Manuscript on paper of Pedro de Medina, Coloquio de cosmographia and Regimiento del altura del sol y del Norte. Addition, in another hand, by a friend of Pedro de Medina and taken from a treatise in Italian on cosmography by a Florentine member of the Compagni family
Description:
In Spanish., Watermark: compare with Briquet 7567, 7578, 7584, 7601, 7602 (?)., Script: Written by one hand in Spanish Gothico-Humanistica. Headings in Capitalis., Majuscules heightened in dark yellow. Flourished initials in liquid gold with red penwork. Diagrams in pen and ink., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown leather over cardboard, both covers decorated with frames of rolls and single stamps in the center; two green silk ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Medina, Pedro de, 1493?-1567?
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of texts on astronomy and medicine: contains a treatise on uroscopy (ff. 1-48r), an index of the significations of the colors of urine (ff. 48v-50v), a table of astrological symbols and their explanations (f. 51r), an astrological figure "The circle of 16 angles" (ff. 51v-52r), a table of the days of the moon (f. 52v), a series of astronomical tables from Aries to Pisces (ff. 53v-57r), a medical treatise describing illnesses and medical recipes (ff. 58r-85v), an stronomical treatise (ff. 87r-119v), a text on the twelve astrological signs (ff. 122v-123r), a number of tables and figures on the planets, the aspects of the moon, and uroscopy (ff. 123v-126r), a series of astrological prognostic texts related to theft (ff. 129v-132v), a weather prognostication (ff. 133r-134r), a series of electionary texts (ff. 134v-137v), a treatise on bloodletting (f. 137v), a series of questionary texts (ff. 138r-146r), a collection of brief astrological proverbs (147r-147v), a series of explanations about astrology (148r-148v), and a questionary text on finding a thief (f. 149r).
Alternative Title:
Commonplace book in English: on miscellaneous subjects, chiefly astrology
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: English secretary hand., Layout: single column of between 36 and 45 lines., Binding: 18th- or 19th-century binding in marbled boards with brown leather spine. Spinal note "M.S 1551" in gold-tooling., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Date of creation from f. 122: "Wryten anno domini 1551.", and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript fragment, on paper, of a commonplace book in a stingle hand, containing about 20 poems by named authors, including Bartolomeus Venetus and Martinus Philecticus
Description:
In Latin. and Script: humanist cursive.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Albertus Magnus' Compendium theologicae veritatis. Manuscript starts with a table of contents (ff. 1r-3r) and finishes with an index of names (ff. 163r-144r).
Alternative Title:
Compendium theologicae veritatis, with index
Description:
In Latin., Title from rubric opening table: Incipit tabula compendium theologicae veritatis., Script: Gothic textualis., Decoration: seven-line decorated initial in red, blue, green, and gold (f. 3v) with floral decorations surrounding the text; two- to three-line initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue ink throughout., Layout: 2 columns of about 39 lines., Binding: 19th-century vellum binding over pasteboards, spine gold-tooled with labels: “Compendium Veritatis Theologice” and “Manuscript”., Text is also at times ascribed to Hugh of Strasburg instead of Albertus Magnus., and Ownership inscription by Johannes Winnington (f. 144v): Iste liber pertinet ad me Johannem Winnington de medio templo generosum...
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of a cönk, a mecmū'a of folkloric poetry, containing ilahis (hymns), nefes (mystical poems), gazels, masnavis, and excerpts of Sufi mystical poets, written in several hands. Poets excerpted include Ahmedî, Pir Abdal (پير ابدال), Yunus Emre (يونس امري), Eşrefoğlu Abdullah Rûmî (أشرف أوغلو عبد الله الرومي), Âşık Viranî (ويرانى), Ismāʻīl I, Shah of Iran (Hatayî/خطايي), and Sezaî (سزائيى). Some pages blank
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish., Title assigned by cataloger. Title at head of table of contents, indicating the maqams: Fihrist-i maḳāmāt-ı be ḳavl-i [...] (...فهرس مقامات بقول)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Single column of 10-20 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Nasta'liq., Binding: Gold-tooled central mandorla and frames over brown leather on paper pasteboard on covers, cloth tape spine., Decoration: Illuminated gold headpiece and frame on opening folio; text frames in green, writing surface painted silver; rubrication., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in several hands (f. ia): 'Alī (علي), Aliağa (علي اغا), Ḥasan (حسن), Ḥüseyin (حسين), Allāh (الله), Muḥammed (محمد).
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Masnavis, Turkish, and Turkish poetry
Manuscript, on parchment, containing Stephanus of Alexandria's Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica in Greek. Written in the hand of Andreas Darmarios
Alternative Title:
Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica : in Greek / ascribed to Stephen of Alexandria and Prognostica
Description:
In Greek., Title from title heading., Script: 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: blind-stamped light brown sheep over pasteboard., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Hippocrates.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?
Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1500.
Call Number:
Manuscript 48 vault
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a Latin translation of Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī's De cibis sanorum egrorum (ff. 1r-18v) and Bartholomaeus de Montagna's Antidotarium (ff. 19r-41v).
Alternative Title:
Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf. Latin and De cibis sanorum egrorum : followed (on leaves 19-41) by Bartholomaeus de Montagna: Antidotarium
Description:
In Latin., Titles from headings on f. 1r and 19r., Script: minuscule., Layout: single column of 48 lines., Decoration: headings in red ink. Rubrication., Binding: modern printed paper binding., and The Albucasis part consists of the entire 26th chapter of his Kitab al-tasrif.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medical, Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Diet
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, on paper, in the hand of Hieronymus Münzer, containing pseudo-Aristotle's De mundo, sometimes attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus. (A text translated from Arabic by Apuleius.) Includes copious marginal notes by Hieronymus Münzer
Alternative Title:
De mundo / pseudo-Aristotle [probably by Nicolaus Damascenus] ; translated into Latin by Apuleius Madaurensis ; written in ink on paper by Hieronymus Münzer at Nuremberg in 1494
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of around 30 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard., Signed and dated by Münzer on leaf 17r: Hic nobilissimus libellus aristotilis de mundo scriptus est manibus Magistri Hieronimi Monetarii de feltkirchen medicina doctoris etc., uicesima quarta Februarii anno salutis 1494 Nuremberge. Satis correctus est magnoque labore ex incorrecto uolumine in lucem prodiit., and Article, written by Walter Kurt Fränkel with caption title: "Dr. Hieronymus Münzer, 1440-1508 Stadtarztt vun Nürmberg, Humanist, Geograph uns Schwiegervater Holzschuhers", in envelope shelved with the manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy