Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
Description:
In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of book two of Avicenna's Canon medicinae as translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona; the section contained in the fragment details a variety of herbs and their medicinal qualities
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated, Gothic hand., Decoration: each medicinal entry begins with a 3-line initial, alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color. Headings at the top of each page in red and blue. Each column contains decorative borderwork consisting of elongated strokes alternating in red and blue with red penwork., Layout: in two columns of 68 lines each., and Damage: the fragment has been removed from a binding, where it possibly served as a wrapper. Glue and binding material are still attached to one side of the leaf; the other side is discolored with offsetting from the later book. A piece from the spine remains attached and reads "Bbb" [?].
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Arab
Manuscript, on parchment, in several unidentified hands containing a collection of various medical treatises. Manuscript consists of tree sections bound together. First part contains several works by Aristotle (all in William of Moerbeke's recension): De anima (ff. 1r-26r; marginal commentary by Thomas Aquinas), De somno et vigilia (ff. 26r-37r), De generatine et corruptione (ff. 38r-55r), De causis (ff. 56r-61r), De motibus animalium (ff. 62r-63r, beginning imperfect), De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 63r-66v), De longitudine (ff. 67r-69r); and Henricus Monachus' Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha (f. 70r). The second part (15th c. date on the basis of paleography) contains Johannes de Sacrobosco's Algorithmus (ff. 70v-74r), De sphaera (74r-81v), and Compotus ecclesiastius (82v-98r), the anonymous' De simplici et composito quadrante (98r-100v), Robertus Grosseteste's De sphaera (ff. 101r-106r) and Compotus (ff. 106r-124r), Campanus de Novara and Robertus Grosseteste's Tabulae (ff. 124r-126r), Expositio tabule de annis Arabum Magistri Campani (f. 126r), De pratica quadrantis (ff. 127r-130r), Chylindrus (ff. 137r-139r), Compotus manualis (ff. 139r-142r), and Gerardus Creonensis' Theorica planetarum (ff. 143r-155r). The third part (14th c. date on the basis of decoration) contains Prophatius Hebraeus' Tractatus quadrantis novi (ff. 156r-171r), and the Tabula ad sciendu quantum cum quolibet gradu zodiaci... (f. 171v) Ends with two diagrams (ff. 172v-173r) and a table the fixed stars (f. 173v)
Alternative Title:
De anima, De somno et vigilia, De generatione et corruptione [etc.] : [the Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha of Henricus Monachus, followed by selections, mostly astronomical and arithmetical, from Johannes de Sacrobosco, Robertus Grosseteste, Johannes de Ahrweiler, Gerardus Cremonensis]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothica textualis., Decoration: decorative red and blue initials, and several hand drawn maps of the fixed stars. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown pig-skin binding, blind-tooled. Contemporary pig-skin tabs attached to fore-edges to demarcate beginins of new texts. Traces of straps from back to front cover. Traces of metal bosses on front cover and 3 holes in triangular formation for chain attachment on back cover. Label on front cover: Algorism[us] ... / Sper materialis / Compo[si]tus philosop[] / uel custod[]. Label on back cover: Sphaera materialis / Joannis de Arweilerio. Quadra[n]s / nouus Probacii Hebrei 1554. Note on binding on inside front cover: Anno domini MCCCCLIIII. Ligatus est iste liber per reuerendum patrum fratrem Matthiam Halddenof suppriorem conuentus wiennensis., Date of the first and oldest part is based on scribal note (f. 26r): Explicit liber de anima petri Rodeheym. Amen. Anno domini MCCLXXXXI in uigilia pentecostes., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, Manuscripts, and Psychology
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of texts by Aristotle: Physica (f. 1r), De caelo (f. 74r), De generatione (f. 131v), De anima (f. 151v), De memoria (f. 177r), De sensu (f. 180r), De somno (f. 189r), De longitudine et brevitate vitae (f. 198r), Meteorologica (f. 218r), Metaphysica (f. 251v). Also includes Costa Ben Luca's De differentia spiritus et animae (f. 200r), Nicholas of Damascus' De plantis (f. 206r), Pseudo-Aristotle's Liber de causis (f. 332r), and Nicholas of Amiens' Ars fidei catholicae (f. 335v).
Alternative Title:
Opera varia
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 2 columns of 37 lines., Decoration: contains 12 historiated initials: the Lord separating water and earth (f. 3), the Lord creating Heaven and earth (f. 74), the soul delivered rom the body (f. 151), five men at a table (f. 180), man sleeping (f. 189), the living and the dead (f. 198), young men in front of a tree (f. 206), the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (f. 206), meteors falling from heaven (f. 218), Christ appearing to a philosopher (f. 261), philosopher visited by angels (f. 332), dispute between two monks and a young man (f. 335r). Also, 29 ornamental initials in red, blue, and polished gold. Titles and subheadings in red and blue; rubrication., Binding: 20th-century brown leather half-binding over wood. Includes metal clasps and leather straps closing on the front cover. Remnants of the previous blind-stamped brown leather binding preserved separately., Note by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf: Isti libri naturales deputati sunt ad usum fratris Nicolay de Probstdorf lectoris. Et sunt empti pro II marcis argenti., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy
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 and commentaries on Hippocrates. Includes Hippocrates' Aphorismi (translated by Constantinus Africanus) and Prognostica with commentaries by Galen; Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (translation attributed to Constantinus Africanus and Gerard of Cremona); and a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān on Galen's Tegni (translated by Gerard of Cremona). Diagram with a classification of all nature on f. 143v. Copious contemporary marginal notes throughout
Alternative Title:
Articella and Hippocrates Aphorismi, Prognostica, De regimine acutorum : cum comment. Galeni ; Ali Ibn Ridwan Commentum super Tegni Galeni
Description:
In Latin., Title from headings., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: eight-line initials in red ink with blue flourishing. Text commented upon is underlined in red., Layout: 2 columns of around 50 lines., Binding: 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding, with metal furniture (originally 10, now 4) and clasps (closing on the front cover, wanting). Manuscript note on front cover with shelfmark: h188. Rebacked., Pagination added in modern pencil., This manuscipt was formerly believed to have been written in an Italian university (Padua). There is no evidence to support this., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Articella, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
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 in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts