Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an unidentified chronicle of Venetian history
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: not present. Spaces for capitals and rubrics left blank., and Bifolia later used as archival wrappers.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, of an unidentified philosophical text, heavily glossed in a different, smaller hand
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 16 lines. Very wide margins for glossing., Script: main text in gothica textualis quadrata; marginal gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials and paraphs in red ink.
Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, from an unidentified theological work. Subjects include prayer, the Trinity, creation, and Revelations 6:21.
Description:
In Latin., Bottom of sheets trimmed with loss of margin and at least one line. One column of each bifolium largely cut away., Recovered from a binding., Script: small cursive gothic hand., Decoration: rubricated., and Layout: 20 columns, originally 50 lines each?, now 49 lines.
Three manuscript documents concerning grants of rights and rents by and between Maystoke Convent; Thomas de Beauchamp, Count of Warwick; and William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon
Description:
In Latin., Housed in twentieth-century case, quarter red morocco over black cloth boards. Title on spine., and Title transcribed from spine of case.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Beauchamp, Thomas de, Count of Warwick., Clinton, William de, Earl of Huntingdon., and Maystoke Convent.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure, Landlord and tenant, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277
Published / Created:
1473.
Call Number:
Manuscript 54 vault
Image Count:
734
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in two unidentified hands, containing Guglielmo da Saliceto's Summa conservationis et curationis (ff. 1r-275r). Followed, in a third hand, by an alphabetical glossary of plants in Latin and German (ff. 275r-278r). Ends with the text of the Chirurgia (ff. 280-364), ending imperfectly. Texts of the Summa conservationes et curationis and of the Chirurgia were likely written separately in Italy, but bound in Germany
Alternative Title:
Summa conservationis & curatione : [and] cyrurgia
Description:
In Latin and German., Title from title page (front flyleaf)., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: double column of 51 lines., Binding: German 16th-century half blind-tooled pigskin binding over oak boards with two fore-edge brass clasps, with catches on the upper board. Lower board repaired with one clasp missing. Parchment binding stay (Germany, 15th-century) between ff. 10 and 11). Binding was rebacked and repaired in the 20th century; pastedown and flyleaf were added (watermark "P" with 4 petals on top, not located in Briquet). Leather spinal label with a gold-tooled title: "Guilielmi/ Placentini De [?]/ Saliceto Summa/ Conservationis/ Et Curationis/ 1473"., Title page has colophon: Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia. 1473. Claruit auctor tempore Rudolphi I imp..., End of Summa (f. 275) has colophon: Explicit liber quart et ultimus practice phisicalis excellentissimi magistri guilhelmi piacentini 1473., and Two units foliated separately.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery, Medieval