Dealers' descriptions pasted onto back cover (1959) say Johannes Serapion Senior is Jahiah Ben Serabi, 802-849., Leaf a1 (blank) preceded by seven others filled with manuscript notes in a contemporary hand., and Signatures: a8, b8, c6, d8-h8, hh8, i8, k6, l8, m6, n8, o6, p6, q8-t8.
Publisher:
Reynaldus de Novimagio
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, and Materia medica
With the Yale Med copy are bound some 34 manuscripts by Viennese astronomers of the Fifteenth Century (hand numbered p. 65-460, and dated 1486 and 1489), concerning astronomy, mathematics, and the manufacture and use of different astronomical instruments. and Also available on microfilm.
Petrus Rochabonella, ed.; Prosdocimus Mutius, corr., "Libellus Avicene de viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de villa nova": 6 leaves next to end., and Med: Later German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Publisher:
Dionysius Bertochus
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Materia medica, and Heart
Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis (or rather Gerardus Sablonetanus), with commentary by Jacobus de Partibus and additions by Johannes Lascaris; edited by Jacques Ponceau., Yale Med has volumes I and III, part 1, as described in Goff 1438., and Yale Med has a contemporary German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Includes color illustrations on leaf 6 (Liber III), red and blue lettering throughout. and Yale Med copy includes Libri III and V, as described in Goff 1419.
Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
Alternative Title:
Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments