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2.
- Creator:
- Suardi, Giovanni Francesco
- Published / Created:
- 16th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 849
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Poem in three cantos dedicated to Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), Marchioness of Mantua, and intended to be performed at her court
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by a single hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; thought to be autograph. Headings on ff. 1v and 3r in Capitalis., Giovan Francesco Suardi (d. after 1540), Amor fugitivus. Poem in Italian in three cantos dedicated to Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), Marchioness of Mantua, and intended to be performed at her court. In the first canto the poet sings of his love, in the second he encounters Venus in search of Cupido who ran away, in the third he sadly returns home. There are a few corrections on erasure. This is the dedication copy and the only manuscript containing this text., and Binding: original binding: brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled with a double frame inscribed with a lozenge containing the monogram “YHS”. The spine is gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Suardi, Giovanni Francesco.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Amor fugitivus
3.
- Creator:
- Schlichting, Albert
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1580]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 960
- Image Count:
- 31
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Moscow (Russia)
- Subject (Name):
- Schlichting, Albert. and Vasily IV, Czar of Russia, 1552-1612.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Narratio de moribus et imperandi crudelitate Basilii Muscovie magni ducis in anno 1569 usque ad 1570
4.
- Creator:
- Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 30
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Jeronymo Osorio, Della nobilta civile, translated into Italian by Bernardo Gandino
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified angel similar to Briquet 662, but with BFF as countermark., Script: Written in a calligraphic italic script by Bernardo Gandino of Treviso, with frequent corrections., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Paper case with decorated paper sides. Bookblock detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy.
- Subject (Name):
- Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Nobility
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Della nobilta civile
5.
- Creator:
- Minucci, Minuccio, 1551-1604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1560]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1045
- Image Count:
- 21
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- August, Elector of Saxony, 1526-1586., Minucci, Minuccio, 1551-1604., and Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto
6.
- Creator:
- Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1515]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 491
- Image Count:
- 129
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Trattati di archittetura ingegneria e arte militare
7.
- Creator:
- Lippomano, Girolamo
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1049
- Image Count:
- 81
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Poland, and Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Lippomano, Girolamo.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relatione del clarissimo Girolamo Lippomano ritornato ambasciatore dal Serenissimo Re di Polonia dal Signoria di Venetia del 1575
8.
- Creator:
- Cortona, Giovanni Battista
- Published / Created:
- 1574.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 655
- Image Count:
- 37
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giovanni Battista Cortona, Libro di Abbaco, probably an autograph manuscript
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: anchor, var. Piccard, Ankerwasserzeichen?, V.102?., Script: Written by one hand in calligraphic Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The poem on f. A1r (art. 1) is in calligraphic Humanistica Cursiva Formata. A few titles in Capitalis., The decorative frames on ff. A1r and B1r are traced in brown ink. The upper half of the former contains a baroque cartouche in brown and red, containing a monogram apparently consisting of the letters A, K and M. Art. 2 opens with a flourished initial, art. 7 with a calligraphic initial, both in red., and No binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cortona, Giovanni Battista.
- Subject (Topic):
- Abacus, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libro di abbaco
9.
- Creator:
- Columbus, Christopher
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 740
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Christophorus Columbus (Christopher C.,1451-1506), Epistola de insulis de novo repertis. Relation of his first voyage to America (1492-1493), addressed to Raphael Sanchez and translated into Latin by Leander de Cosco, dated 14 March 1493. Probably copied from the edition Paris, [Guy Marchant, after 29 April 1493], GKW 7175, variant (a). With Bartholomaeus Columbus (Bartholomew C., c. 1460-1514), Descrizione della navigazione nel Mondo Nuovo. The text is in the wrong order, being probably copied from an exemplar in four pages, of which pages 2 and 3 were inverted
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Watermark: cardinal's hat, var. Briquet 3409 ... (1519-1527?)., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Formata verging to the Semitextualis, with a "typographic" outlook (but totally different from the printing type used in the presumed exemplar)., Paragraph marks, flourished initials (5 ll. f. 1r, 3 ll. f. 5r) and Columbus coat of arms all in the same brown ink as the text. The arms closely resemble those found in the Genoa codex of his Book of Privileges., and Binding: Unbound. Placed in a boardpaper portfolio and leather-backed boardpaper slip-case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and North America
- Subject (Name):
- Columbus, Christopher.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Navigation, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistola de insulis de novo repertis
10.
- Creator:
- Cesareo, Agostino
- Published / Created:
- 1568.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 562
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Agostino Cesareo (Rome, 16th century), L'arte del navigare
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in careful Humanistica Cursive., Coloured and uncoloured diagrams, illustrations and maps., Many pages are spoiled by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the front cover the inscription "L'arte de ***"; on the rear cover contemporary calculations.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cesareo, Agostino.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Cosmography, Navigation, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arte del navigare
11.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
14.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1048
- Image Count:
- 21
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Poland
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Discorso sopra nuova elettione da farsi del re di Polonia
15.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
19.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1590 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 959
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Moscow (Russia)
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relatio particolare di Moscovia de 1577...
20.
- 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
21.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1590 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 958
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Poland
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relazione ragguaglio del successo della guerra dell' anno 1579, dal re di Polonia al gran duca di Moscovia
