- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.42 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia of botanical descripitons
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Paraphs and initials in red and blue ink., and Grid ruling very visible in margins and even within text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De plantis et de herbis (fragment).
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- Creator:
- Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 1 Vault
- Image Count:
- 50
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
- Alternative Title:
- Liber pantegni
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Name):
- Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > De regimine sanitatis
- Creator:
- Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, active 809-819
- Published / Created:
- approximately 900.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.35
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, from this work by Smaragdus
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: capitals in red ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Smaragdus, Abbot of St. Mihiel, active 809-819.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio libri comitis (fragment).
- Creator:
- Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1050.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.53
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment from a copy of the Historia Lausiaca
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Caroline minuscule., and Fragments removed from a binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia Lausiaca (fragment).
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- 1229.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 214
- Image Count:
- 414
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. Text missing at beginning of 2 Kings (one folio following f. 85), and at end of 2 Kings and beginning of 3 Kings (one bifolium following f. 90). With a paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. Written for Abbey of Mont-Saint-Quentin in Northeastern France
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in bold, early gothic bookhand by one scribe. Writing above top line, with tall ascenders in upper margin. Various corrections in a different hand (13th century). Guide-letters for illuminator throughout. Scattered short marginal glosses (brown ink) in a similar but smaller hand (13th century). Transcriptions of rubrics in a 15th-century hand., Richly illuminated in early gothic style. The uncial presentation text is set inside a double frame of orange and blue strips, the latter decorated with orange dots; the entire page crowned by an elaborate architectural canopy above four trilobe arches supported at the side of the frame by columns, in blue. There are twenty-three historiated initials orange or blue, decorated with stylized foliage in white, occasionally with biting dragon and curling vine serifs, set in or above orange frames, on gold grounds., Six large foliate initials, in a style dependent on Channel-School models: tight pink and blue vine scrolls with dragon terminals, in some cases on a green trellis, set in light orange frames, edged in black, against gold grounds; on f. 2v an I running the full length of the page (Preface); f. 66r (Joshua); f. 77r (Prologue, 1 Kings); f. 127r (Story of Susannah), f. 134r (Esther) and f. 144r (2 Maccabees), blue capitals with white highlights, filled with vine scrolls and framed as above, against gold grounds. 6- and 3-line initials, red and blue, with blue or red penwork respectively; a few (e.g., f. 98v) in a more elaborate manner with penwork in both colors. On some pages a single column of text is further divided by a vertical guilloche pattern in orange ink. Rubrics in orange throughout., Some pages sewn; some bleeding of orange ink; upper right corner of f. 190 cut out. Text not damaged., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Gilt, gauffered edges. Brown goatskin blind-tooled, with elaborate bosses and fastenings, by Lortic.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Subject (Topic):
- History Bibles, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, etc
- Published / Created:
- between 1200 and 1250.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 29 vault
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Opera medica Hippocratis, Galeni, et Haly Abbas
- Description:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Hippocrates' Aphorisms with Galen's commentary (translated by Constantinus Africanus), Galen's Tegni with Haly's commentary (translated by Gerardus Cremonensis), Hippocrates' Prognostics with Galen's commentary (translated by Gerardus Cremonensis), and Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum I-III with Galen's commentary (translated by Constantinus Africanus or Gerardus Cremonensis). Translations are from Arabic to Latin. Other Latin translations (without commentary) of Tegni, Prognostics, and De regimine acutorum in lower margins added late 13th Century., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: one 18-line initial on f. 1r in blue and red initials; 3- to 2-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of about 39 lines., Binding: vellum over pasteboards. Manuscript spine title: Hippocrates et Galeni opuscula / MSSS AE CXIII., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical works by Hippocrates and Galen, with commentary by Haly Abbas
- Creator:
- Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 55 vault
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript fragments of medical interest, on parchment, of a collection of Orationes in Ludolf von Sachsen's Vita Christi. F. 1: inveniri. Fac ut voluntatem ... resurgat a peccatis. (I. 40-42); f. 2: Domine deus om[n]ipotens ... verbo dei ac mee [et] (I. 71-72); f. 3: Presta misericors deus ... stent portitores occasiones pec (I. 42-44); f. 4: aliorum saluti. Amen ... preterit a peccata (I. 73-74); f. 5: tionum flatibus et motibus ... crucis ascendisti in (I. 46-48).
- Alternative Title:
- Vita Christi
- Description:
- In Latin., Formerly known as "The Book of Hours." Leaves identified by Peter Kidd, 2017, as part of the Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony. Additional leaves discovered in the Harry Ransom, HRC Leaf 18, and Detroit Art Institute, reference number 69.277., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: text in yellow frame. Two-line initials in white, blue, and gold with floral motifs. Titles in blue ink. Red, blue, and gold line fillers., Ten miniatures in ink, tempera, and gold, framed by columns: Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, heals man with leprosy (f. 1r); Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, stands beside centurion and bed-ridden servant (f. 1v); Jesus stands in field of wheat, accompanied by three apostles (f. 2r); Jesus, accompanied by apostle, heals man with withered hand--two men (Pharisees) stand behind him (f. 2v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 3v); Jesus raises child from grave--mother looks on (f. 3v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 4r); Jesus in front of city, talks to crowd (f. 4v); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, frees two possessed men from black and gold demons (f. 5r); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, heals bed-ridden paralyzed man (f. 5v)., Layout: written in 1 column of 21 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., and Foliation of original sequence(?) in modern pencil on recto: 38, 55, 39, 72, 72.y52; and foliation of order of fragments (i.e., 1-5) in modern pencil on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ
- Subject (Topic):
- Miracles, Healing, Biblical teaching, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Orationes of the Vita Christi (fragments).
- Creator:
- John XXI, Pope, -1277
- Published / Created:
- beteen 1400 and 1499.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 56 vault
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
- Subject (Topic):
- Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Thesaurus pauperum
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.58
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, of an unidentified philosophical text, heavily glossed in a different, smaller hand
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: single columns of 16 lines. Very wide margins for glossing., Script: main text in gothica textualis quadrata; marginal gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials and paraphs in red ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified philosophical text (fragment).