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 and parchment of (1) Guido delle Colonne (13th cent.), Historia destructionis Troiae: Italian version by Filippo Ceffi (14th cent.); and (2) Boccaccio, Filostrato; with (3) notes on deceased military figures, poems, and pen and ink...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. and Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.
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. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
Description:
In Italian and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
Manuscript on paper of a Miscellany of vernacular humanistic prose texts, including works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Francesco Filelfo, and Leonardo Bruni
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
