Two manuscript fragments on parchment, in strips, containing partial lines from Book 1 of Homiliae in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule. Several initial letters in the margin in purple and green inks., and Strips recovered from use in a later binding.
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Published / Created:
[between 1140 and 1160].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.54
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Honorius of Autun's Imago Mundi
Alternative Title:
De imagine mundi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; the initials that begin new chapters are dotted with orange; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; the marginal chapter headings are written by a contemporary hand in brown minuscule and are encircled in orange, with an orange line connecting each circle; the same orange is used to adorn the chapter initials and to mark roman numerals in the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
Description:
In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a martyrology. Verso contains a three line explicit in small capitals referring to "Sancti Lantperti, episcopi et martyris."
Manuscript fragment on parchment from a German martyrology
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: small initials highlighted in red ink. One four-line initial in red and green ink, in "white vine" style.
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a description of several alchemical and medical ingredients and processes. Includes a table of contents, using alchemical symbols, on f. 1: Aurum potabile (ff. 1-4), Lapis animalis (ff. 4-14), Lapis Vegetabilis (ff. 14-19), Lapis mineralis (ff. 19-26), Aurum potabile (ff. 26-30), Tinctura cum mercurio (ff. 30-33), Tinctura magna (ff. 33-36), Das war Auz[] pota[]le (ff. 36-41), Testamentum Raimundi Lulii (ff. 41-58), [mercuriis?] corporibus, Sequitur solutiones, Tinctura animalis, Tinctura albedinis (ff. 77-80), Coagulatio Mercurii (ff. 80-82), De oro argento (ff. 82-83), Verus elixir (ff. 83-86), Secreta Antionii (ff. 86-92), Proiectio (ff. 92-99).
Description:
In Latin and German., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: headings in red ink. Spare rubrication., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: red vellum binding., and Foliation in later hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Materia medica, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric