Manuscript on paper (various sizes and qualities) of a collection of notes and documents mostly related to Italian cities, dioceses and abbeys; Eastern churches and monasticism; and Central Europe; but containing also saints' lives, poetry, letters, a...
Description:
In Latin, Italian, French and Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Eastern churches, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rh...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire
Subject (Name):
Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
History, Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin drama (Tragedy), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
Published / Created:
[between 1600 and 1610]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 260
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres....
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology
Manuscript on paper of a collection of material copied primarily by William Camden, antiquary and historian (1551-1623), from documents, 14th-16th centuries, that were in the Tower of London and in the College of Arms. Some selections are from officia...
Manuscript on paper of the personal handbook of a legal scholar (perhaps from Gloucestershire?) arranged according to subject and with internal cross references; some theological and literary notes interspersed (Latin texts, some with translations int...
Manuscript on paper of Andreas Oberlender, Probter Buechleln, 1532, an unsigned later copy executed about 1600, with a few additions. A metallurgical experiment book of the type circulated among those interested in alchemy, mining, and metallurgy in t...
Description:
In German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Oberlender, Andreas.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, German literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Marcasite, and Metallurgy
Manuscript on paper (deckle edges) of 1) Chronicle of Pisa (from the founding of the city to 1342). 2) Chronicle of Pisa, covering the years from creation to 1400, with the Chronicle of Ranieri Sardo beginning at 1355; the final paragraph, dealing wit...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Pisa (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper of Cesare Speciano, Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio. With a Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 15...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Speciano, Cesare.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of The Life, Araignment, and Death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight: Somtymes Lord Chauncellor of England. On f. iii verso, engraving of Sir Thomas More, half-length, to right, standing, pointing to scroll in right ha...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. and Roper, William, 1496-1578.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper (usually thin and white; watermarks vary) of texts on the faith of the Orthodox Church, specifically as it compares to Protestant doctrine. Includes prayers, sermons, commentaries, creeds, poems and glossaries
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1641-1707. and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Creeds, Devotional literature, Greek poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Greek
Manuscript on paper (watermarks hidden in gutter) of alchemical texts including works by Albertus Magnus, Johannes Andreae, and Paracelsus. With treatises on the Philosopher's Stone and alchemical recipes
Description:
In Latin and German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348., and Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, German poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Girolamo Morlini (c. 1480-after 1528), Novellae. The manuscript is an exact copy of the edition Naples, Giovanni Pasquet de Sallo, 1520. It reproduces all the features of its printed model, including frontispiece woodcut, foliat...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Johannes Baers, Lamentationes Ieremiae carmine elegiaco redditae. With a Dedicatory epistle to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c. 1563-1612), secretary of state of Queen Elizabeth
Description:
Iohannes Baers (Baersius), born in Ghent 1580, d. 1653, studied theology in Leiden, was minister in various places in the Northern Netherlands, was 1629 in Pernambuco (Brasil) and in 1632 back in the Netherlands minister in Soest. He is the author of ...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Baers, Johannes, d. 1653. and Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious poetry, Latin
Manuscript on paper of George Waymouth (fl. 1587-1611), The jewell of artes, an unfinished technical handbook of navigation, inventions, fortifications, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting of short textual parts and extremely numerous full-page tech...
Description:
About the author, a somewhat mysterious navigator, scholar and engineer, see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, v. 51 (2004), pp. 777-778. He returned in 1602 from his unsuccesful expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, presented the King...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Waymouth, George.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Navigation
Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden
Manuscript on paper of John Rolfe (1585-1622), A true relation of the state of Virginia, autograph manuscript
Description:
The author, best known for his part in the colonization of Virginia under the governorship of Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619) and his marriage to the Indian princess Pocahontas (d. 1617), wrote this account after his return to England in 1616 to show the su...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Virginia
Subject (Name):
Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
