Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts, including: 1) A number of works by Albertano da Brescia, 2) Robertus Grosseteste's Templum De, 3) Laurence of Aquileia's Practica sive usus dictaminis, 4) Correspondence between Charles of Anjou and Peter III, King of Aragon, 5) Henry VII, Emperor, Letter to the citizens of Bologna. Manuscript also includes a number of other works
Description:
In Latin., Script: except for the table of contents (and possibly the final section) copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); the orthography is very incorrect., A collection of texts, including: 1) Albertano da Brescia, De doctrina dicendi et tacendi, Liber consolationis et consilii, De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vitae, a sermon delivered before a congregation of Genoese notaries and causidici 1243 December 6, and Sermo. 2) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus hominum in saeculo viventium. 3) Pantaleon Barbo, Sermon on the Incarnation and Nativity. 4) Robertus Grosseteste, Templum Dei. 5) Laurence of Aquileia, Practica sive usus dictaminis. (In tabular form, each table covering two facing pages). 6) Iohannes Bondi de Aquilegia or Laurentius de Aquilegia, Theorica sive ars dictaminis. 7) Charles of Anjou (1226-1285), Letter to Peter III, King of Aragon 1276-1285, after the latter's conquest of Sicily, 1282, and a response by Peter III, King of Aragon, to Charles of Anjou. 8) Letter of the cardinals to the newly elected pope Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux (pope Clemens VI, 1305-1314). 9) Henry VII, Emperor (1308-1313), Letter to the citizens of Bologna, 1311. 10) Astrological treatise ascribed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy, 2nd century) with extensive gloss. 11) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Historia Griseldis, Latin translation by Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374). 12) A number of other letters, poems, and treatises., and Binding: parchment wrappers over pasteboard made from leaves of a 15th or 16th century printed book; three white leather straps preserved.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Brescia, Albertano da, active 13th century., Damiani, Petrus, Saint, 1007?-1072., Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253., Charles, of Anjou, 1226-1285., Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., and Peter III, King of Aragon, 1239-1285.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Diplomacy, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric, Medieval
BEIN Rosenthal 39: From the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal. Contemporary ms. notes in a Spanish hand. Imperfect: c8 mutilated., Ends (p. [56]: Augustini Dati Sene[n]sis oratoris primarii Isagogicus libellus in elocutionis precepta finit feliciter., Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁴., and The text is set in Roman type, 30 lines per page. The Proctor type measurement (20 lines) is 97-98 mm. The only ornamental initial is the white-on-black 4-line C at the opening of the text on p. [2].
Manuscript on paper of 1) Ps.-Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam; 2) Ps.-Catilina, Responsio in Ciceronem; 3) Franciscus Aretinus, speech delivered in Rome to Pope Paul II; 4) Verses in praise of Francesco Accolti; 5) Franciscus Philelphus, translations of moral quotations from ancient authors; 6) Manuel Guarinus, Letter to Francesco Pendilacqua; 7) Gasparinus Barzizius, De compositione
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand Humanistica Cursiva. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C., Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483., and Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Rhetoric, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript, on paper, in Gothic bookhand by several different scribes, produced in Northern Italy around 1400
Description:
In Latin., Decoration: large initial P, characteristic of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century Northern Italian initials (f. 1r); two heads, one of a bishop (f. 43r); rubricated initials at section headings., Inscription: "Liber guidini et jacobi de piasiis.", Inscription: "Liber elisey de piasiis; Puluis ut inuentum sic desunt septra potentum.", Watermark: similar to Bricquet 4001 (Venice, 1401) and 4002 (Bergamo, 1402)., Lines 2081-98 of the printed text, a section missing from many versions, appear at the end (after line 2116)., and Binding: modern quarter calf binding.
Subject (Name):
Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, fl. 1200.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern). and Rhetoric, Medieval
