Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published / Created:
approximately 1400-approximately 1425.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.90
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing the end of Act 2 and the beginning of Act 3 of Seneca's Octavia
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Italian gothic with some humanist letterforms., and Decoration: calligraphic initials in margin begin each line; speakers indicated by paraph marks in red ink. Large ornamental initial in red ink at the opening of Act 3.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
Alternative Title:
Opera
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1550]
Call Number:
Manuscript 55 vault
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript fragments of medical interest, on parchment, of a collection of Orationes in Ludolf von Sachsen's Vita Christi. F. 1: inveniri. Fac ut voluntatem ... resurgat a peccatis. (I. 40-42); f. 2: Domine deus om[n]ipotens ... verbo dei ac mee [et] (I. 71-72); f. 3: Presta misericors deus ... stent portitores occasiones pec (I. 42-44); f. 4: aliorum saluti. Amen ... preterit a peccata (I. 73-74); f. 5: tionum flatibus et motibus ... crucis ascendisti in (I. 46-48).
Alternative Title:
Vita Christi
Description:
In Latin., Formerly known as "The Book of Hours." Leaves identified by Peter Kidd, 2017, as part of the Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony. Additional leaves discovered in the Harry Ransom, HRC Leaf 18, and Detroit Art Institute, reference number 69.277., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: text in yellow frame. Two-line initials in white, blue, and gold with floral motifs. Titles in blue ink. Red, blue, and gold line fillers., Ten miniatures in ink, tempera, and gold, framed by columns: Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, heals man with leprosy (f. 1r); Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, stands beside centurion and bed-ridden servant (f. 1v); Jesus stands in field of wheat, accompanied by three apostles (f. 2r); Jesus, accompanied by apostle, heals man with withered hand--two men (Pharisees) stand behind him (f. 2v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 3v); Jesus raises child from grave--mother looks on (f. 3v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 4r); Jesus in front of city, talks to crowd (f. 4v); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, frees two possessed men from black and gold demons (f. 5r); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, heals bed-ridden paralyzed man (f. 5v)., Layout: written in 1 column of 21 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., and Foliation of original sequence(?) in modern pencil on recto: 38, 55, 39, 72, 72.y52; and foliation of order of fragments (i.e., 1-5) in modern pencil on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Healing, Biblical teaching, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Rubricated throughout; capitals in red and blue with initial strokes; paragraph marks and underlining in red; some yellow decoration. Printer's device below colophon decorated with red and yellow. Contemporary shelf-title on tail-edge: Scotus sup quatuor libs siñau., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Imperfect: some minor worming at front with slight damage to text and binding., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Provenance: "1490 Magister Georgius La[e]nntsch de Elling[e]n" (manuscript on page [1]); "Fouxetion" [?] (manuscript on front pastedown endpaper); "Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln, Das schöne gedruckte Buch, im ersten Jahrhundert nach Gutenberg" (bookplate). Marginal annotations throughout in the hand of Georg Läntsch von Ellingen. Ink manuscript sale catalog numbers on front and rear pastedown endpapers and relevant bibliographic citations on rear pastedown endpaper, dated 1948., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf binding with metal clasps. Rebacked in 17th century with pigskin; later leather label on spine. Paper stubs sewn in at end to stabilize binding by 21st-century binder. Manuscript quiring, mostly cut away., Commentary (based on Duns Scotus) on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris., Title from page [2]., Imprint from colophon (page [355])., Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2-11⁸ 12¹⁰ 13-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-22⁸]., Text in double columns; 60 lines and head-line; capital spaces., and Printer's device in colophon.
Publisher:
Spirensis ciuis Drach Petrus arte sua
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Manuscript on parchment of an atlas produced by the Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese (1514-1564) in Venice
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: inscriptions in black or red ink in Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence, and in Capitalis (the latter sometimes in gold)., Shield in yellow and blue with "Cosmo-Grra-Phia" in red. The maps show varying degrees of colouring., An atlas produced by the Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese (1514-1564) in Venice. Includes 23 maps in various colors, with many representations of people, ships, and landmarks., and Binding: de luxe binding, 19th or 20th century, by Rivière & Son: gold-tooled red morocco over pasteboard; gold-tooled title on spine:"PORTOLANO / DA / BATTISTA / AGNESE", and at the bottom: "1559".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Agnese, Battista, active 16th century.
Subject (Topic):
Atlases, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single late Beneventan hand, probably that of a nun, containing a collection of 27 prayers by Saint Thomas Aquinas and others for use at Mass
Description:
In Latin., Ff. 74v-75r contain 20 lines of a prayer: "O sacro sanctissimo ochino di pieta," in an Italic script., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., Script: late Beneventan miniscule., Decoration: Extensive. Many small capitals alternately blue and gold with penwork in red and purple. 30 three-line and rwo-line initials either in burnished gold with purple penwork or dark blue with red penwork; very large illuminated initial on opening page with leafy design and burnished gold outlined in red enclosing formal floral pattern, with full-length bar extending into upper and lower margins., Binding: 16th century limp parchment. Cover is made from a 15th-century portolan chart of part of the Adriatic coast of Apulia (Schøyen Collection title: Portolan map of the Adriatic Coast of Apulia in the kingdom of Napoli from Rinaldo south as far as Port Badisco, including Otranto and inland towns with little hills.) 230 mm x 160 mm (flattened). Lettering of portolan in small humanist hand., and Binding: green gilt quarter morocco folding case, Aquarius, 1995, with Schøyen Collection bookplate.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Portolan charts
Anno. M. cccc. lxxxi. Quarto Idus dece[m]bris [10 December 1481]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 622
Image Count:
122
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis and Praeclarissimi viri Gualterii Burlei Anglici sacre pagine professoris excellentissimi super artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis expositio sive scriptum feliciter incipit
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Rubrication and large initial in blue (a1r), BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Provenance: Inscription of the Premonstratensian abbey of Weissenau, Baden-Württemberg: Monasterij Augiae Minoris. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund., BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Binding: Brown pigskin over pasteboard, the covers framed with a gold-tooled fillet. Rebacked. Spine with five raised bands and 19th-century red leather label with gold-tooled inscription in Gothic letters "Gualt. Burley 1481"., BEIN Beinecke MS 622: Number 1 of 2 items bound together. Item extent: 1 item (ii + 119 + 48 + ii leaves)., Signatures: a-n⁸ o-p⁶ q⁴ (a1 and q4 blank)., Title from incipit at head of a2r., Imprint details from colophon on q3v., Burley's commentary on Aristotle's and Porphyrys' works on logic., and Initial spaces.
Publisher:
Arte ac impensa Ioannis herbort Alemani ... impressum uero uenetiis
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, Aristotle., Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305., and Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy, Ancient, and Logic