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244. Unidentified theological work (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.5
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified theological work (fragment).
245. Vitae sanctorum (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1250?]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 130
- Container / Volume:
- (File) (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing a portion of the life of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: double columns of 40 lines., and Script: early gothic minuscule.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Saints
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitae sanctorum (fragment).
246. Whitby psalter (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- 1200-1299.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.188
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment (4 leaves), on parchment, of the volume known as the "Whitby Psalter."
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous geometric line fillers in red, blue and burnished gold. Numerous small initials in blue with red penwork or burnished gold with blue penwork at the openings of verses. Three leaves contain four large initials in burnished gold and colors, three further decorated with a bird figure.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Psalters, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Whitby psalter (fragment).
247. Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia
248. World chronicle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 495
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 832
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. The compiler of this unidentified world chronicle cites as sources Sallust, Suetonius, Josephus, Orosius, Macrobius, Eusebius, Origen, Eutropius, Sigebertus, Hugh of Fleury, and many others. The chronicle concludes at the end of the twelfth century; the date of composition is given in the final section as 1183 in the reign of Frederick Barbarossa (1155-90). The text of the manuscript is continuous, with no book and few chapter notations
- Description:
- Written in the middle of the 15th century, perhaps ca. 1456 when the codex was given to John Capgrave by Jacobus de Oppenheim. Capgrave was elected in August of 1455 to another 2-year term as head of the English Augustinian Province. In 1457 he resumed his literary interests, including work on a universal chronicle from the beginning of the world until the year 1417; this endeavor resulted in the Chronicle of England produced ca. 1462., In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-105v, 60 lines of text written in a small and even, slightly rounded gothic bookhand. Scribe 2) ff. 105v-110v (end of quire XI), 112r-114r, 40 lines of text in a small notarial hand with some shading of descenders. Scribe 3) ff. 111r-v, 114r-405r, 55-58 lines of text in a dark gothic script characterized by fine hair-lines and curved flourishes over the letter i., Decoration changes according to scribe. Scribe 1: Guide-letters for initials never supplied. Rubrics (in upright gothic), paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. Scribe 2: Rubrics (ff. 105v-110v only) in same hand as preceding section; rubrics for ff. 112r-114r as for Scribe 3. Paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for initials never supplied. Scribe 3: Decorative initials (signalled by guide-letters), in red, with protruberances and hair-lines. Notes to rubricator in inner and outer margins. Rubrics (beginning f. 111r) in same hand as text; paragraph marks, often exaggerated, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century (Italian?). Sewn on four tawed slit straps laced into wooden boards. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric frames of alternating fillets and rope interlace, the central panel filled with interlace. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the straps, now wanting, attached with seven star-headed nails. Parchment strips from unidentified manuscripts reinforce center of each gathering. Remains of a paper or vellum label with lettering in ink near head of lower board and trace of a chain base at the tail. Heavily restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and World history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > World chronicle
249. XIII sermones, etc
- Creator:
- Michael, of Hungary
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1480-83]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 647
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Michael of Hungary, XIII Sermones, bound with several other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in a gothic cursive script., Initials in red. Rubricated. Flyleaves contain an early 14th-century English canon law manuscript., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Blind stamped leather over wooden boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Michael, of Hungary.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law, Education (Christian theology), Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > XIII sermones, etc
250. [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
- Published / Created:
- [early 20th century]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1486 (Oversize)
- Container / Volume:
- Box (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A photomechanical print probably created during the early twentieth century as a forgery that reproduces twelve gores for a globe published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller based on his wall map, Universalis Cosmographia (1507). and Evidence of the forgery includes the superimposition of the gores over glue already on the paper surface, which suggests use of a sheet removed from a period volume, as well as details that replicate gores from an authentic woodcut print formerly owned by Austrian cartographer Franz Hauslab and acquired by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in 1954
- Description:
- A gore is a roughly triangular or wedge-shaped segment of an object, as found in domes and globes, where a sector of a curved surface, or a curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, and flattened to a plane surface with little distortion., Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1519) was a German cartographer. His wall map Universalis Cosmographia (1507) and printed globes contemporarily derived from it were the first published globular maps of the Western Hemisphere and the first maps on which the name America appears in honor of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512)., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., and Publication place and date of creation supplied by the cataloger.
- Subject (Geographic):
- America
- Subject (Name):
- Hauslab, Franz, 1798-1883., Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512., and Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519
- Subject (Topic):
- Forgeries, Globes, World maps, Discovery and exploration, and Name
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Globe gores forgery after Martin Waldseemüller].
251. [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea].
- Creator:
- Volčić, Vicko Dimitrije, 1563-1607, cartographer
- Published / Created:
- [1601]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 49cea 1601
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- cartographic image
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., "Vinc[enti]us demetrei Volcius Rachuseus. Fecit interra Liiburni die 24 Maius 1601.", With blue cloth tie at left edge., Color: red, blue, and some gold., With four compass roses., and Coordinates not present on map and are approximated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Mediterranean Sea
- Subject (Topic):
- Nautical charts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea].
252. [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]
- Creator:
- Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1732]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title:
- Page 16. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A circular image with three concentric designs surrounding the center image of a view of the bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the cupola of St. Peter's. The outer most circle is split into twelve equal sections with classical scenes which in turn are topped with an image of an open book with a page numbered "Tab. I-[XII]" moving counter-clockwise
- Alternative Title:
- Qua mare qua terras lustrat sol lumine semper, sospite me pater imperium Romanus habebit
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Statement of responsibility written by Horace Walpole on separate slip of paper (2.9 x 6.6 cm), mounted on opposite page., and Mounted on page 16 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysus (Greek deity), Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano,, and Museo nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo,
- Subject (Topic):
- Social life and customs, Agriculture, Rites & ceremonies, and Views
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Wheel with 12 sections showing Roman scenes] [art original]