Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV"., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., Imperfect: Some worming at end of volume with slight loss of text., In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Strambotto
Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Unidentified Greek-Latin lexicon. 2) Anonymous treatise on breathing marks in Greek. 3) De formationibus temporum uerborum graecorum. 4) De praepositionum significatione et constructione. 4) De numeris.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 3384). Purchased in 1956 from L. C. Witten by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Gilt edges. The secondary, beaded endband is cream and green. Covered in reddish brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a floral border and fleurons in a central panel. Name of owner is gold-tooled on side in Roman letters that have been modified to form Greek letters. Spine: triple fillets at head and tail; single fillet diapering in the panels. Gold tooling added later. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board; the upper board heavily cut in for clasps. Modern title on spine: "Guarini Lexicon Ineditum. MS. in membranis"., and The decoration consists of an illuminated title page, with full border, thin white vine-stem ornament with stylized foliage in red, pink, blue against blue, green and pink ground with white dots and gold balls. In outer border two vases, blue with white highlights, and three roundels framed in red, green or pink with Roman profile heads wearing fillets against blue or gold ground. In inner border foliage curling around a thin gold bar. The upper border consists of a garland, green with gold highlights, tied with red ribbons against a blue and gold ground with two masks, one spouting water. Unidentified arms (palm? tree on red ground) in center of lower border. Large illuminated initial, 12-line, gold against a predominately blue ground with some green, pink, red and gold, and sprouting vine-stem ornament, white with pale brown shading and stylized foliage in red, pink and light brown. 25 illuminated initials for letters of Greek alphabet, 6- to 5-line, gold, against blue, green and dark pink grounds with stylized white vine-stem ornament or white stylized foliage. 2 small illuminated initials (ff. 205v and 206r), 3-line, gold against blue, red and green ground with pale yellow and white dots and white filigree. Heading on f. 1r in blue; others in red. Plain initials in red.
Subject (Topic):
Greek language--Dictionaries--Latin--Early works to 1800, Greek language--Grammar, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
calendis Septembris, anno M.D.XXIIII [1 Sept. 1524]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 969
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
De ueris narrationibus commentarij duo festiuissimi, De veris narrationibus commentarij duo festivissimi, Luciani Samosatensis oratoris clarissimi, De veris narrationibus commentarij duo festivissimi, Lvciani Samosatensis oratoris clarissimi, De ueris narrationibus commentarij duo festiuissimi, and Vera historia. Latin & Greek
Description:
Latin and Greek on opposite pages., Ms. notes in a contemporary hand. With: Lucian, of Samosata.[Dialogi. Selections] Luciani Samosatensis Dialogi aliquot Graeci. Basileae : Apud Valentinum Curionem, mense Febr. an. 1522 -- Ms. of Lucian, of Samosata. Loukianou rhētorōn didaskalos., Second of three works bound together., and Signatures: a-h⁴ i⁶.
Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 Froben, Johann, d. 1527. bkp Oecolampadius, Johann, 1482-1531
Published / Created:
1516]
Call Number:
MLh691 +b516
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Bible. N.T. Greek. 1516.
Description:
"The earliest published edition of the New Testament in Greek."--Hist. cat. of printed Bibles, no. 4591., BEIN MLh691 +b516 Copy 2: Variant copy. 32 cm. In the 2d count, p. 215 misprinted 126 (misprinted 216 in the preceding variant), and p. 419, 620, 625 misprinted respectively 434, 670, 675 (numbered correctly in the preceding variant)., Epistles of Paul bound in after first p. 324., Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns., and Printer's mark on t.-p. and at end; dedications within ornamental borders; head pieces and initials (part in red).
Publisher:
in ædibus I. Frobenij,
Subject (Topic):
Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul--Greek and Bible. N.T. Greek--Versions--Erasmus
Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598 Plato Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598
Published / Created:
1578
Call Number:
2005 Folio 116
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Platonis opera. and Works. 1578
Description:
Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat., First four words of title transliterated from the Greek., Greek and Latin in parallel columns., Printer's mark on t.-p. of v.1., and Vols. 2 and 3 have half-title only.
BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Binding of stamped calf on wooden boards from between 1482 and 1492. Originally the volume had 5 brass bosses on each board, 2 are now wanting from the front board. Remnants of brass clasps., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Presentation inscription: Hic liber est mei Jeronimj Monetarii de Feltkirchen, arciu[m] ast medicinae doctoris, quem mihi dono dedit Bernardus Walther, Ciuis Nure[n]berge, sua etate in mathematica peritissim[us], anno salut[is] 1492 in dieb[us] Julii., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: With: Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1474. Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Vniversis bonarum artium studiosis Ioannes de Monteregio .S.D.P. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1475., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., Title from incipit in red (leaf a2r)., Translated from Arabic by Adelard of Bath; edited by Campano da Novara. While books I-XIII are Euclid's (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v.3, p. 519), Book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. by Hypsicles and book XV the work of a Roman land-surveyor of the 6th century. For a discussion by B.L. van der Waerden of Euclid's sources see Enc. Brit., 15th ed., Micro. IV, p 589., With dedicatory letter by Erhard Ratdolt., and Woodcut initials, large and small, and diagrams in margins throughout; woodcut three-sided border on leaf a2r.
Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142, Altschul, Frank,--1887-1981--Bookplate, Brandenburg, Hilprand,--1442-1514--Presentation inscription to Reichskartause Buxheim, Campano, da Novara, d. 1296, Hypsicles, of Alexandria, Münzer, Hieronymus,--d. 1508--Presentation inscription from B. Walther, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, Reichskartause Buxheim Presentation inscription from Hilprand Brandenburg, and Walther, Bernhard,--1430-1504--Presention inscription to H. Münzer
Subject (Topic):
Geometry--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, and Mathematics, Greek--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper (thick) of Macrobius, Saturnalia.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same style as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181, 182 for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi), with the first three probably by the same binder. Written in ink on tail edge: "MACROB". Two front parchment endleaves, presumably reused from the early binding given the patterns of rust stains and wormholes, consist of undated ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Cesena., Headings and some plain initials in red., Ink has corroded through many leaves; minor loss of text., Script: Copied in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified mountain; a dragon perhaps similar in design to those produced in Ferrara in 1440s-50s, cf. Piccard Drache II.538-72.
Subject (Name):
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library