Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini : [and other tracts]
Image Count:
11
Description:
Bound with: Martinis, O. de De vita ... S. Bonaventurae. Rome, 1482. Barberiis, Ph. de. Carmen in laudem Sexti IV papae. Rome. 1481. and Modern foliation employed.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo and Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Bible -- Commentaries, Sibyls --Early works to 1800, Theology -- Early works to 1800, and Women prophets --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[Rome : Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 1st December 1481]
Piozzi’s annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays; variations in women’s fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 and Spectator (London, England : 1711)
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Piozzi’s annotations range from brief notes on the text of the essays to lengthy anecdotes; quotations from and comments on other English authors; and social and historical observations. There are eight references to Samuel Johnson, and several to the Prince of Wales; other historical figures mentioned include the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Nelson. Historical observations include the disappearance of road signposts; changes in the staging of Shakespeare’s plays; variations in women’s fashions and in attitudes toward women authors. Piozzi also includes personal reminiscences and corrections to the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 and Spectator (London, England : 1711)
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading --Great Britain, English literature --18th century, English poetry --18th century, English prose literature --18th century, and Women writers
Imperfect: title page wanting (title, as above, supplied from the Folger library card; the by-line, omitted on the Folger card, supplied from the British museum catalogue); leaf t4 and quire Mm wanting; several leaves mutilated., In three parts, parts 2-3 with special title pages., and Signatures: A-T8a-s8t4Aa-Rr8.
Publisher:
by Jhon Daye, dwellinge at Aldersgate, and William Seres, dwelling in Peter colledge These bokes are too be sold at the new shop by the Litle Conduite in Chepeside,
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Revelation--Commentaries and Bible.--N.T.--Revelation--Paraphrases, English
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 8-1338. Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, b. 1160. Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Published / Created:
1804 or 1805
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 210
Image Count:
8
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 1215 (A.D. 1804 or 5); parts of the manuscript seem older than 1804. and Exhaustive commentary on al-Qazwīnī's Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, which is an excerpt of part 3 of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
Description:
Islamic binding, covered in green fabric, with flap., Profuse marginal and interlinear notes throughout., and Purchased from Oskar Rescher in 1972 on the Edwin J. Beinecke fund.
Subject (Name):
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān,--1267 or 8-1338.--Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Rhetoric and Islamic binding
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, b. 1160. Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
Published / Created:
1347?
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 533
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Commentary on pt. 3 of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
Description:
1347 is perhaps the date of composition., Islamic binding, in brown, with flap., Profuse marginalia., and Purchased from Oskar Rescher in 1968 on the Library Associates fund.
Subject (Name):
Rescher, Oskar--1883-1972--Ownership and Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,--b. 1160.--Miftaḥ al-ʻulūm
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language and literature--Rhetoric and Islamic binding