A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name):
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. Treatise of statues, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Account of architects and architecture, and Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Elements of architecture
Subject (Topic):
Architecture --Orders
Collection Created:
London : Printed by T.W. for D. Brown, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay,
Avicenna, 980-1037 Jābir ibn Ḥayyān Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? Richard, de Fournival, fl. 1246-1260
Published / Created:
[ca. 1350]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 2
Image Count:
96
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of practical alchemies and procedures, the earliest such manuscript in the Mellon collection. Contains texts transmitted from Arabic sources and what appear to be European additions to the literature and practic...
Description:
Alternating red and blue capitals throughout, some headings in red, many capitals stroked red, slight filiform decoration to opening initial of the volume, the rubrics and decoration probably by one of the scribes or another closely related hand.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037, Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294, Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Geber, 13th cent. Summa perfectionis magisterii, Razi, Abu Bakr Muh ammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?, Richard, de Fournival, fl. 1246-1260, and Saumaise, Claude, 1588-1653, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bound autograph manuscript in an unidentified hand of the Psalms of David and other church music in Ancient Greek, set to music for use in the churches at Constantinople.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany.
Subject (Name):
Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy and ritual and Orthodox Eastern Church--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Bible. O.T. Psalms. Greek., Psalms (Music), and Sacred vocal music
The story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Imprint from colophon, which reads: Here ends the tale of the Glittering Plain, written by William Morris, & ornamented with 23 pictures by Walter Crane. Printed at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex, ...
4 fragments of a missale plenum. Portions of Dominica X post Pentecosten, Feria IV of that week, Dominica XI, and of votive masses for a priest to say on behalf of himself, and for the shedding of tears. Where they occur, the texts of the proper chant...
Description:
2 columns (each 69 mm. wide), ruled in lead; between guide-lines 7 mm.; writing above top line. Written in 2 sizes of early gothic, with neumes above the smaller size. Initials 6- to 2-line, in blue and/or red, with red or blue flourishes; rubrics in ...
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church --Liturgy --Texts and Catholic Church --Prayer-books and devotions --Early works to 1800
