Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine.
Description:
Binding: modern vellum boards., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Herbals--Early works to 1800., Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--
Manuscript on parchment of Hippocratic oath. With a text headed Nicolaus Perottus Jaboco Constantio, and a portion of De Primo bello Punico, by Leonardi Bruni Aretini.
Subject (Name):
Hippocrates
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic War, 1st, 264-241 B.C
Eutropius, 4th cent Patrizi, Francesco, 1413-1494 Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799? Quintilian
Published / Created:
[between 1425 and 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 147
Image Count:
152
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Eutropius, Breviarium, with the insertions and addition of the final six books by Paul the Deacon. 2) Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1412-94), Epistula Achilli Petrucio re regendo magistratu. 3) Extract from Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 2.9.1.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Yellow marbled paper case with title written in ink on narrow paper label on spine: "Liber Eutropii de Regibus Rom. et de Orig. Imperii"., Script: Written by a single scribe in a sloping humanistic bookhand., Spaces for decorative initials in art. 1 are unfilled; remains of guide letters. Headings and first word(s) in text divisions in epigraphic majuscules., and Watermarks: two different unidentified ladders, the one on ff. 1-60, the other on ff. 61-70.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History
Subject (Name):
Paul,--the Deacon,--ca. 720-799?
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Epiphanius Scholasticus, Historia tripartita, an ecclesiastical history.
Subject (Name):
Epiphanius,--Scholasticus
Subject (Topic):
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Satirae. With a Survey of the Satires copied in Satirae, with their incipits and subjects and Quotations and proverbs, added by a later hand.
Description:
Binding: Original Italian brown leather over thin wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled and decorated with gold dots. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps, attached to the front cover by means of brass nails with engraved heads; palmette-shaped thin brass catches fixed to the rear cover with three nails each. The pastedowns and flyleaves are covered with carefully written notes and quotations on grammar, morals, education, etymology and meaning of rare words, variant readings in classical texts, etc., Script: Copied by one hand in careful Humanistica Textualis., and Space for headings was provided at the head of each Satire, but the headings were not executed. Satt. 2-16 open with a 3-line (6-line Satt. 6 and 7) plain initial (Capitalis) in blue. On f. 1r (Sat. 1) 6-line white vinestem initial integrated in a three-margins left border in the same style and colours; in the lower section of the latter, between two birds, there is a damaged coat of arms in a wreath. Guide letters.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal
Subject (Topic):
Classical education, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, Latin
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentarius in sequentiam “Ave preclara maris stella”, falsely attributed to Caesarius de Heisterbach O. Cist.(c. 1180-c. 1240). 2) Commentarius in sequentiam “Benedictio Trine Unitati”. 3) Addition to art. 2, dealing with the Hebrew alphabet. 4) Humorous note explaining why the eater of cheese (obviously a most unhealthy food) will never thrust a wine-goblet from his hood (?), why he never will be bitten by a dog and why a thief will never enter his house.
Description:
Script: Artt. 1-4 are copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria marked by striking hairlines at r and final t. Quotations are clumsily written in a deviating form of Northern Gothica Textualis. Ascenders at the top line are often lengthened and decorated. Art. 5 is copied in a more rapid form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria, possibly by the same hand.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus,--Contractus,--1013-1054
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript fragments on paper of loose leaves of a judicial register. The lawsuit before the court of the Parliament of Dauphiné (“curia Dalphinalis parlamenti,” founded 1453) is about land, meadows (“prata”), a barn (“grangia”), and a house.
Description:
Badly deteriorated by glue, worm holes and the fading of the ink on many pages., Detached from a binding. With the fragments a strip of parchment (goatskin), obviously coming from the same binding, is preserved. It is a fragment (c. 12 lines on both sides) of a Latin manuscript containing an unidentified text of Roman law (Italy, 14th century), written in two columns with a column of gloss at both sides of the text. The handwriting is Southern Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda)., Foliated by cataloger in order suggested by worming. This may not reflect original organization., Script: Copied by various scribes all writing a rapid documentary script (Gothica Cursiva Currens)., and Watermark: letter P?.
Subject (Geographic):
Dauphiné (France)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Fragment of a legendary of Saints Nicostratus, Claudius, Symphorian, Castorius and Simpliius, stonemasons martyred by Diocletian. The passage mentions the quarrying of porphyry columns for the temple of Diocletian.
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 115). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., Leaf has several small marks and holes indicating that it was used as part of a later bookbinding., and Script: written in a proto-Carloingian miniscule. The scribe has been identified (by Bernard Bischoff) as Cundpato, monk of the Benedictine monastery of Freising.
Subject (Name):
Cundpato and Freisinger Domkloster
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library