Manuscript on paper of a private compilation. The two well known works entered into the codex deal with magical properties ascribed to certain gems and the supernatural significance of the carving of stones. Together with these formal texts are found other extremely varied materials: procedures for restoring wine which has suffered various accidents, for making glass of different colors, for the early ripening of grapes, for making an ass bray loudly, for frightening dogs, and so forth
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Watermark: unidentified flower-petal., Script: Probably written by a single hand, employing a Gothico antiqua on ff. 1-11r, with a less formal treatment of the same elsewhere, and more cursive writing for the passages in Italian; the writing relatively careful at the beginning, progressively less so until the end., Red ink for most headings, red capitals and paragraph marks, except on f. 11v-12r and 16v-17r, which are without color., Lower margins affected by damp throughout and partly repaired with blank paper., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper boards, more recent gilt-stamped label on backstrip.
Manuscript on paper of a group of shorter works by Christopher of Paris (pseudonym), probably a Venetian alchemist. With John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. Also includes recipes for making blue pigments and a procedure for etching a design on an iron surface
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: 1) anchor with ring atop the shank, all within a circle; 2) plain and ill-drawn anchor with thick flukes, the top of the shank forming a small, neat cross with the short stock. Both probably Italian papers, not directly comparable to the varieties illustrated by Briquet., Script: Written by a single scribe in a late humanistic cursive hand sloping slightly to the right., No headlines, headings and some capitals in pale red., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown calf, the covers blind-ruled to a rectangular pattern, the large center rectangle diagonally ruled to a lozenge pattern, a single quatrefoil impressed in blind in each of the rectangles and lozenges so formed, edges partly renewed and rebacked in the style of the period of the binding with compartments formed by three double raised bands, a gold stamped title label in the second compartment from top reading: "CHRISTOPHE | DE PARIS | - | RUPESCISSA | MANUSCRIPTS | ITALY | 15TH C". The endpapers are modern insertions, though of old paper, and the binding, while of the period of the manuscript, probably had no original connection with this codex.
Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204., Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe., Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers., Stained throughout; final folio repaired., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets., Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
Appears in the author's L'isole piu famose del mondo, descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano..., p. 20., The map appears in various editions of the atlas from 1572 to 1620. In later editions of the atlas the printing plate appears to have deteriorated., Relief shown pictorially., Text in Italian on verso., and BEIN *509 1576: dgvmp2008.
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
A manuscript, in a multitude of unidentified hands, on paper, containing a collection of medical and dietetic recipes. Also contains a section of unidentified elegiac poetry, including a few couplets attributed to Hesiod. Introduction, conclusion, and many other sections of the text wanting
Alternative Title:
Raccolta di ricette medicinali e dietetiche : [medical and dietetic recipes], in Italian and Latin ; finished 20 December 1573, with later additions
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: multiple humanist hands., Layout: single column of between 25 and 30 lines., Binding: bound in limp vellum with forage flap and leather strap. Unidentified manuscript writing on front cover., Colophon (f. 161v): 1573 di 20 di Decembrio sono fatti 30 salami fini 9: supheletti et li altri in Budello Delli Grassi n. 22. Indu[]elli no. In nome del servitor mio qual e in Galera e Baldassaro di Pepi Lisandrini perosino, e in Livorno nella Galera patrona dil gran Ducha di Fiorenza., and Manuscript's contemporary pagination indicates that many leaves are wanting: 26-38, 165-248, 297-358, 363-408, 419-426, 431-560.
Manuscript, in two different unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical ingredients and recipes. Contains, in the first humanist hand, collection of medical recipes (ff. 1-21r) and a text of medical recipes against the plague by Mastro Tomasso da Garbo (ff. 21v-23v). In the second gothic hand, contains a a list of ingredients and their medical uses in Latin and Italian (ff. 24r-33r in Latin, ff. 24r-25r, 33r-51v in Italian).
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule and gothic textualis., Decoration: rubricated headings and rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 28 lines., Binding: contemporary vellum binding., Incipit text 1: Tolle una melagrana et mondala tucta et poi la pesta et trane el sugho... Heading text 2: El consiglio di Mastro Tomasso da Garbo contro la pestilentia. Incipit text 3: Verdolaghe. La verdolaga e de amorosa natura et de freda perche siando pistata et metuta sopra lo ventre tira la febre..., and Modern foliation in pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Recipes, Manuscripts, Materia medica, and Medicine