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1. 7 Letters to Tommaso Roffia
- Creator:
- Benivieni, Antonio, 1533-1598
- Published / Created:
- 16 Apr 1590-25 Nov 1598.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 728
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of Antonio Benivieni, 7 Letters to Tommaso Roffia
- Description:
- In Italian.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benivieni, Antonio, 1533-1598.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 7 Letters to Tommaso Roffia
2. Antiphonal
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 56
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the responsories and antiphons for the octave of Epiphany (one bifolium with continuous text).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic script., and Four red staves with black square notes; crude initials in red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Antiphonaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonal
3. Arithmetica pratica
- Published / Created:
- [between 1575 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 656
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arithmetica pratica
4. Astrological tables
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 448
- Image Count:
- 41
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Astrological tables for solar and lunar locations, probably for use in compiling calendars; tables of latitudes of cities; chronological tables for 1508-18. Most tables are accompanied by prose descriptions
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermarks: trimmed, in upper margins; unidentified eagle enclosed by a circle similar in design to Briquet Aigle 204., Script: Written in Italian notarial script by a single scribe., Yellow added to initials and to astrological signs, and some numbers., Stained throughout; final folio repaired., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Blind-tooled brown sheepskin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astrological tables
5. Catalogus librorum (Aldine Press).
- Published / Created:
- 1534 (?).
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 59
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy, brown; watermarks: unidentified coat of arms in gutter) of Catalogus librorum (Aldine Press). The catalogue consists of four sections: Libri graeci, Alii libri graeci, Libri latini, Italici libri
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in humanistic cursive by one scribe., All folios are stained, damaged, and/or repaired., and Binding: 1850. Bound by George Bretherton in quarter red-brown leather with blue-black cloth sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catalogs and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Catalogus librorum (Aldine Press).
6. Catoptrica, etc
- Creator:
- Euclid
- Published / Created:
- 1541; [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 424
- Image Count:
- 296
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in three distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-78): 1) Euclid, Catoptrica. 2) Euclid, Phaenomena. 3) Euclid, Opticarum recensio Theonis. 4) Euclid, Data. Part II (ff. 79-102): 5) Euclid, Data, incomplete at beginning and end. Part III (ff. 103-142): 6) Theodore Metochites, Introductio in Ptolemaei compositionem mathematicam
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: Part I: Harlfinger Ancre 51 (1540, 1541 A. D.). Part II: similar to those in Part I. Part III: Harlfinger Lettres 66., Script: Each part written by a different scribe, all in Greek minuscule. Part I by Valeriano da Forli, who also wrote marginal notes in red and labelled the diagrams., Part I: Headpiece, 3- and 2-line initials with stylized floral motifs and headings in red. Diagrams in margins of geometrical figures drawn with compass. Part II: Headings in red. Diagrams drawn with compass and ruler, labelled in red, and fitted into written space. Part III: 2- to 1-line initials with stylized floral motifs and headings in pale red., Waterstains throughout. On f. 57r, spills, dirt and pen trials; several words effaced or obscured. Discoloration on ff. 1r and 78v suggests that this part was once separate., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case with a gold-tooled title.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Euclid.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charts, diagrams, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mathematics, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Catoptrica, etc
7. Collection of legal documents
- Published / Created:
- 1541.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 213
- Image Count:
- 46
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of A collection of copies of grants and concessions made to Jacobo Probo, conte di Pianelle, from Francesco Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1466-1519), and his son Federico II (1500-40). The three documents of Francesco are dated 1496 (ff. 8r-10r), 1514 (ff. 6v-7v), 1516 (ff. 1r-2r); the two of Federico are dated 1519 (ff. 2v-5r) and 1526 (ff. 5v-6r). On f. 10v there is a statement by the notary "Castantius [sic] Iottus" authenticating these copies (dated 18 Oct. 1541). Two documents of Ferdinand II of Aragon, King of Sicily (1452-1516) confirming title to the property in question (ff. 11r-14r) seem to have been added later by another writer
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in inelegant italic for ff. 1-10; a sprawling running hand for ff. 11-14., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Levantine? A single gathering backstitched to the vellum lining of a semi-limp pasteboard folder covered with red-brown goatskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with a cross on a pedestal in a border on the upper board and an X on the lower. The design made up of fleurs-de-lis, diamonds with concave sides and flowers, the flowers bordering the turn-ins. Two ribbon fastenings, missing. Some mold and worm damage.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Mantua (Duchy)
- Subject (Name):
- Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1500-1540. and Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1466-1519.
- Subject (Topic):
- Legal documents and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of legal documents
8. Commentaries on Aristotle
- Creator:
- Alessandro degli Angeli
- Published / Created:
- 1596.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 839
- Image Count:
- 480
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Alexander de Angelis SJ (1542-1620), Quaestiones in libros Metaphysicorum et Meteorologicorum Aristotelis
- Description:
- Beinecke MS 839: Foliation error: ff. 157-158 repeated., In Latin., and Binding: Contemporary white parchment over pasteboard. On the spine the handwritten title "De Angelis / Quaestiones / in librum?? / Metaphysic. / Aristotelis".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alessandro degli Angeli., Aristotle., and Jesuits.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Philosophy, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on Aristotle
9. De engastrimytho, etc
- Creator:
- Origen
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 288
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Origen, De Engastrimytho. 2) Eustathius, De Engastrimytho contra Origenem. 3) Gregory of Nyssa, Epistola de Pythonissa ad Theodosium episcopum. 4) Zeno, Admonitio de unione
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: Harlfinger Lettre 18 and similar to Briquet Lettre M 8392 and Monts 11932., Script: Written by a single scribe in calligraphic minuscule., and Binding: Date? The binding has been removed along with all flyleaves. Sewn with long stitches over two pieces of tawed skin to a narrow piece of vellum which is wrapped around the spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Origen. and Witch of Endor (Biblical figure)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pastoral literature, Greek
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De engastrimytho, etc