Manuscript on parchment of prayers, liturgical regulations, and offices
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., Ornate initials in red, blue, and violet., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged brown leather over pasteboards, recovered in paper. Red leather gilt label on spine reading: "Breviarum Manuscriptum".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In margin upper right: No.2., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Irrigation (Medicine)., Sick persons, and Medical equipment and supplies
Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a canon law text with accompanying gloss
Description:
In Latin., Recovered from a binding., Script: gothica textura; gloss smaller and more abbreviated., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials and paraph marks in red and blue ink. Several maniscules linking gloss to lines in main text.
Title from item., Imperfect; only cartouche with title, statement of responsibility and date is present, with the rest of the plate trimmed away., and On leaf 1 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title and publishers from item., Date from copy in University of Rochester library, viewed 7/19/2023: https://aep.lib.rochester.edu/node/42151, Image of a couple in a complicated sex position appears to be from the Kama Sutra., Inscription: SIDA. Aujourd'hui, on peut faire beaucoup. Mais riens sans vous. Cette campaign de prévention et d'information est réalisée à l'initiative du Ministère de l'emploi et de la solidarité - Secrétariat d'État à la sante et à l'action sociale ; Comité français d'éducation pour la santé., In margin upper left: Australie R.C.S. Nanterre B 318 827 102 - Réf.: 13-98243-A., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Ministère de l'emploi et de la solidarité - Secrétariat d'état à la sante et à l'action sociale ; Comité français d'éducation pour la santé and 1998
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS (Disease)., Condoms, Safe sex in AIDS prevention, and Sex
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Stratton, Charles (1838-83).
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883
Subject (Topic):
Dwarfism, Human curiosities, Dwarfs, Celebrities, and Circus entertainers