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1. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [after 1651, but before 1655 (?)]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 62
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Lapis philosophorum, seu tinctura phisica, in Latin, followed by an English version. 2) Alchemy, in English and Latin. 3) Astrology, including events predicted for the year 1655. 4) Walter Charleton, Notes extracted from his book. 5) Alchemy, medical recipes, and aphorisms. 6) George Rives, goldsmith, Account of the making of gold from lead at Bath by a certain Mervin in 1651. 7) Dr. Start, Notes taken from his experiments, and other matter. 8) Letter of a divine philosopher
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Script: Written by a single English hand writing a good cursive sloping slightly to the right., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a flag with two pennants on a pole, no initials visible, similar but not identical to Heawood 1371-1372., and Binding: Original or possibly slightly later binding of brown calf rebacked, covers with double gold rule at edges, back divided into four compartments by five bands, old (but not original) red morocco label with double border of gold dots and gold rule in second compartment from top, stamped in gold, "ALCHEMY MSS." All edges gilt.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Transmutation (Chemistry), Formulas, recipes, etc, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
2. Bible
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1240-approximately 1250.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a73
- Image Count:
- 716
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
3. Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 88
- Image Count:
- 151
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a collection of laws governing hunting and forestry
- Description:
- In Latin, with passages in English and French., Script: Arts. 4-14 written in a neat chancery script with Anglicana influence; arts. 1 and 15 in similar, but less elegant hands; arts. 2-3 are in gothic textura., Plain initial, in red, with crude ink penwork flourishes on f. 1v; KL monograms and portions of calendar also on red., Some stains on ff. 2r-7v render text illegible., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rebinding in quarter pigskin, tanned, not tawed, with a strap and pin fastening. The oak boards, cambered on all four outer edges and with rectangular pegs, are probably contemporary with the manuscript. Front pastedown composed of a small fragment of prayers in Latin (15th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
4. Compendium theologicae veritatis
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 14
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 368
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of this widely popular theological work dealing with the creation, the fall of man, the Incarnation, grace, the sacraments, and the Four Last Things
- Description:
- In Latin., Work formerly attributed to Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280); now attributed to Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (Hugo Argentinensis) and dated to 1268., Ownership inscription on rear flyleaf: "Mastre Roger Walle off Lychfeld Chanone.", Layout: double columns of 30 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink with penwork decoration. F1r decorated with a small historiated initial in gold containing drawing of a man's face., and Binding: early limp tawed leather wrapper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270., Walle, Roger, of Lichfield., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Doctrines, Eschatology, Fall of man, Grace (Theology), Incarnation, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sacraments, Catholic Church, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compendium theologicae veritatis
5. Compendium theologicae veritatis
- Creator:
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1450.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 30 vault
- Image Count:
- 296
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing Albertus Magnus' Compendium theologicae veritatis. Manuscript starts with a table of contents (ff. 1r-3r) and finishes with an index of names (ff. 163r-144r).
- Alternative Title:
- Compendium theologicae veritatis, with index
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from rubric opening table: Incipit tabula compendium theologicae veritatis., Script: Gothic textualis., Decoration: seven-line decorated initial in red, blue, green, and gold (f. 3v) with floral decorations surrounding the text; two- to three-line initials in red and blue. Rubrication in red and blue ink throughout., Layout: 2 columns of about 39 lines., Binding: 19th-century vellum binding over pasteboards, spine gold-tooled with labels: “Compendium Veritatis Theologice” and “Manuscript”., Text is also at times ascribed to Hugh of Strasburg instead of Albertus Magnus., and Ownership inscription by Johannes Winnington (f. 144v): Iste liber pertinet ad me Johannem Winnington de medio templo generosum...
- Subject (Topic):
- Physics and Philosophy, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Compendium theologicae veritatis
6. De corpore christi, etc
- Creator:
- Eusebius Gallicanus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 181
- Image Count:
- 66
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of an anonymous catena of Eucharistic proof texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes, perhaps at different times, in early gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red or green (spaces left for others), followed by rustic capitals. Heading, in red, on f. 1r. Simple schematic drawings to explicate the text of art. 20 (ff. 21r, 22r)., Some loss of text due to trimming on f. 23v., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Eusebius Gallicanus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catenae, Fathers of the church, Lord's Supper, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De corpore christi, etc
7. De summo bono and John of Wales, Communiloquium
- Creator:
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 373
- Image Count:
- 345
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script., Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines., and Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De summo bono and John of Wales, Communiloquium
8. Devotional writings
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 317
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional writings
9. Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc
- Creator:
- Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 15
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar)., Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
- Subject (Topic):
- Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc