Manuscript on paper of Elias Cortonensis O.F.M., Lumen luminum, said according to this copy to have been composed in 1315, an erroneous date, and drawn from Saracen and Hebrew sources, translated into Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a church figure, with a cipher code; and miscellaneous recipes in Italian.
Description:
Binding: Original, North Italian. Dark leather, the sides ruled with triple bordering lines to form a rectangle within a rectangle, the smaller rectangle with a roll tool of vinelike foliage impressed in blind, a smaller interior rectangle formed by the panel of roll tooling with gold-stamped ivy leaves at the corners and a circular stamp incorporating the "yhs" monogram in the center framed by a lozenge of tooling with the same roll already mentioned; back with five raised bands; modern gold-stamped title label pasted onto second compartment from top. Backstrip and corners extensively repaired; gilt edges stamped with a herringbone knotwork pattern., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 26, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., ff. 33 of probably 40 originally, the extant leaves numbered by an old hand 1-25, 27-30, 32-33, 36-37 (f. 26, 31, 34, 35, and 38-40, now missing, the last three possibly blanks), In Latin, with Italian prologue., Script: Written in an italic hand and partly in cipher., and Watermark: a circle containing an unidentified design element, with a six-pointed star on a shaft above, not identified.
Subject (Name):
Elia,--da Cortona, frate,---1253.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Ciphers--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
Description:
Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
Subject (Name):
Lascelles, Robert
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a medical treatise.
Description:
Decoration: rubrics in red; initials in blue with red penwork. Some marginal comments are circled in red., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4794 (Giovani Balbi of Genoa, Catholicon), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r //tur vobis. Deus autem pacis qui eduxit de mortuis pastorem magnum dominum ... Secundum Marcum. In illo tempore mane prima sabbati ...et illi euntes nunciaverunt ceteris.
Thursday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Hebrews 13:20 and Mark 16.2-13.
f. 1r-v Feria via. Ad Romanos. Fratres, cum adhuc essemus infirmi ... Secundum Matheum. In illo tempore exierunt mulieres de monumento ... usque in hodiernum diem.
Friday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Romans 5:6-11 and Matth. 28:8-15.
f. 1v Sabbato. Si non fuerit festum novem lectionum sollempnizamus ultimam missam ...
Saturday of the second week after Easter.
Dominica iia post Pascha. Ad missam de beata Maria. Alleluia. Versus. Post partum ... Ad processionem per cimiterium. Antiphona. Surgens Dominus Ihesus ... Ad missam introitus. Misericordia Domini plena est terra ... Gloria in excelsis. Collecta. Deus qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti ... Lectio epistolae beati Petri apostoli. Karissimi, Christus passus est pro nobis ... R. Alleluia. Versus. Ego sum pastor bonus et cognosco oves meas et cognoscunt me mee. //
Second Sunday after Easter, with lesson from 1 Peter 2:21-25., On parchment., Pricking in the upper and lower margins. Ruled with brown ink for two columns of 30 lines below top line (type 43, 212 x 140 mm., The majuscules are heightened in yellow. One line-filler in gold and paint. The decoration consists of (1) 2-line dentelle initials and (2) 3-line foliate initials. On f. 1v there is a gold and blue bar in the intercolumnium ending in the upper and lower margins in rinceaux with vine-leaves, a few flowers and acanthus leaves. Instructions for the rubricator are written in the margins in small Gothica Cursiva., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes.
A collection of precedents for the summoning, dissolving, and other proceedings in the High Court of Parliament. Manuscript on paper in cursive and italic scripts of varying dates, produced in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Description:
Binding: Middle Hill boards with a vellum spine., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 6832). Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and Several items are in the hand of Robert Bowyer, clerk of Parliament from 1610-1622. See also Osborn fa23.
Subject (Name):
England and Wales.--Parliament--Rules and practice--Early works to 1800 and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir.--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Parliamentary practice--England--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment of Pauline Epistles (Epistola ad Romanos 2.27 through Epistola ad Hebreos 11.34), with commentary of Gilbert de la Porree. With Argumenta, later additions, all attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro or Peter Lombard.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century, United States (?). Half bound in dark red goatskin with gold-tooled lettering on the spine ("St. Paul/ Epistulae cum commento/ MS. 12th Cent."), marbled paper sides, and yellow edges., Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand in two sizes of script, above top line., and Three illuminated initials at beginning of first three Epistles of excellent quality, ff. 34v, 69v, 86v, 8- to 5-line, with descenders extending into margins, red, blue, green and beige against gold ground. Bodies of initials filled with stylized scrolling foliage, bright blue, red, green, orange, silver and yellow with white highlights against gold ground. Descenders serve as a trellis for similar scrolls, some ending in biting animal's heads or fantastic birds. Scrolling foliage, f. 86v, inhabited by beasts of a canine variety, white with red shading. The decoration of manuscript is unfinished; f. 99r pen and ink underdrawing for an initial as above, with only touches of red added; blank spaces left for initals for remaining Epistles. Small initials, 3-line, gold with red penwork, for beginning of commentary for each Epistle. Headings in red or alternating red and blue majuscules. Plain initials touched with red. Running titles, later addition, in red.
Subject (Name):
Gilbert, de La Porrée, Bishop, ca. 1075-1154, Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1263, Paul, the Apostle, Saint, and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, containing Louis Vaslet's transcriptions of lectures in natural philosophy delivered by Jean-Robert Chouet at the University of Geneva. The text is followed by an index.
Description:
Binding: contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; marbled endpapers., Ex libris British Medical Association Library. Purchased from Roger Gaskell Rare Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010., Jean-Robert Chouet studied Cartesian philosophy at Nîmes and theology at Geneva. He was professor of philosophy at Geneva from 1669 until 1686., Louis Vaslet (1666-1731) was a French Hugenot refugee who became master of Fulham School., and Title page gives place of production as "Salmurii" (Samur).
Subject (Name):
Chouet, Jean-Robert.
Subject (Topic):
Physics--Early works to 1800. and Physics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.