Manuscript fragment on parchment containing part of a commentary on the Romance of Alexander. The second nonconsecutive leaf of the bifolium contains part of a commentary on the New Testament, including a citation of John 6:45 in Greek
Description:
In Latin; small citation in Ancient Greek. and Script: gothic bookhand.
Manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Gilbertus Anglicus' complete Compendium medicinae. Includes later table of content on back pastedown
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: one- and two-line initials in red and blue ink. Rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Binding: 15th-century light-brown leather binding, with metal furniture and clasps (closing on the front cover). Unidentified coat of arms blind-tooled on front cover. Manuscript note on front cover., In folding case: 35 cm., and Catchwords on the bottom left within a decorative frame.
Manuscript fragments on parchment from a northern Italian copy of this work by Boethius. The bifolium contains Book 2, verse 7.7-Book 3, prose 2.14. The fragment contains Book 4, verse 4.5-Book 4, prose 4,18
Description:
In Latin., Some damage from previous use as a document wrapper. Annotated "1569 1572" and "Baldassar Mariucci.", Interlinear and marginal glosses in a contemporary small cursive hand., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 532
Image Count:
1416
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
Alternative Title:
Address to young men
Description:
In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia of botanical descripitons
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Paraphs and initials in red and blue ink., and Grid ruling very visible in margins and even within text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of text from the Digesta
Alternative Title:
Digesta
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis italiana., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials in red and blue ink. Four large painted initials showing clothed groteques.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, and Law, Roman
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.52
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Saint Prosper of Aquitaine's Epigrammata. One partial bifolium also contains a fragment of the poem Ad Uxorem, once thought to be by the same author
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: larger initials in red ink; smaller initials in brown ink touched with red ink., and Layout: single columns of 24 lines each.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.