- Published / Created:
- 1497.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1263
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 241
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours : Use of Rome
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- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1400.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.1
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, decorated, from a book of hours, containing text possibly from the Hours of the Virgin Mary
- Alternative Title:
- Book of hours
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textura., Decoration: rubricated. Recto contains two two-line decorated initials and a spiky floral border. Verso contains one small decorated initial., and Contemporary annotation (textural addition?) in margin of verso, partially effaced.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Books of hours
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.13
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, incomplete bifolium, from a French breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textura., and Decoration: rubricated. Two-line initials in alternating red and blue ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.14 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, from a text on Canon law
- Description:
- In Latin. and Script: gothica textura.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Canon law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canon law text (fragment).
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- 1250-1299.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 12 Vault
- Image Count:
- 692
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of texts by Aristotle: Physica (f. 1r), De caelo (f. 74r), De generatione (f. 131v), De anima (f. 151v), De memoria (f. 177r), De sensu (f. 180r), De somno (f. 189r), De longitudine et brevitate vitae (f. 198r), Meteorologica (f. 218r), Metaphysica (f. 251v). Also includes Costa Ben Luca's De differentia spiritus et animae (f. 200r), Nicholas of Damascus' De plantis (f. 206r), Pseudo-Aristotle's Liber de causis (f. 332r), and Nicholas of Amiens' Ars fidei catholicae (f. 335v).
- Alternative Title:
- Opera varia
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Layout: 2 columns of 37 lines., Decoration: contains 12 historiated initials: the Lord separating water and earth (f. 3), the Lord creating Heaven and earth (f. 74), the soul delivered rom the body (f. 151), five men at a table (f. 180), man sleeping (f. 189), the living and the dead (f. 198), young men in front of a tree (f. 206), the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (f. 206), meteors falling from heaven (f. 218), Christ appearing to a philosopher (f. 261), philosopher visited by angels (f. 332), dispute between two monks and a young man (f. 335r). Also, 29 ornamental initials in red, blue, and polished gold. Titles and subheadings in red and blue; rubrication., Binding: 20th-century brown leather half-binding over wood. Includes metal clasps and leather straps closing on the front cover. Remnants of the previous blind-stamped brown leather binding preserved separately., Note by Frater Nicolaus de Probstdorf: Isti libri naturales deputati sunt ad usum fratris Nicolay de Probstdorf lectoris. Et sunt empti pro II marcis argenti., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- between 1250 and 1299.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 20 Vault
- Image Count:
- 288
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, of a collection of works by and commentaries on Hippocrates. Includes Hippocrates' Aphorismi (translated by Constantinus Africanus) and Prognostica with commentaries by Galen; Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (translation attributed to Constantinus Africanus and Gerard of Cremona); and a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān on Galen's Tegni (translated by Gerard of Cremona). Diagram with a classification of all nature on f. 143v. Copious contemporary marginal notes throughout
- Alternative Title:
- Articella and Hippocrates Aphorismi, Prognostica, De regimine acutorum : cum comment. Galeni ; Ali Ibn Ridwan Commentum super Tegni Galeni
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from headings., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: eight-line initials in red ink with blue flourishing. Text commented upon is underlined in red., Layout: 2 columns of around 50 lines., Binding: 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding, with metal furniture (originally 10, now 4) and clasps (closing on the front cover, wanting). Manuscript note on front cover with shelfmark: h188. Rebacked., Pagination added in modern pencil., This manuscipt was formerly believed to have been written in an Italian university (Padua). There is no evidence to support this., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Articella, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Commentum super afforismos Ypocratis ; Commenta super pronostica Ypocratis ; Liber Ypocratis de regimine acutorum
- Creator:
- Gilbertus, Anglicus
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1300?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 19 Vault
- Image Count:
- 360
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Gilbertus Anglicus' complete Compendium medicinae. Includes later table of content on back pastedown
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: one- and two-line initials in red and blue ink. Rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Binding: 15th-century light-brown leather binding, with metal furniture and clasps (closing on the front cover). Unidentified coat of arms blind-tooled on front cover. Manuscript note on front cover., In folding case: 35 cm., and Catchwords on the bottom left within a decorative frame.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Compendium medicinae
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 85
- Image Count:
- 432
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. With Excerpts from the commentary of Nicolas Trevet (in margins) on Boethius, Book I.1.1 - II.5.34.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in an ornate and elegant gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1v-154v; 2) ff. 155r-210v. The marginal commentary is in a neat informal batarde (ink paler than that used for text)., Plain initial, 3-line, in blue at beginning of text; other initials, 2-line, in red throughout text to mark the beginning of poetry and prose sections. Title page (f. 1v): alternating lines of blue and gold., Grease stain in margins at end of codex; bottom of f. 81 trimmed., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled. Repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524. and Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Constantine, the African, approximately 1020-1087
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 1 Vault
- Image Count:
- 50
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
- Alternative Title:
- Liber pantegni
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Name):
- Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > De regimine sanitatis
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 203
- Image Count:
- 363
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrarch, De remediis utriusque fortunae
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in beautiful batarde script characterized by calligraphic flourishes (some stroked with yellow) in upper and lower margins., 4-line initial on f. 1r, blue with white highlights, on a gold ground, with a coat of arms (effaced) against burgundy ground with gold floral sprays; short floral border, pink and blue flowers on green stem, infilled with gold dots with black hair-spray. 6-line initials on ff. 84r and 87r green with yellow highlights, on gold ground, with a love-knot connecting E (brown with gold highlights) and N (blue) against silver ground, borders as above. 2-line initials at beginning of chapters, gold with black penwork and flourishes; 1-line initials (R for Racio, and G, S, D, M, for the other interlocutors) blue or gold, with red or black penwork., On ff. 1r and 8r three quarters of the page was ruled, but left blank, presumably for miniatures., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case, much worn.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De remediis utriusque fortunae