You Searched For
Search Results
10. Satirae I-XVI
- Creator:
- Juvenal
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 73
- Image Count:
- 144
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. 2) Unidentified commentary on the sixteen satires of Juvenal. This extensive commentary, written in the same hand as the text, draws upon some of the earlier scholia as well as works of later scholars. 3) Miscellaneous passages on the nature of tragedy, satire, comedy, plus a short life of Juvenal
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14874., Script: Written by a single scribe in a well spaced informal batarde for the main text and in a very small cramped batarde for surrounding notes., Crude illuminated initial, 9-line, on f. 1r; red initials, 3-line, at beginning of remaining satires. First letter of each verse stroked in red (ff. 13r-61r); some lines underlined in red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Cloth boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Juvenal.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Satirae I-XVI
11. Epigrams
- Creator:
- Martial
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 64
- Image Count:
- 400
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Martial, Epigrams. The codex was misbound; the epigrams are out of order. Excerpts from the critical commentary of Domizio Calderini (Professor of Rhetoric at Rome in 1470) surround the text on ff. 1r-24v and 165r-193r. With an unidentified prose text outlining the development of civilization
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in a neat italic for the text and a less formal hand for the commentary and for the unidentified text on ff. 193r-194v., Gold initials, 5-line, on blue, dark red and green grounds, with white and gold highlights, mark the beginning of each book. Small, plain initials, alternating red and blue, for each epigram. Commentary and titles, in various shades of red., Final folios creased and rubbed; some loss of marginal text due to trimming and wear., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum case, blind-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Martial.
- Subject (Topic):
- Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and Verse satire, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epigrams
12. Aeneis
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1390 and 1400, 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 57
- Image Count:
- 233
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy; various unidentified watermarks) of Virgil, Aeneis. Some lines lacking; most were presumably on leaves that became detached and have fallen out. Prefaced to each book are ten or eleven lines in verse. The text of Vergil is accompanied on ff. 1r-5v by marginal and interlinear glosses, the greater portion of which are derived from or an adaptation of Servius. The commentary does, however, include notes (some in Greek) independent of Servius
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-6): Written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe; apparently added later to replace lost leaves. Part II (ff. 7-57): Written in fere-humanistic script by one scribe. Spaces left for initials. A large gap in the text occurs between Parts II and III (6.587 to 7.744). Part III (ff. 58-112): Written by a single scribe in a script similar to that in Part II., Spaces left for initials., Many pages unattached due to the brittle binding., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three slit leather straps. There is no indication of an earlier sewing, but the book was extensively mended before it was sewn. Tawed cores of plain wound endbands laid in grooves. Beech boards with rectangular channels on the outside in which the straps are nailed. The spine is lined with brown leather and the book covered in dark brown sheepskin faintly blind-tooled with a central diamond made up of arches with small ornaments scattered in and around it. Tongue turn-ins. There are two catches on the lower board and traces of red and cream silk ribbons nailed to the upper one with star-headed nails. The title is painted in red on the spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius, active 4th century. and Virgil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
13. Summulae naturalium
- Creator:
- Venetus, Paulus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 32
- Image Count:
- 358
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Summulae naturalium, composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429).
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfinger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder., Script: Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, below top line; inital words of each section in gothic bookhand., Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, filled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout., Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373". Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle., Venetus, Paulus., and Augustinians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Physics, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summulae naturalium
14. Epistolae ad familiares
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 92
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. Marginal and interlinear notes accompany the text of each letter (except for that to P. Vatinius appearing on ff. 26v-27v which was copied twice, apparently in error). Written probably for use as a school text (vocabulary lists on ff. 4 and 9).
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified letter P in gutter., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic cursive, with a smaller script for glosses., Simple initials in red at the beginning of each letter; titles preceded by paragraph marks, and underlined, in red., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum case; spine fragile and splitting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae ad familiares
15. Commentarius in tragoedias Senecae
- Creator:
- Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 150
- Image Count:
- 522
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Nicolas Trevet, Commentarius in tragoedias Senecae
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14330, 14338, Piccard Ochsenkopf I.701, Briquet Main 11092., Script: Written in semi-gothic cursive script by a single scribe, above top line; headings in gothic bookhand., Red and/or deep aquamarine blue initials, 10- to 5-line, with penwork flourished in same color(s), mark beginning of each play. On f. 1r head of bearded man peeps out from behind foliage in interior of letter; on other initials penwork designs extend into margins to form borders (e. g., 170r). Plain initials, 5- to 2-line, paragraph marks, headings, in red., Many leaves stained and crumbling along edges; no loss of text., and Binding: Date? The backs of the quires are cut in, some in a W shape. Resewn on two tawed skin, slit straps. Endband sewn on a tawed skin core laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and nailed. The back oak board was previously covered with leather; front board is of unidentified wood. This seems to be a patched together binding using boards from different, possibly 15th-century, books. Presently quarter bound with brown sheepskin, blind-tooled, with radiant IHS in circles. Spine: supports defined with triple (?) fillets; an X with a central cross bar in the panels. Two fastenings, with the catches on the lower board. The upper board cut in for straps fastened with star-headed nails. Remains of title, in ink, on tail edge.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. and Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin drama (Tragedy), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in tragoedias Senecae
16. Unidentified grammatical treatise, Vita vergiliana, etc
- Published / Created:
- 1476.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 49
- Image Count:
- 169
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified grammatical treatise, Vita vergiliana, etc
17. Orationes, De oratore, Orator, Brutus, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [1420s, between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 6
- Image Count:
- 810
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of speeches by Cicero. Introductions to ten of the speeches were composed by Antonio Loschi between 1391 and 1405. The pattern of stains indicates that Parts I and II were once separate; it is unclear when they were bound together
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified letter B. Part II: Briquet Tete de boeuf 15068, and Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.40., Script: Part I (ff. 1-232): Written by a single scribe in a fere-humanistic script characterized by the broadness of majuscule letter forms; written below top line. Part II (233-398): Written in a small gothic script with cursive features, below top line., Part I: Elegantly decorated title-page (f. 1r) with a full border: in inner and upper margins, thin gold bar with flowers in mauve, blue and gold and stylized foliage in green with pale yellow highlights; in outer and lower margins, floral border of black inkspray with flowers in mauve and blue and with some gold accents and stylized foliage in green. In center of lower margin, a shield with unidentified coat of arms, much rubbed supported by two standing nude female figures with flowing blond hair. One historiated initial, 12-line, mauve, green and pink against gold ground, with extremely fine portrait in profile of a man wearing a two-tiered red cap and academic gown against a blue background with a geometric pattern in black and greyish blue. 6-line initials, blue with red penwork designs alternate red with purple for the beginning of each text. Headings in red., Part II: Red and black divided initial, 6-line, with plain designs on f. 234r; plain red initials some with simple designs, 5- to 2-line, elsewhere. Paragraph marks and initial strokes in red., The dark acidic ink has bled through many leaves; no loss of text., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Gold-tooled brown, mottled calf spine. Edges gilt. Boards, composed of paper pasteboard, are detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Loschi, Antonio, d. 1441.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, De oratore, Orator, Brutus, etc
18. Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses
- Published / Created:
- 1471.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 762
- Image Count:
- 904
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions and institutions of the Roman empire. 6) Note on the structure of Roman personal names. 7) Headings of the chapters of Books 1-9 of Facta et dicta memorabilia. 8) Giunta de Sancto Giminiano (14th century), alphabetical table to Facta et dicta memorabilia, from A to T, with ample blank spaces between each letter of the alphabet. 9) Mentions of Valerius Maximus and Livy in works of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyre. 10) Valerius Maximus (1st century), Facta et dicta memorabilia, including the pseudepigraphic Book 10, De interpretacionibus nominum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the text very large, the glosses small., Underlining, paragraph marks, headings, stroking of majuscules and plain initials (with guide letters), all in red., The pages damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding in brown leather, the cardboard covers covered with marbled brown paper. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and brown title label with gold-tooled inscription: “VALERIUS MAXIMUS / MANUSCRIPTUM”. Red sprinkled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Description and travel, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses
