- Published / Created:
- [circa 1500-1509]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa31
- Image Count:
- 25
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- It also includes a charter granting lands from William I to Deorman., It includes a copy of the charter in Old English presented by William the Conqueror affirming the rights held by the citizens of London under Edward the Confessor., Manuscript, on parchment, in chancery script, produced in London at the beginning of the sixteenth century (during the reign of Henry VII)., and The text is an affirmation by King Henry VII of the rights given to the city of London by previous kings.
- Description:
- Binding: vellum wrapper., On the wrapper is written "Thomas Binkheued who sold it to Raph Wilbraham.", Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and The manuscript was originally a roll, as can be seen by the sewing holes extending across the bottom of each page.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers, London (England)--Charters, grants, privileges, and London (England)--History
- Subject (Name):
- Henry--VII,--King of England,--1457-1509
- Subject (Topic):
- Charters--England--London, Laws--England, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A Copie of the grants of the liberties of the Eyre of London
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- Creator:
- [Anonymous]
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent
Martin Roesel of Rosenthal
Wolfgang the Organist - Published / Created:
- 1536, ca. 1520, and ca. 1586
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 27
- Image Count:
- 141
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type.
- Description:
- Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing., In Latin and German, partly in cipher., Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124., Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia., and Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- ca. 16th c.?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century.
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Container marked: 29, and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Passion--Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Religious poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi Roll
- Published / Created:
- ca. 16th c.?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century.
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Container marked: 28, and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Passion--Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Religious poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi Rolls
5.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1115]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 414
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., and Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
- Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 73
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., and Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt--History--To 640 A.D
- Subject (Name):
- Diodorus,--Siculus
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Historica
- Creator:
- Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
- Published / Created:
- [between 1463 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 132
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a Papal bull dated 22 October 1463 in unidentified Italian translation, announcing the adherence of Pope Pius II to the Hungarian-Venetian league.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case., One initial, 4-line, in black ink on f. 1r., Script: Written in upright mercantesca bookhand (no loops)., and Watermarks: unidentified horn in gutter.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Venice (Italy)--History
- Subject (Name):
- Pius--II,--Pope,--1405-1464
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bulla Ezechielis
- Creator:
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D - Published / Created:
- [between 1430 and 1440]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 279
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Contemporary inscription, in gold, in upper margin of f. 2r was apparently added by Genevra Nogarola (1419-1465?). and Manuscript on parchment of Part I: Excerpts from Seneca, Phaedra. Part II: Justinus, Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi.
- Alternative Title:
- Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi, etc.
- Description:
- Acquired from L. C. Witten in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum binding, gold-tooled. Traces of turn-ins and bosses from earlier binding on f. 130 and possibly on f. 1., One large illuminated initial, f. 3r, 9-line, pink with white highlights on irregular angular ground, blue with white filigree and a thin white line outlining the ground. Filled with a stylized interlacing pattern of white vine-stem, white with green and yellow shading against gold ground. Numerous small initials, 3-line, yellow, on blue or blue and pink grounds with white filigree. Initial heading in gold; running headlines for book numbers in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-2, palimpsest): Written by several scribes in humanistic bookhand; for the passages from Seneca, the initial letter for each verse is set between vertical bounding lines. Part II (ff. 3-130): Written by a single scribe, below top line, in humanistic bookhand that sits somewhat above the ruled line; the conclusion of the text on ff. 129v-130r was added by a different hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus and Trogus, Pompeius
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ceneura [sic] anogarolis scripsi manu mea immaculata
- Published / Created:
- 1584 October 8
- Call Number:
- Osborn a3
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Cursive bookhand script of the late 16th century. Title page illustrated with columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription ""Christ adsit et praesit,"" and signed by I. S. Bound in thick vellum, with mathematical calculations on back c and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated October 8, 1584. It includes psalms arranged as 66 prayers in prose, songs in praise of Christ's birth and the Lord's supper, metrical versions of 66 psalms by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, and "an exhortation unto ye praise of God to be songe before morning and evening praier."
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: thick vellum; mathematical calculations on back cover., Illustration on title page of columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription "Christ adsit et praesit," and signed by T. S., On f. 152r, Rose Silvester signed it as her book on July 5, 1649. Next follows the signature of William Silvester and the inscription "his booke and hee that Steles him shall bee hanged upon a hoke as hie as William Silvester can looke.", On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673., On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673. On folio 151v, after the exhortation, two hands repeat the last four lines, dated 1649, one by Rose Silvester. On 152r, Rose Silvester signs it, and Watermark: pot, Briquet 12725 (Bruges, 1581).
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Certaine prayers out of the Psalmes, for divers purposes
10.
- Creator:
- Hubbell, Rose Strong
Trippe, Simon - Published / Created:
- 1752 May 15
- Call Number:
- Osborn a43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reason over religion and that he scoffed at both Judaism and Christianity. Trippe frequently alludes to and quotes other medical and scientific authors in developing his argument, including Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Nicander, Avicenna, and his contemporaries Antonio Guainerio, Jean Fernel, Pietro Andreas Mattioli, and Leonhard Fuchs, as well as the humanist thinkers Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Guillaume Bude, and Ramus (Pierre de la Ramee). and Text prefaced (p. 5-7) by a dedicatory epistle to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who was Chancellor of Oxford and from whom Trippe was soliciting recommendation for appointment as Physician of Corpus Christi.
- Alternative Title:
- Christianus medicus, siue disceptatio quaedam instituta aduersus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere, in qua comprimis Galenus vindicatus a 4. calumnijs..., 1572 May 15.
- Description:
- Annotation by Edward Turner on added p. 1 containing detailed biographical information on Simon Trippe., Annotation on recto of front flyleaf: "Presented to Chas. Leeson Prince M.R.C.S by The late Revd. Edward Turner Rector of Maresfield Sussex. 1870.", Binding: contemporary full paneled calf, extensive gold tooled decoration on boards and spine; cloth ties not present. Possibly bound for the dedicatee, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester., Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe., Bookplate: T[homas] J[efferson] Coolidge, Jr., Ex libris Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Ex libris Edward Turner. Ex libris Charles Leeson Prince. Ex libris Robert Hoe. Ex libris Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2004., Pages are ruled in red; marginal annotations in the same hand in the marginal compartments., and Tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: printed dealer description.
- Subject (Name):
- Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford), Galen, Hoe, Robert--1839-1909--Bookplate, Leicester, Robert Dudley,--Earl of,--1532?-1588--Library, Prince, C. L. (Charles Leeson),--1821-1899--Presentation inscription from Edward Turner, and Turner, Edward,--1794-1872--Presentation inscription to Charles Leeson Prince
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism--England, Medicine--Early works to 1800--History, Medicine--Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Physicians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Christianus medicus. Sive, disceptatio quaedam instituta adversus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere