Manuscript of a collection of humanist texts, including 1) Ghigo Brunelleschi (c. 1353-c. 1410) and Domenico da Prato (c. 1389-1432/1433), Geta e Birria. 2) Nicolaus Perottus (Niccolò Perotti, 1429-1480), Latin translation of the Oath of Hippocrates, with his introductory letter to Bartolomeo Troiano of Verona. 3) Nicolaus Perottus, Letter to Iacobus Constantius (Jacopo Costanzi of Fano), written in his 25th year (1454), describing his life and how he has given himself entirely to the studia litterarum. 4) Three letters by Nicolaus Perottus to his brother Aelius (Elio Perotti). 5) Nicolaus Perottus, Letter to Iacobus Schioppus (Giacomo Schioppo), written from Bologna. 6) 8 verses recording historical examples of the power of Love. 7) Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374), Canzoniere, 136, 137 and 138. 8) Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62), Satirae. 9) Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid, 43 B.C.-A.D. 17), Heroides, 15 (Sappho Paoni). 10) Ps.-Lucianus Samosatensis, De asino aureo, Latin translation by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), with introductory letter of the latter to Cosimo de' Medici. 11) Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch), Canzoniere, 105. 12) Aristoteles, Ethica Nicomachea, Book 8, in the Latin translation by Leonardus Aretinus (Leonardo Bruni, c. 1370-1444).
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480., Persius., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The prophecies on the pope are copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of the Easter table and Lunar tables are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The final text is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The Easter and Lunar tables are traced in black ink., The manuscript contains recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Medieval, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript volume, in the hand of an unidentified nun at the monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa, containing copies of Italian translations from the Revelationes, Sermo Angelicus, and other texts from the Liber Caelestis of Saint Bridget. On the colophon, the scribe identifies herself as a professed nun of the Order of Saint Bridget, and states that the work was completed on July 26, 1626. The manuscript also includes circa 27 contemporary devotional engravings placed throughout the text, many with identifiable artists and publishers from Italy, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. The engravings depict Christian figures, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, the archangel Michael, and various saints; and scenes from the New Testament, including from the lives of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ
Description:
Bridget of Sweden (approximately 1303-1373) was a mystic and saint. She experienced visions beginning in childhood, the records of which were gathered and translated into Latin. They are collectively known as the Revelationes and Liber Caelestis., The Birgittine convent known as Scala Coeli was founded in Genoa, Italy, circa 1406. Nuns at the convent translated the writings of Saint Bridget into Italian., In Italian; colophon in Latin., Title from first leaf., Includes table of contents on six leaves at end., Colophon, leaf 317r., and Binding: Contemporary red leather over wooden boards; front and back covers have blind tooled rules and rolls, with a central figure of a female saint and the letters "M S B G" tooled in gold; spine with raised bands and a blind tooled flower in each compartment; front edge originally had two leather straps with brass clasps, and is now lacking one strap and clasp. Later (19th century?) paper spine label with manuscript inscription: "[illegible] S. Brigid. Cavate dei libri delle sue rivela[tion]. Opera di una monaca della ordine stisso[?] per comodite delle Sorelle 1626".
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Sweden
Subject (Name):
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373., Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373, Jesus Christ, John, the Baptist, Saint, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Michael (Archangel)
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to, Devotion, Nuns, Saints, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript on paper containing letters by or related to Lapo da Castiglionchio (d. 1381), and his family
Description:
On the author, a Florentine poet, friend of Petrarch, professor of Canon Law, lawyer, diplomat, politician, see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 22 (1979), pp. 40-44., In Italian., Script: copied by one hand in careful Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The first line of each text and some headings are in Capitalis., Headings and explicit formulas in pale red ink; marginal captions and notes in the same colour or in black; paragraph marks in pale red ink. 4-line initials (Capitalis) in blue (missing f. 2v), at the opening of each art. and of the subdivisions of art. 1. On f. 1r 7-line white vinestem initial integrated into left margin border of the same style. In the lower margin, in a wreath, the Volognano-Castiglionchio coat of arms: silver, with four chains azure in saltire and castle azure. Running headlines in pale red Capitalis in art. 1 only., The manuscript contains: 1) Lapo da Castiglionchio, Letter, written in 1377, to his son Bernardo, canon of the cathedral of Florence, then 14 years old, containing an elaborate treatise in three parts dealing with political and historical questions. 2) Bernardo da Castiglionchio (1363-1383), Letter to his father Lapo. 3) Bernardo da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Lapo. 4) Francesco da Castiglionchio (second half of the fourteenth century), Letter to his father Alberto, brother of Lapo, written 8 June 1381 or slightly later. Describes the coronation of Charles III, King of Naples and Sicily (1381-1386) by Pope Urban VI in the church of St. Peter in Rome on 2 June 1381. 5) Francesco da Castiglionchio, Second letter to his father Alberto staying at Verona, dated 17 July 1381 and relating the death of Alberto's brother Lapo, which happened in Rome on 27 June of the same year after a short illness. 6) Niccolò Acciaiuoli (1310-1365), Extracts from a letter, dated 26 Dec. 1364, to the Florentine merchant Angelo Soderini (d. 1377) established in Avignon., and Binding: 17th century (?). Brown leather with artificial cross grain over cardboard. Blind-tooled spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled inscription in the second compartment: “CASTIGLIONCHIO / EPISTOLE”. Below a small oval paper label with the number “7” in red ink. Yellow spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy., and Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Castiglionchio, Lapo da, d. 1381.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Liber taxarum and Provinciale ecclesiae Romanae, along with regulations concerning ecclesiastical taxes
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata: A copied ff. 1r-74v, B copied ff. 75r-90v; the Italian text on f. 90r is written more rapidly., and Binding: green crushed levant morocco over cardboard, signed with the initials of Katharine Adams inside the rear cover (1911).
Manuscript on parchment of Manual for Franciscan inquisitors in the Roman province, including letters from Popes Clement IV (d. -1268) and Alexander IV (d. -1261); various consilia; and other prescriptions and instructions from bishops and inquisitors
Description:
Script: Copied by two hands: A) writing in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria (ff. Ir-40r6); B) writing in Gothica Textualis Formata (ff. 40r8-47v). Marginal annotations in small Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: Red headings, paragraph marks, chapter numbering, and stroking of majuscules. Red running headlines (up to f. 16v). Red plain or flourished initials. But on ff. 39v-47v, there are generally no headings, paragraph marks or stroking of majuscules., Binding: Unbound., and In Latin.
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., Watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6655, Echelle 5908, 5910, and similar to Briquet Chapeau 3370., Script: Written in neat humanistic cursive by a single scribe, below top line., Three-quarter border, f. 5r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, red and green ground with grey and yellow dots. In lower border, vine-stem turning into a floral border and brown penwork scrolls with pink, blue and green flowers and gold dots. Illuminated initial, 6-line, gold on blue, green and red ground with white vine-stem ornament joined to inner border. Headings in red. Plain 3-line initials in blue mark text divisions. Guide letters in margins., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays adhered inside the quires. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and nailed. Edges yellow ochre. A green and natural color, beaded endband is sewn on five cores. The primary one laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with tawed skin or vellum extending onto the edge of the boards between supports. Covered in tan leather blind-tooled with a potented cross in a central square with rope interlace panels above and below, and a border also filled with rope interlace. Spine: supports defined with double fillets and the panels diapered. Traces of five bosses on each board. Two ivy leaf fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for green fabric straps attached with star-headed nails. Binding is heavily overoiled.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In addition to the Oratio, the manuscript contains: quotations from Plato, Plutarch, Pliny, St. Jerome, Aristotle; notes in Italian on painters in Padua (beginning with Giotto); a speech in Italian, dated Padua, January, 1556; Francesco Contarini, Dialogus; Lombardo della Seta, Epistula de dispositione sue vite ad celeberrimum vatem F. Petrarcham; a note on the office of the cardinal; Leonardo Bruni, Oratio funebris pro Nanni Strozza (Giovanni Strozzi), milite florentino; Poggio Bracciolini, Oratio in funere Francisci Zabarelle (Francesco Zabarella), cardinalis, florentini; Girolamo Maggi, Oratio pro D. Thadeo Quirino; Philippus [Arimineus], Symphosion de paupertate; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron IV.1, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni, with dedication letter to Bindaccio Ricasoli; Giovanni Boccaccio, Novella di Griselda, translated into Latin by Petrarch; Francisco Petrarca, Note on Laura; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Funeral orations for Francisco (Sr.) da Carrara; Pietro Paolo Vergerio, Vita Francisci Petrarcae; Leonardo Bruni, Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum. Manuscript, on paper, in humanist script, produced in Italy around 1500
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Titles and marginalia (which note quotations from classical authors) are rubricated., Inscription on f. 3r: "Dultii Caesaris Patauini, Ordinis Minorum Conuentualium, No 486." The name Cesare Dultone also appears on f. 134v., Arms on f. 4r with initials NI. HO., Watermark: tête de boeuf, similar to Briquet 14851., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown calf.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy.
Subject (Name):
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Arimineus, Philippus, ca. 1410-1497., Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Contarini, Francesco, 1421?-1460?, Maggi, Girolamo, d. 1572., Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374., Seta, Lombardo della., and Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444.
Manuscript on paper of Cesare Speciano, Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio. With a Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 1597
Description:
In Italian., Unidentified watermarks: paschal lamb, with countermark PP plus clover; bird on mountain enclosed in a circle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat italic hand., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Italian red morocco gilt, with unidentified arms of a cardinal (vair) stamped in gilt on both covers. Edges gilt and gauffered. Unobtrusive repairs at head and tails of spine and joints.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Speciano, Cesare.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
