Aeschines Anaximenes, of Lampsacus Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 Demosthenes
Published / Created:
[ca. 1415-20]
Call Number:
Marston MS 10
Image Count:
207
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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. 4) Aeschines, Oratio contra Ctesiphontem. 5) Demosthenes, Oratio pro Ctesiphonte (De corona).
Description:
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps., Binding: Nineteenth century, France or Italy. Brown calf blind- and gold-tooled, with shells and caducei in the blind-tooled borders. Edges red., One very fine illuminated initial, 12-line, in gold on vibrant blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. The stems of the initial are divided into compartments and filled with penwork decoration in red, blue and green on parchment ground. Four small initials, 6- to 5-line, gold on vibrant blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. Headings in red., and Script: Written in an expert humanistic bookhand characterized by prominent approach and finishing strokes. The headings in red are by a different scribe.
Subject (Name):
Demosthenes
Subject (Topic):
Greek letters, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
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 anima (from the Parva naturalia), Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus.
Description:
Attractive flourished initials, red and blue divided with penwork designs in the same colors, mark the beginning of arts. 1-4; first few words of each of these texts written in red and blue alternating majuscules. For minor text divisions 2-line initials red or blue with designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks in red (or sometimes alternating red and blue). Headings and instructions to rubricator in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Parchment case binding made from a bifolium of a missal (Germany, 15th century) containing text for the end of the Secret for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost through part of the Gospel reading for the 12th Sunday. Remains of title, in ink, on spine. Pink (faded red?) edges., and Script: Written in a small neat gothic text script, above top line and with uncrossed tironian et. Marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary or slightly later, in a variety of scholarly hands; annotations written in ink, crayon and lead, some very faded and barely legible.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, 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 Gerolamo Pasqualini.
Subject (Name):
Fonte, Bartolommeo,--1445-1513
Subject (Topic):
Italian letters, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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 to Niccolo Niccoli.
Description:
Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Rigid vellum case with the title gold-tooled on a label on the spine: "Leon. Aret. Opus". Gilt edges and faint lettering on the head edge., Decorated in the early style of Gioacchino de' Gigantibus. On f. 1r a partial border in upper, lower and inner margins, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and dark pink with grey dots on blue grounds, blue dots on pink grounds, and gold balls. In lower border, medallion framed by gold interlace bands and supported by two putti wearing red necklaces, with a coat of arms, now erased, on green ground. Four illuminated initials, 7- to 5-line, in gold, framed in yellow, on blue, green and red grounds, with dots as above. Initial on f. 1r, inhabited by standing putto wearing a red necklace, is joined to the border. Other initials have vine-stem decoration extending into the margins and terminating with groups of three gold balls. Headings and names of interlocutors in red., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat angular humanistic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Hieron--I,--Tyrant of Syracuse,--d. 467 or 466 B.C, Innocent--VII,--Pope,--1336-1406, Niccoli, Niccolò,--ca. 1364-1437, and Plato
Subject (Topic):
Biography--To 500, Dialogues, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Philosophy, Ancient
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:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Half bound in vellum with a gold-tooled spine and Spanish marbled sides. Ribbon bookmark., Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line., Spaces left for initials remain unfilled, except on f. 25r where there are three poorly executed initials in red; guide letters for decorator. Paragraph marks and initial strokes, in red., and Watermarks, along upper edge: unidentified mountain and hunting horn.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Cicero
Subject (Topic):
Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Memory, Rhetorica ad Herennium, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
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:
Binding: Early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans and Nicholas--IV,--Pope,--1227-1292
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, 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:
3 large initials of modest quality, 8- to 7-line, gold on blue or blue and red grounds with white dots and white vine-stem ornament. 1 smaller initial, 3-line, gold on red and blue ground with white dots. Plain initials in blue and red, one in gold, some with penwork flourishes in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide letters for initials., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beige and white chevron endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with green tawed skin between supports. Covered in brown, originally tan, calf with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a border of rope interlace. Spine: sewing bands defined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond catches with a flower in a circle on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps attached with star-headed nails., Purchased from Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script, below top line.
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--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio Giovanni, dalle Celle, ca. 1310-ca. 1396
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 759
Image Count:
416
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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 (Giovanni dalle Celle, 1310-1394 or 1400). With a preface by the translator, explaining why he has abandoned the alphabetical organization of the original text.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Parchment over cardboard. Spine with three raised bands and handwritten title: “Somma / del / Maestruccio / MS.” Two white leather ties. Paper endleaves., Paragraph marks and headings in red. Space and guide letters for 3-line initials (4-line f. 1r, art. 1; 5-line f. 2r, art. 3), which have not been executed., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria with single-compartment a.
Subject (Name):
Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Gazaeus, Aeneas Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410 Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 1
Image Count:
127
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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:
Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays are adhered in and outside the paper gatherings. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps which go through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside where they are pegged. The primary endband, sewn on a tawed skin core, is gilt with traces of a red secondary endband. A design is scratched on the gilt edges. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues and blind-tooled with progressively taller concentric frames alternately decorated with five small tools. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board, some wanting, and four fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board, the upper board cut in for the clasp straps which are attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked., ff. 2r-9v blank (first gathering; foliation begins on preceding flyleaf), One large illuminated initial, 5-line, of modest quality, in gold with black accents on a multicolored ground of red, blue and green with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. One smaller initial (unfinished), parchment color on blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r, in lower border an unidentified coat of arms: vert a chief sable (?), overall a lion (?) rampant gules (or purpre?) on the main field and or in chief and with bend (tincture undetermined) overall; the whole shield overpainted in black. Headings in red., Script: Written in humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6306, and unidentified shrub, ff. i-viii, in gutter; Briquet Tete humaine 15617.
Subject (Name):
Gazaeus, Aeneas
Subject (Topic):
Biography--To 500, Desert Fathers, Dialogues, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monks