Sonnets
Found In:
33067002
Description
- Title
- Sonnets
- Creator
- Ariani, Jacopo (?)
- Published / Created
- 10 May 1497.
- Publication Place
- Venice
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Jacopo Ariani (?), 200 Sonnets addressed to a lady called Laura. With Alberto Maffei, Colophon in the form of a sonnet addressed to the readers
- Description
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In Italian.
Script: Written by Alberto Maffei in a small calligraphic Humanistica Semitextualis Formata.
Each sonnet opens with a Capital in gold ink, the three subsequent stanzas with alternating red and blue Capitals. On the opening page (f. 2r), however, the opening Capitals are in gold on a square blue background dotted with gold, above each of the two sonnets floral ornaments have been painted in red and gold ink and in the lower margin there is a medallion within a gold wreath adorned with ribbons and containing the coat of arms of the Ariani family flanked by the initials "I.A.". ff. 1 and 52 are stained purple and the text of artt. 1 and 3 is written in gold ink, the headings being executed in silver ink. On both pages silver and gold floral ornaments in three margins. The ones in the lower margins end in Capital "A" (for "Albertus").
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue velvet over cardboard with blue watered-silk doublure. Gilt edges. - Provenance
- Purchased from Martin Breslauer, London, July 1976, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. iv + 52 + iv : 210 x 125 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 585
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Ariani, Jacopo.
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval - Subjects
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Ariani, Jacopo
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian poetry > 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Jacopo Ariani, Sonnets. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9612529
- Object ID (OID)
- 33067002
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