Manuscript on parchment of astrological texts drawn largely from Arab astrology of the early Middle Ages, and transmitted in medieval Latin translations; in addition Ptolemy's Centiloquium is present, transmitted not in Greek but through the Arabic, along with a single contemporary component, the Astrolabium planum of Johann Engel.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Marbled paper boards, green calf back with six heavy (false?) bands, the compartments with patterns of small tools impressed in gold and with gold-stamped titles, a small rectangular label with the printed number 1037 and a small round label with the inked number 894 glued to the bottommost compartment. All edges gilt. Preserved in a modern green cloth folding box, probably French, with leather label., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Mellon MS 155, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Rubrics, and occasional headlines in red, diagrams in the text in brown and red inks. Full illuminated border, outlined in red, on f. 1r of leafy sprays in colors and gold, the white spaces filled up with black dots and small burnished gold circles each with three or four small tendrils; a large initial in burnished gold and colors at the beginning of the text in the first column, with gold band extending downward and then around three sides of the page forming an inner border, completed by a red line at top; a lozenge at the center of the lower band of the border containing a pattern of platelike discs, quatrefoils, and a leafy spray on a dull gold ground, this segment almost certainly a later replacement of an original coat of arms which has been erased. Elsewhere in the manuscript smaller illuminated initials in the style of the first frequently occur, and larger ones with descenders to partial borders at the foot of the page occur. Each of the ninety-six pages from f. 191r through 238v has four drawings in colors (six on those pages which open each of the signs of the Zodiac), placed within diagrams accompanied by slight text., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a large and clear hand in Gothica textualis formata and Bastarda.
Subject (Name):
Ptolemy,--2nd cent
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Arab, Astrology--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible--Paraphrases, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, composed of three parts, of Petrus Riga, Aurora, Biblia Versificata (a Latin verse translation of the Bible). Parts I and III in the same format and possibly from the same manuscript.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Belgium. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50". Remains of old fore-edge tabs., Parts I and III: Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space. Part II: Plain initials and headings in red throughout., Presented by Otto Rauschberg in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1-72 and 113-136): Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Part II (ff. 73-112): Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been retraced.
Subject (Name):
Peter Riga,--ca. 1140-1209
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees.
Description:
Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked., Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves., In volume: ownership inscription of Thomas Martin (1697-1771); ex libris Thomas Barber; ownership inscription of Emily Bagot. Purchased from Lux et Umbra on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., and Script: gothica textualis.
Subject (Name):
Bagot, Emily--Autograph, Barber, Thomas,---1785--Bookplate, and Martin, Thomas,--1697-1771
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of the biblical book of I Samuel.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., Script: written in a humanistic script., and These fragments, from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +4439 (Josephus, Opera), in which they are used as front and back flyleaves.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Job, containing portions of chapters 28 and 29.
Description:
Decoration: initials and rubrics in red; some interlinear corrections; horizontal catchwords visible on back cover., Script: written in caroline minuscule., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4153 (Leonardo de Utino, Quadragesimale aureum), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Vulgate--History, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Judges.
Description:
Decoration: alternating red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork; initials heightened in red; roman numerals in blue and red indicating chapter numbers., In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic bookhand., and These fragments are contained in Zi 3612.6 (Gianantonio Sangiorgio, Sermo de passione...), around which they are used as wrappers.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Vulgate, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library