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1. Arcana divina et compendium cum clavibus philosophischen realitaten und experimenten
- Creator:
- Lieber, Anna Susanna
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1743]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 81
- Image Count:
- 492
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an experimental alchemical compilation, devoted to laboratory procedures
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: Partly written by F.F. Weichenhaan in a clear, sometimes hasty cursive sloping to the right, in Fraktur for the passages in German; the remainder written by Anna Susanna Lieber in a rather loose and pointed Fraktur sloping to the right., Watermarks: Watermarks of the smaller papers at edges and cut, not identified; the paper folded in quarto with a decidely brownish tint and a large, faint watermark in the folds, not identified., Light to very dark brown inks, no color, a few sketches of apparatus in the text. No catchwords, no signatures., Compiled about 1743 by F.F. Weichenhaan, partly from materials written about 1705 by Anna Susanna Lieber., and Binding: Old paper boards with parchment back, a title lettered in brown ink by a modern hand in gothic letters on the backstrip, plain edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and Laboratory Techniques and Procedures
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arcana divina et compendium cum clavibus philosophischen realitaten und experimenten
2. Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum
- Creator:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 330
- Image Count:
- 315
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (many holes and repairs) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several hands of different appearances, perhaps by scribes of varying ages or at different dates. The scripts range from rounded to angular minuscule., Plain orange initial, 7- to 2-line; heading and chapter notations (in margins) in same shade. Guide-letters and notes for rubricator., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is slightly rounded and lined, the lining extending onto the inside of the boards. Covered with white pigskin, blind-tooled. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. On the fore-edge of the lower cover is a notation contemporary with binding: "Gesta anglorum bede." Appears to have been bound at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church history, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum
3. Logical treatises
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 541
- Image Count:
- 175
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Preface. 2) Paulus Pergulensis (Venetian scholar, d. 1451), Compendium logicae. 3) Logical texts. 4) Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus syllogismorum. 6) Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus de inventione medii
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Artt. 1-5 written by a single hand in a small and highly abbreviated Humanistica Cursiva Currens. Art. 6 is added in red ink on unruled pages by another contemporary hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens close to Humanistica Textualis., The decoration is uneven (parts are undecorated) and consists of chapter headings, plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Heightening in red of some capitals. Logical diagrams on ff. 7v, 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v. Titles are missing on ff. 2r, 59r (?), 65v (?), 69r (?)., and Binding: Twentieth century. Marbled paper over cardboard. In the Rosenthal typewritten description the binding was still described as "old boards".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pergola, Paolo della, -1455.
- Subject (Topic):
- Logic, Logic, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Logical treatises
4. Musaeum hermeticum reformatum
- Creator:
- Hellmerich, Georg
- Published / Created:
- 1692.
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 70
- Image Count:
- 188
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) containing 1) Basilius Valentinus, Porta sophica, sive duodecim claves. 2) Marcellus Palingenius, Alchemical invocation. 3) George Ripley, Liber duodecim portarum, the prologue only. 4) Hermes, Tabula smaragdina. 5) Basilius Valentinus, Practica cum duodecim clavibus. 6) Lambsprinck, De lapide philosophico libellus. 7) Michael Maier, and others, Emblematical alchemical paintings, without text. 8) Riginio Danielli, Canzone
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Painstakingly but not very skillfully written by a single hand imitating different typefaces., In brown ink with some red headings and capitals., and Binding: Probably original binding of plain brown calf, back with four raised bands, remains of early paper title label at top of backstrip on which the compiler's name is written partly defectively, "Gregori ... [sic] ... llmri ..." Badly wormed and repaired in modern times, with modern leather title label on backstrip.
- Subject (Name):
- Hellmerich, Georg.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Musaeum hermeticum reformatum
5. Sermons
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 539
- Image Count:
- 656
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of 7 parts bound together
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Each part written in different hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged: sprinkled brown leather over cardboard. Spine with five raised bands, gold-tooled, with gold-tooled title on a red leather label: "MANUSCRIPT". Red sprinkled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Sermons
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons
6. Tabulae astronomicae, with brief extracts from Canones in tabulas Alphonsi regis, by Johannes (Dank) de Saxonia, and with a few anonymous additions
- Creator:
- Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 23
- Image Count:
- 205
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper of the Alfonsine Tables, a scientific work on astronomy, executed on parchment and decorated, but unfinished, to which paper leaves have been added at a not much later date, and the text completed, probably by a scholar
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: 1) ladder in a circle with star at top, two varieties, similar to Briquet 5920; 2) eagle displayed within a circle, similar to Briquet 203., Script: Four scribes have written the manuscript: (1) the professional, humanistic hand of the parchment section; (2) the rapid, partly illegible cursive hand of the paper leaves; (3) a late humanistic hand which has supplied "radices" in red and brown inks in the lower margins of ff. 33-38; (4) a hand that filled in the numerals on the whole of f. 63r and a part of f. 36v, distinguishable by his numeral "7"., In the parchment section, headlines and part of the writing in red (the sixth place in each table is outlined in yellow glair, except in the table on f. 57r, where the ninth, fifteenth, and twenty-first places are outlined in blues). Longitudinal spaces between columns of the tables in the parchment section, ff. 38v-42v, 53r, and 61r-70v, have been decorated with arabesque patterns of vines, leaves, and flowers in great variety and usually in differing combinations of glair and blue, but the work has been left unfinished toward the end of the section. No illustration., and Binding: Modern. Blue morocco, gilt, matching slipcase of straight-grained blue morocco, by R. Wallis, original gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tabulae astronomicae, with brief extracts from Canones in tabulas Alphonsi regis, by Johannes (Dank) de Saxonia, and with a few anonymous additions