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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1679]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b315
- Image Count:
- 258
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of empires, cities, and people who have come to misfortune. Chapter headings include "Of the destruction of many cities," "Of those who have been slain by their own Alliance," "Of Princes who have been reduc'd to shamefull Poverty," and "Of the miseries which have hap'ned to Lady's who were considerable for their virtue." Short poems appear throughout the text.
- Description:
- Binding: paper-covered boards., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Includes a table of contents., Note inside front cover indicates this manuscript is from the library of Robert Browning, with a few notes in his hand, including the comment "A most dolorous book!" on flyleaf., The title page indicates that the manuscript was "written in the time of Oliver Cromwell.", Tipped in on p. 179: a comment about the "barbarous" murder of Charles I., and Tipped in on p. 97: a six-line poem about the fire of London in 1666, indicating it should be inserted after the mention of that fire on p. 97.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, Fires--England--London, History, Ancient, Natural disasters, and World history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The historie of fortune
83.
- Creator:
- Boethius, d. 524
- Published / Created:
- Early 12th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 870
- Container / Volume:
- I-IV
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Commentaria in Topica Ciceronis
- Description:
- Double columns on single page with diagrams., Imperfect: mutilated with loss of text., Manuscript fragment on parchment., and With: In Timaeum Platonis, by Calcidius; manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Calcidius. In Platonis Timaeum commentarius, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Topica, and Plato. Timaeus
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Topica Ciceronis
- Creator:
- Bonisoli, Ognibene, ca. 1412-1474
- Published / Created:
- 1476
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 49
- Image Count:
- 169
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., and Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified grammatical treatise, Vita vergiliana, etc.
- Published / Created:
- [early 18th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn c315
- Image Count:
- 190
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of about 176 astrological diagrams.
- Description:
- Binding: black morocco., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In pencil on p. 3: "Jan 28. 40 m. past 3 OClock afternoon. A Horse." Similar commentary appears on p. 10, 11, 33, 146, and 175., and Inside back cover: diagram charting the unions of various zodiac signs.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astrology--Manuscripts, Charts, diagrams, etc, and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Astrology], [early 18th century]
86.
- Creator:
- Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1680
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 100
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Imperfect: sections of manuscript wanting.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatise ...]
87.
- Creator:
- Nawawī, 1233-1277
- Published / Created:
- [18--?]
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 501
- Image Count:
- 332
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Explanation of the difficult words in al-Tanbīh fī al-fiqh (handbook of Shafiʻi law) of Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī., Preceded and followed by 1 leaf of notes., and The work ends on leaf 130, and is followed by Nukat al-Tanbīh, by the same author, on the same subject.
- Alternative Title:
- Taḥrīr fī sharḥ alfāẓ al-Tanbīh
- Description:
- Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black., Modern pagination employed., and Same as Berlin catalog 6969.
- Subject (Name):
- Nawawī, 1233-1277. Nukat al-Tanbīh and Shirāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī,--1003-1083.--Tanbīh fī al-fiqh
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic language and literature--Lexicography, Islamic binding., and Theology--Law--Shafiʻi
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ʻUmdat al-muftī wa-al-ṭālib al-nabīh fī tahdhīb taṣḥīḥ al-Tanbīh / Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī. -- [18--?].