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1. A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke, set downe in forme of a dialogue : deuided into three partes, the first teacheth to sing with all things necessary for the knowledge of pricktsong. The second treateth of descante and to sing two parts in one vpon a plainsong or ground, with other things necessary for a descanter. The third and last part entreateth of composition of three, foure, fiue or more parts with many profitable rules to that effect. With new songs of, 2. 3. 4. and .5 [sic] parts
- Creator:
- Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?
- Published / Created:
- 1597.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fpa22
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke
- Description:
- BEIN Osborn fpa22: Illustrated title page hand-colored in green, red and tan. Autograph: Thos. Martin. Contemporary manuscript notes and markings. Armorial bookplate of John Whipple Frothingham (1878-1935), nephew and heir of William August White (1843-1927)., Title within illustrated border., Leaf [par.]4r has third and fourth bar of music in red and black; verso of 2nd leaf and recto of 3rd leaf of final gathering in red and black., Signatures: [A]² B-2A⁴ 2B⁶ [par.]⁴ *⁴ [three dots in a pyramid]⁴., Entered to P. Short and W. Hoskins 9 October 1596., and Errata on second leaf of final gathering.
- Publisher:
- By Peter Short dwelling on Breedstreet hill at the signe of the Starre
- Subject (Topic):
- Music theory
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke, set downe in forme of a dialogue : deuided into three partes, the first teacheth to sing with all things necessary for the knowledge of pricktsong. The second treateth of descante and to sing two parts in one vpon a plainsong or ground, with other things necessary for a descanter. The third and last part entreateth of composition of three, foure, fiue or more parts with many profitable rules to that effect. With new songs of, 2. 3. 4. and .5 [sic] parts
2. Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 44 vault
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript sheet, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an anatomical drawing of a seated woman. Text includes descriptions of the different parts of the body
- Alternative Title:
- Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures : [a large anatomical drawing in color, surrounded by explanatory text]
- Description:
- In Middle French., Title from heading., Script: humanist hand., Layout: anatomical drawing in center, double columns of 80 lines surrounding and underneath drawing., No text on verso. Used as binding waste., Included in a portfolio (66 x 51 cm.) with eight 58 x 38 cm. color photoreproductions., and Dr. Peter Jones, May, 2003, states that this single sheet most likely is a manuscript copy of the Jean Ruelle fugitive sheet (female figure only) Paris, 1540. cf. Carlino, A. Paper bodies ... London, 1999, page 171.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anatomy, Human anatomy, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures
3. Antiphonary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1400.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.32
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, from a German antiphonary. Musical notation on four-line staves above lines
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textualis precissa., and Decoration: rubricated. Large in-line capitals in black ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Antiphonaries, and Musical notation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonary (fragment).
4. Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1560 and 1564]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 561
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets., Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
- Subject (Topic):
- Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc
5. Avowal of lease for Jacques de Trie
- Published / Created:
- 1428 October 1.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.26
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript lease avowal for Jacques de Trie, notarized
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: French documentary cursive., and Layout: single column of 7 lines, signature and notarial symbol below the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Avowal of lease for Jacques de Trie
6. Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Vrbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inuentae sunt
- Creator:
- Eustachi, Bartolomeo, -1574
- Published / Created:
- between 1550 and 1600.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 9 Vault
- Image Count:
- 354
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (107 leaves) on bones, muscles, veins, arteries and nerves (water mark anchor in circle with star); part 2 (13 leaves) on veins (thinner paper without water marks showing); part 3 (40 leaves) on muscles (thinner paper without water marks showing).
- Alternative Title:
- Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from title page, added in 18th-century hand., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: 19th-century red leather half-binding over cardboard. Gold-tooling and spine title on spine: Eustachii / Tabulae anatomicae / M.S., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Available also on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Vrbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inuentae sunt
7. Biblia latina
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1454]
- Call Number:
- ZZi 56 Copy 1
- Container / Volume:
- 1
- Image Count:
- 660
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454, Gutenberg Bible, and 42-line Bible
- Description:
- BAC Folio A B 9: Imperfect: Consists of 8 pages containing Pastoral Epistles; Thessalonians, 2nd, 8-18; Philemon 1-10. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., BAC Folio A B 9: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921, and broken into leaves by him., BAC Leaf Collection no. 0001: Imperfect: a single leaf with the end of the book of Jeremiah and the beginning of the book of Baruch. Rubricated, with two large initials, one illuminated with gold. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout, including large initials in color, with floral marginal decoration, at the beginning of each book., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Imperfect: Leaves [318]-[319] of v.2, blank, wanting. Some leaves are damp stained. Leaf [317] of v.2 mutilated and repaired. All edges trimmed, resulting in loss of some illumination., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Provenance: Bookplate, stamp, inscription and library label: Bibliotheca Monasterii Mellicencis. Call no. of library label: P.884a and P.884b. Sold by Melk to Edward Goldstone, 1925. Purchased at Anderson Galleries, New York, by Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, 15 February 1926. Purchased from Rosenbach by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness. Gift of Mrs. Harkness in memory of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Binding: 18th-century calf., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated paper leaf of Ezekiel XXX,11-XXXII,13. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of Dr. Fred Murphy., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 3: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated vellum bifolium with leaves from Ecclesiastes and Wisdom., DIV 939095: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Nehemiah X,31-XII,28. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., DIV 939095: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921., ELIZ +39: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Micah VII (incomplete); Nahum I-III; Habakkuk I (incomplete). Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., ELIZ +39: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of R.B. Adam, January 1922., MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of 4 Kings XIII,12-XV,6. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., and MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921.
- Publisher:
- Johann Gutenberg
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia latina
8. Biblia latina
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1454]
- Call Number:
- ZZi 56 Copy 1
- Container / Volume:
- 2
- Image Count:
- 646
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1454, Gutenberg Bible, and 42-line Bible
- Description:
- BAC Folio A B 9: Imperfect: Consists of 8 pages containing Pastoral Epistles; Thessalonians, 2nd, 8-18; Philemon 1-10. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., BAC Folio A B 9: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921, and broken into leaves by him., BAC Leaf Collection no. 0001: Imperfect: a single leaf with the end of the book of Jeremiah and the beginning of the book of Baruch. Rubricated, with two large initials, one illuminated with gold. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout, including large initials in color, with floral marginal decoration, at the beginning of each book., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Imperfect: Leaves [318]-[319] of v.2, blank, wanting. Some leaves are damp stained. Leaf [317] of v.2 mutilated and repaired. All edges trimmed, resulting in loss of some illumination., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Provenance: Bookplate, stamp, inscription and library label: Bibliotheca Monasterii Mellicencis. Call no. of library label: P.884a and P.884b. Sold by Melk to Edward Goldstone, 1925. Purchased at Anderson Galleries, New York, by Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, 15 February 1926. Purchased from Rosenbach by Mrs. Edward S. Harkness. Gift of Mrs. Harkness in memory of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 1: Binding: 18th-century calf., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated paper leaf of Ezekiel XXX,11-XXXII,13. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 2: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of Dr. Fred Murphy., BEIN ZZi 56 Copy 3: Imperfect: Consists of a single rubricated vellum bifolium with leaves from Ecclesiastes and Wisdom., DIV 939095: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Nehemiah X,31-XII,28. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., DIV 939095: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921., ELIZ +39: Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of Micah VII (incomplete); Nahum I-III; Habakkuk I (incomplete). Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., ELIZ +39: Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921. Gift of R.B. Adam, January 1922., MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Imperfect: Consists of a single leaf of 4 Kings XIII,12-XV,6. Issued as part of A Noble Fragment (New York: Gabriel Wells, 1921)., and MEDHIST Incunabula ++B526 (Goff): Provenance: Parent volume formerly owned by Carl Theodor von Pfalz-Sulzbach. Purchased from Frank M. Sabin by Gabriel Wells, 1921.
- Publisher:
- Johann Gutenberg
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia latina
9. Book of Hours : Use of Rome
- Published / Created:
- 1497.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1263
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 241
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours : Use of Rome