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
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.119
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of a cave, the entrance to which is decorated with a pediment and frieze
Description:
Title from text below image., Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire., and Printed on thin lithographic paper contemporaneously laid on thicker wove sheet.
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of what is probably the first version of the treatise, finished ca. 1476-77. The order of contents is as follows: fortresses; temples, churches and theaters; columns and other architectural details; plans for palaces; aqueducts; measuring and surveying; instruments of war
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: anchor and star similar to Briquet Ancre 478, Bergamo 1502., Script: Written in italic script by a single scribe who left blank spaces for illuminated initials., Outer and lower margins of almost every page filled with architectural or mechanical sketches drawn either directly on the leaves (ff. 1r-5v) or on small strips of paper pasted onto the margins of the leaves (ff. 6r-57v), in brown ink, sometimes with green or pink washes. The drawings illustrate every section of the text; many have explanatory inscriptions., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red edges. Mottled, brown calf, streaked on the turn-ins. Blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Military art and science
A volume of etchings by three daughters of art collector John Ingram 1767-1841) of Staindrop Hall in County Durham: Elizabeth Christian Ingram (born 1795), Caroline Ingram (1800-1819), and Augusta Isabella Ingram (born 1802). The family lived in Venice and took instruction from Venetian etcher Francesco Novelli whose own etchings were in manner of Rembrandt and whose influence can be seen in the sisters' etchings. The style of the various impressions is very similar and were apparently made within a fairly short period if the dated prints are an accurate indication; some of the prints bound in first are dated February 1816 and then March 1816. This dating seems to be confirmed by a contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper: "These are the works of the Miss Ingrams' from their first lesson, 18..." Only five of the prints are unsigned; several prints in multiple impressions or two or more states, using brown and black inks and various stocks of paper, a few bearing a British watermark and date of 1814. Some of the prints have been mounted, but most have been printed directly on contiguous leaves forming the signatures of the volume
Alternative Title:
Etchings, gradations
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of album based on internal evidence of some dated etchings, all '1816'., Also with inscription on front pastedown: Minnie Snowden, with John Johnson's kind regards and good wishes, Jan. 4, 1906., Bound in contemporary half calf, front cover detached and first leaves loose., and Three-quarter leather with marbled boards. Front board and first signature detached. Pages slip-stiched; decision to leave as is. Do not rebind. For further information, consult library staff.
A volume of etchings by three daughters of art collector John Ingram (1767-1841) of Staindrop Hall in County Durham: Elizabeth Christian Ingram (born 1795), Caroline Ingram (1800-1819), and Augusta Isabella Ingram (born 1802). The family lived in Venice and took instruction from Venetian etcher Francesco Novelli. Most of the prints bear the monogram of one of the Ingram sisters and are dated 1816 -1821. The works include images after Rembrandt, Ostade, Pietro Novelli, and other artists, Continental views, views of Hartlepool and Newcastle, and a vignette after Bewick. Also included is an image signed "IG' and dated 1824
Alternative Title:
Etchings
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of album based on internal evidence., With a manuscript gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1867., Bound in dark half morocco., and For further information, consult library staff.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd Jany. 10th, 1774.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 85. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A large Italian vetturino rides a small horse which along with a large horse is pulling a heavy chaise. Inside the chaise sits a tired looking man in a night cap
Alternative Title:
Italian vetturino
Description:
Title supplied from British Museum catalogue., Mounted on page 85 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 18.6 x 29.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
