Manuscript on parchment of Lucan, Bellum civile, with scholia. Preceded by Epitaphium Lucani, 4 lines only
Description:
In Latin., Script: Main text written above and below top line in a small early gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37r; Scribe 2) ff. 37v-91v. First letter of each verse written to left of text between double rulings or on middle of three rulings; right-hand margin justified. Scholia, primarily at beginning of codex, written in a contemporary hand., Decorative initials, red or blue, 12- to 4-line, with simple designs in opposite color, for each book. Rubrics added sporadically. Plan of Brindisi appears in the margin of f. 15v (II.610) to illustrate Caesar's siege of the city; on f. 47v is a schematic circular drawing of Paulus in the center, surrounded by Pelion, Ossa, Otrix, Pindus and Olympus., Rubbing, staining, trimming of leaves, and worm holes result in some loss of text and scholia., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light brown pigskin, blind-tooled, with brass fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65.
Subject (Topic):
Historical poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and History
Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reason over religion and that he scoffed at both Judaism and Christianity. Trippe frequently alludes to and quotes other medical and scientific authors in developing his argument, including Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Nicander, Avicenna, and his contemporaries Antonio Guainerio, Jean Fernel, Pietro Andreas Mattioli, and Leonhard Fuchs, as well as the humanist thinkers Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Guillaume Bude, and Ramus (Pierre de la Ramee). and Text prefaced (p. 5-7) by a dedicatory epistle to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who was Chancellor of Oxford and from whom Trippe was soliciting recommendation for appointment as Physician of Corpus Christi
Description:
In Latin and English., Pages are ruled in red; marginal annotations in the same hand in the marginal compartments., Annotation on recto of front flyleaf: "Presented to Chas. Leeson Prince M.R.C.S by The late Revd. Edward Turner Rector of Maresfield Sussex. 1870.", Tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: printed dealer description., Annotation by Edward Turner on added p. 1 containing detailed biographical information on Simon Trippe., Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe., Bookplate: T[homas] J[efferson] Coolidge, Jr., and Binding: contemporary full paneled calf, extensive gold tooled decoration on boards and spine; cloth ties not present. Possibly bound for the dedicatee, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Galen. and Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford).
Subject (Topic):
Humanism, Medicine, Early works to 1800, History, Philosophy, and Physicians
BEIN 2007 +198: Case mutilated., Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress., Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v.2., "The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, for Charles V ... A Spanish priest, familiar with the Nauatl, or Mexican language, was employed by the viceroy to set down in Spanish the explanations of the glyphs as interpreted by the Mexicans themselves."--v.1, p.3., The facsimile includes the original pictographs in colors and the Spanish explanations., and Issued in case.
Publisher:
Waterlow & Sons, Limited
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Mexican, Indians of Mexico, Languages, Writing, Antiquities, and History
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
Call Number:
Bg44 27y
Image Count:
3
Description:
BEIN Bg44 27y: Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto: Nec impetu, nec imperio., Signatures: pi² A-R⁸ S⁴(-S4, S3v blank)., and Title in red and black.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
Published / Created:
M. DCC XXXIV [1734]
Call Number:
2004 77
Image Count:
2
Description:
BEIN 2004 77: Shelfmark label on front pastedown. Undeciphered autograph on t.p. Red chalk marks throughout., Pirated ed. based on the octavo true first ed., Signatures: pi2 A-Y⁸·⁴ Z⁸(-Z8)., Final p. blank., and Includes bibliographical references.
BEIN 1971 +120: Extra illustrated with parts from a duplicate added t.-p., cut out and mounted., Added t.-p., engr.; (38 x 28 cm. fold. to 32 cm.), Signatures: *⁶ **⁸ A-Kkkk⁶ Llll⁸., and "A second ... volume of this work was printed at Lima in 1653 [or 1654] but was never published, owing probably to certain obnoxious passages contained in it. It is a smaller volume than the first, and is of very rare occurrence." -- Stevens, Hist. nuggets, v.2, 1862, p. 108. this second volume was written in part by Bernardo de Torres, whose "Cronica de la provincia pervana del Orden de los ermitaños de S. Avgvstin," Lima, 1657, was also published as a supplementary volume to the first volume of Calancha's work and included an epitome of it. cf. Rene-Moreno, Bolivia y Perú; notas hist. y bibl., 1905, p. [1]-9; Bibl. peruana, t.1, 1896, nos. 404, 412; Medina, Bibl. hisp.-amer., t.2, 1900 no. 977.
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand., Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue., Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Modern history. Dutch and Tegenwoordige staat van alle volkeren
Description:
Mixed set., Title varies slightly., Some vols. have added engr. t.p. in place of frontispiece., Vol. 1-10, each in six parts, paged continuously (except v. 6) with individual t.p. for each part; vol. [27, 34-37] in two parts each, v. [29] in three parts, each of these vols. with individual t.p. for each part, paged continuously., Vol. 16, 23, 26, 33 have also individual t.p.: Tegenwoordige staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden; v. [24-25, 31-32] have this individual t.p. only. Vol. 6, pt. 5-6, have t.p.: Vervolg van den tegenwoordigen staat van't koningryk Polen., Vol. [21-22] have on t.p.: 20.21. deel., Vol. 27 in two parts, paged continuously, each with individual t.-p., Vol. 33 has also t.p.: Tegenwoordige staat van het Landschaap Drenthe., Vol. [34-41] have no general t.p., Vol. 1 has added general t.p. (following vol. t.p.): Hedendaegsche historie, of Tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren ... / nieuwlings in 't engelsch beschreven door den Heere Salmon, in 't nederduitsch overgebragt, en met byvoegselen vermeerdert door M. van Goch, M.D. Deerde druk. Te Amsterdam: By Isaak Tirion ... 1731., Vol. 11-15, 17-22, 27-30 have series t.p. only; v. 24-25, 31-32 have no series t.-p.; v. 33 has also individual t.p., Vol. 10-16, 21, 23 by Jan Wagenaar; v. 22 by M. Tydeman and R. van Noort; v. [34-35] compiled from works by Salmon, Chamberlayn, Miege, Bolton, Maitland, Rapin Thoras, and others., Molhuysen ascribes authorship of v. 11-15, 21, 23, and 26 to Jan Wagenaar; authorship of other parts to S. Stijl, A. Ypey, J. H. Knoop and others., Vol. 1, no. II, derde druk, 1735; v. 1, no. V, twede druk, 1735; v. 2, lste-6de stukje, twede druk 1739; v. 11, tweede druk, 1739., and Vol. 30, no more pub. after stuk 1.
BEIN 1971 1143: With this is bound Orosius, Paulus. Ital. tr. Guerini. Pavlo Orosio tradotto di latino in volgare. [Toscolano, 15--], Signatures: [german cross]⁸a-z⁸A-R⁸S⁴., and Colophon: Stampato in Veneggia per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini di Sabbio. A instantia di M. Marchio Sessa. Anno Domini MDXXXIII.
