Manuscript on paper of a huge collection of mostly short quotations, arranged under more than one hundred headings; the first ones deal with God and his qualities, but the majority are of a moral nature; the collection also includes short treatises, exempla, verses and prayers. With two fragments 1) of a Latin theological treatise on parchment, ca. 1300. 2) of a Latin philosophical treatise, probably a commentary on Aristotle's De caelo et mundo.
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Script: Mainly copied by one hand writing a small Gothico-Humanistica with single-compartment a; a few additions and marginal notes by a contemporary hand. Art. 3 is copied in an unusual linear Humanistica Textualis close to Cursiva, marked by numerous loops. and The foliation is incorrect, comprising successively ff. 95, 96, 95bis, 96bis, 97.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Antonius Rampegolus (de Rampigollis) de Ianua (d. after 1423), Compendium morale (Figurae Bibliorum). 2) Comparisons of the Virgin to the sky, the firmament, a mirror, a lily, balsam, thunder, a sword, paradise, water or a river, a garden, a tree, joy, a staff, dew, gold, a door, etc. With quotations from Alanus (de Insulis?), Alcabitius, Algazel, Aristotle, Averroes, Avicenna, Chalcidius, Constantinus Africanus, Galenus, Hermes Trismegistus, Ignatius, Isidore of Seville, Orosius, Philaretus, Plato, Pliny, Sedulius, Simplicius, Solinus, Theophrastus, Tondalus, etc. 3) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux) or Ps.-Beda Venerabilis (Pseudo-Bede), Meditationes passionis Christi per septem diei horas. 4) Planctus beatae Mariae virginis, ascribed to Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux). 5) Note on the torments of Hell, after Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis. 6) Note on the delights of Heaven. 7) Henricus Totting de Oyta (d. 1397), Quattuor notabilia (Solutiones quarumdam quaestionum ad dominum Rudolphum). 8) A theological treatise in fourteen questions on indulgence and remission of sins. 9) Short treatise of canon law on qualifications for preaching and theological argument. 10) Bonaventura (1221-1274), De praeparatione ad missam. 11) Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1090-c. 1150), Inevitabile sive de praedestinatione et libero arbitrio inter magistrum et discipulum dialogus, two extracts, respectively corresponding with the edition PL 172.1198-1199 and 1201 (the latter extract ending incomplete). 12) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis O.P. (d. c. 1353), with an introductory letter by the translator to master Hugh de Vaucemain, general of the Dominican Order, dated 1339. 13) Nicolaus de Dinckelsbühl (c. 1360-1433), Dicta super beatitudines.
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Binding: Original binding: brown leather over rounded wooden boards, with some worm-holes, the outer lower edge of the rear board broken off; both covers blind-tooled with a frame and diamond pattern of double fillets, the diamonds decorated with three different stamps: a large quadrangular stamp with a quatrefoil, a circular stamp with a six-pointed star and a circular stamp with a rosette; in the triangles a small circular stamp containing a trefoil. Hinges broken. Spine with four double raised bands and braided leather headbands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover. On the lower edge the ca. 1500 title “Figure morales [?]” written in ink close to the spine is faintly visible. Parchment pastedowns. The front pastedown consists of (1) a notarial document in Latin, dated 6 Jan. 1428, written in Gothica Cursiva; (2) a leaf, partly covered by the preceding document, from a Formulary of Canon Law, 14th century, written in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior. The rear pastedown consists of fragments of two bifolios from a 13th-century Latin moral treatise, written in Gothica Textualis Libraria and containing innumerable Biblical quotations., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 175). Purchased from Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., ff. 151r-156v, 184r-192v, 231v-241v foliated but otherwise blank, not digitized., In the first section, copied by hand A, heightening of majuscules, underlining, paragraph marks and headings (in larger script), all in red; some headings, in black, are underlined in red and placed in a rhomboid frame in the same colour; 2-3-line plain initials in red, with guide letters; the 3-line initial on f. 1r is framed in red; the initial on f. 169r has rudimentary flourishing in the same colour. The final section, copied by hand B, is undecorated, although spaces for initials were provided., Script: Two contemporary scribes: A copied ff. 1r-204v in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; B copied ff. 206r-231r in Gothica Hybrida Currens., and Some pages badly damaged by the acid ink.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Gazaeus, Aeneas Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410 Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 1
Image Count:
127
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Aeneas Gazaeus, Theophrastus, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. 2) Life of St. Helenus, monk in Egypt. Text is an extract (incomplete) taken from the Latin translation by Rufinus of the Historia monachorum, ch. 11.
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Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays are adhered in and outside the paper gatherings. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps which go through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside where they are pegged. The primary endband, sewn on a tawed skin core, is gilt with traces of a red secondary endband. A design is scratched on the gilt edges. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues and blind-tooled with progressively taller concentric frames alternately decorated with five small tools. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board, some wanting, and four fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board, the upper board cut in for the clasp straps which are attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked., ff. 2r-9v blank (first gathering; foliation begins on preceding flyleaf), One large illuminated initial, 5-line, of modest quality, in gold with black accents on a multicolored ground of red, blue and green with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. One smaller initial (unfinished), parchment color on blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r, in lower border an unidentified coat of arms: vert a chief sable (?), overall a lion (?) rampant gules (or purpre?) on the main field and or in chief and with bend (tincture undetermined) overall; the whole shield overpainted in black. Headings in red., Script: Written in humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6306, and unidentified shrub, ff. i-viii, in gutter; Briquet Tete humaine 15617.
Subject (Name):
Gazaeus, Aeneas
Subject (Topic):
Biography--To 500, Desert Fathers, Dialogues, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monks
BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 1: Worm holes in the beginning and at end. Bound in old wooden boards, rebacked; clasps wanting. Penciled notes on fly-leaf: Lord Orford's copy; Bought in Venice from the Duplicates in St. Marks Library from the Contarini Collection, O. [i.e. Orford?]. Bookplate of Thomas Day Seymour. The last word on BB₁a and the last words on CT₃a struck out with a pen, as in the British Museum copies. With capital M. at beginning of the last line on leaf 100b (sig. nv4b)., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 2: 31 cm. Numerous manuscript marginal and interlinear notes by a contemporary hand. Stained in the beginning and at end. Brown morocco binding, gilt, inside dentelles, gilt edges. Penciled note on fly-leaf: Je l'ai acheté chez Muller, Amst[erda]m ... Anvers 18 [name of month illegible] 1872. Ant. Van Bellingen. The last word on BB₁a and the last three words on CT₃a struck out with a pen, as in the British Museum copies. From the Ionides Collection., BEIN ZI +5551 Copy 2: Without capital M at beginning of the last line on leaf 100b (sig nv4b)., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 3: 31 cm. With copious annotations in Greek by Martin Crusius (1526-1607). Without capital M at the beginning of the last line on leaf 100b., BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 1: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume., SML Microtext Room: Negative film available for reproduction., Fol. 280b blank., Capital spaces, mostly with guide-letters., and Hain omits comma on f. 1a, line 2.
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
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In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript, written with black, red, and blue ink on vellum, includes 3 leaves in front and 5 leaves at end upon which are written an index and materia medica in a later [Italian?] hand. and Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
Manuscript on paper of an alchemical text with illustrations of procedures pictured symbolically as taking place in flasks.
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Binding: Modern English (?) binding of stiff parchment, the upper cover with a painting in colors closely copying the watercolor drawing which occurs as fig. XXIV on f. 27r of the manuscript. Plain edges., In Latin and French., Mellon MS 124, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Written in a practiced cursive sloping to the right, sometimes carelessly but with care taken in the captions, the writing sometimes very small., and Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned cartouche, a conventional design on the shield, the name "D & C Blauw" below; compare the much larger (later?) examples cited by Heawood, 3267-3268.