Statvto e tassa de mercedi che si devono al governatore
Description:
Manuscript., Separate title-pages for Statvtvm Montisfortini giving the date for the enactment of the laws as 1606, and showing a fortress as the symbol of the town; and for Tassa della mercede showing heraldic shield within ornamental border., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b257446, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, MssJ M764 no.1 tall., Description based on print version record. , Hicks classification: MssJ M764 no.1 tall., and Monte fortino, in the province of Rome, changed its name in 1873 to Artena. Do not confuse with Montefortino, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Fermo in the Italian region Marche.
Publisher:
producer not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Artena.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Italian, Taxation, and Law and legislation
Manuscript on paper of Guido da Pisa, Fiorita d'Italia
Description:
In Italian., Script: copied by one hand in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria with looped d (a form of Mercantesca)., Red headings, chapter numbers and stroking of majuscules; the latter form of decoration is missing on many pages. Headings and chapter numbers are missing for the final part of Book I. Tables of Contents in red. Space and guide letters for 2-line initials were provided, but no initials were executed., and Binding: quarter binding s. XIX: marbled paper and parchment over cardboard. Green morocco title label with gold-tooled inscription: “STORIA D'ITALIA - MANUSCRIPT. SAEC. XV”.
Half-length portrait in an oval frame, a young woman turned slightly left, facing front, wears a black veil over head and shoulders. She wears a pearl earring and necklace of several strands of beads (pearls?).
Alternative Title:
Venetian lady in the Sindall dress
Description:
Title from item. and Scratched-letter state of: A Venetian lady in the Sindall dress.
Publisher:
Publish'd 30 of July 1776, by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Wash drawing of a castle, with two figures in the left foreground and a low wall extending towards the viewer in the right foreground; a cloud-filled sky completes the top half of the image
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably copied from the wash drawing by Willey Reveley of the real-life Castle of Otranto; that drawing was kept by Horace Walpole in the Small Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 227 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Manuscript on three scrolls of parchment, two of which have been crudely stitched together, while the third is separate. They concern inhabitants of the castle and town of Lustignano in the valley of the river Cornia in Northwestern Italy. 1) Land transaction between Niccholaus, duke of Volterra, and Iohannes, Count of Lustignano, on behalf of a certain Michael; signed by the notary Guarnerius; dated 1350 (detached). 2) Unidentified land transaction involving Iohannes filius [one word unclear] de Lustignano; name of notary scratched out; dated 1304. 3) Bill of contumacy involving Raymerus Balduccus and the brothers "Iohannes and Michelis"; signed by the notary Barthalus Sanuccius (?) of Volterra; dated 1346
Description:
In Latin., Script: All were written in cramped and abbreviated chancery hands. Filing notes, in Italian (17th century), on dorse of each scroll., and Second roll is mutilated and worn, with text illegible at head and tail.
Holograph diary of a several months' tour through France and Italy, concluding in Italy. Topics include sights seen, with particular emphasis on gardens and landscape, sites associated with poets, and paintings by Renaissance artists
Description:
Inscription on front flyleaf: J. Mitford. 1822.
Subject (Geographic):
France and Italy
Subject (Name):
Mitford, John, 1781-1859.
Subject (Topic):
Travelers' writings, English and Description and travel
Manuscript of a travel diary which opens with the writer already in Rome on December 11, 1765, documents his sojourn in Italy, and concludes with a journey to Vienna, Berlin, and finally Potsdam one year later. The unidentified author describes the art and architecture of several Italian cities, the studios of artists and art dealers in Rome, and military sites, garrisons, and installations in Venice, Toulon and Austria, as well as the docks and warships of Naples
Description:
Bookplate: Ver Hayden de Lancey of the Middle Temple and Grey's Inn., Flyleaf note: "Diary of a stay in Rome 1764/64 and a journey from Rome to Berlin via Naples Marseilles - Genoa - Milan - Parma -Bologna , Venice and Vienna. by a member of the de Lancey family" , possibly in the hand of Baron Ver Hayden de Lancey., and Binding: original limp vellum with flap; remains of wax seal with coat of arms on flap and back cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Italy, and Naples (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Military art and science, Travelers' writings, English, Travel diaries, Description and travel, and History
