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1. Alchemical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1800]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prussian blue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
2. Antiphonal
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 178
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in two sizes of round liturgical gothic script by several scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-235r; Scribe 2, f. 235r-v, and Scribe 3, ff. 236r-245v., Three fine historiated initials, 4- to 2-line, shaded pink and/or green, with blue, yellow, green and orange foliage and knots, with gold dots and orange frame; figures against blue ground. 3- to 2-line calligraphic initials, divided, red and blue with red penwork, with blue and red penwork flourishes. 1-line initials red or blue with blue or red penwork, sometimes with black and green; some initials with guide-letters in outer margin. 1-line initials with yellow. Square notes on 4-line red staves. Rubrics throughout, with notes to rubricator in margins. One very crude 4-line initial (s. xvii) on f. 1r, in red, yellow, blue, green and purple., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Rebound in brown cowhide (?), blind-tooled, with numerous metal bosses. Pastedowns from the same 17th-century antiphonary used as flyleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonal
3. Belial, etc
- Creator:
- Jacobus, de Theramo, 1350 or 1351-1417
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 202
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum). 2) Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand., Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r. Plain initials, 10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) in red throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. On spine: "Liber Bellial" and "Codex Ms. Saec. XV".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacobus, de Theramo, 1350 or 1351-1417.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Consolation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Belial, etc
4. Bellum Gallicum
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 179
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History, Military
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Gallicum
5. Bible, with glossa ordinaria
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 210
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in fine carolingian minuscule of two sizes, the smaller script with tall ascenders; marginalia added in several later hands., and Binding: Twentieth century. Plain vellum wrapper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, with glossa ordinaria
6. Bible, with glossa ordinaria
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 126
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Book of Numbers (begins imperfectly at 5.14) with glossa ordinaria
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in two sizes of Carolingian minuscule., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum case with brown paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, with glossa ordinaria
7. Cestoi
- Creator:
- Africanus, Sextus Julius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1580]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 276
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Greek., Same watermark as Harlfinger Croix 41, from a manuscript signed by Andreas Darmarius and dated 5 April 1582., Script: Written by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who signed the completed manuscript., Headpiece in black ink, on f. 1r. Headings and chapter notations, in red. 3-line initial, with decoration above and below letter, in red on f. 4r; other small initials in red throughout codex at beginning of each section., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Limp green vellum case, blue-green edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Africanus, Sextus Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography, Ancient, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cestoi
8. Commentarii in epistolas Senecae
- Creator:
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 168
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (polished) of Gasparino Barzizza, Commentary on Epistolae morales ad Lucilium, 65-124 only
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tour 15909 and Piccard Turm II.617., Script: Written in gothic cursive with humanistic features by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated initial, f. 1r, 8-line, blue with white highlights and burnished gold on gold ground with stylized foliage in green and dark red with yellow highlights. Terminals ending in foliage serifs, red, green with yellow highlights, and gold balls with hairline extensions. Numerous pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate red and bright blue with penwork designs of the other color extending along margin., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays are adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of beech boards. The endbands, which are wanting, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed or held in place by the bosses; they were tied down through a tawed skin spine lining. Covered in sheepskin, originally brick red, with the surface now badly rubbed and shedding. Corner tongues. Blind-tooled with an X in concentric frames. Four leaf-shaped catches with three flowers on each on the lower board, one wanting; the upper board cut in for two kermes pink straps attached with star-headed nails. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and the trace of a chain attachment at the tail of the lower one.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431. and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarii in epistolas Senecae
9. Commentarius in librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
- Creator:
- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 175
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Bonaventure's Commentary on Book IV of the Sentences of Peter Lombard
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in small gothic bookhand., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, beige with foliage serif, red, against blue ground with white filigree, containing an apothecary (unguentarius) mixing ingredients in a mortar with two pestles. Numerous flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate in red with blue, and vice versa, or often plain initials in red or blue. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks, alternating red and blue, appear sporadically (ff. 1r-36v)., and Binding: Eighteenth century, Germany. Cream colored pigskin, blind-tooled. Gilt edges. Green and cream endbands. Title on spine: "De septem/ Sacrament. Tract. Mst.".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
