Written in 66 or 79 long lines; one side only, no rulings. Written in 2 different hands, both informal batarde. Stains and remnants of paste; used as pastedowns and binding reinforcements.
Description:
3 fragments, 70 x 80 mm., ca. 155 x 69 mm., and ca. 55 x 550 mm., the largest dated 1525., Parchment, and Subjects unidentified.
Collection of traditions on the creation of the seven heavens and the seven earths, the sun, the moon, the stars, day and night, waters and winds, mountains, and seas.
Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiæ & Europæ eleganti descriptione : Asia. Historias rerum vbique
Image Count:
1
Description:
Map bound in before aaii
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography and World maps --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[Paris]: Impressa ... per Henricum Stephanum impressorem dilige[n]tiss. Parrhisijs e regione scholae Decretorum. sumptib. eiusdem He[n]rici. & Ioa[n]nis Hongo[n]ti. VI. Idus Octobris anno Domini M.D.IX. [1509]
Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, 1208 or 9-1283 or 4.
Published / Created:
[15--?]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 575
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
In the center of the map is Mecca; the ocean is located on each side along the outer edge of the sheet with the pillars of the earth in the four corners. Great emphasis is placed on Africa and the Nile river. Other places of interest include: Wasteland where nobody lives, Mountains of the Moon, Land of the Slavs and Franks, Gog and Magog, Land of the Turks (Central Asia), Red Sea (rectangular water mass), the Source of life.
Description:
Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Yale '27, in honor of Alexander O. Vietor, Yale '36, in November 1978., Removed from a bound volume., and Tempera and ink.
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived by cataloger from text on verso and presence of umlauts., Date derived from style of print., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and 2x2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Apostle, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Poisoning, Miracles, Snakes, Saints, Chalices, and Dead persons
A Flemish or Dutch drawing of a female saint in a Poor Clare habit and with a crown of thorns (probably Catherine of Siena) kneeling before a crucifix, arms crossed over her chest, as she resists the temptation of riches, power, and pleasure. Riches are represented by three well-dressed men on the left offering her treasure, including an open chest filled with coins and valuables. Power is represented by a crown suspended in the cloud above, while pleasure represented on the right by two female musicians, one playing a flute and another a lute, while a third woman offers a bouquet of flowers. Above and behind the figures on the left is the ruin of a building. In the clouds on the right above the musicians, the triumph of faith over temptation is represented as the grim reaper with a scythe cutting down three kings whose crowns topple from their heads
Alternative Title:
Female saint worshipping a crucifix
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of the drawing is questionable. Possibly a much later drawing, 17th-century?, On verso, in unknown (possibly W.S. Lewis's) hand: "A Flemish drawing of a female saint worshipping a crucifix.", On verso: "Probably not Horace Walpole's. W.S. Lewis 7 Feb. '73.", On verso: "'Late 15th or early 16th century. Probably Dutch. Anne-Marie Logan, BAC, Sept. 30, 1996.", Lower right corner of image, ownership stamp initial 'D' encircled., Numbered on mount in upper right corner in ink '83' and in a different hand in pencil '63'., Formerly shelved as part of the SH Drawings collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380
Subject (Topic):
In art, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Crucifixes, Musicians, Prayer, Saints, Temptation, and Wealth