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19. Receipts in physic and surgery
- Published / Created:
- between 1350 and 1450.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 27 vault
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Receipts in physic and surgery
20. Sermons, etc
- Creator:
- Conrad, of Saxony
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 468
- Image Count:
- 514
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (with parchment of poor quality for inner and outer bifolios of each gathering) of a collection of sermons and materials for the construction of sermons
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified crown in gutter., Script: Written by two scribes in Secretary script: Scribe 1 (pp. 1-141) uses a looped d; Scribe 2 (pp. 142-502) uses an unlooped d., Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, red with blue designs and vice versa throughout manuscript. Brackets, initial strokes and underlining, in red, throughout. Opening words or line of each sermon in a careful text hand., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled title ("Sermones") on spine; dark blue cloth sides. Impression of oval label in upper register of spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Conrad, of Saxony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, etc
21. Statuta vetera
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1399]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a57
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 408
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
- Subject (Topic):
- Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statuta vetera
22. Treatise on medicine and surgery
- Creator:
- Cromer, Walter, d. 1546
- Published / Created:
- around 1530.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 17 vault
- Image Count:
- 142
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
- Alternative Title:
- [Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine and Surgery
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Treatise on medicine and surgery
23. [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
- Creator:
- Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1732]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
- Alternative Title:
- Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]