Tröstlich Gsang von der auff Ersteung des Fleisch und ewigen Leben
Description:
Attributed to Leonhard Paminger in Wackernagel. VD 16 suggests Martin Luther as a contributor., Date of publication suggested by VD 16., Printer from colophon., and Signatures: A⁴ (A4 blank).
Alani de Insulis doctoris celeberrimi cognomento universalis compendiosa in cantica canticorum ad laudem Deiparae virginis Mariae elucidatio and Compendiosa in cantica canticoru[m] ad laudem Deiparae virginis Mariae elucidatio
Description:
Binder's stamp: Cape., Entry on Alanus de Insulis from Joannes Trithemius' De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis on leaf a2., Final p. blank., and Signatures: a-i⁸.
Publisher:
Ex Officina Iacobi Keruer, sub duobus Gallis, via ad diuum Iacobum
Subject (Name):
Cape--Binding and Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516. De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. Selections
Subject (Topic):
Bible--Song of Solomon--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
f. 42r, headline: [possibly in a different although similar hand:] Excellentissimi Philosophi Simonis Portij de / animae immortalitate Quaestio ex suis / lectionibus . 3 . de anima excerpta.
Description:
First pastedown: Fragment of parchment leaf from a twelfth-century Italiancodex, probably a Gospel Lectionary, containing an extract from the Gospel ofSt. John written in Latin in a Rotunda antiquior hand, bound in upside down., Leaves 114-115 excised., and Leaves 58-82, 85-103 blank, not digitized. Paper is consistent with rest of volume. 26-32 mm. chainlines, no discernible watermark.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800 and Divination--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, translated from English into French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Part I: Written by a single hand in a semigothic cursive. Part II: Written in a cursive hand sloping to the right., Part I: Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Tan buckram boards, brown morocco back and corners, flat backstrip with gold-stamped title, plain edges.
Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian.
Description:
Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prussian blue
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294 Freelove, Robert Jean, de Meun, d. 1305? Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent
Published / Created:
[ca. 1550]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 33
Image Count:
277
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case., No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing., Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65., and Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library