- Creator:
- [Anonymous]
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent
Martin Roesel of Rosenthal
Wolfgang the Organist - Published / Created:
- 1536, ca. 1520, and ca. 1586
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 27
- Image Count:
- 141
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type.
- Description:
- Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing., In Latin and German, partly in cipher., Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124., Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia., and Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 794
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of an illuminated leaf from an Antiphonary.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonary
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1187
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence.
- Description:
- Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., Layout: single column of text., Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2014 July 8, lot 48) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., and Script: gothic.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands--Religious life and customs--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Dutch, Jesus Christ--Passion--Art, Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayers and devotions, Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, and Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi prayer roll.
- Creator:
- Apollonius, of Tyana
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1225]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 1
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Fifteen pages of largely diagrammatic drawings, approximately thirty-six in all, depending on how their relationships are interpreted (the text calls for thirty-two), are found from f. 10v to f. 17v, most of them accompanied by labels and the texts of prayers consisting of long series of invented names with exotic sounds written in a minute hand in brown ink, while the designs themselves are throughout in red. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names. and Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.
- Description:
- Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Incantations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei
5.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1115]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 414
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., and Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
- Creator:
- Diodorus, Siculus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 73
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., and Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Egypt--History--To 640 A.D
- Subject (Name):
- Diodorus,--Siculus
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bibliotheca Historica
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 86
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Fragments of a Brut Chronicle. Begins imperfectly in chapter 36 (Constantine) and has several lacunae. The work ends in chapter 86 (beginning on f. 11r) with the thirty-first year of Edward III. With art. 3) A note (in Latin) stating that King Henry IV was consecrated in 1399 and documenting his descent from Adam. 4) A list (in Latin) of 86 kings (each numbered) from Brutus to Edward III. 5) Names of prisoners captured and killed at the battle of Poitiers (19 Sept. 1356). 6) Terms of the treaty of Bretigny (8 May 1360). 7) Parliamentary text.
- Description:
- Acquired from Henry Fletcher in 1950., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., In Anglo-Norman., and Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--14th century
- Subject (Name):
- England.--Treaties, etc.--France,--(1360 May 8)
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Chronicles of England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc.
- Creator:
- Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464
- Published / Created:
- [between 1463 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 132
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a Papal bull dated 22 October 1463 in unidentified Italian translation, announcing the adherence of Pope Pius II to the Hungarian-Venetian league.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case., One initial, 4-line, in black ink on f. 1r., Script: Written in upright mercantesca bookhand (no loops)., and Watermarks: unidentified horn in gutter.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Venice (Italy)--History
- Subject (Name):
- Pius--II,--Pope,--1405-1464
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bulla Ezechielis
- Creator:
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D - Published / Created:
- [between 1430 and 1440]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 279
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Contemporary inscription, in gold, in upper margin of f. 2r was apparently added by Genevra Nogarola (1419-1465?). and Manuscript on parchment of Part I: Excerpts from Seneca, Phaedra. Part II: Justinus, Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi.
- Alternative Title:
- Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi, etc.
- Description:
- Acquired from L. C. Witten in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum binding, gold-tooled. Traces of turn-ins and bosses from earlier binding on f. 130 and possibly on f. 1., One large illuminated initial, f. 3r, 9-line, pink with white highlights on irregular angular ground, blue with white filigree and a thin white line outlining the ground. Filled with a stylized interlacing pattern of white vine-stem, white with green and yellow shading against gold ground. Numerous small initials, 3-line, yellow, on blue or blue and pink grounds with white filigree. Initial heading in gold; running headlines for book numbers in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-2, palimpsest): Written by several scribes in humanistic bookhand; for the passages from Seneca, the initial letter for each verse is set between vertical bounding lines. Part II (ff. 3-130): Written by a single scribe, below top line, in humanistic bookhand that sits somewhat above the ruled line; the conclusion of the text on ff. 129v-130r was added by a different hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus and Trogus, Pompeius
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ceneura [sic] anogarolis scripsi manu mea immaculata
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 182
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes.
- Alternative Title:
- Orator; Orationes
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible., Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., On paper, Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81., and Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed copying the text
- Subject (Name):
- Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Oratory--Early works to 1800, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum