Manuscript on paper of a collection of extracts from various alchemical and medical writers. Includes John of Rupescissa, Liber de confectione veri lapidis; and Arnold of Villanova, De perfectione operis alkimie. Compiled by one Johannes Baptista F., along with Mellon MSS 34 and 36.
Description:
Binding: Original parchment over pasteboards with remains of thong ties; probably a home-made binding utilizing used parchment (show-through of writing visible) from a document, plain edges. Labeled in ink in the hand of the compiler on the backstrip: "Medicina astrologia." Loose in cover and wormed., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 23, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Latin, Italian, and Spanish., and Script: Written by one or perhaps two hands in mid-16th-century italic, sometimes of excellent, professional quality, but often ranging from fairly good to extremely bad and careless.
Subject (Name):
Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311. and Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Italian poetry--16th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a fragment of an antiphon from a liturgical book, possibly an antiphonary.
Description:
Decoration: heightened neumes; initials in red., Script: written in late pregothic script., and This fragment is contained in Zi 145.5 (Utrisque juris canonum...), in which the fragment is used as a front endpaper.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of Elias Cortonensis O.F.M., Lumen luminum, said according to this copy to have been composed in 1315, an erroneous date, and drawn from Saracen and Hebrew sources, translated into Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a church figure, with a cipher code; and miscellaneous recipes in Italian.
Description:
Binding: Original, North Italian. Dark leather, the sides ruled with triple bordering lines to form a rectangle within a rectangle, the smaller rectangle with a roll tool of vinelike foliage impressed in blind, a smaller interior rectangle formed by the panel of roll tooling with gold-stamped ivy leaves at the corners and a circular stamp incorporating the "yhs" monogram in the center framed by a lozenge of tooling with the same roll already mentioned; back with five raised bands; modern gold-stamped title label pasted onto second compartment from top. Backstrip and corners extensively repaired; gilt edges stamped with a herringbone knotwork pattern., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 26, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., ff. 33 of probably 40 originally, the extant leaves numbered by an old hand 1-25, 27-30, 32-33, 36-37 (f. 26, 31, 34, 35, and 38-40, now missing, the last three possibly blanks), In Latin, with Italian prologue., Script: Written in an italic hand and partly in cipher., and Watermark: a circle containing an unidentified design element, with a six-pointed star on a shaft above, not identified.
Subject (Name):
Elia,--da Cortona, frate,---1253.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Ciphers--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a medical treatise.
Description:
Decoration: rubrics in red; initials in blue with red penwork. Some marginal comments are circled in red., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4794 (Giovani Balbi of Genoa, Catholicon), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
In Hebrew., Manuscript fragment has been bound upside down. Digital facsimile has been rotated for legibility., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +3487.3 (Pius II, Epistolae in cardinalatu editae), around which it is used as a covering.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven. and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.