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2.
- Creator:
- Man, Thomas, d. 1625, bookseller
- Published / Created:
- 1603
- Call Number:
- Uzn73 603s
- Image Count:
- 78
- Alternative Title:
- Short discourse of hawking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes and Short discovrse of havvking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate: Ex libris David Wagstaff. Binder’s stamp: J. Kulesho., P. [6]-[7], consists of a poem concerning falconry, that begins "A perfect plot how for to hawke ...", P. 73-76 omitted from pagination., Signatures: A-I⁸., and The author is unknown although it is thought he was from Kent as there are a number of references to the county in the work, including the following from p. 55: "... diuers Kentish ge[n]tlemen, some of my kindred and others of my acquaintance ..."
- Publisher:
- for Thomas Man
- Subject (Name):
- Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry -- Early works to 1800 and Hunting -- Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A short discourse of hauuking to the field with high flying long-winged hawkes, together with the sorting and ordering of spaniels : dedicated (as a sommers solace) vnto all such as either delight in, or hereafter shall vse that gentleman-like and pleasant recreation.
3.
- Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Published / Created:
- Printed in the year 1705.
- Call Number:
- Z17 219A
- Image Count:
- 2
- Alternative Title:
- Review of the state of the British nation.
- Description:
- Bears the bookplate of Francis Charles Hastings Russell, Duke of Bedford., Includes An Appendix to the Review; The Contents of the Review, Feb. 1704-Jan. 1705; The Contents of the Supplement to the Advice from the Scandal Club, Sept. 1704-Jan. 1705., and Title vignette.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An appendix to the Review.
4.
- Creator:
- Williams, Phillip
- Published / Created:
- late 17th century
- Call Number:
- Osborn b309
- Image Count:
- 59
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a complete prognostication for someone born in the Haywards Heath region of Sussex, including his personality; the length of his life; his financial situation; his relationship to his father; the number of his marriages; satisfaction with his servants; the behavior of his "pretended friends"; and the kind of travel he will do. For example, the manuscript declares, "The Native should go many voyages or long journies...the chief end of his travelling should be to gain learning and honor; But the Moon and Mare being in opposition to the Ninth Hous, shewe that it should be very unproffitable to him." The volume also includes 7 horoscope drawings.
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron; signature of Michael Lort (1725-90)., Binding: contemporary panelled calf, gilt., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Marbled endpapers., On title page: An Astrological Judgment Upon the Nativity of a Gentleman born in the Latitude of 51 degr. And from the Meridian of London to the Westward 13 min: Astronomically and Astrologically Performed by Phillip Williams, Student in Astrology., and Pages 46-50 blank, not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sussex (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Williams, Phillip
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Divination, Fortune-telling, Horoscopes, and Planets
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An astrological judgment upon the nativity of a gentleman born in the latitude of 51 degr. and from the meridian of London to the westward 13 min, late 17th century
5.
- Creator:
- Pike, Albert, 1809-1891.
- Published / Created:
- 188-?].
- Call Number:
- Za P635 880f
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- A reply to John Yarker on the subject of Cerneauism., Bound with: Pike, Albert. A fragrant nosegay.[Washington, 188-?], Caption title., and Signed: Albert Pike.
- Subject (Name):
- Cerneau, Joseph,--1763-., Freemasons--United States., Scottish Rite (Masonic order), and Yarker, John,--1833-.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An inaccurate historian.
6.
- Creator:
- Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Osborn d20
- Image Count:
- 121
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
- Description:
- Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
- Subject (Name):
- Robin Hood Society (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anecdotes of archery: A thing of shreds and patches
7.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 166 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- Anketell Jones
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anketell Jones [graphic].
8.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 169 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- Ann Strange
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ann Strange [graphic].
9.
- Creator:
- Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349. Disputatio contra perfidiam Judaeorum - Published / Created:
- December 1, 1498]
- Call Number:
- Zi +7763
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1498.
- Description:
- For fuller description (including earmarks of vol. 1-2) see collation slip in volume. Bookplates of Thomas Gage Gage and Nathan Comfort Starr.
- Publisher:
- Johann Froben and Johann Petri,
- Subject (Name):
- Gage, Thomas Gage,--1st viscount--Bookplate and Starr, Nathan Comfort--Bookplate
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia latina : [with the Postillae of Nicolaus de Lyra] : Nicolai de Lyra Disputatio contra perfidiam Judaeorum / [edited by Sebastian Brant].
10.
- Creator:
- Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480-ca. 1533
- Published / Created:
- [1529]
- Call Number:
- Jka85 529T
- Image Count:
- 183
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- An edition was published in 1549 under title: L'art & science de la vraye proportion., Armorial bookplate and autograph: Olin Lake Merriam. Bookplates: Charles Butler; Frank Altschul., Colophon: Cy finist ce present Liure, avec Laddition de Treze diuerses faco[n]s de Lettres, Et la maniere de faire Chifres pour Bagues dor, ou autrement. Qui fut acheue dimprimer Le mercredy. xxviij. Iour du Mois Dapuril. Lan Mil Cincq Cens. XXIX. Pour Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, Auteur dudict Liure, & Libraire demora[n]t a Paris, qui le vent sus Petit Pont a Lenseigne du Pot Casse. Et pour Giles Gourmont aussi Libraire demorant au dict Paris, qui le vent pareillement en La Rue Sainct Iaques a Lenseigne des Trois Coronnes., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁸ B-N⁶ O⁸., and Title within ornamental borders; initials. Two forms of Tory's mark "le pot cassé, on t.p. and last leaf, respectively.
- Publisher:
- Pour Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, autheur dudict liure, & libraire demora[n]t a Paris, qui le vent sus Petit Pont a lenseigne du Pot Casse, et pour Giles Gourmont aussi libraire demorant au dict Paris, qui le vent pareillement en la Rue Sainct Iaques a lenseigne des Trois Coronnes,
- Subject (Name):
- Altschul, Frank,--1887-1981--Bookplate., Butler, Charles,--1821-1910--Bookplate., Merriam, Olin Lane--Autograph., and Merriam, Olin Lane--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alphabets--Early works to 1800, French language--Pronunciation--Early works to 1800, French language--Provincialisms--Early works to 1800, and Proportion (Art)--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Champ fleury : au quel est contenu lart & science de la deue & vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques, quo[n] dit autreme[n]t lettres antiques, & vulgairement lettres romaines proportionnees selon le corps & visage humain ...
11.
- 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
12.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Incunabula +E-113 (Goff)
- Image Count:
- 610
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
- Alternative Title:
- Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and mathematical instruments
13.
- 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
14.
- Published / Created:
- between 1291and 1454.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 11 Vault
- Image Count:
- 358
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in several unidentified hands containing a collection of various medical treatises. Manuscript consists of tree sections bound together. First part contains several works by Aristotle (all in William of Moerbeke's recension): De anima (ff. 1r-26r; marginal commentary by Thomas Aquinas), De somno et vigilia (ff. 26r-37r), De generatine et corruptione (ff. 38r-55r), De causis (ff. 56r-61r), De motibus animalium (ff. 62r-63r, beginning imperfect), De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 63r-66v), De longitudine (ff. 67r-69r); and Henricus Monachus' Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha (f. 70r). The second part (15th c. date on the basis of paleography) contains Johannes de Sacrobosco's Algorithmus (ff. 70v-74r), De sphaera (74r-81v), and Compotus ecclesiastius (82v-98r), the anonymous' De simplici et composito quadrante (98r-100v), Robertus Grosseteste's De sphaera (ff. 101r-106r) and Compotus (ff. 106r-124r), Campanus de Novara and Robertus Grosseteste's Tabulae (ff. 124r-126r), Expositio tabule de annis Arabum Magistri Campani (f. 126r), De pratica quadrantis (ff. 127r-130r), Chylindrus (ff. 137r-139r), Compotus manualis (ff. 139r-142r), and Gerardus Creonensis' Theorica planetarum (ff. 143r-155r). The third part (14th c. date on the basis of decoration) contains Prophatius Hebraeus' Tractatus quadrantis novi (ff. 156r-171r), and the Tabula ad sciendu quantum cum quolibet gradu zodiaci... (f. 171v) Ends with two diagrams (ff. 172v-173r) and a table the fixed stars (f. 173v)
- Alternative Title:
- De anima, De somno et vigilia, De generatione et corruptione [etc.] : [the Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha of Henricus Monachus, followed by selections, mostly astronomical and arithmetical, from Johannes de Sacrobosco, Robertus Grosseteste, Johannes de Ahrweiler, Gerardus Cremonensis]
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothica textualis., Decoration: decorative red and blue initials, and several hand drawn maps of the fixed stars. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown pig-skin binding, blind-tooled. Contemporary pig-skin tabs attached to fore-edges to demarcate beginins of new texts. Traces of straps from back to front cover. Traces of metal bosses on front cover and 3 holes in triangular formation for chain attachment on back cover. Label on front cover: Algorism[us] ... / Sper materialis / Compo[si]tus philosop[] / uel custod[]. Label on back cover: Sphaera materialis / Joannis de Arweilerio. Quadra[n]s / nouus Probacii Hebrei 1554. Note on binding on inside front cover: Anno domini MCCCCLIIII. Ligatus est iste liber per reuerendum patrum fratrem Matthiam Halddenof suppriorem conuentus wiennensis., Date of the first and oldest part is based on scribal note (f. 26r): Explicit liber de anima petri Rodeheym. Amen. Anno domini MCCLXXXXI in uigilia pentecostes., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, Manuscripts, and Psychology
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of mathematical and astronomical treatises
15.
- Published / Created:
- 1477.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 13 Vault
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manscript, on paper, containing a collection of medical treatises. Containing "Ad Plagas" by Ambrosius de Benasco (ff. 2r-5r), Hippocrates' "Aphorismi," with commentaries by Galen and Haly Abbas (ff. 7r-69r), "Preservatio a Peste" by Antonio Guainerio (ff. 80v-87r), excerpts from Galen's Tegni (ff. 92v-142r), Mondino dei Luzzi's "Anathomia" (ff. 143v-164r). All but Ambrosius de Benasco's "Ad Plagas" written in Hieronymus Münzer's own hand
- Alternative Title:
- Medical collectanea / Hieronymus Münzer : written in Latin, on paper, with many marginal notes; signed and dated 1477, Pavia
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: original 15th-centur red leather binding on paper boards. Title on cover in ink: Aphorismi / Hippocrati. Spine label with "11" in ink., Owership note by Hieronymus Münzer on inside front cover: Hic libellus mei Hieronimi Monetarii de Felkirchen artium medicineque doctoris quem manu propria nocturnis vigiliis maximisque laboribus ex commento Galieni et Hali et aliorum excerpsi et in hunc paruum libellum relegi, in Papia urbe Ytalie, dum medicinali facultati studerem, anno domini 1477., Note by Hieronymus Münzer on f. 164r: Hieronymus finished copying on "18 die februarii anno 1477 - papia hora 21.", and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of medical treatises of Hieronymus Münzer
16.
- Creator:
- Galen
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 5 Vault
- Image Count:
- 524
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: De elementis, De complexionibus, De malitia complexionis diversae, De juvamentis membrorum, De differentiis febrium, De criticis diebus, De interioribus, De simplicibus, De regimine sanitatis, and De medendis febribus ad Glauconem (ff. 1r-233r); all translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerardus Cremonensis. Also includes De alimentis (ff. 233r-264r); translated from Greek by Gulielmus de Morbeka. Concludes with Galen's Commentum super libro VI epidimiarum Hippocratis (ff. 264v-268r), translated by Johannes Alexandrinus
- Alternative Title:
- De elementis, De complexionibus, De malitia complexionis diversae, De juvamentis membrorum, De differentiis febrium, De criticis diebus, De interioribus, De simplicibus, De regimine sanitatis, De medendis febribus ad Glauconem, De alimentis : all translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerardus Cremonensis and others ; except the last treatise, translated from the Greek by Gulielmus de Morbeka
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: Rubrication (stops f. 173). Spaces left for decorated initials., Layout: written in 2 columns of 50 lines., Binding: modern 3-quarter brown leather binding over pasteboard., and Catchwords enclosed in double-lined and decorated rectangles at bottom of page.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Galen
17.
- Creator:
- Galen
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1350?
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 6 Vault
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of a collection of works by Galen. Includes: Liber therapeuticus (ff. 1r-35v), De utilitate anhelitus (ff. 35v-37v), De pharmaciis (ff. 37v-38v), De malicia complexionis (ff. 39r-40v), De accidente et morbo (ff. 39r-40v), De lapide (ff. 59r-60r), De phlebotomia (ff. 60r-v), De pharmaciis Hippocratis (f. 60v), De virtutibus naturalibus (ff. 61r-74v), De complexionibus (ff. 75r-88v), De regimine sanitatis (incomplete, ff. 88v-97v).
- Alternative Title:
- Liber therapeutices, De utilitate anhelitus, De pharmaciis, De malicia complexionis, De accidente et morbo, De lapide, De phlebotomia, De pharmaciis Hippocratis, De virtutibus naturalibus, De complexionibus, De regimine sanitatis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: southern Gothic texualis., Decoration: one 6-line initial in green, red, and purple acanthus on a blue backgroud with gold, leaves extending in the same colors to the upper margin. Several 5- and 4-line initials. Two-line initials with simple flourishing throughout, alternating in blue and red. Red and blue paragraph marks. Rubrication., Layout: written in 2 columns of 57 lines., Binding: contemporary leather binding over original wooden boards. Rebacked in July 1930 by A. Maltby & Son, Oxford. Traces of marks from clasps and of small metal bosses on front and edges of boards (few remaining). Label on back cover of book: Libri Galienni incipientes a terapeutica., and Catchwords centered in lower margins, enclosed in plain black ink frames.
- Subject (Topic):
- Hygiene, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of works by Galen
18.
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1757]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 66 726 T675
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 148 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
- Publisher:
- Eton College
- Subject (Name):
- Eton College.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Collegium Beatae Mariae de Etona [graphic].
19.
- Published / Created:
- between 1250 and 1299.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 20 Vault
- Image Count:
- 288
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, of a collection of works by and commentaries on Hippocrates. Includes Hippocrates' Aphorismi (translated by Constantinus Africanus) and Prognostica with commentaries by Galen; Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (translation attributed to Constantinus Africanus and Gerard of Cremona); and a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān on Galen's Tegni (translated by Gerard of Cremona). Diagram with a classification of all nature on f. 143v. Copious contemporary marginal notes throughout
- Alternative Title:
- Articella and Hippocrates Aphorismi, Prognostica, De regimine acutorum : cum comment. Galeni ; Ali Ibn Ridwan Commentum super Tegni Galeni
- Description:
- In Latin., Title from headings., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: eight-line initials in red ink with blue flourishing. Text commented upon is underlined in red., Layout: 2 columns of around 50 lines., Binding: 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding, with metal furniture (originally 10, now 4) and clasps (closing on the front cover, wanting). Manuscript note on front cover with shelfmark: h188. Rebacked., Pagination added in modern pencil., This manuscipt was formerly believed to have been written in an Italian university (Padua). There is no evidence to support this., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Articella, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Commentum super afforismos Ypocratis ; Commenta super pronostica Ypocratis ; Liber Ypocratis de regimine acutorum
20.
- Published / Created:
- 1551.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 45 vault
- Image Count:
- 310
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of texts on astronomy and medicine: contains a treatise on uroscopy (ff. 1-48r), an index of the significations of the colors of urine (ff. 48v-50v), a table of astrological symbols and their explanations (f. 51r), an astrological figure "The circle of 16 angles" (ff. 51v-52r), a table of the days of the moon (f. 52v), a series of astronomical tables from Aries to Pisces (ff. 53v-57r), a medical treatise describing illnesses and medical recipes (ff. 58r-85v), an stronomical treatise (ff. 87r-119v), a text on the twelve astrological signs (ff. 122v-123r), a number of tables and figures on the planets, the aspects of the moon, and uroscopy (ff. 123v-126r), a series of astrological prognostic texts related to theft (ff. 129v-132v), a weather prognostication (ff. 133r-134r), a series of electionary texts (ff. 134v-137v), a treatise on bloodletting (f. 137v), a series of questionary texts (ff. 138r-146r), a collection of brief astrological proverbs (147r-147v), a series of explanations about astrology (148r-148v), and a questionary text on finding a thief (f. 149r).
- Alternative Title:
- Commonplace book in English: on miscellaneous subjects, chiefly astrology
- Description:
- In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: English secretary hand., Layout: single column of between 36 and 45 lines., Binding: 18th- or 19th-century binding in marbled boards with brown leather spine. Spinal note "M.S 1551" in gold-tooling., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Date of creation from f. 122: "Wryten anno domini 1551.", and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Commonplace book
