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1. Album of pressed botanical specimens from Norfolk, England : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 1793.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc217
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Album containing 73 pressed botanical specimens compiled by an unidentified collector in Norfolk, England, 1793. Each specimen has notes indicating its Latin name, common name, and Linnaean classification. Some notes also include the date of collection, the location of collection, and medicinal uses of the plant
- Description:
- In English and Latin., The album was created in a blank accounts book, and the pages have printed red rules., and Binding: contemporary vellum over boards, with blind tooled ruling; the arms of King George III stamped in gilt on the front and back covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain, England, and Norfolk
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.
- Subject (Topic):
- Botanical specimens, Collection and preservation, Flowers, Herbs, and Plants
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Album of pressed botanical specimens from Norfolk, England : manuscript
2. 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
3. Herbal in prose and verse
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 46
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine
- Description:
- In Middle English and Latin., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., and Binding: modern vellum boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herbal in prose and verse
4. Herbarius latinus : with Dutch synonyms
- Creator:
- Herbarius
- Published / Created:
- about 1485].
- Image Count:
- 352
- Description:
- Med: Contemporary South German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
- Publisher:
- Jan Veldener
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbs, Botany, Medical, and Materia medica
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Herbarius latinus : with Dutch synonyms
5. Macer Floridus
- Creator:
- Macer, Floridus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200; 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 823
- Image Count:
- 56
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts of different age and origin, of 1) Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung, c. 1070), De viribus herbarum. 2) Fragments of a Missal: (a) Third Sunday of Lent. (b) Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent. (c) Second Sunday of Lent
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-10): copied by one hand writing Praegothica with wide distance between the lines. Part II (ff. 11-22): copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria., Part I: red chapter headings in larger script written at the right of the text. Red paragraph marks. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 1r and 10 v only. 2-line (exceptionally 1- or 3-line) early flourished initials in red with red flourishing (red filling on f. 10r). 5-line red, blue and white initial with strapwork decoration on f. 1r. Part II: chapter headings in red, centered. Red 2-line plain initials (Capitalis)., Part II adapted to the size of Part I by pasting strips of parchment to the bottom of the bifolios. The five outer bifolios (ff. 11-15 and 18-22) are palimpsest: leaves from a manuscript in two columns, the text transversal to the textus rescriptus; the inner bifolium (ff. 16-17) is of bad quality; the upper corners of ff. 11 and 22 are missing with loss of text and have been repaired with blank parchment., and Binding: 20th century. Wooden boards and brown calf spine. Endleaves are fragments of a Missal (Italy, 15th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Macer, Floridus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Macer Floridus
6. Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 9
- Image Count:
- 671
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes
- Description:
- In Latin, Czech, German, transliterated Arabic, and Polish., Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., and Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs, Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
7. Quam gratos moriens tumulo exhalabis odores?... [graphic].
- Creator:
- Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [16th century]
- Call Number:
- Print00923
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., From: Francisci Petrarche, Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück, Frankfurt am Main: Egenolff., Containing volume has editions of 1566, 1574, 1584., Woodcut is attributed to Hans Weiditz. Formerly attributed to Hans, Illustration for Cap. XXII, page 19., Trimmed within inscription., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Drugstores, Smell, Flowers, Fruit, Plants, Herbs, Perfumes, and Pharmacists
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Quam gratos moriens tumulo exhalabis odores?... [graphic].
8. Viribus herbarum (fragment).
- Creator:
- Macer, Floridus
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300 - approximately 1399.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1058
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Macer Floridus, Viribus herbarum. Composed of one incomplete bifolium containing lines 1369-1387, 1395-1413, 1420-1438,1445-1464 of the 1832 edition edited by L. Choulant
- Description:
- In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: Single columns of 19 lines, of an original 26., Script: Gothica Textualis Libraria using Cursiva d., Decoration: Undecorated, except for a 1-line red versal and a 2-line plain red initial M on the last but one line of f. 2r (“Marrubium”)., Binding: used as binding for Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533)., Secundo folio: Et sic sit sumpta., Bookseller description available., and Bound with Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533). For other title, search by call number.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Macer, Floridus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Viribus herbarum (fragment).
9. [R]ogatu pluri[m]o[rum] i[n] opu[m] nu[m]mo[rum] ege[n]tiu[m] appotecas refuta[n]tiu[m] occasio[n]e illa q[uia] necessaria ibide[m] ad corp[us] egru[m] specta[n]tiu[m] sunt cara ...
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1486]
- Image Count:
- 360
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Herbarius, Rogatu plurimorum in opum nummorum egentium appotecas refutantium occasione illa quia necessaria ibidem ad corpus egrum spectantium sunt cara ..., and Herbarius latinus
- Description:
- Title from incipit on leaf pi2r., Imprint from Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke., Signatures: pi⁴ a-u⁸ x¹⁰ (pi1 blank)., Includes 150 woodcut illustrations of plants., Initial spaces, some with guide-letters., Pages [1]-[2] are blank., Text in Latin; plant names under many of the woodcuts given in Latin and French., Includes some red lettering., and BAC Leaf Collection no. 0427: Imperfect: 3 leaves only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
- Publisher:
- Jean Bonhomme
- Subject (Topic):
- Herbs, Botany, Medical, and Materia medica
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [R]ogatu pluri[m]o[rum] i[n] opu[m] nu[m]mo[rum] ege[n]tiu[m] appotecas refuta[n]tiu[m] occasio[n]e illa q[uia] necessaria ibide[m] ad corp[us] egru[m] specta[n]tiu[m] sunt cara ...
