- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382 - Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 215
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
- Description:
- French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
- Subject (Topic):
- Spiritual life --Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De civitate Dei
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2.
- Call Number:
- Hebrew +32
- Collection Title:
- Haggadah
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Oppenheim, Moses
- Subject (Topic):
- Judaism --Liturgy --Texts --Early works to 1800 and Seder --Liturgy --Texts --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Haggadah
- Creator:
- Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
- Published / Created:
- [1934]
- Call Number:
- J18 D856 +934
- Image Count:
- 4
- Subject (Name):
- Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires meme / Marcel Duchamp
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent.
Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 406
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
- Description:
- Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc.
- Published / Created:
- 1708-1710
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 60
- Image Count:
- 6
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript treatise in two parts, containing definitions and problems in mathematics. The first part, dated 1708, concerns arithmetic operations. The second part, dated 1710, concerns geometry and trigonometry, with sections on applications in construction trades and astronomy and with extensive sections on navigation. Sections are illustrated with ink drawings and geometric diagrams. Several linear scales and volvelles are sewn in.
- Description:
- Chiefly in English; explanations in part one are in Latin, some with English translations.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy --Early works to 1800 and Mathematics --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mathematical manuscript [selected pages]
6.
- Creator:
- Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 248
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fine; leaves repaired before pricking and ruling) of the Collected Works of Hugh of St. Victor.
- Description:
- 8-line illuminated initial, blue with white highlights on square ground, magenta with blue and white highlights; interior of initial inhabited by scrolling vines, rabbit and two animal heads on gold and blue ground; tail of letter extends down inner margin. 11- to 7-line red and blue initials divided by a zig-zag line in parchment and with interior red and blue flourishes resembling the design on a peacock's tail feathers, mostly in red with small blue circles. This style of initial accompanied by long penwork extensions in red and blue I designs and with small spirals, circles, flourishes. Small 3-line initials alternate red and blue with penwork flourishes in the opposite color. 1-line plain initials alternate red and blue for chapter lists. Remains of guide letters for decorator. Headings, running titles (often incorrect), deletions (single horiztonal red line) and initial strokes in red., Binding: France [?], ca. 19th c. Brown calf, elaborately blind-stamped with figure of Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book with alpha and omega displayed on the open pages. Original endbands (and therefore sewing?) and yellow edges., Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Brown calf, elaborately blind-stamped with figure of Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book with alpha and omega displayed on the open pages. Original endbands (and therefore sewing?) and yellow edges., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1960 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in uniform gothic bookhand throughout; contemporary marginal notes in several less formal hands., and Written in uniform gothic bookhand throughout; contemporary marginal notes in several less formal hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Hugh,--of Saint-Victor,--1096?-1141
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia
- Published / Created:
- 1837 February 2
- Call Number:
- Nkp24 837p
- Image Count:
- 74
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- The paintings are on mica, and under each is a manuscript caption.
- Description:
- All versos blank., Manuscript title, occupying two leaves, "written by T. Vardapillay, writing master in the two English schools established by the American missionaries in Madura City"., and The name "Daniel Poor" is in a different hand, presumably that of the donor himself.
- Subject (Name):
- Poor, Daniel, Twining, William, Rev., and Vardapillay, T
- Subject (Topic):
- Caste --India and Ethnic costume --India
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Seventy two specimens of castes in India : "All people, nations and languages shall serve Him. ... presented to the Revd. William Twining as a token of obligation by his ... friend Daniel Poor ...
- Creator:
- Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436 - Call Number:
- Arabic MSS 436
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (handbook of astronomy) of Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī. and Incomplete at end.
- Description:
- End of leaf 50 corresponds to leaf 162 recto (numbered 166) of Ms. Landberg 361; probably only one leaf is missing., Fairly old (16th century?) hasty nastaʻlīq, almost entirely unpointed., In manuscript on fly-leaf: "Comprado en el Cairo 27/12/28. T[eodoro] B[ecu]." With Becu's bookplate., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 1 of 2 items bound together., Purchased from V.G. Simkhovitch in January 1955., With copious diagrams, some with background-pictures representing the constellations in the form of human and animal figures., and With: 1 other title.
- Subject (Name):
- Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Autograph, Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Bookplate, and Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad,--d. 1221?--Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding and Natural and social sciences--Astronomy and astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah / [Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīʹzādah]. -- [15--?].
9.
- Creator:
- Virgil
Virgil. Aeneis. Selections. 1980 - Published / Created:
- c1980.
- Call Number:
- Folio S1 40
- Image Count:
- 3
- Alternative Title:
- Codices e Vaticanis selecti ; v. 40, Codices selecti ; v. 71, Codices selecti phototypice impressi ; v. 71., Georgica. Liber 3-4. Selections, and Vergilius Vaticanus.
- Description:
- "Vergilius Vaticanus : Informationen der Akademischen Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt zur Faksimile-Ausgabe" 9 leaves (25 cm.) furnished with the publication., A commentary volume intended for use with this facsimile was issued in 1984 as: Vergilius Vaticanus / David H. Wright., Copy 358 of a limited ed. of 750 copies., Full-color facsimile of the codex containing major fragments of the Georgics, books 3-4, and of the Aeneid (on leaves 11-76)., Issued in slipcase with title: Vergilius Vaticanus., On spine: VAT 3225; Vat. lat. 3225., and Title, etc., from label on inside of lower cover.
- Publisher:
- Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt,
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil--Manuscripts--Facsimiles
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Latin--Vatican City--Facsimiles
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe im Originalformat von Codex Vaticanus Lat. 3225 aus dem Besitz der Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana.
10.
- Creator:
- Frush, Wm. H. (William H.)
- Published / Created:
- [1850]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 206
- Collection Title:
- Overland journey across the Plains to Oregon /by William H. Frush, 1850-1852
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- In 1850 Frush traveled from Missouri to Oregon by way of St. Joseph, Blue River, the North Platte, and Fort Laramie, where he met his brother John and Kit Carson. They continued by South Pass, Bear River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Fort Boise, the Dalles, and Portland. He records graves, the names and homes of other travelers, and ends his account with events in Oregon. The diary contains drawings of Chimney Rock, Court House Rock, profile of the Snake River, and a map of the Burnt River.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Oregon --Baker County --Maps, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, and West (U.S.) --Maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Selected pages]