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19. Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:: Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:: circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:: GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:: Box 4 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 80
Abstract:: Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:: Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):: California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):: Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):: Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

20. Oratio

Creator:: Naldi, Naldo, 1439-approximately 1520
Published / Created:: [ca. 1476-78]
Call Number:: Marston MS 129
Image Count:: 46
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of Naldo Naldi, Oratio ad Andream Vendraminium (doge of Venice 1476-78).
Description:: In Latin., Script: Written in a round humanistic hand, below top line, by the poet Tommaso Baldinotti of Pistoia (1451-1511)., One illuminated initial of average quality, 3-line, gold against blue ground with gold filigree. Filled with half-length portrait of the doge dressed in red robes and a red hat against green ground. Dedication, 5 lines, in alternating lines of gold and blue majuscules followed by the first three lines of text in red majuscules., The margins of f. 1 have been trimmed away from the written space, which was then mounted on another piece of parchment conjugate to the front pastedown; hence, any marginal decoration, which may have included a coat of arms, is now lost., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Gilt edges. Fragment of head endband. The spine is lined with tawed skin between supports. Covered in red silk with traces of four fastenings on each board.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):: Naldi, Naldo, 1439-approximately 1520. and Vendramin, Andrea, 1392-1478.
Subject (Topic):: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oratio

21. Politica

Creator:: Calderia, Giovanni
Published / Created:: [between 1750 and 1800]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 715
Image Count:: 103
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Politica

22. Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...

Creator:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...

23. Relatione del clarissimo Girolamo Lippomano ritornato ambasciatore dal Serenissimo Re di Polonia dal Signoria di Venetia del 1575

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

24. Relatione del re de' Romani riferita in seneto Veneto

Creator:: Suriano, Michele, fl. 1558-1573
Published / Created:: [between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 1050
Image Count:: 130
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper
Description:: In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):: Suriano, Michele, fl. 1558-1573.
Subject (Topic):: Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relatione del re de' Romani riferita in seneto Veneto

25. Unidentified chronicle of Venetian history (fragment).

Published / Created:: 15th century.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 712.88
Image Count:: 16
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: 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.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic):: Manuscripts, Medieval and History
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified chronicle of Venetian history (fragment).

26. Venetian Laws

Published / Created:: [1525-1575]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 751
Image Count:: 411
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Venetian Laws

27. Venetian document

Published / Created:: 1513.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 381
Image Count:: 37
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Venetian document