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1. Bible
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1240-approximately 1250.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a73
- Image Count:
- 716
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
2. Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
- Creator:
- Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1320]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.161
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Breviari d'Amor by Matfre Ermengaud. This fragment, the sole example of troubadour lyric in North America outside of the Morgan Library, contains sections II.15913-16015 of the poem, which details the ten punishments of hell. Marginal notes in two later hands are present
- Description:
- In Old Occitan (Old Provençal)., Accompanied by: nineteenth-century printed description in French and translation into modern French., Script: main text in vernacular Gothic bookhand. Marginal notes in a late medieval hand and an early modern hand., Decoration: nine four-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork. Two two-line initials in red. A single red capitulum mark. Rubrics present in red., and Layout: single column of thirty lines; the initial letter of each line is set slightly apart. Light brown ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
- Subject (Topic):
- Hell, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Troubadour songs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
3. Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.13
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, incomplete bifolium, from a French breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textura., and Decoration: rubricated. Two-line initials in alternating red and blue ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
4. Canon law text (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.14 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, from a text on Canon law
- Description:
- In Latin. and Script: gothica textura.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Canon law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canon law text (fragment).
5. Canon medicinae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1350].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.175 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canon medicinae (fragment).
6. Charter from John le Carpenter to Henry Williams (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- 1343 November 24.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.11
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Charter from John le Carpenter to Henry Williams (fragment).
7. Cirogia vulgare. Ricettario. Antidotarium vulgare
- Creator:
- Rolandus, Parmensis, active 1264
- Published / Created:
- between 1300 and 1350.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 52 Vault
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Rolandus of Parma's Cirogia vulgare (ff. 1-65). Followed by an anonymous list of medical recipes and antidotes. Imperfect: many sections of the list of antidotes censored with black ink. Folio 104 almost completely torn away; its verso and extra vellum leaf at end have manuscript notes on astrology, in a later hand
- Alternative Title:
- Chirurgia vulgare : followed by a ricettario, and antidotarium vulgare
- Description:
- In Italian., First title from title heading, other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: headings in red ink and rubrication throughout., Layout: double column of 24 lines., Binding: vellum binding with spinal title: Cirogia vulgare / MS. XIV. Saec., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antidotes, Surgery, Medieval, Materia medica, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Cirogia vulgare. Ricettario. Antidotarium vulgare
8. Collection of 12 manuscript fragments
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 887
- Image Count:
- 25
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment of legal, liturgical, and literary texts. 11 fragments in Latin, 1 fragment in French
- Description:
- In Latin and French.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of 12 manuscript fragments
9. Collection of mathematical and astronomical treatises
- Published / Created:
- between 1291and 1454.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 11 Vault
- Image Count:
- 358
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in several unidentified hands containing a collection of various medical treatises. Manuscript consists of tree sections bound together. First part contains several works by Aristotle (all in William of Moerbeke's recension): De anima (ff. 1r-26r; marginal commentary by Thomas Aquinas), De somno et vigilia (ff. 26r-37r), De generatine et corruptione (ff. 38r-55r), De causis (ff. 56r-61r), De motibus animalium (ff. 62r-63r, beginning imperfect), De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 63r-66v), De longitudine (ff. 67r-69r); and Henricus Monachus' Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha (f. 70r). The second part (15th c. date on the basis of paleography) contains Johannes de Sacrobosco's Algorithmus (ff. 70v-74r), De sphaera (74r-81v), and Compotus ecclesiastius (82v-98r), the anonymous' De simplici et composito quadrante (98r-100v), Robertus Grosseteste's De sphaera (ff. 101r-106r) and Compotus (ff. 106r-124r), Campanus de Novara and Robertus Grosseteste's Tabulae (ff. 124r-126r), Expositio tabule de annis Arabum Magistri Campani (f. 126r), De pratica quadrantis (ff. 127r-130r), Chylindrus (ff. 137r-139r), Compotus manualis (ff. 139r-142r), and Gerardus Creonensis' Theorica planetarum (ff. 143r-155r). The third part (14th c. date on the basis of decoration) contains Prophatius Hebraeus' Tractatus quadrantis novi (ff. 156r-171r), and the Tabula ad sciendu quantum cum quolibet gradu zodiaci... (f. 171v) Ends with two diagrams (ff. 172v-173r) and a table the fixed stars (f. 173v)
- Alternative Title:
- De anima, De somno et vigilia, De generatione et corruptione [etc.] : [the Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha of Henricus Monachus, followed by selections, mostly astronomical and arithmetical, from Johannes de Sacrobosco, Robertus Grosseteste, Johannes de Ahrweiler, Gerardus Cremonensis]
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothica textualis., Decoration: decorative red and blue initials, and several hand drawn maps of the fixed stars. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown pig-skin binding, blind-tooled. Contemporary pig-skin tabs attached to fore-edges to demarcate beginins of new texts. Traces of straps from back to front cover. Traces of metal bosses on front cover and 3 holes in triangular formation for chain attachment on back cover. Label on front cover: Algorism[us] ... / Sper materialis / Compo[si]tus philosop[] / uel custod[]. Label on back cover: Sphaera materialis / Joannis de Arweilerio. Quadra[n]s / nouus Probacii Hebrei 1554. Note on binding on inside front cover: Anno domini MCCCCLIIII. Ligatus est iste liber per reuerendum patrum fratrem Matthiam Halddenof suppriorem conuentus wiennensis., Date of the first and oldest part is based on scribal note (f. 26r): Explicit liber de anima petri Rodeheym. Amen. Anno domini MCCLXXXXI in uigilia pentecostes., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, Manuscripts, and Psychology
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of mathematical and astronomical treatises