- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1800]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian.
- Description:
- Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prussian blue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500; ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 847
- Image Count:
- 134
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Annales Sanctae Iustinae. The Annals deal with the regional history of Lombardy and the March of Treviso, but also with world history and cover the years 1207-1270. With Mantissa. Notes on the history and buildings of Padua from its legendary foundation to the death of Petrarch (1374), together with some facts of general history, written as a supplement to the preceding text.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, pasteboard covered with brown paper, and white parchment; flat spine with black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription: “MONACHI / PADUANI / CHRONICON / MS.”; below this label an oval label in the same material., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., In the original parts of the Annals, pale red headings; pale red stroking of the majuscules and plain alternately pale red and black 2-line initials, either Gothic with some decoration, or slovenly-made Humanistic ones. The parts copied by the second scribe are undecorated., Script: The Annals are copied by a single scribe writing Italian Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence, using only vertical d. Mantissa, as well as replacement leaves in the preceding text, are copied by a ca. 1600 hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva., and The original part of the manuscript is soiled and waterstained. It had lost two leaves that were later replaced.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Lombardy (Italy)--History, Padua (Italy), and Treviso (Italy)--History
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Annales Sanctae Iustinae
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 794
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of an illuminated leaf from an Antiphonary.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, 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 > Antiphonary
- Creator:
- Malvezzi, Jacopo
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1510; ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 848
- Image Count:
- 318
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Iacobus de Malvetiis (Jacopo Malvezzi, d. after 1432), Chronicon Brixianum. History of Brescia from its mythical foundation by Hercules up to 15 June 1332. With Prologue added ca. 1600.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century. Undecorated yellow parchment over pasteboard. On the spine dark red leather gold-tooled title label with inscription: “CRON. URB. BRIX. / PER MAG. JAC. / DE / MALVET. BRIX. / MS.” Below this label traces of an oval label. Endleaves in decorated paper printed with floral ornament in pink and gold., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., ff. 145-192 blank, not digitized., Guide letters and spaces for 2-line initials (for a 3-line initial on f. 1r and in some other places) have been provided; no initials were executed., and Script: Art. 2 is copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens (Libraria on the first pages), s. XVIin. Art. 3 is by another hand writing the same type of script (Currens). Art. 1 is written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria s. XVI/XVII, most headings in art. 2 by the same hand in less careful script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Brescia (Italy)--History
- Subject (Name):
- Malvezzi, Jacopo
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of Brescia
- Creator:
- Bettini, Michele
- Published / Created:
- [between 1563 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 845
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (Sixteenth century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso. The unrecorded author was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity.
- Description:
- Binding: Contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Script: Copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence.
- Subject (Name):
- Bettini, Michele
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1051
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Turks
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Considerationi sopra la guerra contra il Turco et unione de principi Christiani
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 131
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks along upper edge) of Ps.-Dionysius the Aereopagite, De ecclesiastica hierarchia, translated into Latin by John the Scot.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown leather with olive green paper sides. Parts of edges daubed bluish-green., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in a stylized gothic script., and Spaces for decorative initials left unfilled. Headings, paragraph marks and running headlines in red.
- Subject (Name):
- Erigena, Johannes Scotus,--ca. 810-ca. 877 and Pseudo-Dionysius,--the Areopagite
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De ecclesiastica hierarchia
- Creator:
- Minucci, Minuccio, 1551-1604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1560]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1045
- Image Count:
- 21
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Minuccio Minucci, 1) Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto. 2) Fondamenti chi si hanno inclinatione del duca Augusto Elettore di Sassonia alle religione cattolica.
- Subject (Name):
- Minucci, Minuccio,--1551-1604 and Sixtus--V,--Pope,--1520-1590
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Discorso alla santita di Papa Sisto Quinto
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1590]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 874
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
- Description:
- Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Discorso sopra il cognoscere se stesso