BEIN 1971 233: Bound in 2 vols. Imperfect: half-title wanting. Autograph of Andersone. Autograph of Godwill., Signatures: v. 1: A-M8 (M8 blank) A-O8P2Q2 (Q2 blank); v. 2: a-z8aa4 (aa4 blank)., and The Arabic text without book 4 translated by Edward Pococke, and printed at the expense of the Hon. Robert Boyle.
Publisher:
excudebat Gulielm. Hall
Subject (Name):
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, History, Indifferentism (Religion), and Dedications
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the Hystoria Tartarorum (The Tartar Relation), a detailed account of the history and customs of the inhabitants of the Mongol Empire, composed in 1247. Originally the Vinland Map (Beinecke MS 350A), Speculum historiale (Beinecke MS 350), and Hystoria Tartarorum were bound together in this order in a single volume, as is indicated by the patterns of the wormholes
Alternative Title:
Tartar relation
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Tête de boeuf 15056., Layout: Double columns of 39-41 lines., Script: well-formed running hand with bâtarde shading., Decoration: incipit and explicit in red., and Binding: Modern. Heavy tan calf, blind- and gold-tooled.
Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580
Published / Created:
[circa 1250]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 7
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
200
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, containing the text of this commentary on the Song of Solomon by Cassiodorus (f1-f26). This is followed by unidentified commentaries on the same text (f26-f64). The volume concludes with a copy of the Biblia Beatae Virginis (f64-f96).
Description:
In Latin., Commentary by Cassiodorus attributed to Bede in incipit (f1r)., Erased ownership inscription: "Liber monastery Sc Marie ... Ste. ... wiknne.", Bookplate of Portsmouth Cathedral on front pastedown, with deaccession stamp dated 1941., Layout: double columns of 38 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: rubricated., and Binding: medieval binding, pink doeskin over wooden boards; remains of metal clasps on lower board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580. and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Augustine, In Iohannis Evangelium (Tractus cxxiv), wherein the numbers given to the tractates are one less than those given in the edition (which is perhaps the result of scribal error or perhaps reflective of alternative content within this manuscript).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule; annotations added by modern hands., and Decoration: 4-line initial "I," in orange with foliate ornamentation, beginning Tractus 36; 2-line initial "A" in a similar style; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubrics in orange rustic capitals; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, punctus interrogativus, and the punctus flexus.
Illuminated manuscript herbal, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of medical texts, tables, and taxonomies about plants, animals, and herbs by Hippocrates, Dycolapius Plato, Apuleius, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides, and Apollinis. Includes copious hand-colored drawings of plants and animals, and a number of full-page author portraits
Alternative Title:
In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicine scilicet Ypocratis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, In hoc volumine continentur tres libri medicie s. Ypoctis, Platonis, et Diascoridis, and De herbis masculinis et feminis [and other botanical and zoological works, including the Herbarium of Apuleius]
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubricated heading on f. 3r., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Decoration: copious illustriations of plants and animals. Full-page portraits of the authors on ff. 3v, 50v, and 63r. Rubrication., Binding: 18th/19th-century vellum binding over pastedboard. Spine title: Plantan et animal., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Herbals, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Zoology, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks) of Georg Rollenhagen (1542-1606), Isagoge in astrologiam. This manuscript is apparently the autograph of the Astrologia iudiciaria sive genethliacum reported to have been composed by this German evangelical minister, rector of the Gymnasium at Magdeburg and poet
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: Apparently copied by one hand writing a small Humanistica Cursiva Currens in many different forms, often difficult to decipher. Headings in the same script or in fancy capitals. The passages in German are in Gothica Cursiva Currens., Astrological diagrams, tables and calculations, all like the text of a rapid execution., and Binding: Original half binding of blind-tooled white pigskin decorated with rolls, the covers in an unorthodox way covered with green-blue blind-tooled parchment (?). On the front cover the gold-tooled initials "IMD" and the date "1599". Spine with three raised bands, with the number "10" painted in red in the second compartment. At the top illegible title label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, German literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript copy on paper of the "Antonine Itinerary," a 3rd century guide to roads and routes in the late Roman empire. This version of the Itinerarium includes additions for maritime travel and lists of ports
Description:
Title from title page., In Latin., Manuscript paginated in the 17th century in a Spanish hand. First leaf trimmed and mounted to a framing leaf., Script: late humanist script; in ornamental capitals throughout., Decoration: rubricated., Layout: single large columns of 26 lines., and Binding: seventeenth?-century limp parchment over boards, made from leaves of a seventeenth-century text. Title on spine in ink.
Hodoeporicon Ruthenicum and Hodoeporicon Rvthenicvm
Description:
BEIN 2014 2142: Autograph of Joannes Guil: Baro de Küngseckb. [undeciphered] and bookplate of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. and Title vignette (metal cut); head-pieces; initials.
Publisher:
Typis Matthiae Beckeri, impensis vero Ioannis Theodori & Ioannis Israelis de Bry, fratrum germanorum