Manuscript on parchment (poor quality), composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Thomas Aquinas, Super Metaphysicam. Part II: Thomas Aquinas, Super de causis.
Description:
Binding: 14th-15th centuries, Spain. Original sewing on five tawed skin, double supports laced into beech boards. Plain, wound natural color endbands. Single parchment leaf (front) and bifolium (rear), from what appear to be two different Hebrew Bible manuscripts, serve as pastedowns and spine-lining; they have been cut out around the sewing supports. Yellow edges. Covered in what was originally blue tawed skin (now faded) with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails. Traces of title (?) scratched onto skin of upper board., Part I: One illuminated initial, rubbed, f. 1r: blue with white highlights on dark red ground with white highlights; terminals of ground extend up and down as modest border in blue, dark red and gold. Flourished initials of various sizes, styles and quality: blue with red penwork designs, red with blue, red with purple (ff. 75r-119r) and red and blue divided with penwork in purple (e.g., f. 88v); some flourished initials with border extensions (e.g., f. 110v). Running headlines in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Traces of guide letters for decorator. Part II: Spaces for decorative initials remain unfilled., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Written by a single scribe in small gothic book hand. Part II (ff. 121-132): Written in a less accomplished gothic script than that in Part I.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Ancient, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Ibn Abī ʻAṣrūn, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, ca. 1099-1189.
Published / Created:
[12--?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 512
Image Count:
557
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Compendium of Nihāyat al-maṭlab (manual of Shafiʻi law) of ʻAbd al-Malik al-Juwaynī. Volume II, from the Kitāb al-buyūʻ through the Kitāb al-shufʻah. and Preceded by 2 leaves of notes.
Description:
Badly water-stained, faded, and corroded in part., Brockelmann omits "Abī" in the author's name; cf. the autograph of vol. I, Bankipore catalog, XIX, 2, no. 1822, where also is found the spelling "min" (not "fi") in the title., Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Old (13th century?) naskhī, for the most part entirely unpointed., and The Bankipore manuscript has 33 lines per page, and the measurements are somewhat smaller than this manuscript, so presumably this is not a holograph.
Ibn Karrāmah, al-Muḥassin ibn Muḥammad, 1022-1101
Published / Created:
1289
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 550
Image Count:
117
Abstract:
Copied in A.H. 688 (A.D. 1289)., Defense of the character of the prophets and imams., and Preceded by 1 leaf of notes.
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, S I, p. 731., Good Yemenite naskhī, in red and black., Imperfect: wormed with slight loss of text., and Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover has been preserved.
"140 pieces of original autographs of famous Japanese calligraphers of all ages between the 8th and the early 17th centuries." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., 30.5-chō; 39.4 x 1550 cm. An album, in an old wooden case., In Japanese., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ad1.
Subject (Topic):
Calligraphy, Japanese--To 1600, Japanese manuscripts, and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Manscript document, on parchment, in a forged late eleventh-century script, purporting to be a charter issued by Edward the Confessor to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry. Accompanied by six other thirteenth century grants.
Description:
Phillipps MS 27963. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Edward,--King of England,--approximately 1003-1066.
Subject (Topic):
Forgery of manuscripts--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Writs--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
Description:
Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin, Bible.--Latin.--Vulgate, Bible--Commentaries, Bible--Prefaces, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text, with diagrams showing an array of sins.
Description:
Script: written in a heavily abbreviated gothic bookhand. and These fragments, from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +4284.5 (Aristotle, Opera), in which they are used as front and back spine guards.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.