Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 532
Image Count:
1416
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together
Alternative Title:
Address to young men
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of classical Orations, Lives, and Exempla, followed by Excerpts from Valerius Maximus, Excerpts from Xenophon (translated into Latin by Francesco Filelfo), Seneca's Tragedies, Comedies by Terence and Plautus, and other mis...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Classical literature, Latin drama (Comedy), Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc, and Latin drama (Tragedy)
Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1495]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 380
Image Count:
583
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts (De prudentia, De fortitudine, De continentia, De iustitia) from Martin of Braga, Formula honestae vitae, a work often attributed incorrectly to Seneca. 2) Salomonis dicta; excerpts concerning wisdom, including quote...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 2) Bucolica. 3) Georgica. 4) Aeneis. With commentaries, pseudo-Virgilian tracts, and a miscellany of treatises, many anonymous. Ff. 1-31 are from the first half of the thirteenth century; the rest of the manuscrip...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper of Aristoteles, Poetica, anonymous Latin translation of chapters 1-7. On f. 2r the translator has replaced Homer and Empedocles, cited by Aristotle, by Virgil and Lucretius ("Nihil tamen commune est Virgilio et Lucretio nisi carmen...
Description:
In Latin and Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
