Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
Alternative Title:
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts, including: 1) A number of works by Albertano da Brescia, 2) Robertus Grosseteste's Templum De, 3) Laurence of Aquileia's Practica sive usus dictaminis, 4) Correspondence between Charles of Anjou and Peter III, King of Aragon, 5) Henry VII, Emperor, Letter to the citizens of Bologna. Manuscript also includes a number of other works.
Description:
A collection of texts, including: 1) Albertano da Brescia, De doctrina dicendi et tacendi, Liber consolationis et consilii, De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vitae, a sermon delivered before a congregation of Genoese notaries and causidici 1243 December 6, and Sermo. 2) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus hominum in saeculo viventium. 3) Pantaleon Barbo, Sermon on the Incarnation and Nativity. 4) Robertus Grosseteste, Templum Dei. 5) Laurence of Aquileia, Practica sive usus dictaminis. (In tabular form, each table covering two facing pages). 6) Iohannes Bondi de Aquilegia or Laurentius de Aquilegia, Theorica sive ars dictaminis. 7) Charles of Anjou (1226-1285), Letter to Peter III, King of Aragon 1276-1285, after the latter's conquest of Sicily, 1282, and a response by Peter III, King of Aragon, to Charles of Anjou. 8) Letter of the cardinals to the newly elected pope Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux (pope Clemens VI, 1305-1314). 9) Henry VII, Emperor (1308-1313), Letter to the citizens of Bologna, 1311. 10) Astrological treatise ascribed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy, 2nd century) with extensive gloss. 11) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Historia Griseldis, Latin translation by Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374). 12) A number of other letters, poems, and treatises., Binding: parchment wrappers over pasteboard made from leaves of a 15th or 16th century printed book; three white leather straps preserved., and Script: except article 1 (and 26?) copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); the orthography is very incorrect.
Subject (Name):
Damiani, Petrus,--Saint,--1007?-1072, Grosseteste, Robert,--1175?-1253, and Peter--III,--King of Aragon,--1239-1285
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Diplomacy, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. 2) Mateusz z Krakowa, De modo confitendi. 3) Thomas Aquinas, De consideratione. 4) Series of short texts on simony, adultery and other abuses, including works by Bernardus de Reijsa and Wilhelmus Blok.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Adultery (Canon law), Biography--To 500, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Simony (Canon law)
Holograph manuscript diary, written by Ralph W. Pope while employed as a telegrapher in British Columbia by the Collins Overland Telegraph Company. The diary describes his experiences as a member of an exploring party in the Fraser River region led by Franklin Leonard Pope, and his work in constructing telegraph lines in the region and as a telegrapher in Quesnel.
Description:
Manuscript diary is written from both directions and in both orientations.
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia--Discovery and exploration, Fraser River Region (B.C.)--Description and travel, and Quesnel (B.C.)
Subject (Name):
Butler, James L, Collins Overland Telegraph Company, Pope, Frank L.--(Franklin Leonard),--1840-1895, and Pope, Ralph W
Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City
Published / Created:
1860-1885
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2587 C714
Image Count:
46
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, minutes, and a manuscript copy of the 1868 charter of the Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City. The materials identify company officers and employees, and document the company's operation and mining business. Seven of the 11 letters present are from John Fillius, the company's Colorado mining superintendent, reporting from Georgetown, Colorado, and Denver, Colorado. His letters to the Board of Directors and to Dr. Henry Boggs of Baltimore describe the output, conditions, and expected expansion of the company's Colorado mines; plans to develop various lodes in Colorado, including the Illinois and the Choctaw; and a dispute with John Tomay over the company's ownership of one of the mines, which eventually led to legal action against Tomay and his colleague "Mr. Hughes" in 1882. One letter from Fillius is on letterhead of the Baltimore Tunnel Company, and provides a list of tunnels with a report of the quality of their output. A letter from Tomay in January 1875 describes various lodes in Georgetown, and letters from other correspondents in 1860, 1880, and 1883, concern the development and worth of the company's mining properties in Colorado. The minutes, which appear to have been torn out of a ledger and are incomplete, span from 1869 to 1873 and document the proceedings of the Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City's Board of Directors.
Description:
Purchased from Michael Ginsberg Books on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2006. and The Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City was incorporated in Washington, D.C., on November 19, 1868. The Company, managed by a board of seven directors, was formed to procure, transport, prepare, and bring to market in Maryland "minerals from the Colorado Territory."
Subject (Geographic):
Baltimore (Md.)--Commerce and Georgetown (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Baltimore Tunnel Company, Colorado Territory National Silver Mining Company of Baltimore City, Fillius, John, and Tomay, John--Trials, litigation, etc