Manuscript on paper containing Leonardo Dati O.P. (1360-1425), or Gregorio Dati (1362-1435), La Sfera; a Libro di ricordi (1480-1501); sermons; extracts from Brunetto Latini, Il Tesoro; magical treatise; a "Portolano"; three sonnets; and 10 maps or views in watercolor and 18 colored circular diagrams
Description:
In Italian., Script: Art. 1 in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 2, in two hands, same script as art. 1; artt. 3-9, one hand, writing in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca), and Decoration: only from f. 25r onwards: red stroking of majuscules; illustrations (watercolor diagrams and maps) to art. 6 include: sky scenes (stars; sun illuminating the earth; eclipse of the moon); maps of the earth (diagram with the equator; earth among the other elements; the horizon; the four regions, or plagae; directions of the winds); Ptolemaic system; T-O map; seas and geographic regions (unidentified sea; Black Sea and Caspian Sea; Tyrrhenian Sea; Dardanelles; Sea of Azov and Don; coast of North Africa; Mesopotamia, Arabia, Palestine; Tower of Babel; view of Tunis; western coast of Asia Minor, with burning Troy)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Leonardo, 1408-1472., Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1435., Latini, Brunetto, 1220-1295., and Giamboni, Bono, ca. 1292.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Charts, diagrams, etc, Early maps, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Italian
Manuscript on paper of Leonardus de Datis Florentinus OP (Leonardo Dati, c. 1365-1425), Sermones quadragesimales de flagellis peccatorum. Moral sermons for Lent addressed to a Florentine audience, each dealing with a particular vice
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: mountain, var. Briquet 11663 or 11652?., Script: Copied by one hand in small and even Gothica Hybrida Libraria with very few abbreviations. The Biblical themes with which the sermons open are by the same hand writing a large Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus) of mediocre quality., Red headings and 3-line (4-line f. 1r) plain initials at the beginning of each sermon in the same colour., Waterstains in the upper and in a lesser degree in the lower margins, but especially in the fold, where the text in the first part and towards the end of the codex is badly affected., and Binding: Contemporary quarter brown leather and square-edged wooden boards, the leather secured by means of a strip of parchment (largely lost) fixed with iron nails with floral engraved head. Spine repaired in parchment, three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover; one engraved brass catch preserved on the rear cover. Handwritten title in ink at the top of the rear board, very faded: “Sermones Quadragesimales” (16th century?).
