Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a manuscript of the Digestum vetus, text and commentary, with an illumination representing the jurist Ulpian. Used as a binding for a seventeenth-century account book pertaining to the Brotherhood of Saint Martin, the dyer's guild
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: Large rectangular historiated initial in blue and orange containing a three-quarter figure representing the jurist Ulpain. Rubricated. Two and three-line initials in blue and red; paraph marks in red.
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. Text missing at beginning of 2 Kings (one folio following f. 85), and at end of 2 Kings and beginning of 3 Kings (one bifolium following f. 90). With a paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. Written for Abbey of Mont-Saint-Quentin in Northeastern France
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold, early gothic bookhand by one scribe. Writing above top line, with tall ascenders in upper margin. Various corrections in a different hand (13th century). Guide-letters for illuminator throughout. Scattered short marginal glosses (brown ink) in a similar but smaller hand (13th century). Transcriptions of rubrics in a 15th-century hand., Richly illuminated in early gothic style. The uncial presentation text is set inside a double frame of orange and blue strips, the latter decorated with orange dots; the entire page crowned by an elaborate architectural canopy above four trilobe arches supported at the side of the frame by columns, in blue. There are twenty-three historiated initials orange or blue, decorated with stylized foliage in white, occasionally with biting dragon and curling vine serifs, set in or above orange frames, on gold grounds., Six large foliate initials, in a style dependent on Channel-School models: tight pink and blue vine scrolls with dragon terminals, in some cases on a green trellis, set in light orange frames, edged in black, against gold grounds; on f. 2v an I running the full length of the page (Preface); f. 66r (Joshua); f. 77r (Prologue, 1 Kings); f. 127r (Story of Susannah), f. 134r (Esther) and f. 144r (2 Maccabees), blue capitals with white highlights, filled with vine scrolls and framed as above, against gold grounds. 6- and 3-line initials, red and blue, with blue or red penwork respectively; a few (e.g., f. 98v) in a more elaborate manner with penwork in both colors. On some pages a single column of text is further divided by a vertical guilloche pattern in orange ink. Rubrics in orange throughout., Some pages sewn; some bleeding of orange ink; upper right corner of f. 190 cut out. Text not damaged., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Gilt, gauffered edges. Brown goatskin blind-tooled, with elaborate bosses and fastenings, by Lortic.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment, probably from a Bible. The recto contains the end of "the Interpretation of Hebrew Names" in a gothic bookhand; rubricated. The verso contains two unidentified texts in a slightly later anglicana script, one medical and one mathematical
Manuscript fragment on vellum of a lectionary. Arrived at the Beinecke as two separate accessions. Accession 1 (1 leaf): recto: Luke 18:35-43 and Luke 17:3-4a; verso: Luke 17:4a-10. Accession 2 (4 leaves): F. 1 recto: Luke 22:32-39 and Matt. 26:2; verso: Matt. 26:3-13. F. 2 recto: Matt. 14:15-14:22 and 15:32; verso: Matt. 15:32-33 and Matt. 14:22-25. F. 3 recto: Matt. 26:20; verso: Matt. 26:31-39. F. 4 recto: John 19:7-13; verso: Matt. 27:3-14.
Description:
In Greek., Initials in red., and Edges cut; later inscription at bottom rubbed out.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Lectionaries, Lectionary preaching, Orthodox Eastern Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus. 2) Thebit ben Chorat, De recta imaginatione sphaerae. 3) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. 4) Iohannes Campanus of Novara (ascr.), Tractatus quadrantis. 5) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Compotus. 6) Gerardus Sablonetanus (ascr.), Theorica planetarum (also attributed to other authors). 7) Alfraganus, Liber differentiarum, tr. John of Seville
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single scribe writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Numerous and often extensive marginal notes by various 13th and 14th century hands, mostly in small rapid cursive handwriting, some in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria., Red paragraph marks and 2-3-line plain initials with guide-letters; on f. 1r a larger flourished littera duplex inbrown and red; the other artt. open with larger plain initials. Numerous pointing hands. Pen-and-ink drawings and diagrams throughout., and Binding: Early, heavy wooden boards recovered with new brown sheepskin. Spine with three raised bands and gold-tooled inscription: "TRACTATUS ASTRONOMICI. MS A.D. 1281".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Hippocrates' Aphorisms with Galen's commentary (translated by Constantinus Africanus), Galen's Tegni with Haly's commentary (translated by Gerardus Cremonensis), Hippocrates' Prognostics with Galen's commentary (translated by Gerardus Cremonensis), and Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum I-III with Galen's commentary (translated by Constantinus Africanus or Gerardus Cremonensis). Translations are from Arabic to Latin. Other Latin translations (without commentary) of Tegni, Prognostics, and De regimine acutorum in lower margins added late 13th Century., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: one 18-line initial on f. 1r in blue and red initials; 3- to 2-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of about 39 lines., Binding: vellum over pasteboards. Manuscript spine title: Hippocrates et Galeni opuscula / MSSS AE CXIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts