Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts from various alchemical and medical writers. Includes John of Rupescissa, Liber de confectione veri lapidis; and Arnold of Villanova, De perfectione operis alkimie. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 36.
Description:
Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing visible) from a document, plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Medicina astrologia." Loose in cover and wormed., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 23, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Latin, Italian, and Spanish., and Script: Written by one or perhaps two hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless.
Subject (Name):
Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. and Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Italian poetry--16th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
"Cum priuilegio Regio.", Bar scale given in "scala milliarum.", Hand colored borders., Ms. no. on recto and verso: 155. Stamp on vers, and Relief shown pictorially.
Gouwen, Gilliam van der, engraver Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702, cartographer
Call Number:
36 1706
Container / Volume:
BRBL_00117
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Description:
Borders are hand colored; larger cites are illustrated and colored red., Decorative title cartouche., Relief shown pictorially., Shows towns, rivers, and cities., and With reference grid.
Subject (Geographic):
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Belgium Catholicum seu decem provinciae Germaniae inferioris and Carte des Pais Bas catholiques où des X provinces de l'Allegmagne inférieure, etc. dessinée au juste selon les exactes observations astronomiques et opérations géometriques des Messur. Cass
Description:
"Avec privil. Imperial" above neat line., Includes 8 bar scales., Includes coats-of-arms of ten provinces., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermark. Manuscript number in upper right corner: 262[?]. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection.
Publisher:
Edentibus Homannianis heredib.,
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium--Maps--Early works to 1800. and Luxembourg--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Cassini, César-François, 1714-1784, Homann Erben (Firm), and Snellius, Willebrord, 1580-1626
[Atlas factice of 32 maps and 1 distance table, produced by the Homann Erben firm]
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Belgium Catholicum seu decem provinciae Germaniae inferioris and Carte des Pais Bas catholiques ou des X provinces de l’Allegmagne inferieure, etc. dessinee au juste selon les exactes observations astronomiques et operations geometriques des Messur. Cassini, Snellius, Muschenbrok, etc. dressee par Sr. Tobias Maier, mathematicien; aux depens des Heritiers de Homann
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium --Maps --Early works to 1800 and Luxembourg --Maps --Early works to 1800
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Luke, containing verses 5:12-26.
Description:
Decoration: rubrics, initials, and chapter marks in red., In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +5140 (Roberto Caracciolo, Specchio della fede), in which the fragment is used as the front pastedown.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r-v Antiphona. Cruci, corone spinee, clavisque dire, lancee ... per que corone gaudia perpetua speramus. Versus. Adoramus te Christe ... Oremus. Quesumus omnipotens Deus, ut qui sacratissima nostre redemptionis insignia temporaliter veneramur, per hec indesinenter muniti eternitatis gloriam consequamur. Per. De sancto Eustachio antiphona., On parchment., This small luxurious book of devotion seems to be organized according to the liturgical year, the Exaltation of the Cross being celebrated on 14 September, the martyr Eustace on 20 September., and Yellow heightening of the majuscules. One 2-line flourished initial, gold with blue flourishes, and on f. 1r one square miniature (5 lines) in a golden frame representing the Instruments of the Passion, accompanied by a full rinceaux border with a gold and pink bar in the inner margin. In the upper right and the two lower corners flowers and plants grow on a circular grassy patch of earth. The spiralling tendrils between them carry gold balls and vine leaves and flowers.