- Creator:
- Nicomachus, of Gerasa
- Published / Created:
- 1585.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 272
- Image Count:
- 180
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Nicomachus Gerasenus, Harmonicum enchiridion, I-II. 2) Gaudentius, Introductio harmonica
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Harlfinger Croix 42; a similar watermark occurs in Beinecke MSS 273 and 274., Script: Written and signed by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who completed the work in Venice on 26 March 1585., Much rubrication of the text. Small initials, 3- to 1-line, some with floral motifs. Simple headpieces in black and red at beginning of each section., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Lavender edges. Tan leather, flesh side out, over wooden boards with a blind-tooled X and a single line border on each. Probably by the same binder who bound MS 301; almost certainly done in the same bindery.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicomachus, of Gerasa.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Music, and Music theory
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Harmonicum enchiridion; with Gaudentius, Introductio harmonica
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 327
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes notes on arithmetic and accounting for merchandise; a romance of Tristan; list of spices; astronomical and astrological information; charms and prayers; recipes; extracts in Venetian; and poems
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Fruit 7372-76, Briquet Cheval 3564, and Briquet Fruit 7341., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat notarial hand, through f. 67v. Notes added by various hands of 14th-15th centuries., Drawings of ships, towers and merchants in ink, with added yellow, brown, green, red and blue; many diagrams. Crude 2- and 1-line initials in red, with guide-letters for rubricator showing beneath; headings in red., Repair of f. 1 with later paper; some loss of text. Repairs at outer edges on this and other folios do not affect text., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with paste paper back endleaf and pastedowns. Central fold of each bifolium has been reinforced with a strip of parchment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
- Subject (Topic):
- Accounting, Arithmetic, Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Formulas, recipes, etc, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Merchants, Prayers, Tristan (Legendary character), and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Merchant's commonplace book
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 506
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 18
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment roll, consisting of five skins pasted together, of an untitled list of 267 courses mentioning distances between two places and the bearing according to a 32-point compass, in Venetian dialect
- Description:
- In Italian (Venetian dialect)., Script: Written by one scribe in black ink except for five lines in red; of these lines 145 and 171 are no entries, but rubrics introducing the sections dealing with the Sea of Azov and the islands of the Aegean Sea respectively. The handwriting is a small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Cancelleresca influence; the latter is most apparent in the shape of the letter g and in the horizontal approach strokes at the top of the ascenders., The majuscules are heightened in red., and Damp stains have damaged and even obliterated some parts of the text, especially in its first section.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and Manuscript maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Portolano for the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea ("Marston Portolano").