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11.
Atto recitabile

Creator:
Cecchi, Giovanni Maria, 1518-1587
Published / Created:
[ca. 1550]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 842
Image Count:
24
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Atto recitabile da fare avanti che nella compagnia si dieno panellini benedetti composto dal Cecchi
Description:
In Italian., Script: the original text copied by a single hand, writing Humanistica Cursiva. The changes and additions are written in Humanistica Cursiva Currens under Gothic influence., and Binding: early paper binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cecchi, Giovanni Maria, 1518-1587.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Atto recitabile

12.
Treatise on falconry

Creator:
Balzani, Guglielmo
Published / Created:
1616.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 477
Image Count:
450
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Guglielmo Balzani, of Casale Monferrato, Treatise on Falconry
Description:
The 8th Marchese of Monferrato mentioned in the prologue is presumably Guglielmo (1550-1587)., In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified crossbow in circle, with countermark "B A B"., Script: Written by 2 hands in 17th-century cursive: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-177r; Scribe 2) ff. 177v-208r., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Spattered brown calf, blind-tooled. Edges spattered blue/green and red. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Balzani, Guglielmo.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on falconry

13.
Considerationi sopra la guerra contra il Turco et unione de principi Christiani

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1051
Image Count:
26
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Turks, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerationi sopra la guerra contra il Turco et unione de principi Christiani

15.
Essortatione alli principi Christiani perche prendano l'armi et si uniscano contra Turchi

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1047
Image Count:
85
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Turks, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Essortatione alli principi Christiani perche prendano l'armi et si uniscano contra Turchi

16.
Hunting diary

Published / Created:
1579-85.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 467
Image Count:
248
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks in gutter) of a hunting diary of Ferdinando de' Medici (1549-1609), Cardinal, and Grand Duke of Tuscany; this portion of the manuscript covers the period 15 October 1579 to 21 March 1585
Description:
In Italian., Written in a sprawling cursive script., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green, hard-grained goatskin, gold-tooled, by the same binder as MS 90. Front cover of original limp vellum binding bound in at front of manuscript, with contemporary inscription: "Libro della Caccia che si fe (?)/ Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo Signor Cardinale d'/ Medici mio Signore e padrone".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Tuscany (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609.
Subject (Topic):
Hunting, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting diary

17.
Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia).

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 741
Image Count:
155
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Anonymous biography of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia, 1430-1503).
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by one hand in rapid Humanistica Cursiva., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Half parchment over pasteboard, covered with brown and blue marbled paper. On the spine brownish red leather label with the gold-tooled title "VITA D'ALESSAND. VI. / MS." and small paper label with the number of the Phillipps collection.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia).

18.
Novelle

Published / Created:
1507.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 412
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (trimmed) of Five Novelle. First novella about Valeria married against her will to Pietro Lombardo; Second: "Julia e Prunneo"; Third: "Lucretia e Hyeronimo"; Fourth: "Camilla e Estore"; Fifth: "Justa Victoria," by Felice Feliciano
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: crossed arrows buried in gutter., Script: Written by one person in bold italic., Decorated with several miniatures and borders in water and body color: f. i verso, full-page miniature of tomb in a landscape, with an epigraphic inscription. Arms above inscription: azure, a fess or; an inescutcheon azure, a bend wavy or. On f. 1r, a full frame, outer, inner and upper margins with bucrania, trophies, swags, jewels, arms and armor (including two shields: azure, a fess or; and azure, a bend wavy [Marcello]), in blue, pink, green and gold, framed in gold; lower margin, a parapet with a cornice, enclosing a cartouche with bust, supported by putti and flanked by the letters "A. A.", background filled with spiral flowing vines, pink, blue, green and gold, with brown hair-spray. Cartouches bearing inscriptions on ff. 53v, 82v, 105v. On f. 145v a scroll, written in red and blue letters festooned on a tree in a landscape, the ends supported by two putti. At the beginning of each novel, a 3- or 2-line initial, gold, against a purple or crimson ground with gold floral filigree; followed by several words in text script, gold against a crimson or purple rectangular ground., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Gilt, gauffered edges. Brown sheepskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Floral woodblock paste paper pastedowns and endleaves. Two fastenings with shell-shaped clasps on the upper board and pins in the edge of the lower. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Feliciano, Felice, 15th cent.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novelle

20.
Relationi di Germania fatta in tempo dell'imperatore Ridolfo II d'Austria

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1046
Image Count:
89
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1552-1612.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relationi di Germania fatta in tempo dell'imperatore Ridolfo II d'Austria