- Published / Created:
- [between 1575 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 656
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arithmetica pratica
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2.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 862
- Image Count:
- 221
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Manuale (preface and chapters 1-24). 2) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum, large final part of chapter 2. 3) Arnulphus de Boeriis (ca. 1200 (?), Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), Speculum monachorum. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo de vita et passione Domini. 5) Vita S. Iohannis Calybitae or Vita S. Iohannis monachi. 6) Flores ex operibus S. Bernardi de dignitate et excellentia beatae virginis Mariae. 7) Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), Epistola 111, written in the name of the monk Elias to the latter's parents. 8) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Contemplationes de passione Domini secundum septem horas canonicas. 9) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Formula honestae vitae. 10) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae. 11) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Varia et brevia documenta pie seu religiose vivendi. 12) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Regula novitiorum, 3. 13) Bonaventura, Regula novitiorum, 4.1-3. 14) Matthaeus de Cracovia (c. 1335-1410; Ps.-Thomas de Aquino, Ps.-Bonaventura; here ascribed to Iohannes de Capistrano OFM, 1386-1456), De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientiae (Speculum munditiae). 15) F. Carboni, Incipitario della lirica italiana dei secoli XIII e XIV, v. 1, Studi e Testi, v. 277 (Vatican City, 1977), 863. 16) Carboni 212. 17) Carboni 96. 18) Religious poems in Venetian dialect. 19) Lamentatio Virginis Mariae ad Crucem, attributed to Philippus de Grevia (Philippus Cancellarius, Philippe de Grève, d. 1236). 20) Zeno Veronensis (d. before 380), Tractatus, 1.1.7.20-21. 21) Moral sentences and quotations by or ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 22) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo 12.
- Description:
- Binding: the two covers and the spine are covered with a fragment from a large Italian choirbook in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata; parts of two 4-line red staves with notation in Nota Quadrata and two lines of text are preserved., Red headings and paragraph marks. 2-line red and blue plain initials, with guide letters., Script: Copied by two similar hands: A, writing a rapid Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria, copied ff. 2r-56v and 69r-104v; B, writing a more formal version of the same script, under slight Humanistic influence, copied ff. 57r-68v. The Latin of both scribes is very defective., and Second preliminary leaf included in foliation.
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
- Subject (Topic):
- Asceticism, Christian hagiography, Christian poetry, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ascetic and devotional treatises; Life of St. John Calybita; Italian poetry in praise of the Virgin
3.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 440
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium of Mark 15.46-16.20; text is continuous
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in large uncial script, with very fine strokes for vertical lines of N and for triangular shaped bow of a., and Unpainted initial, 2-line, on f. 1r, with rope and fish motif.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 485.2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Feria II throughout the year, lauds
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 2-line initial "S" at the beginning of the hymn is in olive-green, green, and red with white filigree and is filled with purple, blue, and red foliage decorated with white filigree; the initial is on a gold ground outlined in black and is surrounded by green, blue, and orange foliage that extends into the margin with gold balls; 1-line initials alternate blue and red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1470-1530.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1274
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 131
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript compendium of astronomical and astrological texts, including a version of the Kalendarium of Regiomontanus, with lunar eclipse tables for the years 1475-1530 and a solar calendar for 1475-1513. Other contents include a number of astronomical and astrological tables and texts. including a poem on auspicious and inauspicious days (first line: "Fortunata dies operum disponere causas"); the Canon de aspectibus planetarum; the Cognitiones naturarum secundum nativtates; and a variety of prognostic texts based on zodiac signs and the day of the week on which January 1 falls in a given year. The volume also contains several quadrant diagrams and a working volvelle
- Description:
- In Latin., Bookseller description available., Inscribed at the head of 2r: S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo., Signature of Joseff Gregri da Bologna? on back cover., Bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman on front pastedown., Tipped in before f1: printed catalog description of this volume, undated., Layout: main text in single columns of approximately 35 lines; wide margins., Script: gothica textualis italiana., Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink, some with penwork flourishing; many blank spaces for initials. Illustrations of lunar eclipses. Charts, diagrams, and volvelles in red, blue and brown ink., and Binding: contemporary boards, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astrology, Italian, Astronomy, Calendars, Lunar eclipses, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Solar eclipses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of astronomical texts
- Creator:
- Galen
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1350?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 6 Vault
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: Liber therapeuticus (ff. 1r-35v), De utilitate anhelitus (ff. 35v-37v), De pharmaciis (ff. 37v-38v), De malicia complexionis (ff. 39r-40v), De accidente et morbo (ff. 39r-40v), De lapide (ff. 59r-60r), De phlebotomia (ff. 60r-v), De pharmaciis Hippocratis (f. 60v), De virtutibus naturalibus (ff. 61r-74v), De complexionibus (ff. 75r-88v), De regimine sanitatis (incomplete, ff. 88v-97v).
- Alternative Title:
- Liber therapeutices, De utilitate anhelitus, De pharmaciis, De malicia complexionis, De accidente et morbo, De lapide, De phlebotomia, De pharmaciis Hippocratis, De virtutibus naturalibus, De complexionibus, De regimine sanitatis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: one 6-line initial in green, red, and purple acanthus on a blue backgroud with gold, leaves extending in the same colors to the upper margin. Several 5- and 4-line initials. Two-line initials with simple flourishing throughout, alternating in blue and red. Red and blue paragraph marks. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 57 lines., Binding: contemporary leather binding over original wooden boards. Rebacked in July 1930 by A. Maltby & Son, Oxford. Traces of marks from clasps and of small metal bosses on front and edges of boards (few remaining). Label on back cover of book: Libri Galienni incipientes a terapeutica., and Catchwords centered in lower margins, enclosed in plain black ink frames.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Galen
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Bede
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 518
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf of Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. The fragment contains Ps. 77:68-78:13, PL 93.909-914. The lemmata are announced by means of paragraph marks in the shape of gallows. There are many corrections; additions are written in the upper margins or vertically in the intercolumnar space, in the same way as in MS 517
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a careful small late Carolingian script., The upper corners and the lower part of the leaf have been trimmed with loss of text., and The fragment was used as cover for a binding of a 16th-century book, f. 1v being the outer side. On what was the spine a handwritten title is vaguely legible "SCHOLIA SAL*** TAN*"; on the front cover the letters "M C E //" and the date "15//" are stamped.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Bede.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Psalmos
- Creator:
- John, of Wales, -approximately 1285
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 509
- Image Count:
- 318
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of John Waleys (John of Wales, Iohannes Gallensis), Communiloquium sive summa collationum ad omne genus hominum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria which, however, differs from Rotunda by the absence of Textus Praescissus features. A few rubrics are added in Gothica Cursiva, e.g. ff. 63v and 64v. Instructions for the rubricator are written in thin Gothica Cursiva Currens in the lower margins, mostly lost due to trimming., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. The decoration consists of (1) alternately red and blue flourished initials, 2 lines; (2) flourished litterae duplices, 3-5 lines, at the opening of the Distinctiones; they have marginal extensions ("J-staves") in pen and ink over the full height of the text area; (3) on f. 4r a damaged foliate initial on a gold, red and blue background, containing a hybrid, with floral extensions featuring a hybrid head and a hybrid. On f. 37r there is a coarse pen and ink drawing of a sword in the margin, probably related to a Hermogenes quotation in the text about murder., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Sprinkled brown leather over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with blind fillets. Spine with five raised bands and two gold-tooled red leather title-labels with the inscriptions "MS. VALLENS. COMMUNILOQ." and "TRACT. DE RE PUBLICA." Red edges. The spine was reinforced by means of two strips of parchment from an English archival document (ca. 1500) in which the names William Holborn, Robert Ball "nuper de Letheringham" and others appear.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- John, of Wales, -approximately 1285. and Franciscans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Preaching, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Communiloquium
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1350.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.87
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment from a northern Italian copy of this work by Boethius. The bifolium contains Book 2, verse 7.7-Book 3, prose 2.14. The fragment contains Book 4, verse 4.5-Book 4, prose 4,18
- Description:
- In Latin., Some damage from previous use as a document wrapper. Annotated "1569 1572" and "Baldassar Mariucci.", Interlinear and marginal glosses in a contemporary small cursive hand., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 62
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris, with dedication to Andrea Acciaiuoli.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays from contemporary document adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps fastened in channels in flush wooden boards. A primary endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on tawed skin cores. Remains of red secondary embroidery. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin between central supports. Covered in kermes pink, tawed skin with corner tongues, the sides divided into triangles with right angled and diagonal fillets. Three fastenings, the catches on the lower board and stubs of green fabric straps on the upper board which is cut in to accomodate them. Eight star-shaped bosses on the upper board (one wanting) and five on the lower, each board with four bosses on their spine edges. Inscription on upper cover: "de mulieribus claris". Written in ink on fore edge: "LXXXVIII" with a helmet on each side. Label on lower board wanting., Folio 3r, partial border, of poor quality: in lower margin, a patch of green grass with two women seated, one dressed in red, the other in green and white, supporting a shield with unidentified arms (gules, 3 helmets sable [in outline only]), a later addition. From the patch of grass oak branches with leaves and acorns extend into inner and upper margins. In inner margin, a fox chasing a hare. Folio 80r, a medallion framed in red and pink and four small gold flowers, with an unidentified monogram in gold against blue ground. One pen-and-ink initial, 8-line, blue with pale red penwork. Plain initials alternate in red and blue. Headings in red (ff. 1r-7r only). Many initials touched with red. Guide letters for decorator throughout., Purchased in 1954 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Text written in a well spaced gothic bookhand with humanistic features by a single scribe, below top line. Art. 1 and rubrics added in similar script by another hand., Unidentified arms, with "Cretulia" and "Thurj" added on either side, and inscription in the lower margin of f. 2v: "Quid spectas Thurum [with 3 helmets] sunt hec insignia. Thuris/ Donarunt Sacre Iuno Minerua Venus/ Cretulia., and Watermarks: Briquet Tete de boeuf 14717 and similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.123.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De mulieribus claris