Manuscript on paper of a collection of the works of Nicolaus, mostly related to medicine. In addition the codex has interesting lists of substances in Latin and German, as well as a tract on the distillation of brandy.
Alternative Title:
[Antidotarium]
Description:
Binding: Modern three-quarter binding of light brown buckram, plain brown niger back and corners, the back with five (false?) raised bands, gilt-lettered in the second compartment from the top, ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI, and at the foot of the spine, "AB. 1460". Plain edges., Blank binder's leaves not scanned., Large capitals in red at text divisions, sometimes with slight pen ornament, other capitals stroked red throughout, fancy ascenders on top lines transgressing the upper rules and stroked red, similar descenders occasionally below the bottom bordering line, usually not colored., Modern pencil foliation., On paper., Script: Neatly written in a gothic cursive hand., and Watermarks: Two batches of unidentified paper watermarked with a gothic "P," the mark plain and smaller in one batch, larger and surmounted by a trefoil in the other.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Nicolaus, Salernitanus, 12th cent., and Nicolaus,--Salernitanus,--12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Brandy, Distilling--Early works to 1800, Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from presence of umlaut in image text., Possibly a restrike., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Religion & medicine; Demons & devils., and Stamp verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death, Religious aspects, Christianity, Queens, Kings, Demons, Saints, Sick persons, Deathbeds, Martyrs, Knives, and Prayer
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Three woodcuts, portion of text and border cuts: probably used as a bookbinding., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Phlebotomy, Human body, Zodiac, Surgery, and Sick persons
Title devised by curator., Part of a manuscript that has been removed from its book binding., Date of production supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Contains 12 illuminated historiated initial miniatures, 3 additional miniatures, and 833 large and small ornamental initials and marginal decorations., From the Belle Skinner Collection., Gradual for the use of the monks of the Congregation of St. Justina, of the Order of St. Benedict, at the monastery of St. Peter of Saviliano., Ms., in red and black., and On last leaf: Istud Graduale est monachorum congregationis Sancte Iustine ordinis Sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatum monasterio Sancti Petri de Sauiliano.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines--Italy--Savigliano., San Pietro (Monastery : Savigliano, Italy), and Skinner, Belle--Provenance.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for use by a Dominican nuns' convent. Includes processionals for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter among others.
Description:
Binding: original binding; reddish brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (often missing); 2-line red plain initials for the prayers; black cadels of the same height, stroked in red., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1949 from C.A. Stonehill., and Script: written in somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Early works to 1800.