., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellow parchment over pasteboard, both covers framed with a gilt running scroll. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "PRUDENTII PSYCHOMACHIA . COD. SEC. XV (?)".
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Prudentius, 348-
Subject (Topic):: Allegory, Christian poetry, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psychomachia, with glosses

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Rhomitypion

Creator:: Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234-149 B.C
Ponti, Antonino
Published / Created:: 1523
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 791
Image Count:: 124
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of Antoninus Pontus (Antonino Ponti from Cosenza, ca. 1600-1650), Rhomitypion. An allegorical treatise in three parts on the past and present state of Rome and Italy, topography, cosmography, geography, etc. Includes a dream vision of heaven and a dialogue between the author and Cato the Censor. Ends with a panegyric in praise of Giovanni Ruffo de' Teodoli, Archbishop of Cosenza (1511-1527), the author's patron. The manuscript is apparently unique and probably an autograph fair copy.
Description:: At many places the paper is damaged and the reading impaired by the acidity of the ink., Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 887. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Binding: Original presentation binding: light brown leather over pasteboard. Spine with three raised bands, gauffered and gilt edges. Both covers are decorated with two frames of blind-tooled quadruple fillets surrounding rich gold-tooled frames with in the centre on the front cover the coat of arms of the dedicatee (with six-spoked wheel), on the rear cover a large rosette. Remainders of two pairs of ties., On f. 2v, painted coat of arms of Giovanni Ruffo de' Teodoli, Archbishop of Cosenza, surmounted by a cross and placed in a floral wreath, above two distychs. At the head of each part a 6-line silver initial (Capitalis), outlined with black ink, on a square red or blue background with silver foliate decoration. A small purple initial in the space for a 4-line initial on f. 4r., and Script: Copied by one hand in a slightly uneven upright Humanistica Cursiva Formata. Headings and explicit-incipit formulas in capitals.
Subject (Geographic):: Rome (Italy)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):: Ponti, Antonino
Subject (Topic):: Allegory, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Visions
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rhomitypion

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Iacobus de Cessolis, Giovanni del Virgilio, Walter Burley, etc.

Creator:: Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Giovanni del Virgilio, fl. 1319
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:: [ca. 1400]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 892
Image Count:: 248
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of 1) Iacobus de Cessolis OP (d. after 1322), Libellus de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scaccorum. 2) A largely fabulous and incoherent history of the Roman empire up to the siege of Rome by the Moslems in 846. 3) Alphabetical index to artt. 1-2, referring to the number of the book as indicated by the running headlines, and the number of the chapter as indicated by numbers in the margin, by Dominicus de Dominicis OCarm, bishop of Sitia in Crete (1395-1399). 4) Alphabetical index to art. 5, referring to the number of the book and of the Metamorphose, by the same author as art. 3. 5) Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, the prose parts only; instead of the poetical parts, there are excerpts from the Narrationes fabularum Ovidiarum by Lactantius Placidus (dates unknown) and perhaps from other sources. 6) Historia septem sapientum Romae. 7) De vita et moribus philosophorum, generally ascribed to Gualterus Burlaeus (Walter Burley, 1275-after 1344).
Description:: Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Quarter binding: brownish parchment and uncovered heavy paper boards On the spine is written in ink "Tedesco"., Script: Most of the text is apparently written by four different hands, all using Gothica Cursiva Libraria: hand A copied ff. 1r-39r, hand B ff. 49r-60v, hand C ff. 61r-80v, hand D ff. 85r-117r. The indexes (artt. 3-4), slovenly copied in Gothica Cursiva Currens on blank pages in quire IV, are younger than the text and difficult to decipher. The same hand seems to have written the running headlines in artt. 1 and 5 and the foliation in art. 7., Simple decoration consisting of red headings and red paragraph marks. In artt. 1-2 2-line plain red initials (3-line at the opening, f. 1r); in artt. 5-7 2-line plain initials with rudimentary flourishing (often consisting of dots), all in red; the opening initials of artt. 5 and 7 are 3-line initials; a human face has been drawn in the initial on f. 51r. Guide letters. Red stroking of majuscules on ff. 49r-85r only., and There is early foliation from "f. 1" to "f. 32" in the center of the upper margin of ff. 85r-116r; the numbers are repeated on the verso and are to be understood in the modern sense, being valid for recto and subsequent verso. Many pages are blank.
Subject (Name):: Jacobus,--de Cessolis,--active 1288-1322
Subject (Topic):: Allegory, Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Chess--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Philosophy, Ancient
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Iacobus de Cessolis, Giovanni del Virgilio, Walter Burley, etc.

4.
Moralitates de avibus, etc

Creator:: Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
Published / Created:: [between 1350 and 1400]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 13
Image Count:: 48
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of Hugo de Folieto, Moralitates de avibus; Moralitates de piscibus; Moralitates de lapidibus. This work is often attributed to Hugh of St. Victor in manuscripts
Description:: In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic bookhand; many abbreviations., Painted initial at beginning of prologue in blue, brown, pale yellow, green, and orange; smaller initials in red or blue with penwork designs. Paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrics throughout., and Binding: Twentieth century. Quarter paper case.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
Subject (Topic):: Allegory, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moralitates de avibus, etc

5.
Allegoria sulla guerra presente 1789 1790 1791

Creator:: Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-1803
Published / Created:: 1791
Call Number:: GEN MSS FILE 364
Image Count:: 13
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:: Manuscript in an Italic hand of a satirical allegory on the events of the Russo-Turkish war, in which the various sovereigns are represented by animal figures. A key to the allegory follows the poem. The manuscript also includes a sonnet based on verse by Voltaire and a longer poem satirically comparing a poor student to a herring.
Description:: Purchased from Bennett Gilbert on the Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mokarski Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):: Voltaire, 1694-1778--Influence
Subject (Topic):: Allegory, Italian poetry--18th century, Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792, and Verse satire, Italian
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Allegoria sulla guerra presente 1789 1790 1791

6.
The Abbey of the holy ghost and other works

Published / Created:: [ca. 1400-1470]
Call Number:: Takamiya MS 65
Image Count:: 100
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, on vellum, in several hands, containing several Middle English devotional texts. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost is followed by The Meditation of St. Anselm; The Five Sorrows of the Virgin; and an explanation of how to say the Psalter of the Virgin. These are followed by a poem to the VIrgin ("Mari moder well [th]e bee"); a six-line political poem referring to Edward IV ("The lyon sens thre days"); and a recipe for a medicine for pestilence, in a later hand
Description:: In Middle English., Script: several hands., Decoration: Abbey of the Holy Ghost has initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: modern full red morocco.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483 and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):: Allegory, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Women, and Conduct of life
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Abbey of the holy ghost and other works