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1.
Della nobilta civile

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

2.
Moral treatises

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1525]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 735
Image Count:
60
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i., 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moral treatises

3.
Oratio ad Alexandrum, etc

Creator:
Fonte, Bartolommeo, 1445-1513
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 816
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Bartolommeo Fonzio (1445-1513), 1) Italian translation of Leonard Bruni's Latin translation of the "Oratio ad Alexandrum," attributed to Demosthenes. 2) Italian translation of Marsilio Ficino's "De Magnificentia." 3) Letter to Gerolamo Pasqualini
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Fonte, Bartolommeo, 1445-1513.
Subject (Topic):
Italian letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oratio ad Alexandrum, etc

4.
Poetica

Creator:
Aristotle
Published / Created:
[ca. 1550]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 708
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Aristoteles, Poetica, anonymous Latin translation of chapters 1-7. On f. 2r the translator has replaced Homer and Empedocles, cited by Aristotle, by Virgil and Lucretius ("Nihil tamen commune est Virgilio et Lucretio nisi carmen").
Description:
In Latin and Greek., Watermark: coat of arms with a bend, surmounted by a star and with a roundel depending from it, not in Briquet., Script: Copied by one scribe in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; words in Greek written by the same hand., Undecorated., and Binding: Sewn on a gilded leather thong; no cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poetica

5.
Vita beati Laurentii Iustiniani

Creator:
Giustiniani, Bernardo, 1408 or 1409-1489
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1550]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 510
Image Count:
148
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Bernardo Giustiniani (Bernardus Iustiniani, 1408-1489), Vita Beati Laurentii Iustiniani, translated into Italian by the Venetian Niccolo Manerbi (Malherbi, 1422-81).
Description:
St. Laurence Giustiniani (1381-1456) was the first patriarch of Venice. The author of this biography was his nephew., In Italian., Watermark: anchor in circle, closest to Briquet 471 (1527)?., Script: Written by one scribe in an unusually bold, angular and decorated Southern Gothica Textualis Formata., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in dark yellow. Red plain initials, 2 lines, at the opening of the chapters. Flourished red paragraph marks. A flourished initial in red with blue penwork, with extension the height of the text area in the left margin, on f. 1r., Many pages are deteriorated by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original blind-tooled half brown leather over wooden boards; two clasps (?) attached to the front cover. Spine with three raised bands and gold-tooled title "VITA DI S. LOREN. IUSTI". Endpapers with coloured floral pattern.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Giustiniani, Bernardo, 1408 or 1409-1489. and Lawrence Justinian, Saint, 1381-1456.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita beati Laurentii Iustiniani