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.
A manuscript, in a multitude of unidentified hands, on paper, containing a collection of medical and dietetic recipes. Also contains a section of unidentified elegiac poetry, including a few couplets attributed to Hesiod. Introduction, conclusion, and many other sections of the text wanting
Alternative Title:
Raccolta di ricette medicinali e dietetiche : [medical and dietetic recipes], in Italian and Latin ; finished 20 December 1573, with later additions
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: multiple humanist hands., Layout: single column of between 25 and 30 lines., Binding: bound in limp vellum with forage flap and leather strap. Unidentified manuscript writing on front cover., Colophon (f. 161v): 1573 di 20 di Decembrio sono fatti 30 salami fini 9: supheletti et li altri in Budello Delli Grassi n. 22. Indu[]elli no. In nome del servitor mio qual e in Galera e Baldassaro di Pepi Lisandrini perosino, e in Livorno nella Galera patrona dil gran Ducha di Fiorenza., and Manuscript's contemporary pagination indicates that many leaves are wanting: 26-38, 165-248, 297-358, 363-408, 419-426, 431-560.
Manuscript, in two different unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical ingredients and recipes. Contains, in the first humanist hand, collection of medical recipes (ff. 1-21r) and a text of medical recipes against the plague by Mastro Tomasso da Garbo (ff. 21v-23v). In the second gothic hand, contains a a list of ingredients and their medical uses in Latin and Italian (ff. 24r-33r in Latin, ff. 24r-25r, 33r-51v in Italian).
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule and gothic textualis., Decoration: rubricated headings and rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 28 lines., Binding: contemporary vellum binding., Incipit text 1: Tolle una melagrana et mondala tucta et poi la pesta et trane el sugho... Heading text 2: El consiglio di Mastro Tomasso da Garbo contro la pestilentia. Incipit text 3: Verdolaghe. La verdolaga e de amorosa natura et de freda perche siando pistata et metuta sopra lo ventre tira la febre..., and Modern foliation in pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Recipes, Manuscripts, Materia medica, and Medicine
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises intended for practising physicians. Includes: Tiriaca magna Galieni, De urina, Egestio, De purgationibus, Contra februm, Sirupus contra tertianam, De sudore; and ends with a collection of recipes for flegma and colera
Alternative Title:
[Medical manuscript : in Latin ; containing several, mostly anonymous, tracts].
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: one decorated five-line initial (f. 1r). Two-line initials in red ink. Rubrication throughout., Layout: double columns of 34 lines., Binding: modern brown morocco binding., and Early modern foliation: 1-8.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing six medical treatises. Includes: Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De urinibus (ff. 1r-10r); prescriptions by an unknown author (ff. 11a-29v); Bartolomeo da Montagnana's De compositione et dosandi (ff. 30r-40v); Petri de Tussignano's Recepte (ff. 41r-68v); Antonio Guainiero's Gynaecologia (69a-102a); and Antonio Guainiero's De febribus (102v-138a). Some leaves torn without loss of text
Alternative Title:
Medical manuscript containing six treatises; copied by the same scribe in black ink, with some text in red and Book of prescriptions
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: bound in modern printed paper with parchment flyleaves., and Colophon (second column of f. 102r): Die 20 octobris 1458 per me Faustinum.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Materia medica, Fever, Gynecology, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: De elementis, De complexionibus, De malitia complexionis diversae, De juvamentis membrorum, De differentiis febrium, De criticis diebus, De interioribus, De simplicibus, De regimine sanitatis, and De medendis febribus ad Glauconem (ff. 1r-233r); all translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. Also includes De alimentis (ff. 233r-264r); translated from Greek by Gulielmus de Morbeka. Concludes with Galen's Commentum super libro VI epidimiarum Hippocratis (ff. 264v-268r), translated by Johannes Alexandrinus
Alternative Title:
De elementis, De complexionibus, De malitia complexionis diversae, De juvamentis membrorum, De differentiis febrium, De criticis diebus, De interioribus, De simplicibus, De regimine sanitatis, De medendis febribus ad Glauconem, De alimentis : all translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerardus Cremonensis and others ; except the last treatise, translated from the Greek by Gulielmus de Morbeka
Description:
In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: Rubrication (stops f. 173). Spaces left for decorated initials., Layout: written in 2 columns of 50 lines., Binding: modern 3-quarter brown leather binding over pasteboard., and Catchwords enclosed in double-lined and decorated rectangles at bottom of page.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: Liber therapeuticus (ff. 1r-35v), De utilitate anhelitus (ff. 35v-37v), De pharmaciis (ff. 37v-38v), De malicia complexionis (ff. 39r-40v), De accidente et morbo (ff. 39r-40v), De lapide (ff. 59r-60r), De phlebotomia (ff. 60r-v), De pharmaciis Hippocratis (f. 60v), De virtutibus naturalibus (ff. 61r-74v), De complexionibus (ff. 75r-88v), De regimine sanitatis (incomplete, ff. 88v-97v).
Alternative Title:
Liber therapeutices, De utilitate anhelitus, De pharmaciis, De malicia complexionis, De accidente et morbo, De lapide, De phlebotomia, De pharmaciis Hippocratis, De virtutibus naturalibus, De complexionibus, De regimine sanitatis
Description:
In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: one 6-line initial in green, red, and purple acanthus on a blue backgroud with gold, leaves extending in the same colors to the upper margin. Several 5- and 4-line initials. Two-line initials with simple flourishing throughout, alternating in blue and red. Red and blue paragraph marks. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 57 lines., Binding: contemporary leather binding over original wooden boards. Rebacked in July 1930 by A. Maltby & Son, Oxford. Traces of marks from clasps and of small metal bosses on front and edges of boards (few remaining). Label on back cover of book: Libri Galienni incipientes a terapeutica., and Catchwords centered in lower margins, enclosed in plain black ink frames.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on paper of 1) Ambrosiaster, Commentarius in Epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos, recensio. 2) Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt (here attributed to his pupil Remigius of Auxerre), Commentaries on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Hebrews, Philemon, and Titus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a group of scribes, all writing a more or less careful Italian Late Carolingian script. There are numerous and extensive alterations and corrections on erasure. Headings in a mixture of Capitals and Uncials., Headings in red. Initials of various styles: (1) plain Romanesque initials, sometimes with developed decoration, in red; (2) more or less large painted initials in various bright colours on coloured background and filled with white vinestem; the body of the letter often filled with various interlace and frets; the vinestem may be issuing from an animal's mouth. Special forms of these painted initials: ff. 88v (wheel-shape), 90r (a snake winding round the shafts of the letter), 126r (outline drawing of vinestem initial), 136v (zoomorphic: bird-shape), 186v (inhabited by two birds), 204v (zoomorphic: dragon-shape), 209r (idem, with head at both ends), 215v (zoomorphic: fish), 216r (zoomorphic: dragon with head at both ends), 222v (inhabited by two birds), 268v (partly zoomorphic: bird), 274v (historiated: head of St. Paul). Initials are lacking f. 197v, 201v., and Binding: Original doeskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. On each cover traces of five circular bosses; traces of two straps fixed to the rear cover and clutching over pins in the front cover. On the front cover an inscription largely worn off: "Remigius super epistolas sancti Pauli" (13th century?).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrosiaster.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt's Commentarium in Epistolam ad Hebraeos
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with punctus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made corrections and altered punctuation in a somewhat lighter ink.