Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History, Military
Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Egypt
Subject (Name):
Diodorus, Siculus.
Subject (Topic):
History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458
Published / Created:
[between 1550 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 489
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of two segments, formerly separate books. Part I: 1) Letter from Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana (1398-1458), to his nephew Pedro de Mendoza, Senor de almacan. Santillana promises to send a copy of his own s...
Description:
In Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458. and Tacitus, Cornelius.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Medieval, and Spanish poetry
Manuscript on paper (trimmed), with parchment bifolios interspersed, of Julius Caesar, Commentary on the Gallic Wars, translated into French by Jean Duchesne. Written for Jacques Donche, counselor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Gaul
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Origen, Commentarius in ad Romanos, translated into Latin by Rufinus. Probably written at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini (1398-1444).
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Cesarini, Giuliano, Cardinal, 1398-1444.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue; made, and presented in 1445, for Charles VII of France (1422-1461).
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Ps.-Dionysius Areopagita, De caelesti hierarchia, translated into Latin by Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), with his commentary
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Astronomy, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, translated into French by Renaut de Louhans. As the translator states in the prologue, his work incorporates material from a commentary on Boethius made by another member of the Domini...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524., Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328., and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Consolation, French poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Antonio Beccadelli (Antonius Panormita, 1394-1471), De dictis et factis Alfonsi regis, Ital. translation. With Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Iohannes Iovianus Pontanus, 1426-1503), De principe, Ital. translation
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Name):
Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Laurentius Iustinianus (Lorenzo Giustiniani, 1381-1456), De disciplina et spirituali perfectione monasticae conversationis (De disciplina spiritualium), Italian translation by Iohannes de Tossignano (Giovanni Tavelli da...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lawrence Justinian, Saint, 1381-1456.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks along upper edge) of Ps.-Dionysius the Aereopagite, De ecclesiastica hierarchia, translated into Latin by John the Scot
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Erigena, Johannes Scotus, approximately 810-approximately 877. and Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Subject (Topic):
Mysticism, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troiae historia, in the Latin translation ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, followed by the lists of those killed by the heroes on both sides. 2) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, Normandy (France), and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Dares, Phrygius. and Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper of 1) Leonardo Bruni, La prima guerra punica, in an anonymous Italian translation. 2) Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Dante. 3) Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Francesco Petrarca
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest) of 1) Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with his dedicatory preface to Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici. 2) Leonardo Bruni, Oratio Heliogabali ad meretrices. 3) Plato, Crito, the first version of the Latin translation...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (fine, smooth) of 1) Prologue. 2) Moamin, De scientia venandi per aves, translated into Latin by Theodorus of Antioch. Although the prologue states that there are four treatises composed by Moamin, the fourth (Quartus naturam e...
Alternative Title:
Moamin
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), Die deutsche Sphaera, an adaptation in German of Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. With 23 verses dealing with the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet, excerpted from Hugutio of Pi...
Description:
In German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, German poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Numerology, and Science, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (hair side yellow and speckled) of Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum; an abridged translation that contains only 77 lives
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of 1) Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. 2) Mapheius Vegius, Declamatio seu disputatio inter solem, terram et aurum. 3) Selected speeches from Homer, Iliad IX (Oratio Ulixis, Responsio Achillis, Orat...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Epic poetry, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper of Jerome, Epistolae, etc., translated into Italian by Ser Nicolaus Berti Martini de Gentiluzis de Sanctogeminiano, a notary in Florence (ca. 1388-1468). With Ps.-Augustine, Epistula ad Cyrillum, concerning the death of St. Jerome
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 2) Unidentified couplet. 3) Ps.-Brutus, Epistolae, translated by Rinuccio Aretino and dedicated to Pop...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. and Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (slightly polished) of 1) Giacomo Curlo, Preface addressed to Ferdinand I of Naples. 2) Giacomo Curlo, Epitoma Donati in Terentium. 3) Antonio Cassarino, Preface addressed to Giacomo Curlo. 4) Plutarch, Apophthegmata, Latin transla...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Donatus, Aelius., Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458., Curlo, Giacomo., Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494., and Terence.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest: written over an unidentified canon law text, 1250-75) of Epitome of Aristotle's Ethics translated into Italian by Taddeo d'Alderotto (ca. 1235-1295).
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295. and Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, composed of two closely related parts. Part I: Guarino da Verona, Ipotesia ad Hieronymum (filium) suum, written in 1443. Part II: 3) Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with the prefatory letter to Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici (139...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf...
Description:
In French and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, Latin
Manuscript on paper (sturdy), composed of two volumes formerly bound as one. Volume I (ff. 1-55): Historia Alexandri Magni compiled largely from the version of Archpresbyter Leo, translated into Italian. Volume 2 (ff. 56-115): Leonardo Bruni, De primo...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into Italian and supplemented with material from Plutarch by Pier Candido Decembrio. 2) Pier Candido Decembrio, Comparazione di Cesare e d'Alessandro Magno
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Caesar, Julius., Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477., Plutarch., and Rufus, Curtius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Paul the Deacon, Historia gentis Longobardorum. 2) Palladius of Helenopolis, Liber de moribus Brachmanorum, translated into Latin
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and India
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Lombards, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) in two volumes of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, translated into French by Guyart des Moulins. Missing the beginning of Numbers (v. 1, one folio following f. 115), the beginning of 3 Kings (v. 1, one folio fol...
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) in two volumes of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, translated into French by Guyart des Moulins. Missing the beginning of Numbers (v. 1, one folio following f. 115), the beginning of 3 Kings (v. 1, one folio fol...
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Herodian.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Spanish literature, and History
Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology ...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Devotional literature, French, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript on parchment of Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, translated into Italian. With Office of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus de aeterna sapientia), composed by Henry Suso; and several anonymous, miscellaneous texts
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti
Description:
In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Strambotto
Manuscript on parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) in two parts, the first of which has several distinct formats. Part I: 1) Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as Lais, lacking all of Book I and part of Book II. Part II: 2) Edmund Rich, St., abp. of Canterbury...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pierre, de Peckham, -1293.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (worn and stained) of a collection of moralistic sayings, compiled from various authorities: the French version of an Arabic work of the 11th century. Guillaume de Tignonville (d. 1414) composed the French text from a Latin tra...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Arabic literature, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Prologue by the translator, addressed to Henry of Lusignan, Prince of Galilee (d. 1427). 2) Plutarchus (c. 46-120), Vita Luculli, Latin translation by Leonardus Iustinianus (Leonardo Giustiniani, 1388-1446). 3) Plutarchus, Co...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cimon, d. ca. 450 B.C., Lucullus, ca. 117 B.C.-ca. 56 B.C., and Plutarch.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) John Lydgate (ca. 1370-ca. 1451), Life of Our Lady. The beginning is missing (Book I, verses 1-70 ). 2) The Privity of the Passion, an anonymous English translation, here attributed to Walter Hilton (d. 1396), of part of ...
Description:
In Middle English with some Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Ovid, Metamorphoses, translated into Italian and with allegorical interpretations by Giovanni Bonsignori (Citta di Castello, d. after 1377), finished 29/30 Nov. 1377. With various Italian poems by different poets. The scribe Gio...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Italian poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (various sizes and qualities) of a collection of notes and documents mostly related to Italian cities, dioceses and abbeys; Eastern churches and monasticism; and Central Europe; but containing also saints' lives, poetry, letters, a...
Description:
In Latin, Italian, French and Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Eastern churches, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Description and travel
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated i...
Description:
In Italian and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (speckled on hair side) of Greek works translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni: 1) Demosthenes, Olynthica tertia. 2) Aeschines, Epistola senatui populoque Atheniensi. 3) Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Epistola Philippi ad Athenienses...
Manuscript on parchment (thin, pliable) of Aristotle, 1) Priora analytica, Lat. tr. Boethius. 2) Posteriora analytica, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus (ca. 1130-40). 3) Books I-III of the Ethica Nicomachea. 4) De anima, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus. 5) De an...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper of Bartolommeo Fonzio (1445-1513), 1) Italian translation of Leonard Bruni's Latin translation of the "Oratio ad Alexandrum," attributed to Demosthenes. 2) Italian translation of Marsilio Ficino's "De Magnificentia." 3) Letter to G...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Fonte, Bartolommeo, 1445-1513.
Subject (Topic):
Italian letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Plato, Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni and preceded by his prefatory letter to Pope Innocent VII. 2) Xenophon, Hiero (Tyrannus), translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni and preceded by his prefatory letter...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hieron I, Tyrant of Syracuse, -467 B.C. or 466 B.C., Innocent VII, Pope, 1336-1406., Niccoli, Niccolò, approximately 1364-1437., and Plato.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Dialogues, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper of Aristoteles, Poetica, anonymous Latin translation of chapters 1-7. On f. 2r the translator has replaced Homer and Empedocles, cited by Aristotle, by Virgil and Lucretius ("Nihil tamen commune est Virgilio et Lucretio nisi carmen...
Description:
In Latin and Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper and parchment (goatskin) of 1) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistulae, tr. Franciscus Aretinus (Francesco Griffolini, 1420-after 1465). 2) Ps.-Brutus, Epistulae, tr. Rinucius Aretinus (Rinuccio d'Arezzo, c. 1395-after 1450). 3) Prologue (7 verses...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Phalaris.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (coarse, remains of deckle edges) of 1) Unidentified Italian epitome of the Ps.-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. 2) Unidentified and anonymous treatise on memory
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Cicero.
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Memory, and Rhetoric
Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas IV, Pope, 1227-1292. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
Manuscript on parchment of John Chrysostom, Sermo de dignitate humanae originis, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. The text is preceded by a dedicatory letter, here directed to Rene d'Anjou (King of Sicily and Naples, 1435-42).
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. and Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439.
Subject (Topic):
Catechetical sermons, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on paper of Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio (Bartholomaeus Pisanus O.P., 1262-1347), Summa de casibus conscientiae (Kaeppeli 436), also called Summa Bartolina, Pisana, Pisanella, Magistrutia), translated into Italian by Iohannes de Cellis...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bartholomew, of San Concordio, 1262-1347. and Dominicans.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on paper of 1) Aeneas Gazaeus, Theophrastus, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. 2) Life of St. Helenus, monk in Egypt. Text is an extract (incomplete) taken from the Latin translation by Rufinus of the Historia monachorum, ch. 11...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gazaeus, Aeneas.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Desert Fathers, Dialogues, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monks
Manuscript on paper of an unidentified treatise, incomplete, on the Cardinal Virtues; material taken mostly from Valerius Maximus, with additional material from Augustine, the Bible, Cicero, Seneca, Macrobius, Aristotle, and Vegetius
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Cardinal virtues, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374), Trionfi, in the French translation by Simon Bourgouin, incomplete: ends with the translation of Triumph of Death, chapter 2, verse 27.
Manuscript on paper of Bernardo Giustiniani (Bernardus Iustiniani, 1408-1489), Vita Beati Laurentii Iustiniani, translated into Italian by the Venetian Niccolo Manerbi (Malherbi, 1422-81).
Description:
St. Laurence Giustiniani (1381-1456) was the first patriarch of Venice. The author of this biography was his nephew.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Giustiniani, Bernardo, 1408 or 1409-1489. and Lawrence Justinian, Saint, 1381-1456.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Artt. 1-6: Aesop (Aesopus, 6th cent. before C.), Vita et fabulae, Latin translation by Rinuccio da Castiglione (Rinucius Aretinus, ca. 1395-after 1456). Artt. 7-8: Aesop, Fabulae, Latin translation by Ognibene Leoniceno (Omnibon...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aesop.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari and preceded by his dedicatory letter to Cosimo de' Medici
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Diogenes Laertius. and Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Ancient, and Literature, Medieval
