Manuscript on paper of 1) Proverbs. 2) Ecclesiastes. 3) Canticles. 4) Wisdom of Solomon. 5) Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach. 6) Laurentius Valla (Lorenzo della Valle, 1407-1457), Encomium sancti Thomae Aquinatis. Oration pronounced 8 March 1457. 7) Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspare da Verona, c. 1400-1474), Oration held in the church of St. Eustachius, see of the Studio Romano, in October 1459 or 1469, dealing with rhetoric, Latin literature and the various sciences. 8) Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspare da Verona), Rhetorical models consisting of the opening sections of nine orations
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria: A (ff. 1r-65r) and B (ff. 70r-78v)., There is little consistency in the decoration. Headings, partly in Capitalis, in red or black (often missing). Opening words or lines in Capitalis. On f. 22v-26r the majuscules are stroked in red; plain red initials somewhat imitating Romanesque models ff. 22v-25r. All other initials (2-3 lines) have guide letters in the margin but were not executed. Curious pointing hands with sleeves in the margins of the Biblical texts., and Binding: Contemporary binding without leather covers or spine: bevelled beach boards (too small for the codex), worm-eaten, sewn onto three double leather thongs; remains of one clasp attached to the front board, with brass catch on the rear board. Front endleaves: large fragment of a Latin document on parchment that mentions church officials, written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, dated 1431-1443. The rear endleaves are a fragment of a pattern sheet on parchment, probably from the papal chancery, containing short and longer quotations from papal bulls and other documents, some of doubtful authenticity, in various types of calligraphic script.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare, da Verona, ca. 1400-1474. and Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Rhetoric, Ancient, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern), and Wisdom literature
Manuscript on paper of 1) Antonio Beccadelli (Panormita), De dictis et factis Alphonsi V, with a letter of Pope Pius II and his commentary on the text. The text of Panormita alternates with the commentary of Pius II throughout. 2) Pope Pius II, In orationem pro suscipiendo in Turcos bello. 3) Antonio Beccadelli, Triumphus Alphonsi regis. 4) Pope Pius II, Oratio in triumphum Alphonsi. 5) Pope Pius II, Oratio ad Alphonsum Aragoniae
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In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified Tete de boeuf, plainly visible but not located in Briquet or Piccard., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand by a single scribe; first word(s) of each major section of text written in majuscules., Red initial outlined in black ink, 3-line, on f. 1r. Plain red initials, with either decorative dots or knobs, 2- to 1-line, throughout. Headings in red., and Binding: Date? A pieced-together binding with a brown sheepskin spine and early wooden boards covered with suede-like skin. Traces of one fastening, the catch on the upper board. Worm holes in text block repaired. Residue of rectangular label on upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458. and Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript in two parts. Part 1 (parchment): Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum. Part II (paper): 2) Carlo Aretino Marsuppini, Oratio ad Cosimum et Laurentium de Medicis de matris obitu. 3) Bernardo Giustiniani, Oratio funebris habita in obitu Francesco Foscari Ducis (d. 1457). 4) Epitaph of Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice (d. 1457). 5) 7-line account, in prose, summarising the accomplishments and life of Francesco Foscari. 6) Alcinous, Epitoma disciplinarum Platonis, translated into Latin by Pietro Balbi. 7) Bernardo Giustiniani, Oratio apud Sixtum IV Pontificem Maximum habita, delivered at Rome in December 1471
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Ciseaux 3668., Script: Part I (ff. 1-90): Copied by two scribes. Scribe 1, ff. 1r-38v, writes in a well formed round humanistic script, below top line and sometimes not using the final line ruled for text. Scribe 2, ff. 38r-90r, is Stefano Guarnieri, who writes in a smaller and less calligraphic humanistic script with cursive features, below top line. Part II (ff. 91-157): Copied by Scribe 2 of Part I: arts. 2-6 in italic, above top line; art. 7 added later, disregards bounding lines of written space., Part I: 5 illuminated initials, 6- to 4-line, yellow and ochre on blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins to form partial borders. Headings in red majuscules written by Scribe 2. Part II: 4 illuminated initials, 6-line, dark yellow on irregular grounds of blue, green and pink with white vine-stem ornament, shaded with grey; white dots on blue, pale yellow on green and blue on pink. Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 86, 212, 181, 182, with the first three probably by the same binder. Title, in ink, on tail edge: "C. DE. FI. BO. ET MA".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Foscari, Francesco, 1373-1457.
Subject (Topic):
Eulogies, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on paper, composed of two closely related parts. Part I: Guarino da Verona, Ipotesia ad Hieronymum (filium) suum, written in 1443. Part II: 3) Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with the prefatory letter to Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici (1395-1440). 4) Anonymous text, 12 lines, listing the moral qualities of a good wife. 5) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris. 6) Lucian, Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Lat. tr. Giovanni Aurispa. 7) Buonaccorso da Montemagno, Controversia de nobilitate. 8) Unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena in 1465. 9) Francesco Pontano, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena. 10) Bartholomaeus Senensis, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena. Part II was written by the jurist and diplomat Rainerius de Maschis of Rimini
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified two-wheeled wagon. Part II: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387., Script: Part I (ff. 1-3): Written in a small neat humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line. Part II (ff. 4-67): Written in a slanting humanistic bookhand with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated initial, f. 4r, 4-line, gold on blue, green, and red ground with yellow and white filigree. In lower border wreathed medallion with ribbons on either side, bearing the arms of Rainerius de Maschis of Rimini; the initials R and A, in gold, on either side of shield. Headings, paragraph marks, punctuation and marginalia, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Natural color endbands, beaded on the spine, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards and nailed. There is tawed skin under the endband tie downs. Covered in green (?) tawed skin with a strip of red leather, 19th-20th centuries, added on the spine. Two truncated diamond catches with the IHS monogram within a sunburst (as used by St. Bernardinus of Siena) on the lower board. The upper board is cut in for clasp straps which are a later addition. Both clasps and catches have the word AVE. The title De re uxoria written in ink on both head and tail edges. The boards are badly worm eaten.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
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 of Francesco Filelfo, Oratio parentalis de divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium ducis felicitate
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, much worn, buried in gutter: similar in general design to Piccard, Ochsenkopf VII.955., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat sloping humanistic bookhand, above top line., Space left for initial on f. 1r is unfilled; heading in majuscules, colophon, and marginalia, in pale red., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Quarter bound in brown mottled calf; mottled yellow and green paper sides; pale brown edges. Gold-tooled spine including title, which is mostly wanting. Spine worm-eaten.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Milan (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
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)
Manuscript on paper of three works copied from incunabula: 1) Giovanni Antonio Campano, Oratio in conventu Ratisponensi ad exhortandos principes Germanorum contra Turcos et de laudibus eorum. 2) Johannes de Margarit, Oratio pronuntiata in senatu Venetiarum. 3) Franciscus de Toleto (Francois Busleiden), Oratio in funere Leonardi de Robore. Formerly part of a larger volume
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified, in gutter, similar to Piccard Buchstabe P XII., Script: Written in a small running hand exhibiting batarde influence., and Binding: Twentieth century. Black goatskin, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Campano, Giannantonio, Bishop, 1429-1477.
Subject (Topic):
Crusades, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
