Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a breviary, containing readings for the 24th Sunday after Trinity Sunday. With neumes written above the text without staves
Description:
In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red ink.
Manuscript fragments on parchment, from a breviary, containing the beginning of the Divine Office series for the Sundays after Pentecost. With Saint Gall neumes
Description:
In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red ink.
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.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of book two of Avicenna's Canon medicinae as translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona; the section contained in the fragment details a variety of herbs and their medicinal qualities
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated, Gothic hand., Decoration: each medicinal entry begins with a 3-line initial, alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color. Headings at the top of each page in red and blue. Each column contains decorative borderwork consisting of elongated strokes alternating in red and blue with red penwork., Layout: in two columns of 68 lines each., and Damage: the fragment has been removed from a binding, where it possibly served as a wrapper. Glue and binding material are still attached to one side of the leaf; the other side is discolored with offsetting from the later book. A piece from the spine remains attached and reads "Bbb" [?].
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Arab
Manuscript charter, on parchment, by John le Carpenter, granting power of attorney to Henry Williams to grant seisin to Geoffrey, brother of John, of some lands in Stoke Waleys
Description:
In Latin., Script: anglicana., Decoration: with remains of red seal attached., and Docketed on verso in a 19th-century hand.
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the Chirurgia (ff. 1r-25r) and the anonymous Chirurgia Salernitana or Bamberg Surgery (ff. 26r-41r).
Alternative Title:
Chirurgia : Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", Chirurgia, Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", and Bamberg Surgery
Description:
In Latin., First title from title page. Second title assigned by cataloger., Script: late carolingian minuscule., Decoration: ff. 1r-25r: one large twenty-line red initial; one- to three-line red initials with decorative flourishes. Ff. 26r-41r: one three-line red initial with gold background and blue floral decorations, two-line alternating red and blue initials. Rubrication throughout., Layout: ff. 1r-25r: 1 column of around 4o lines; ff. 26r-41r: 1 column of 33 lines., Binding: original wooden boards covered with tawed sheepskin. Cover has title and notarial sign in black ink. Remnants of 2 fore edge clasps closing to back cover., Bound with 14th-century fragment used as front pastedown, containing Ps-Bartholoaeus Mini De Senis's Tractatus de Herbis. Incipit: debent poni in ... Explicit: Syr[upus] acetos[us] val[et]., Place of production: origin said to be Italian. However, paleographical evidence points to a German origin. Fore edge clasps closing to back cover points to Spanish or Southern French origin of binding., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Surgery, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, containing a series of lectures on Hippocrates and Galen, numbered 1-103, delivered by Matteo Corti at Padua
Alternative Title:
Expositio in Aphorismos Hippocratis
Description:
In Latin., Title from heading., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 42 lines., and Binding: manuscript fragment on parchment reused for binding, containing a notarial registry of Amandola.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, and Manuscripts