- Creator:
- Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858
- Published / Created:
- 8 April and 3 July 1448.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 3 Vault
- Image Count:
- 590
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
- Alternative Title:
- Opera
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Opera medicinalia
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 651
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of assorted works by Cicero with additional texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: 1) Human bust, var. Briquet 15599?. 2) Balance, var. Piccard, Waage 1.78?. (3) Crown, unidentified?., Script: Written by two scribes, one writing in Italian Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria and the other in a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata with numerous decorative hairlines., Red paragraph marks. Art. 3 has yellow heightening of the majuscules, a 2-line and a 3-line flourished initial in red, blue and yellow. In art. 1 the majuscules are heightened in red; there are plain red initials in art. 5, but its decoration is not consistent., and Binding: Damaged original binding in deerskin over heavy almost unbevelled wooden boards. Parchment pastedowns, the front one detached from the board. On the front cover inscription in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, worn and difficult to decipher. On the spine a 17th-century paper label with the number "2760" and the title "Huma (?)......Marci Tulii de amicitia manu scripta". Marks of two leather straps fixed to the front cover, the pin holes visible in the rear cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opusculum de vitiis
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- Creator:
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Published / Created:
- 11th or 12th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 673
- Image Count:
- 186
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various hands writing a small late Carolingian script. Folios 24v-25r have been erased, ruled again in lead and rewritten by a 13th century hand using Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the top 10 lines of f. 41r appear to be rewritten over erasure by one of the main hands. Headings, explicits and incipits in display script heightened with red. Red heightening of the opening majuscules of the verses and of the paragraph marks., Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia). The text is incomplete due to the loss of two quires in the middle and two leaves at the end. Marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections date from the 12th-15th centuries. There are running headlines “I”, “II”, “III” etc. on the recto pages up to f. 56. The manuscript also contains a fictitious epitaph of Lucan., The manuscript contains two maps: (1) in the outer margin of f. 21v: schematic drawing coloured in red and yellow illustrating the fauces, lingua and cornua of the harbour of Brundisium; (2) in the outer margin of f. 87v: erased T-O map with the winds, uncoloured, illustrating the description of the world beginning., and Binding: English 19th century binding: brown leather over cardboard; on the spine the gold-tooled title “LUCANI / PHAR./ SALIA”. Marbled endleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pharsalia
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Augustinus
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 833].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.3
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons, possibly from an Alan of Farfa Homiliary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the first third of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily begins with a 7-line decorated initial "F" outlined in brown and filled with orange, dark orange, ochre, and olive green; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubric written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; a leaf has been drawn in red in the space between the columns on the verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Homiliaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons (Alan of Farfa, Homiliary?) (fragment).
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 80
- Image Count:
- 310
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs.
- Description:
- 2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167"., Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 55 B.C.-ca. 39 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, Epitaphs, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Virtues and Vices, exempla