[Anonymous] Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent Martin Roesel of Rosenthal Wolfgang the Organist
Published / Created:
1536, ca. 1520, and ca. 1586
Call Number:
Mellon MS 27
Image Count:
141
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type.
Description:
Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing., In Latin and German, partly in cipher., Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124., Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia., and Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Binding: Original blind-tooled brown leather over unbevelled oak boards, bound on four double cords. The two covers are decorated by means of triple fillets with different patterns: on the front cover a double rectangular frame divided into small lozenges decorated with lozenge-shaped hand-tools: griffon, unicorn (?), undetermined, ad two small flowerets; on the rear cover a double rectangular frame divided into six triangles decorated with only a few lozzenge-shaped hand-tools. Both covers protected by four engraved brass corner-pieces (three lost). Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover. Spine reinforcement consisting of four fragments from a missal (see below). Spine (damaged) with four raised bands and plaited headbands. Brown leather spine label with gold-tooled title and shelf-mark: VEN. BEDAE / SCINTILLA ETC. / I. XXII. B. V. (now detached). Five red leather tabs or traces of tabs, one at the beginning of each part. Front paste-down of blank parchment., Cite as: Mariological, Mystical and Ascetical Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Libra, Consecutive rear fly-leaf and paste-down cut from the same missal as the binding reinforcements, Germany, 14th century. Final part of the Ordinary of the Mass, containing corrections and changes. The Pater noster has neumatic notation on 4-line staves in black, red and yellow. Parchment. Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, the corrections in smaller Textualis Libraria (ca. 1400). Red stroking of majuscules, red rubrics and plain initials., f. 142 loose. Originally tipped in and tab bound., In Latin., Manuscript on paper in five parts, each with its own very partial foliation (ca. 1800); they seem to have had the same history. The handwriting, by various scribes sometimes difficult to discern, is generally very uneven. The paper at places damaged by the acidity of the ink. Part I (ff. 1-84, art. 1): Copied by four Gothic hands: A (ff. 1r-29v): Hybrida Formata; B (ff. 30r-39va): Semihybrida Currens; C (ff. 39vb-56r): Hybrida Libraria; D (ff. 56v-77r): small Hybrida Libraria. Part II (ff. 85-215, art. 2): Copied by various scribes, writing Hybrida Formata, Hybrida Libraria, Cursiva Libraria (ff. 153v-157v) and Semihybrida Currens (f. 210r-v, 212v). The headings are in diverse types of script, often slovenly written. Part III (ff. 216-273, art. 3): Copied by three hands. A (ff. 216r-230v): large, bold Hybrida Formata; B (ff. 231r-272ra): Hybrida Libraria; C = friar Rudolphus Deyrdynck (f. 272rb-v): Hybrida Libraria. Part IV (ff. 274-343, artt. 4-19): Copied by one hand writing Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria/Currens. Part V (ff. 344-388, art. 20): Copied by three hands. A (ff. 344r-352ra, 14): bold Hybrida Formata/Libraria; B (ff. 352ra, 14-354va): bold Semihybrida Libraria; C (ff. 354vb-388r): linear Hybrida Libraria/Currens sloping to the left., Note in the lower margin of f. 1r suggests that the manuscript was produced in the Benedictine abbey of Huysburg, north of Halberstadt. The scribe Rudolf Deyerdynck may have been a member of this community. Gift of the Library Associates of Yale University Library., Part I: Headings in red. The majuscules are stroked in red. Plain initials of various sizes in red, generally with the simplest form of penwork; they are all executed by the same hand., Part II: Plain initials in red of various styles and sizes, often with some flourishing; they are missing on ff. 206r-207v., Part III: Headings in red. The majuscules are stroked in red. 2-3 line plain initials in red., Part IV: Headings in red. Red stroking of majuscules and red paragraph-marks. Plain initials in red of mediocre execution; on ff. 279r-284r cadels with fancy forms; a face in the initial on f. 312r; some initials (ff. 324r-341v) apparently by the same hand as those in Part I., and Part V: Headings in red. Stroking of initials in red. 2-3-line plain initials in red at the opening of the chapters. A human face in the initials on ff. 351r, 352r, 375v. The names of the authorities quoted are in red.
Subject (Name):
Abbot of St. Mihiel, Smaragdus, fl. 809-819, Bishop of Brandenburg, Stephan Bodeker, 1383-1459, and Blessed Virgin, Saint, Mary
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
Reformatio Sigismundi, originally written in 1439 at the alleged instigation of the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund (1368-1437) for the Council of Basel. The text of Marston MS 273 is the vulgate version (V), composed around 1440. As with other versions, the author of this text is supposedly Friedrich von Lantnau or Lantzenau (see f. 6r), who claims to have undertaken the translation of it into German from the "original" Latin. The identity of this person is still uncertain (see Koller, op. cit., p. 6), and the idea of a Latin "original" is rejected by the editor (Koller, op. cit., p. 17).
Description:
On paper and Written by a single scribe in a neat hybrida script, without loops and with very few abbreviations.
Subject (Name):
Sigismund, Emperor of Germany, 1368-1437
Subject (Topic):
Reformation --Early movements and Reformation--Holy Roman Empire
Manuscript on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Regula pastoralis.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. De luxe, gold-tooled green morocco over cardboard; each cover framed by rich gold-tooling imitating the decorated initial on f. 1v; turn-ins gold-tooled. Gold-tooled spine with repeated motif in the same style and title: “GREGORII / PASTORALIS / M.S.”. Gilt edges., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 14872)., Headings in red, missing from f. 12v onwards. 1-3-line plain initials in red of various shades. On f. 1v very large (c. 25 lines) decorated Romanesque initial “P” in red., Holes and defective corners, many repaired; the lower margins of ff. 63 and 91-92 are repaired by means of a strip of parchment; the lower margin of f. 93 is cut off. The manuscript is heavily trimmed at the top. First and last pages very soiled., and Script: Copied by various scribes writing Praegothica, difficult to distinguish from each other because of the uneven level of execution of their hands.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Quaestiones de quolibet. 2) A series of Quaestiones on the soul. 3) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura generis. 4) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De principio individuationis. 5) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura accidentis. 6) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De quattuor oppositis. 7) Treatise on the immortality of the soul, being a shortened version of the beginning of Guillelmus de Alvernia (Guillaume d'Auvergne, c. 1180-1249), De immortalitate animae. 8) Thomas de Sutton (d. in or after 1300), De productione formarum substantialium. 9) Thomas Aquinas, De iudiciis astrorum. 10) Thomas Aquinas, De mixtione elementorum. 11) Thomas Aquinas, De aeternitate mundi. 12) Thomas Aquinas(doubtful), De instantibus. 13) Thomas Aquinas, De occultis operationibus naturae. 14) Thomas Aquinas, De principiis naturae. 15) Thomas Aquinas, De natura materiae et dimensionibus interminatis. 16) Thomas Aquinas, De motu cordis. 17) Anonymous (Ps.-Thomas Aquinas), De universalibus. 18) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), De intellectu et intelligibili. 19) Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome, c. 1244-1316), Theoremata de ente et essentia. 20) Anonymous commentary on Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Quomodo substantiae in eo, quod sint, bonae sint (De hebdomadibus, CPL 892). 21) Albertus Magnus, De intellectu et intelligibili. 22) Albertus Magnus, De natura et origine animae. 23) Heymericus de Campo (Heymeric van de Velde, c. 1390-1460), Problemata inter Albertum Magnum et sanctum Thomam, written 1423-1426, printed Cologne, Iohannes Landensis, 1496 (GKW 12405) and 1517. 24) Franciscus de Mayronis OFM (François de Meyronnes, d. c. 1328), attrib., Vinculum de esse essentiae. 25) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), Quaestiones de esse et essentia. 26) 27. Fragments preserved as sewing guards from a printed indulgence issued by Marinus de Fregeno (d. 1486), who sold indulgences for an expedition against the Turks in the years 1473-1480.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary unbevelled wooden boards covered with dark brown pigskin, simply decorated with fillets. Spine with four raised bands. Five cylindrical brass bosses and corner and side-pieces on each cover. Remnants of two engraved brass clasps attached to the rear cover, the catches with the inscription “Maria”. Yellow edges., Red stroking of majuscules. Red headings only in art. 23. Red plain or slightly decorated initials, 2-9 lines, sometimes taking the shape of a littera duplex or a flourished initial (f. 49v); no initials in artt. 2-3. At the top of the left-hand column of f. 1r there is a blank space (for a small miniature?)., Script: Probably six scribes, all writing highly abbreviated Gothic scripts., and Watermarks: var. Briquet 14871-14872 and 14549?.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism