Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Description:
In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Subject (Topic):
Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript volume, on paper, containing the complete text of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, with marginal glosses and later annotations. This work is preceded in the volume by the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Peter of Poitiers, with complex genealogical diagrams in color. It is followed by the Prophesies of Pseudo-Methodius and the Allegoriae of Hugh of St. Victor
Description:
In Latin., Two original flyleaves. Manuscript preceded by three paper leaves to which bibliographical and historical notes about the texts contained in the volume have been affixed., Script: small gothic book script., Decoration: chapter headings in red; red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: twentieth-century full red morocco.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.
Subject (Topic):
Genealogy, History Bibles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the anonymous Historia septem sapientum (ff. 1r-15v) and Arnaldus de Villanova's Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum (ff. 15v-19r, highly abbreviated). Also includes Lentulus' Epistola de statura Christi ad Senatum Romanum (f. 19v) and a collection of moral sentences (f. 20r) in a different, slightly later hand
Alternative Title:
Historia septem sapientum : Regimen sanitatis abbreviatum
Description:
In Latin., Title of Regimen Sanitatis from opening rubric: Incipit liber de regimen sanitatis editus per Magistrum Raynaldum de Villa nova. (f. 15v) Other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: 3-line initials in blue and 2-line initials in red. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 29 lines., Binding: modern binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., Contemporary foliation: 96-115 (indicating sequence in original manuscript?); and modern foliation 1-20., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580
Published / Created:
[circa 1250]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 7
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
200
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, containing the text of this commentary on the Song of Solomon by Cassiodorus (f1-f26). This is followed by unidentified commentaries on the same text (f26-f64). The volume concludes with a copy of the Biblia Beatae Virginis (f64-f96).
Description:
In Latin., Commentary by Cassiodorus attributed to Bede in incipit (f1r)., Erased ownership inscription: "Liber monastery Sc Marie ... Ste. ... wiknne.", Bookplate of Portsmouth Cathedral on front pastedown, with deaccession stamp dated 1941., Layout: double columns of 38 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: rubricated., and Binding: medieval binding, pink doeskin over wooden boards; remains of metal clasps on lower board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580. and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in several unidentified hand, containing a herbal in Italian (ff. 1r-49v), incipit: L'erba dicta astrologia o vere aristolatia... Followed by a collection of medical recipes in Italian (ff. 50r-152v), incipit: ungue[n]to da fare. Includes 16 botanical drawings in colored ink
Alternative Title:
Herbal : in Italian ; followed by Medical recipes (on leaves 51-152)
Description:
In Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: documentary hands., Layout: single column of varying length., Decoration: 16 botanical drawings: herba alebro biancho (f. 28r), herba pinpinella maiore (f. 28v), herba ceredonia (f. 29r), herba berthonica (f. 29v), herba coriola (f. 30r), herba lunaria minore (f. 30v), herba astologia rotonda (f. 31r), herba oculorum Christi (f. 31v), herba greiima (f. 32r), herba poliponice (f. 32v), herba trefolgi (f. 33r), herba rebarrum (f. 33v), herba siillo di santa maria (f. 34r), herba mandragola femena (f. 34v), herba madragola mascolo (f. 35r), herba dicta tirmitella (f. 35v), unidentified herb (f. 39v). Herbal rubricated., Binding: bound in modern vellum over paper boards., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Manuscript on parchment (well prepared, but with holes and end pieces) in four parts. Part I: 1) Jerome, Liber Hebraicarum questionum in Genesim. 2) Jerome, Epistola LXXVIII. 3) Jerome, Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum. 4) Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum. 5) Abbreviated version of Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum, De psalterio. 6) Greek alphabet, from alpha to omega; b) three systems of numbers: Roman numerals, Greek numbers transliterated into Roman letters, letters of the Greek alphabet. 7) Note diuine legi necessarie. Artt. 8-13: Commentaries by Pseudo-Jerome. Artt. 14-17: unidentified commentaries. 18) Unidentified lapidary. 19) De mensuris. 20) Part of a letter of Innocent III (dated 1142) concerning the disputed election at York of St. William Fitzherbert. Part II: 21) Rabanus Maurus, De universo, ending defectively in Book 19, ch. 8, sect. B. Part III: 22) Ambrose, Exameron. Part IV: 23) Eustathius, In Hexaemeron S. Basilii latina translatio
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-52): Written by a single scribe in small gothic textura. Part II (ff. 52-172): Written by two scribes in small gothic textura. Scribe 1) ff. 52r-160v; Scribe 2) ff. 161r-172v. Part III (ff. 173-200): Written by one scribe in small gothic textura. Numerous annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Part IV (ff. 201-222): Written by a single scribe in bold gothic textura., Part I: Spaces left for initials (5- to 1-line). Rubrics and running titles in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator, the latter along outer edges of most margins except inner. Part II: Spaces for initials, 6- to 3-line, left blank, with guide-letters in red. Initials within text stroked with red. Headings and some spiral line-fillers in red (lacking in ff. 161-172, final quire). Part III: 6-line initial, f. 173r, divided red and blue with penwork in the same colors; other initials, 3- to 1-line, in blue with red penwork or vice versa. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator in most margins. Part IV: 3-line initial, f. 201r, red with blue penwork; 2-line initials red with blue or vice versa. Guide-letters still visible. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red., and Binding: 14th century. Apparently bound in England before arriving in Italy. Original sewing, wound and caught up, on five tawed skin, slit strap supports laced through tunnels in the edge to the outside of oak boards, laid in channels and pegged with rectangular pegs. The spine is square with no trace of adhesive. Quarter covered with vellum or tawed skin nailed along the edge. The boards are broken, the sewing breaking and most of the cover wanting; the boards were repaired in the 18th or 19th century when presumably the front flyleaf and pastedown from a document, in Italian, listing sale agreements made during 1650-52, were added.
Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Published / Created:
between 1300? and 1399?
Call Number:
Manuscript 2 Vault
Image Count:
348
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. Includes texts by Abu Bakr Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem (ff. 1r-97v); Liber divisionis (ff. 99r-131r); Antidotarium (ff. 131r-141r); Liber introductorius parvus in medicinam (ff. 143v-144v); Liber juncturarum (ff. 145r-151v); Liber puerorum (ff. 151v-154r). The first two texts are translated into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. Also contains text by Alguazir Abuale Zor: De curatione lapidis (ff. 141v-142v); and by Galen: Liber VI de medicinis experimentatis (ff. 154v-163r). Galen's text was translated from Greek to Arabic by a certain Joannicius and from Arabic into Latin by Farachius (Faraj ben Salim). Includes a table (ff. 163r-166r). Concludes with the Liber de lapide, ascribed to Abu Bakr Rhazes (ff. 166v-167r).
Alternative Title:
Liber Almansoris ... etc
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: historiated initials depicting half-length figures with pointed caps or white turbans, perhaps showing Rhazes? (ff. 1-144) Includes red and blue lettering, multi colored initials, and several small portraits., Layout: 2 columns of 50 lines., and Binding: modern (1992) half calf over oak binding. Previous binding descibed in binder's description accompanying item: 18th-century brown tooled calf.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
Description:
In Italian., Script: main text copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Capitals and headings in red in main text. Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r., and Binding: S. XX binding: plain parchment over cardboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval