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1. Miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 720
- Image Count:
- 677
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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, archaeological treatises, etc
- Description:
- In Latin, Italian, French and Greek., Script: many different hands writing Humanistica Cursiva or Gothica Cursiva, sometimes in careful, but mostly in rapid execution., A few pen and ink drawings., Composed of numerous detached pieces (numbered and occasionally annotated by an English hand (1890-1900)), in various hands, some original, but mostly copies of documents and manuscript books, and often almost illegible due to the use of acid ink or the cursivity of the script. Many blank pages; many (blank?) leaves got lost after the codex was foliated., and Binding: 18th century (?). Quarter parchment over pasteboard, the covers in marbled paper. Flat spine gold-tooled, with red leather label carrying gold-tooled inscription "MANUSCRIT. / 16. SIÈCLE".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
- Subject (Topic):
- Eastern churches, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellany
2. Novellae
- Creator:
- Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 723
- Image Count:
- 187
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Girolamo Morlini (c. 1480-after 1528), Novellae. The manuscript is an exact copy of the edition Naples, Giovanni Pasquet de Sallo, 1520. It reproduces all the features of its printed model, including frontispiece woodcut, foliation and signatures. Soon after its publication the book was suppressed because of the obscenities many Novellae contain
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in clear Humanistica Cursiva; titles in Capitalis., 2-line initials (Capitalis) in black ink. Renaissance initial in pen and ink on f. 2r; space for an initial, with guide-letter, on f. 4r. The frontispiece is a pen-and-ink copy of the original woodcut, showing the author in his study, seated at his desk, with a clock and an armillary sphere, under a starry sky with sun and moon., Numerous pages are damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: Paper (or thin parchment) over pasteboard; on the spine gold-tooled bordeaux leather label with the title "MORLINI. / NOVEL.". Mark of a red seal on the rear cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novellae
