Gazaeus, Aeneas Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410 Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 1
Image Count:
127
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Aeneas Gazaeus, Theophrastus, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. 2) Life of St. Helenus, monk in Egypt. Text is an extract (incomplete) taken from the Latin translation by Rufinus of the Historia monachorum, ch. 11.
Description:
Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays are adhered in and outside the paper gatherings. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps which go through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside where they are pegged. The primary endband, sewn on a tawed skin core, is gilt with traces of a red secondary endband. A design is scratched on the gilt edges. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues and blind-tooled with progressively taller concentric frames alternately decorated with five small tools. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board, some wanting, and four fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board, the upper board cut in for the clasp straps which are attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked., ff. 2r-9v blank (first gathering; foliation begins on preceding flyleaf), One large illuminated initial, 5-line, of modest quality, in gold with black accents on a multicolored ground of red, blue and green with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. One smaller initial (unfinished), parchment color on blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. On f. 1r, in lower border an unidentified coat of arms: vert a chief sable (?), overall a lion (?) rampant gules (or purpre?) on the main field and or in chief and with bend (tincture undetermined) overall; the whole shield overpainted in black. Headings in red., Script: Written in humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6306, and unidentified shrub, ff. i-viii, in gutter; Briquet Tete humaine 15617.
Manuscript, on paper and parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English translation of de Chauliac's treatise on surgery and other aspects of practical medical treatment, particularly of wounds.
Description:
Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. Binder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879., Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork., Includes 5 inserted slips., Layout: double columns of 54 lines., Previously owned by Sir Thomas Nott; John Byrom; Chetham's Library, Manchester. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Script: cursive bookhand., Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves., and Wanting ff. 2-3. Some gaps and errors in foliation.
Manuscript, on vellum, in several hands, containing several Middle English devotional texts. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost is followed by The Meditation of St. Anselm; The Five Sorrows of the Virgin; and an explanation of how to say the Psalter of the Virgin. These are followed by a poem to the Virgin ("Mari moder well [th]e bee"); a six-line political poem referring to Edward IV ("The lyon sens thre days"); and a recipe for a medicine for pestilence, in a later hand.
Description:
Binding: modern full red morocco., Decoration: Abbey of the Holy Ghost has initials in blue with red penwork., Ex libris Henry Huth; Walter Wilson Greg; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (MS 8). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Script: several hands., and Text preceded by 14 binder's blanks; concludes with 11 binder's blanks.
Subject (Name):
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate., Edward--IV,--King of England,--1442-1483--Poetry., Greg, W. W.--(Walter Wilson),--1875-1959--Autograph., Greg, W. W.--(Walter Wilson),--1875-1959--Bookplate., Huth, Henry,--1815-1878--Bookplate., and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Poetry.