Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of Xenophon, De venatione, translated into Latin by Leonicenus Omnibonus and preceded by a dedicatory epistle to John Tiptoft
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Oiseau 12127., Script: Written in a well formed italic by a single scribe., Spaces left for rubrics and initials., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper case with paste paper sides. Rebound in Yale Conservation Studio in 1982.
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an Italian translation of Antonio Guainerio's De venenis
Description:
In Italian., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist hand., Decoration: one six-line decorated initial in gold on rectangle border with floral decoration (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red and blue ink throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 24 lines., Binding: 17th-18th c. deer skin over paper boards., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 6597-6600, Northern Italy, 1465-80.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Venom
Personne, Jean, active 1493-1499, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1495?]
Call Number:
FRA385
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN FRA385: Imperfect: 7 cards: Kings (3), Queens (2), Jacks (2). From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., French suit system (without suit signs)., Type: Original design., and Composition of deck: unkown.
Bequest of George P. and Mary P. Milmine, Dec. 1986., Binding: contemporay Dülmen binding of the blind-stamped leather over wooden boards; original upper clasps (clasp-hooks wanting)., Bound in Beinecke copy are four leaves from a twelfth-century ms. on parchment (probably a breviary) with musical notation in neumes., Differs from description of BM 15th cent., II, p. 423 in that quire g has 10 ff. (not 8), and quire G has 8 ff. (not 10)., Provenance: "Liber p[ri]m[u]s decretalis D[omini] H[er]bordi Wernyngh de Borchorst pastoris in Vreden atq[ue] Rectoris p[ri]mi altar[is] eccl[es]is ... [unidentified proper name"]. "In a different hand: Quem idem donauit post morte[m] domui Castrimarie p[ro]pe Dulmania[m] Ord[inis] Carthusien[sis] cum multis aliis quare merito ... fideliter pro eodem etc." (ms. on 1 a); "W.S. Thorpe 1871" (ms. on 1a); "R.B. Anderson, Madison, Wis." (stamp on 1a); "I have had the pleasure of being the happy possessor ... and am glad to know that it passes from me into Mr. John E. Burton's appreciative hands ... May 8, 1882. R.B. Anderson" (ms. on 1a); owned by George P. Milmine., and Rubricated throughout; capital spaces with guide-letters, capitals supplied in red or blue; book numbers in red in upper center margin of each page; headings in ms. in upper right corner of each recto.
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Rasmus Björn,--1846-1936--Stamp and presentation inscription to J.E. Burton., Burton, John E.--Presentation inscription from R.B. Anderson., Catholic Church. Breviary (Ms. 12th cent.) 797 % sp3, Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241., Kartause Marienburg (Weddern, Germany) Inscription., Milmine, George--Ownership., and Wernyngh de Borchorst, Herbordus--Inscription.
Manuscript, on paper with a table of contents on a single parchment leaf, in a single hand, containing the "Summer" portion of this Dominican-compiled German legendary
Description:
In Middle High German., Bookseller description available., Layout: Double columns of mostly 35 lines., Script: German cursive., Decoration: some rubrication. Three-line and one-line capitals in red., and Binding: tooled and stamped brown leather over wooden boards; four-compartmented spine. Remains of metal clasps with leather straps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends