Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, In tertium librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from an exemplar vended by Guglielmus Senonensis, stationer on the rue St. Jacques.
Alternative Title:
Comment on the 3rd book of sentences of Peter Lombard
Description:
Binding: 1899. Quarter leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled label and brass clasps. Bound by Douglas Cockerell (stamp with date inside back cover)., Script: Written in neat gothic textura by a single scribe secundum pecias (notations along bottom of leaves, mostly trimmed)., Small decorative initials in red and/or blue with penwork designs of either or both colors; notes for illuminator in margins. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue throughout; running headings in red and blue., and Some folios mended with chartreuse thread.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Drawings and plans for various implements and instruments, including printing presses. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591.
Description:
Author possibly an English military adventurer who traveled through the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy., Binding: contemporary brown calf, with gold tooling of Lyonese style with semis of eaglets., Descriptions of military machines are accompanied by colored illustrations., Ex libris Rhys Jenkins. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., In the preface to "The Compound of Alchemy" (Osborn fa16), Rabbards notes that he has "these fortie yeares amongst manie other most commendable exercises and inventions of so warlike Engines, founde out divers devices of rare service, both for Sea and land" and expresses his intention to "impart some other rare experiments of Distillations and Fire-Workes of great service, not hitherto committed in writing or put in practise by any of our nation." This apparently refers to Osborn a8, the only known copy of the work., Raphe (or Ralph) Rabbards, born slightly before 1531, published "The Compound of Alchemy" by George Ripley (see Osborn fa16) in 1591., and Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn.
Subject (Name):
Jenkins, Rhys--Ownership and Rabbards, Raphe
Subject (Topic):
Measuring instruments, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Military art and science--Early works to 1800, Military art and science--Great Britain--History--16th century, and Military art and science--Technological innovations--History
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on vellum, dated 14th of Nisan 5624 (1864) at Ankona. Document has a scalloped top. The text is surrounded by a multicolored floral border lined in red. Above the text is a multicolored floral wreath, which surrounds blessings for the bride and groom. The design is typical of ketubot from Ancona.
Description:
Bride: Safirantsa called Evginya bat Avraham Kampus. and Bridegroom: Mosheh Shemu'el ben Avraham Tseva.
Subject (Geographic):
Ancona (Italy) --Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Mosheh Shemu'el ben Avraham Tseva and Safirantsa (Evginya) bat Avraham Kampus
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Italy --Ancona and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, dated 12th of Ellul 5707 (1947) at Bigar. Text is within a floral rectangular design. Above the text are three rectangles that include traditional blessings for the bride and groom.
Description:
Bride: Kurshid bat Ezrah Kidusi. and Bridegroom: Yitshak Kidusi ben Nehemya Kidusi.
Subject (Geographic):
Bijar, Iran --Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Kurshid bat Ezrah Kidusi and Yitshak Kidusi ben Nehemya Kidusi
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Iran --Bijar and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)