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1. Collection of astronomical texts
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1470-1530.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1274
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 131
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript compendium of astronomical and astrological texts, including a version of the Kalendarium of Regiomontanus, with lunar eclipse tables for the years 1475-1530 and a solar calendar for 1475-1513. Other contents include a number of astronomical and astrological tables and texts. including a poem on auspicious and inauspicious days (first line: "Fortunata dies operum disponere causas"); the Canon de aspectibus planetarum; the Cognitiones naturarum secundum nativtates; and a variety of prognostic texts based on zodiac signs and the day of the week on which January 1 falls in a given year. The volume also contains several quadrant diagrams and a working volvelle
- Description:
- In Latin., Bookseller description available., Inscribed at the head of 2r: S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo., Signature of Joseff Gregri da Bologna? on back cover., Bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman on front pastedown., Tipped in before f1: printed catalog description of this volume, undated., Layout: main text in single columns of approximately 35 lines; wide margins., Script: gothica textualis italiana., Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink, some with penwork flourishing; many blank spaces for initials. Illustrations of lunar eclipses. Charts, diagrams, and volvelles in red, blue and brown ink., and Binding: contemporary boards, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astrology, Italian, Astronomy, Calendars, Lunar eclipses, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Solar eclipses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of astronomical texts
2. De bello civili (fragment).
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.40 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment from an Italian translation of De bello civili, possibly the version by Pier Candido
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Italian gothic bookhand., and Decoration: Rubricated. Two-line initials.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius. and Candido, Pier.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello civili (fragment).
3. De legendis gentilium libris
- Creator:
- Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 532
- Image Count:
- 1416
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
- Alternative Title:
- Address to young men
- Description:
- In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legendis gentilium libris
4. De navigatione
- Creator:
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468, creator
- Published / Created:
- 1464.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 557
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Benedetto Cotrugli (Benedictus de Cotrullis, c. 1410-1469), De navigatione liber (Della navigazione). After the prologue in Latin addressed to the Doge and the Senate of Venice, the author, quoting countless Biblical, ancient, medieval and Renaissance authors and drawing largely on his own experience, discusses the oceans and seas, islands, ports, the history of ship-building and navigation, weather, and astronomy. At the end, he includes portolano maps and describes the coast of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
- Description:
- The author, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), was a businessman and humanist, from 1451 onwards in favour at the Court of Naples. His Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto, written in 1458, was for a long time considered his only surviving work. Our manuscript, written during his lifetime and no doubt under his supervision or by his hand, is the only existing manuscript of Della navigazione and it is unfinished, missing most of its illustrations and the end of the text., In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva close to Humanistica Textualis. Headings and opening words of chapters in pale red capitals., Heightening of majuscules and paragraph marks in pale red up to f. 10r. Space for 2- or 3-line initials at the opening of all chapters, the initials not executed. Illustration largely missing; the few that have been executed are crudely drawn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellowish parchment over cardboard. Marbled paste-downs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De navigatione
5. Facta et dicta memorabilia (fragment).
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1475.
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of an Italian translation of Book 8, chapters 4-5 of the Facta et memorabilia dicta of Valerius Maximus
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: humanist cursive., Decoration: rubricated. 9 initials of 2 or 3 lines in alternating red and blue ink., and Layout: single columns of 35/36 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facta et dicta memorabilia (fragment).
6. Lectionary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1400.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an Italian lectionary, containing readings from Luke 7.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Italian gothic bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Capitals in alternating red and blue ink., and Top of leaf trimmed, with margin and text loss.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Lectionaries and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lectionary (fragment).
7. Liber consolationis et consilii. (fragment).
- Creator:
- Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450-approximately 1499.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.84
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments, on paper, of text from this work by Albertano da Brescia. The fragments are incomplete and nonconsecutive
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: italian cursive bookhand., and Layout: single columns of 32 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber consolationis et consilii. (fragment).
8. Octavia (fragment).
- Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1400-approximately 1425.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.90
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment containing the end of Act 2 and the beginning of Act 3 of Seneca's Octavia
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: late Italian gothic with some humanist letterforms., and Decoration: calligraphic initials in margin begin each line; speakers indicated by paraph marks in red ink. Large ornamental initial in red ink at the opening of Act 3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Octavia (fragment).
9. Sermone de celebratione Pascae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1400.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.29
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript paper leaf containing a quotation from Saint Jerome's Sermone de celebratione Pascae
- Description:
- In Latin. and Script: humanistic minuscule.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermone de celebratione Pascae (fragment).