- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1660]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 63
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a substantial sixteenth-century English alchemy attributed in the text to a certain Sir John Barkly, and some additional matter said to have been derived from conversation with him. Also containing abbreviated works by Samuel Norton, as well as a varitey of other texts, some of them not at all identified, others extracted from various English and continental sources noted in the description, including a discourse of the minerall stone, medical recipes, and an abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written by one English hand writing a legible cursive with some secretary forms, sloping to the right., Watermarks: Paper with watermark of a hunting horn in a cartouche very like Churchill 315 (in use 1623-1695), but without countermark, not identified., and Binding: Modern binding of marbled boards, polished calf back with title label, original uncut edges.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, and Medicine
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Creator:
- Smit, Hans, active 16th century
- Published / Created:
- 16th century.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1889
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Printed broadside advertising medicinal powders, oils, and other remedies offered by Hans Smit, 16th century
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Accompanying typescript note: "One of two copies used as end papers in a copy in contemporary binding of "Sermons of Master John Calvin upon the book of Job" translated out of the French by Arthur Golding. / Colophon: Imprinted at London. Henrie Binneman for Lucas Harrison & George Bishop. Anno. 1574. / These broadsides were noticed in August 1919 and taken out.", and In English.
- Subject (Name):
- Smit, Hans, active 16th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Advertising and Medicine
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hans Smit advertisements of medicines : typescript
- Creator:
- Mago, Agogo
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 76
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Agogo Mago, Libro medesynal delli spariueri
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand., One gold initial (f. 1r), 7-line, filled and surrounded by white-vine ornament, on a dark blue, dark red, and dark green ground, with pale yellow dots; extends into inner and upper margins. In lower margin an unidentified coat of arms (or, on a chief azur a parrot vert beaked gules) in a laurel wreath; accompanied by gold balls, hair-sprays, and simple floral patterns. Four initials, 6- to 4-line, in blue with red penwork designs or red with purple; plain capitals alternating red and blue throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Mago, Agogo.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game and game-birds, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libro medesynal delli spariueri
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1125]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.77
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Pilgrim's Guide to Jerusalem and the beginning of a charm for epilepsy in Middle High German
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: at the beginning of the text is a cross with ornamentation in brown penwork; 2-line initial "A" in brown ink with the left shaft and crossbar hollow and the right shaft solid; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; the charm is written in a thirteenth-century gothic hand (littera textualis), evidently in German.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Travel literature, Charms, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pilgrim's Guide to Jerusalem (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450; between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 163
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wagstaff miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1612]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b144
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in several hands, of Latin quotations grouped by philosophical and moral subjects such as Bellum; Fortuna; Humilitas; Ingratus; Patientia; and Virtus Moralis. Other entries include several religious poems; medical recipes "for the stone"; Biblical quotations; a history of England from William the Conqueror to 1502; and a prayer which asks God to bless "thy servant James by thy grace...King defender of the true ancient CS A. F. In all causes and over all persons...Blesse the noble queene Ana & let not the scepter depart from prince Henry nor thy gratious goodnes from all the Roial progeny."
- Description:
- Binding: full sheep; blind-stamped decoration on covers., Pen trials inside front and back covers, including several drawings of cats, mice, and a bird., Signature of Robert Cottesford on end-paper., and Table of contents to the Latin quotations appears on pp. 172-5.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687, Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century, and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--17th century, Latin poetry--17th century, Medicine, Meditations (Religious), Philosophy, and Prayers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1612].