Manuscript on parchment in two parts. Part I: Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. Due to the loss of quires or leaves the following parts are missing: Ps. 23:1-31:6; Ps. 44:14-50:21; Ps. 88:48-95:10; Ps. 131:8-147:14. The contents of the first quire, which is equally lost, is unknown. Written at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Part II: Unidentified definitions and theological and ethical discussions of Biblical terms and quotations without apparent order, on behalf of preachers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by various hands close to each other in small late Carolingian script, with sudden changes in the shade of ink and sometimes badly following the lines. The handwriting on ff. 77-84 (quire XI) and ff. 112-113 (quire XVI) has markedly different features. Part II (ff. 114-133): Written by a single hand in tiny Southern Gothica Textualis Currens, at different times and in many different ink shades. The scribe opens both quires with "Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia" in the upper margin., Part I: The very simple decoration is uneven and consists of plain Romanesque initials, 2 or 3 lines, in red ink; on f. 41r (Ps. 51) 5 lines; many initials are not executed or later coarsely added in black ink. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled with triple fillets. Spine with three raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bede. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Preaching
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript, written with black, red, and blue ink on vellum, includes 3 leaves in front and 5 leaves at end upon which are written an index and materia medica in a later [Italian?] hand. and Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
Manuscript on parchment of St. Bernardine of Siena, Tractatus de restitutionibus. The sermons are part of the De christiana religione of St. Bernardine, O.F.M., often copied as a separate work
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script., Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red., and Binding: ca. 1900. Vellum case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Catechetical sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper, in two different hands, containing Joannes de Sacro Bosco's De sphaera mundi and Additiones (1r-22v) and Gherardo da Cremona's Theorica planetarum (23r-38v). First hand is unidentified; second hand, Jacobus de Milisapris, has copied the Theorica planetarum. Also includes a number of astronomical illustrations; in De sphaera mundi: f. 1v ("de forma mundi notatur hec spera"); in Theorica planetarum: ff. 23v, 26r-v, 29r, 33r, 34r. Manuscript is a palimsest; original text is a 15th-century Italian religious text
Alternative Title:
Tractatus de spera de Iohannis de sacro busco. Theorica planetarum and Tractatus de sphaera / written by Jacobus de Milisapris de Porturraris at Padua ; finished "at 2 P.M. on 9 September 1467"
Description:
In Latin., Titles from opening rubrics., Script: first hand writes in humanist minuscule; second hand in gothic textualis., Decoration: headings in red. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: seventeenth-century paper binding over paper boards., Foliation added in red modern pencil., and Scribal note (f. 38v): Explicit Theorica planeta[rum] per me Iacobu[m] de Milisapris de Portuna[v]o[n]is. Anno C[hrist]i optimi 1467 die nono me[n]sis septembris hora m[er]curii. In paduano studio i[n] [con]trata colombino[rum].
Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, of this treatise on the administrative questions of communal ownership and inheritance raised by the Franciscan vow of poverty
Description:
Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), also known as Bartolus de Saxoferrato, was a prominent Italian legal scholar who taught in severa northern Italian universities and wrote many influential treatises, including several pertaining to the administrative and judicial problems raised by the rule of poverty of the Franciscan order., In Latin., Layout: single column of 43 lines., Script: gothica cursiva., Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards., and Guards from fragments of unidentified Hebrew manuscript on parchment.
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Moamin, Treatise on Falconry, parts 1-3. 2) Treatise of Dancus rex. 3) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. Artt. 4-5: Anonymous treatises on horses. 6) Moamin, part 4, on dogs
Alternative Title:
Moamin
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a small round gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37v, 67v-75v; Scribe 2) ff. 39r-67r., One 6-line initial, red and blue, filled with red and blue penwork in a floral pattern. 4-, 2-, and 1-line pen initials, red, with long trailing serifs and blue calligraphic flourishes. 2- and 1-line initials outside text column. On f. 1r, arms of the duchy of Austria (crudely executed; later addition?):, or, two eagles palewise displayed and crowned sable (Hungary): impaled with barry of 6 gules and argent; supported by griffins passant gules; the whole set between thick pink bands. Line-fillers red undulating lines. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on three supports, the two outer ones leather, the central one tawed skin, laid and nailed in channels in wooden boards. Plain wound primary endbands sewn on a tawed core at the head and a leather one at the tail, laid in grooves and nailed, with a secondary embroidery added. The square spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in dark red goatskin, blind-tooled, with four brass catches on the lower board. Leather cracking along joints, clasps wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Dogs, Falconry, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
Manuscript on paper of Treatises on Rhetoric and Epistulae including texts by Francesco Filelfo, Apollonius Dyscolus (?), and Trypho
Description:
In Greek and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3668, Briquet Monts 11882, and unidentified grapes., Script: Written by one scribe in small, very even Greek minuscule. Letters with name of Filelfo on flyleaves at front and back are written in well-formed italic., Headpiece, 1-line initials and headings in faded reddish-brown., Water stains in the upper right corner of many folios; some loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. Block printed paste paper case.