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1. Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 44 vault
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript sheet, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an anatomical drawing of a seated woman. Text includes descriptions of the different parts of the body
- Alternative Title:
- Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures : [a large anatomical drawing in color, surrounded by explanatory text]
- Description:
- In Middle French., Title from heading., Script: humanist hand., Layout: anatomical drawing in center, double columns of 80 lines surrounding and underneath drawing., No text on verso. Used as binding waste., Included in a portfolio (66 x 51 cm.) with eight 58 x 38 cm. color photoreproductions., and Dr. Peter Jones, May, 2003, states that this single sheet most likely is a manuscript copy of the Jean Ruelle fugitive sheet (female figure only) Paris, 1540. cf. Carlino, A. Paper bodies ... London, 1999, page 171.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anatomy, Human anatomy, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures
2. Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1560 and 1564]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 561
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper made by an unknown Venetian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer. This manuscript is highly interesting for the excellent drawings of contemporary Mediterranean sailing-ships
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one hand in Gothico-Humanistic Cursive, which in the maps alternates with Capitalis. Headings in Capitalis inscribed on scrolls or tablets., Maps, borders and decorations in colours. Clumsily drawn human and animal figures., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the spine is written "G***ctrica MSS". On the rear cover are a pen-drawing, upside-down, of the same decorative device as on f. 2r, and a sketch of city gates.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Islands of the Mediterranean.
- Subject (Topic):
- Atlases, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscript maps, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sailing ships
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Atlas of the islands in the Eastern Mediterranean (Isolario), etc
3. Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Vrbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inuentae sunt
- Creator:
- Eustachi, Bartolomeo, -1574
- Published / Created:
- between 1550 and 1600.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 9 Vault
- Image Count:
- 354
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (107 leaves) on bones, muscles, veins, arteries and nerves (water mark anchor in circle with star); part 2 (13 leaves) on veins (thinner paper without water marks showing); part 3 (40 leaves) on muscles (thinner paper without water marks showing).
- Alternative Title:
- Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from title page, added in 18th-century hand., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: 19th-century red leather half-binding over cardboard. Gold-tooling and spine title on spine: Eustachii / Tabulae anatomicae / M.S., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Available also on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Vrbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inuentae sunt
4. Book of hours, Use of Châlons
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1525-approximately 1549.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1264
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 292
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a book of hours, probably Use of Châlons. It contains a calendar (1r-12v); the Hours of the Virgin in the Use of Châlons (13r-70v); Hours of the Cross and Hours of the Holy Spirit (71r-78v); Seven Penetential Psalms (79r-98v); and the Office of the Dead (99r-138v).
- Description:
- In Latin., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata., Layout: single column, 14 lines., Decoration: Many small decorated initials, gilt, or with contrasting red and blue penwork; some two-line decorated initials, also gilt. Nearly all pages have one margin filled with an ivyleaf border with gold leaves and colored blossoms. Nine large miniatures accompanied by large gold initials and full gold borders: Annunciation (13r); Nativity (40v); the angel and the shepherds (47r); Presentation in the temple (55v); Coronation of Mary (66r); Crucifixion (71r); Pentecost (76r); David repenting (79r); Mass for the dead with mourners and clerics (99r)., and Binding: eighteenth-century full blind-tooled brown leather, rebacked: spine title "HORAE" on modern spine. Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France., France, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours, Use of Châlons
5. Clarissima expositio aphorismi diuini Hippocratis cum Galenici commentariis Curtii Papiensis in Patauino gimnatio piblice directis
- Creator:
- Corti, Matteo, 1475-1542
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1530?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 8 Vault
- Image Count:
- 408
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, containing a series of lectures on Hippocrates and Galen, numbered 1-103, delivered by Matteo Corti at Padua
- Alternative Title:
- Expositio in Aphorismos Hippocratis
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from heading., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 42 lines., and Binding: manuscript fragment on parchment reused for binding, containing a notarial registry of Amandola.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Clarissima expositio aphorismi diuini Hippocratis cum Galenici commentariis Curtii Papiensis in Patauino gimnatio piblice directis
6. Collection of astronomical texts
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1470-1530.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1274
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 131
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript compendium of astronomical and astrological texts, including a version of the Kalendarium of Regiomontanus, with lunar eclipse tables for the years 1475-1530 and a solar calendar for 1475-1513. Other contents include a number of astronomical and astrological tables and texts. including a poem on auspicious and inauspicious days (first line: "Fortunata dies operum disponere causas"); the Canon de aspectibus planetarum; the Cognitiones naturarum secundum nativtates; and a variety of prognostic texts based on zodiac signs and the day of the week on which January 1 falls in a given year. The volume also contains several quadrant diagrams and a working volvelle
- Description:
- In Latin., Bookseller description available., Inscribed at the head of 2r: S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo., Signature of Joseff Gregri da Bologna? on back cover., Bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman on front pastedown., Tipped in before f1: printed catalog description of this volume, undated., Layout: main text in single columns of approximately 35 lines; wide margins., Script: gothica textualis italiana., Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink, some with penwork flourishing; many blank spaces for initials. Illustrations of lunar eclipses. Charts, diagrams, and volvelles in red, blue and brown ink., and Binding: contemporary boards, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astrology, Italian, Astronomy, Calendars, Lunar eclipses, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Solar eclipses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of astronomical texts
7. Collection of calendars, horoscopes, and medical and astrological texts
- Published / Created:
- between 1551 and 1553.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 26 vault
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of texts on medical and astrological topics, calendars and horoscopes
- Alternative Title:
- Medical and astrological texts : in English
- Description:
- In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: 4 anatomical figures, 12 colored drawings of occupations of the months, 7 colored drawings of signs of the planets, 4 of the temperaments, 12 of the signs of the zodiac, 12 of their astrological abbreviations, and 12 large paintings of the signs of the zodiac. Also included: base of an astrolabe cut from a musical ms., ca. 1500 (f. 36r). Copious rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: modern white leather binding over pasteboards., and Date of creation must be after 1552 and before 1554; the table on f. 6r runs from 1553 to 1590 and the chronicle notes on f.25r run to the beheading of the Duke of Somerset in 1552.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of calendars, horoscopes, and medical and astrological texts
8. Collection of medical and dietetic recipes
- Published / Created:
- 1573.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 42 vault
- Image Count:
- 332
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A manuscript, in a multitude of unidentified hands, on paper, containing a collection of medical and dietetic recipes. Also contains a section of unidentified elegiac poetry, including a few couplets attributed to Hesiod. Introduction, conclusion, and many other sections of the text wanting
- Alternative Title:
- Raccolta di ricette medicinali e dietetiche : [medical and dietetic recipes], in Italian and Latin ; finished 20 December 1573, with later additions
- Description:
- In Italian and Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: multiple humanist hands., Layout: single column of between 25 and 30 lines., Binding: bound in limp vellum with forage flap and leather strap. Unidentified manuscript writing on front cover., Colophon (f. 161v): 1573 di 20 di Decembrio sono fatti 30 salami fini 9: supheletti et li altri in Budello Delli Grassi n. 22. Indu[]elli no. In nome del servitor mio qual e in Galera e Baldassaro di Pepi Lisandrini perosino, e in Livorno nella Galera patrona dil gran Ducha di Fiorenza., and Manuscript's contemporary pagination indicates that many leaves are wanting: 26-38, 165-248, 297-358, 363-408, 419-426, 431-560.
- Subject (Topic):
- Diet, Materia medica, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical and dietetic recipes
9. Collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus
- Creator:
- Rufus, of Ephesus
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1550.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 32 vault
- Image Count:
- 144
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus: Περὶ πάντων φανερῶν τε καὶ ἀφανερῶν μορίων τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (De corporis humani partium appellationibus; ff. 3-7), Περὶ ὀνομασιῶν (De partibus corporis hominis; ff. 7-16), Περὶ ὀστῶν (De ossibus; ff. 17-18). Also includes extracts from Julius Pollux's Onomasticon Liber II (ff. 20-47). Contains a table of contents (f. 2).
- Alternative Title:
- Opera : in Greek
- Description:
- In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: titles and one-line initials in red., Layout: single column of 17 lines., Binding: blind-tooled green sheepskin over paper boards., and Leaf 19 is blank.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus