- Creator:
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1475
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 14
- Image Count:
- 93
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Arnold of Villanova, Epistola de sanguine humano ad magistrum Iacobum de Toleto. 3) Alchemical procedures. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Epistola ad Marcum Tullium Ciceronem. 5) Pier Paolo Vergerio, Epistola in nomine Ciceronis ad Franciscum Petrarcham. 6) Johannes Obrist, Super confectionem auri potabilis. 7) Nicolaus Claudii, Opus super aurum potabile.
- Description:
- Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboards, parchment pastedowns and guards, back gilt-lettered: "DE QVINTA ESSENTIA"., Headings in red, rubricated., and Script: Written by a single scribe using a clear and regular gothic bookhand without strong nationalistic traits.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and humanistic miscellany
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2.
- Published / Created:
- 1448
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 282
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of epistolary forms extracted from an unidentified Aurea gemma de arte dictandi.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Semi-limp vellum case made from French document, with only dorse visible., Crude initials, 3- to 2- line, headings, underlining, paragraph marks, in red., Leaves of the text have been misbound, with ff. 5, 6, 7 now at conclusion., Script: Written in hasty batarde script by a single scribe., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified bull's head.
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Humanistic, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars dictandi
- Creator:
- Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478
Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 107
- Image Count:
- 167
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Agostino Dati (1420-78), Elegantiolae. Part II: Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Tan, mottled sheepskin; gold-tooled spine and red label with title: "Passio/ M. S. XIII. S"., Part I: 3-line red initial, f. 1r, with penwork designs extending length of inner margin. Headings, marginalia, paragraph marks, initial strokes, in red, through f. 39r only., Script: Part I (ff. 1-48): Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 49-77): Written by multiple scribes in different styles of humanistic bookhand., and Watermarks, in gutter: Part I: similar in design to Piccard Waage VII.261-66 and similar to Piccard Werkzeug IV.1162-63; unidentified crossed arrows and balance within a circle. Part II: similar to Piccard Waage V.378 and similar in design to Piccard Waage VII.261-66; unidentified bull's head and same unidentified balance in a circle as in Part I.
- Subject (Name):
- Dati, Agostino,--1420-1478
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Humanistic, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Elegantiolae, etc.
- Creator:
- Guarini, Battista, 1434-1513
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 113
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Battista Guarino, Epistola ad Iohannem Bertuccium, dated 1467 in Ferrara.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Paris. Light brown goatskin with a gold-tooled title ("B. Gua./ Episto.") and doublures. Edges gilt. Bound by Chambolle-Duru (Paris, 1863-1915)., Plain 1-line initial, f. 1r, in blue. Heading in red., and Script: Written in a stylized humanistic cursive script much influenced by printing, below top line; heading in humanistic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Bertucci, Giovanni Battista and Guarini, Battista,--1434-1513
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistola ad Iohannem Bertuccium
- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 868
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Circular diagram of the world with the four main directions of the winds and the Latin names of 12 winds. 2) Laudivius Zacchia (Laudivio da Vezzano, ca. 1435-after 1475, Ps.-Mahomet II), Epistolae Magni Turci. 3) De Hermaphrodito, ascribed to Hildebertus Cenomannensis (Hildebert of Le Mans,1065-1133) and others, here ascribed to Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli,1394-1471). 4) Note on the winds and their Latin names, according to the title based on Papias, Isidore of Seville and Boccaccio.
- Description:
- Art. 4 is not decorated. In artt. 2-3 there are 2-or 3-line initials, in black ink and in outline; they have generally not been executed on the first pages. Guide letters do not seem to have been written consistently. The schematic drawing of art. 1 is traced in lead and consists of two concentric circles inscribed in a square and crosswise divided with double lines., Binding: Modern paper binding; on the front cover a printed label with the title “EPISTOLAE / MAGNI TURCI / MANUSCRIT”., Script: A is copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva; B is copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria., and Watermark: Hand topped by Star, similar to Briquet 10706.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Turks, and Winds
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae Magni Turci; On the Winds
- Creator:
- Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1040
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato. and With apocryphal letters containing a debate between Alexander the Great and Didymus, King of the Brahmins, and a sermon on the story of Abraham and Isaac.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth Century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription ... Red mottled edges., Collection of J.R. Ritman, bought from H.P. Kraus in 1988 (bookplate, MS BPH 92). Albert H. Childe Memorial Collection at Yale University Library (armorial bookplate)., Script: The original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional artt. 4 and 5 are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., and The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials.
- Subject (Name):
- Rabanus Maurus,--Archbishop of Mainz,--784?-856, Solomon,--King of Israel, and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Kings, Bible--Commentaries, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio libri regum, etc.
- Creator:
- Eutropius, 4th cent
Patrizi, Francesco, 1413-1494
Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
Quintilian - Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 147
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Eutropius, Breviarium, with the insertions and addition of the final six books by Paul the Deacon. 2) Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1412-94), Epistula Achilli Petrucio re regendo magistratu. 3) Extract from Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 2.9.1.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Yellow marbled paper case with title written in ink on narrow paper label on spine: "Liber Eutropii de Regibus Rom. et de Orig. Imperii"., Script: Written by a single scribe in a sloping humanistic bookhand., Spaces for decorative initials in art. 1 are unfilled; remains of guide letters. Headings and first word(s) in text divisions in epigraphic majuscules., and Watermarks: two different unidentified ladders, the one on ff. 1-60, the other on ff. 61-70.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History
- Subject (Name):
- Paul,--the Deacon,--ca. 720-799?
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia Romana, etc.
- Creator:
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1214
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
- Subject (Topic):
- Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia calamitatum and epistolae
9.
- Creator:
- Thuillerie, Henri de la.
- Published / Created:
- 1639.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 444
- Image Count:
- 51
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
- Description:
- On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47., In Latin., Script: Written in italic, with larger size of script for headings and proper names., Each page has full border incorporating personifications, coats-of-arms, mottoes, putti, birds, and flowers, in red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver, all of mediocre quality. On f. 1r, full-page drawing with arms of the Coignet family of Auxerre (azure, 2 swords per saltire argent, hilted to the base or, between 4 crescents argent)., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with a "seme" pattern of swords and crescents, flames and fleurs-de-lis. Satin doublures. Traces of two fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thuillerie, Henri de la.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 122
- Image Count:
- 542
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (palimpsests of ecclesiastical documents, many leaves pieced and patched) of Bernard of Clairvaux, Collection of sermons, treatises, and letters. With works by Ogerius de Lucedio, David of Augsburg, O. F. M., Arnulfus de Boeriis, and Honorius Augustodunensis.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Greenish brown goatskin gold-tooled. Gold-tooled panels and dark red gold-tooled label (damaged) on spine. Red edges., Folios 1-50 have flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternating blue with red penwork designs and red with purple; two initials of better quality, divided red and blue, with red and purple flourishes (ff. 42r, 43v); many initials have harping designs. For remainder of manuscript uninspired red initials, either plain or with harping designs in brown ink. Rubrics, underlining and initial strokes, in red, throughout. Running headlines, in red, on ff. 1r-83r. Notes to rubricator in margins. Paragraph marks, red or blue., Imperfect: some pages badly rubbed making text illegible., and Script: Written by multiple scribes in a small rounded gothic bookhand, below top line.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia, etc.