Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
Description:
Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Title supplied by curator., 20th century restrike, original block on 16th century paper., Attributed to Calcar., Title page from: Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Basel: Oporinus, 1543., From the Workshop of Titian., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and See: Cushing, Harvey. A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, New York: Schuman's, 1943. VI-A-1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564,
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Human dissection, Medical education, Physicians, Dead persons, Audiences, Skeletons, Monkeys, and Dogs
Titles supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Corns; Barber surgeons & surgery; Chiropodists.
anno Domi[ni] 1400 octuagesimo t[er]cio, 18 die me[n]sis Augusti [1483]
Call Number:
2000 1552
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Vocabularius praedicantium
Description:
Contemporary ms. notes. Presentation inscription on inside of back cover to Abbot Johannes (probably Johannes Scherzwadel, abbot of Lambach from 1474-1504): Reuerendo hono[rabili]b[i] ac religiosis in [Christo] pri[ori]bus [et] fr[atr]ibus d[omi]no Johannj Abbati Andree priori totiq[ue] Couentuj Monasterii in Lambaco nob[is] semp[er] colendj., Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Leaves e1 and x10 repaired, with missing text supplied in facsimile., Imprint from colophon, supplied in facsimile in CtY-BR copy., Initials in red; rubricated throughout., Manuscript waste used in binding, including a vellum flyleaf with 92 lines of hexameter verse., Text begins on leaf a2: Si te materne remoratur inercia lingue, quo minus ad populu[m] funde[m] uerba queas ..., and Title and author from Goff.
Publisher:
Per Petrum Currificem ciue[m] Nurenbergensem,
Subject (Name):
Benedictines Austria Lambach Ownership., Klosterkirche Lambach Ownership., Scherzwadel, Johannes--Presentation inscription., and Wagner, Peter, fl. 1483-1500.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library., Latin language--Dictionaries--German--Early works to 1800., and Monasteries--Austria--Lambach--Ownership.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Fari quae sentiat
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Motto on shield: Fari quae sentiat., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 5 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Coats of arms, Antelopes, and Deer
Depiction of a multi-quartered shield with sixteen coats of arms, surmounted by a crown and with the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat" written in a banner beneath
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole's pedigree
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., and Date of production based on acquisition date.
Title from note in previous owner's hand., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Taken from a brass matrix formerly owned by Horace Walpole., Inscription: s: ric :cletherowe : admiralli: occidentalis: anglie., British Museum 'Cat. of Seals', no. 1042; 'Archaeologia', xlvi, p. 369., and British Museum online catalogue; registration no. 1858,0629.1.
