A coat of arms featuring moline-styled cross with three stars surrounding it, at the forefront of a dotted background. At the helm is a knight's helmet, open and featuring a face. At the crest, over a torse, is the head and upper torso of a woman wearing a hat with lots of plumage. Decorative leafing surrounds much of the image. A motto above the image reads Tam in Arte Quam Marte.
Subject (Name):
Hood, A. Jarvie
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Cross, Physicians, Portraits, Shield, Shields, and Star
A coat of arms with two large strips dividing the shield into three parts. A large tiger stands in the center. Above the shield is a rampant stag atop a torse. Various flora and grasses surround the shield, and below is the motto Miseris Succurrere. Printed in green ink.
Subject (Name):
Bagnell, Abraham
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Dragon, Physicians, and Shields
Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202 Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Jābir ibn Ḥayyān Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent
Published / Created:
[ca. 1400]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 5
Image Count:
282
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
2r-3v : An early example of alchemical music, the Antiphona, by Johannes de Teschen, written in Hufnagelschrift., Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest) of a large collection of medieval alchemies, both speculative and practical. Includes an important group of writings by Johannes of Teschen, notably his Antiphona with musical notation. Also contains works by Arnold of Villanova, Alanus, Geber, Khalid ibn Yazid, and Albertus Magnus., and MS 5 is notable for its large collection of medieval alchemies, both speculative and practical, and especially for the important group of writings by Johannes of Teschen.
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Andreas Beham the Elder, dated 1595, engraved by Johann Siebmacher, (d. 1611), Binding: Fifteenth century, German. Presumably original, of oaken boards covered with red-dyed hide, sides framed by triple blind fillets, additional fillets drawn diagonally to form a pattern of lozenges; the original back laid down on a new backstrip preserving the four original raised bands, plus head and foot bands, which are drawn into the boards, fastened with wooden wedges, and reinforced with strips of parchment (cut from a 13th-century manuscript with faint writing in a very small gothic hand) which are glued down to the inside boards. On both covers single nailholes near the corners and two such holes in the center of each cover indicate the removal of brass cornerpieces and centerpieces; a single brass catch with iron bar, fastened by three brass nails, is preserved in the upper cover, the clasp missing from the lower cover indicated only by a mark. Modern leather label on backstrip, stamped in silver between rules top and bottom: ""ALCHEMICAL MISCELLANY MANUSCRIPT FRANCE 15TH C.""., Important capitals painted in red and blue with occasional filiform decoration, rubricated, and capitals frequently stroked red, but without other ornament or illustration., Modern pencil foliation throughout with various early pagination/foliation schemes., Ruled in red ink in two columns of 40 lines each., Script: Written in Gothica textualis by a careful but ill-formed hand in which differing letter forms are often not discrete, with annotations by a later 15th-century cursive hand and occasional notes by other hands of the same period., and Written space 124 x 98 mm.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Music--500-1400
A snake forms an oval in which the title text is at center. Above is a lion holding a fleur-de-lis. Further above is a large draped curtain that hovers over the entire image. A motto over the lion reads Bominus Fortitudo Mea.
A coat of arms in which is the letter Y with a star at its center. The shield is bordered by several ermine spots. At the helm is a knight's helmet, surrounded by elaborate mantling. At the crest is a boar with a balancing scale in its mouth. Above is the motto Fortis et Æquus.
Subject (Name):
Cunninghame, Alexander
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Helmet, Physicians, and Shield
A shield, edged with leafing, and divided into two halves. Each half presents a gules field divided by an argent bend with three waterfowl upon it. In the upper right hand is the head of a unicorn. At the helm, surrounded by fancy leafing, is a knight's helmet. At the crest, atop a torse, is the head of a unicorn adorned with droplets. Beneath the shield are two medals that hang from ribbons. In front of these is a long banner with the motto Persevero Donec Vincam.
Subject (Name):
Marsden, Alexander (Alexander Edwin), 1832-1902
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates,, Birds, Helmet, Physicians, Shield, Shields, and Unicorn
A shield, divided into two vertical halves. The left half, with a field further divided into two designs (Gules and Azure), features a chevron Argent with five ermine spots. Surrounding this are three scallop shells; two above, one below. The right half contains, against a field Argent, a chevron Sable with three scallop shells upon it. Surrounding this are three trefoils; two above, one below. At the top of the half is a single crescent. The shield itself is edged in leafing; at the crest, upon a torse, is a lion passant. Below the shield is the motto Virtute et Labore.
Subject (Name):
McClintock, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1821-1881
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Cross, Dragon, Physicians, Shells, Shield, and Shields
The ruins of an ancient temple. Surrounding the plate is written Etenim Omnes Artes Quae ad Humanitatem Pertinent Habent Quasi Commune Vinculum et Cognatione Quadam Inter se Continentur.