Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia of botanical descripitons
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Paraphs and initials in red and blue ink., and Grid ruling very visible in margins and even within text.
Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript fragment on parchment, of a leaf from the Dialogi of Septimus Severus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule. One chapter heading in uncial capitals., Decoration: rubricated heading initial. Small initials in brown ink., and Three lines of interlinear commentary in a gothic cursive hand.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of text from the Digesta
Alternative Title:
Digesta
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis italiana., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials in red and blue ink. Four large painted initials showing clothed groteques.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, and Law, Roman
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a manuscript of the Digestum vetus, text and commentary, with an illumination representing the jurist Ulpian. Used as a binding for a seventeenth-century account book pertaining to the Brotherhood of Saint Martin, the dyer's guild
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: Large rectangular historiated initial in blue and orange containing a three-quarter figure representing the jurist Ulpain. Rubricated. Two and three-line initials in blue and red; paraph marks in red.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.