Manuscript on paper of a facsimile of Iohannes Calderia (Giovanni Calderia, 15th century), member of a Venetian family, Politica (De praestantia Venetae politiae libri V ad Antonium Vinciguerra).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria., No decoration; the space provided for the initials is not used., Each page consists of two leaves of extremely thin paper pasted together. The paper is now dark brown and brittle (causing loss of text in the lower margins of pp. 1-6). For reasons of conservation the bifolios have now been cut into singletons and these have been encapsulated in transparent Mylar sleeves united in an album., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Kept separately. Marbled brown leather over pasteboard, each cover decorated with a gold-tooled floral border and gold-tooled doublure margin; gold-tooled spine with paper label containing the hand-written number "24068". Marbled paste-downs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Calderia, Giovanni.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497
Published / Created:
anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
Call Number:
Zi +156 2
Image Count:
11
Abstract:
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route
Alternative Title:
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Capital spaces without guide letters., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, and BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; clasps missing. Rubricated; with uncolored woodcuts. Inscribed: Monastery Baumburg.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori
Subject (Geographic):
Palestine, Sinai (Egypt), Venice (Italy), and Jerusalem
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, -1497
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Travel, and Travelers' writings, German
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an unidentified chronicle of Venetian history
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: not present. Spaces for capitals and rubrics left blank., and Bifolia later used as archival wrappers.
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of over 300 decrees issued by various Venetian governmental bodies: Maior Concilium (Maggior Consiglio), Concilium Sapientum (Consiglio dei Sapienti), Concilium X (Consiglio dei Dieci), Concilium Rogatorum (Consiglio dei Rogati), and others, and by several doges, between 1427 and 1540
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: copied by various hands in Humanistica Cursiva. No decoration., The manuscript also includes an oath formula for Jews, as well as a fragment of commentary on Psalm 96 from Pseudo-Jerome's Breviarium in Psalmos., and Binding: contemporary Venetian binding: blind-tooled calfskin over wooden boards, both covers decorated with two frames traced with quadruple fillets, one frame filled with a tulip roll stamp, the other one with various tools: a cherub's head, a ropework diamond, flowerets and a maple leaf. Five engraved brass bosses (four corner pieces and a center piece) on each cover (two are replacements). Four engraved brass clasps in the same style (two at the side edges and one each at the top and at the bottom edge).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment of a Ducale issued in the name of Leonardo Loredan, doge of Venice (1438-1521), giving instructions to Andrea Marcello as Governor of Dulcigno (now Ulcinj, Yugoslavia). The document is dated 8 August 1513, and signed by "Victor Blanchus Secretarius," the same individual who signed Beinecke MS 104, a Venetian ducale dated 1515. On ff. 12v-13r is a directive from the Venetian Council of the X, signed by Rafael Iordannis, regarding Andrea Marcello, captain of Dulcingo, and the payment of custom duties; followed by a yearly and quarterly outline of salaries owed, in a different but contemporary hand, signed Zune (Giovanni) Spineli [?].
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Written in elegant italic., One full border (f. 1r), flowers and swirling leaves extending from a vase in lower right corner, gold on a dark purple ground, executed in a style related to Benedetto Bordone; two inset panels at top of folio (framed by thick gold bands), the upper containing the lion of St. Mark stepping out of water and holding an open book, dolphins, and a castle on a cliff in the background, the lower an inscription in gold majuscules on blue ground. In lower margin the Marcello arms (azure a bend wavy or) against a landscape., 2-line initials, on f. 1r only, gold on green and on red grounds respectively. 1-line initials, red, for ff. 1v-10r., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rigid vellum gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
