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1. Aeneis
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1065
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an Italian prose paraphrase of Virgil's Aeneid. With an incomplete text on the labors of Hercules
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil. and Hercules (Roman mythological character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
2. Aeneis
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1360]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1067
- Image Count:
- 94
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Virgil, Aeneis, in an Italian prose abridgement by Andrea Lancia
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by a single hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda). Stroking of the majuscules. 2-line flourished initials with simple penwork at the opening of the chapters. More elaborate flourished initials, 2 to 7 lines, at the opening of the Books. On f. 1r an 8-line littera duplex., and Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), Aeneis, abridgement in Italian prose by Andrea Lancia (c. 1280-c. 1360). This Florentine notary and Dante commentator wrote various Italian translations or adaptations of classical Latin texts. There are occasionally interlinear glosses, more often marginal notes. Pointing hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lancia, Andrea, ca. 1280-ca. 1360. and Virgil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
3. Bellum Gallicum
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 179
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History, Military
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Gallicum
4. Bibliotheca Historica
- Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 73
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Egypt
- Subject (Name):
- Diodorus, Siculus.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Historica
5. Cancionero, etc
- Creator:
- Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 489
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two segments, formerly separate books. Part I: 1) Letter from Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana (1398-1458), to his nephew Pedro de Mendoza, Senor de almacan. Santillana promises to send a copy of his own sonnets, some proverbs, and sayings of the philosophers and of Seneca which Mendoza had requested, and discusses a translation of a letter of Seneca sent to him by Mendoza. 2) Reply of Mendoza to Santillana, about Santillana's Sonnets. Artt. 3-25: sonnets by Santillana. Part II: 26) Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Castilian tr. perhaps by Pedro Diaz de Toledo (d. 1499), Counsellor to Juan II of Castile, Chaplain to the Marques de Santillana, and later first bishop of Malaga. Each proverb is followed by an explanatory text. 27) Dichos de filosofos, in 29 parts, mostly lists: 4 things a king should do, 3 sorts of friends, etc. 28) Tacitus, Annales 14.52-56, in an unidentified Castilian translation
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks: Part I: similar in design to Briquet Homme 7582. Part II: unidentified Latin cross in elongated, pointed oval., Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Text written in large size italic with headings in less cursive bookhand. Part II (ff. 121-330): Written in a more compact italic script than Part I, but with similar types of headings., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on three small, tawed tapes laced into limp vellum case. Small pieces of unidentified Latin manuscript glued in as spine reinforcements. Two tawed thong fastenings. Inscription on spine: "Prouerb. Moral [?]".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458. and Tacitus, Cornelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Medieval, and Spanish poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cancionero, etc
6. Commentarii de bello Gallico
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- 1476.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 226
- Image Count:
- 535
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (trimmed), with parchment bifolios interspersed, of Julius Caesar, Commentary on the Gallic Wars, translated into French by Jean Duchesne. Written for Jacques Donche, counselor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy
- Description:
- In French., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoires: Trois fleurs de lis 1741., Script: Written in neat batarde script by Hellin de Burchgrave., Ten half-page miniatures, each in an arched frame composed of two thin bands, gold and red highlighted with white, edged in black, the arch with tiny cusps; beneath, initials, 6-, 4-, or 3-line, blue or blue and red with white highlights on a gold ground of irregular shape conforming to the letter, edged in black, with serifs protruding into the left margin; filled with green and/or red and crimson trilobe leaves on curling stems with white and/or yellow highlights, or with a blue, green, crimson, and gold diapered ground with white highlights. Three smaller miniatures, 12- or 14-line, occasionally cut off at the upper edge so as to fill only part of a line of text; frames rectilinear, otherwise identical to those described above, Beneath, 2-line initials, blue, with white highlights, filled with trilobe leaves, as above, once (f. 25r) with one leaf of spiky acanthus added, and once (f. 256r) with a pink ground with gold filigree. There is a blank space on f. 27r for another miniature of this type. Other decoration consists of 2-line calligraphic initials, paragraph marks, line fillers (spirals and heraldic dragons), page and chapter headings, all executed in red. The first one or two lines of some books (as well as occasional lines within the text) are underlined in red., A few folios have tears in the margins., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Spattered and gilt edges. Red goatskin, gold-tooled, with the arms of Eugene of Savoy on cover and his monogram on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Gaul
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarii de bello Gallico
7. Commentarius in ad Romanos
- Creator:
- Origen
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 50
- Image Count:
- 322
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Origen, Commentarius in ad Romanos, translated into Latin by Rufinus. Probably written at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in well formed early gothic bookhand., Fine painted initials, ff. 1r and 29v, red with simple green penwork designs and pale yellow wash, 8-line; smaller red, green, or dark yellow-brown monochrome initials, 7- to 1-line. On f. 141r red initial, 7-line, with pale yellow wash. Headings in red., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Half bound in brown sheepskin, gold-tooled, with two green, gold-tooled labels: "Hieronimi/ In Epistol/ ad Romanos/ Manuscrip" and "Saecul XII". Bright pink paper sides and edges spattered blue-green. The spine of the manuscript is back bevelled at head and tail. Rust stains from the nails of four corner bosses of early binding on first two leaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Origen. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in ad Romanos
8. De bello italico adversus gothos
- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-65]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 15
- Image Count:
- 173
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesarini (1398-1444).
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-gothic script, above top line., Partial border in inner margin of white vine-stem ornament, f. 1r, on blue, green and pink ground with white and blue dots. In lower border terminals extending in ink hair spray with green, pink and blue flowers and gold balls frame central medallion with a crude outline drawing of a head in profile (later addition?). Two decorated initials, 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, pink and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r initial joined to partial border. Heading on f. 1r in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries, Italy. "Alla rustica" with grey-green paper added over the spine and part of the boards. Edges yellow.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Cesarini, Giuliano, Cardinal, 1398-1444.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello italico adversus gothos
9. De bello punico
- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 274
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue; made, and presented in 1445, for Charles VII of France (1422-1461).
- Description:
- In French., Watermarks: closest to Briquet Armoiries-Trois fleurs de lis 1686., Script: Written by a single scribe in an elegant batarde script that sits above the line, rather than on it., Red and blue divided initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r, 2v, 4v, and for major text divisions thereafter. 3- to 2-line plain red or blue initials throughout. Initials alternate red and blue for tables on ff. 1r-2v. Multi-line headings in red sharply indented toward right. Guideletters for illuminator., and Binding: Sixteenth century, France. Olive green goatskin, roughly gold-tooled with the arms of Claude d'Urfe in the center and a monogram of his initial (C) with that of his wife, Jeanne de Balzac (I) in the corners, together with cornucopiae, caducei, laurel and flaming altars. Gilt edges. Corners repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. and Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Punic wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello punico
