Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
Alternative Title:
[Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Old Believer anthology of readings for the Church holidays, saints' lives, and polemical treatises with emphasis on eschatology and asceticism. Includes vitae of St. Basil the Younger, Euphrosyne of Alexandria, St. Febronia, St. Alexius; eschatological works of Palladius and Cyril of Alexandria; treatises on repentance, drunkenness, meekness, mourning, judgment, bearing pain and suffering, loving God, and abstaining from evil thoughts. Also includes tales on the martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria, the mercy of the Virgin Mary, and short excerpts on shaving.
Description:
Bound in boards covered with stamped leather, spine restored. Fragments of two clasps., Leaves 1-114: Skazanie ō zhitii i ōt︠c︡hasti chi︠u︡desʺ prepodobnago Vasilīę Novago / napisano Grigorīemʺ mnikhomʺ ouchnikomʺ ego. Leaves 115-127: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a sentębrę vʺ 25 denʹ, zhitīe prepodobnyi︠a︡ matere nasheę Eufrosinīi aleksandrěĭskīę. -- Leaves 128-156v.: Vʺ nedeli︠u︡ męsopustnui︠u︡, prepodobnago ōt︠t︠︡s︡a nashegoPaladīę mnikha. Slovo o vtoromʺ prishestvīi Xristově i ō strashnom sudě / Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna. -- Leaves 157-159v.: Ezhe ne gněvatisę ni pamętozlobstvovati nikakogozhe. -- Leaves 161-181v.: Izhe vo svi︠a︡tykh ōt︠t︠s︡a nashego Kirila aleksandrīiskago arkhiepiskopa, Slovo v neděli︠u︡ męsopustnui︠u︡, vypisano is knigi Sobornika pechatnogo / Saint Cyril. -- Leaves 181-182v.: Vʺ toĭ zhe denʹ slovo Iōanna Zlatoustago ō pokaęnīi / Saint John Chrysostom., Leaves 184-186: Ō neizglagolannomʺ miloserdīi Bogoroditsy kʺ někoĭ t︠s︡erkovnit︠s︡e i o pokaęnīi. -- Leaves 187-224v. Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a iu︠l︡i︠a︡ vʺ 25 denʹ, zhitīe i stradanīe svi︠a︡tyęmnogostradalʹnyě prepodomnomuchenit︠s︡y Fevronīi. -- Leaves 225-249: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡anoębrę vʺ 24 denʹ, muchenīe svi︠a︡tyę velikomuchenit︠s︡y Ekateriny filosofit︠s︡y. -- Leaves 249-258v.: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a martavʺ 17 denʹ, zhitīe svi︠a︡tago pravednago Aleksěę cheloveka bozhīę. -- Leaves 259-274v.: I︠a︡ko podobaetʺ popechenie iměti ō sobornykh dělex i o sluzhbakhʺ, vʺ neĭ zhe kozhdo uchinenʺ bystʹ., Leaves 275-277v.: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a aprělę vʺ 7 denʹ, pouchenie kʺ t︠s︡aremʺ i kni︠azemʺi episkopomʺ i popomʺ i ko vsěmʺ khristianomʺ izhe ne oupivatisę. -- Leaves 278-278v.: Mesi︠a︡t︠s︡a maię vʺ 31 denʹ, slovo Ioanna Zlataustago o smirenīi / Saint John Chrysostom. -- Leaves 278v.-283v.: O polzě skorbei. -- Leaves 285-285v.: Vʺ toizhe denʹ slovo ot zhitię svętago Andreę i Epifanię. -- Leaves 286-289v.: Ō ezhe ne osuzhati nikogozhe inogo naipache svoi︠a︡ zrěti zlaę. -- Leaves 289v.-295: Ō ezhe terpěti vsę nakhodęshtai︠a︡ doblestně. -- Leaves 295-299v.: Ezhe vsegda kaętisę i plakati o sogrěshenikhʺsvoikh. -- Leaves 299v.-302v.: O ezhe ko edinomu Bogu iměti li︠u︡bovʹ. -- Leaves 303-318v.: Vypisano is knigi Kormʺchię., Purchased from Svetlana Aronov on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund, 1997. 19th-century library stamp, illegible (leaf 318v.)., Semi-uncial script, several scribes., Several full page illustrations (leaves 127v, 160, 160v, 186, 248v) with additional border decorations and outlines of frames throughout., and Watermark: crest of the city of Amsterdam (Dianova, 1980, #173 (1697); #175 (1698)).
Subject (Name):
Alexius,--Saint., Basil the Younger,--Saint,--ca. 870-952?, Catherine,--of Alexandria, Saint., Cyril,--Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria,--approximately 370-444., Euphrosyne,--Saint., Febronia,--Saint., John Chrysostom,--Saint,---407., Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles., and Palladius,--Bishop of Aspuna,---approximately 430.
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints--Rome--Biography., Christian sects--Russia., Eschatology--Orthodox Eastern Church--Russia., Old Believers., Shaving--Moral and religious aspects., and Theology, Eastern Church--Russia.
Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
Alternative Title:
Opera
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1550]
Call Number:
Manuscript 55 vault
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript fragments of medical interest, on parchment, of a collection of Orationes in Ludolf von Sachsen's Vita Christi. F. 1: inveniri. Fac ut voluntatem ... resurgat a peccatis. (I. 40-42); f. 2: Domine deus om[n]ipotens ... verbo dei ac mee [et] (I. 71-72); f. 3: Presta misericors deus ... stent portitores occasiones pec (I. 42-44); f. 4: aliorum saluti. Amen ... preterit a peccata (I. 73-74); f. 5: tionum flatibus et motibus ... crucis ascendisti in (I. 46-48).
Alternative Title:
Vita Christi
Description:
In Latin., Formerly known as "The Book of Hours." Leaves identified by Peter Kidd, 2017, as part of the Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony. Additional leaves discovered in the Harry Ransom, HRC Leaf 18, and Detroit Art Institute, reference number 69.277., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: text in yellow frame. Two-line initials in white, blue, and gold with floral motifs. Titles in blue ink. Red, blue, and gold line fillers., Ten miniatures in ink, tempera, and gold, framed by columns: Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, heals man with leprosy (f. 1r); Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, stands beside centurion and bed-ridden servant (f. 1v); Jesus stands in field of wheat, accompanied by three apostles (f. 2r); Jesus, accompanied by apostle, heals man with withered hand--two men (Pharisees) stand behind him (f. 2v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 3v); Jesus raises child from grave--mother looks on (f. 3v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 4r); Jesus in front of city, talks to crowd (f. 4v); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, frees two possessed men from black and gold demons (f. 5r); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, heals bed-ridden paralyzed man (f. 5v)., Layout: written in 1 column of 21 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., and Foliation of original sequence(?) in modern pencil on recto: 38, 55, 39, 72, 72.y52; and foliation of order of fragments (i.e., 1-5) in modern pencil on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Healing, Biblical teaching, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on vellum, in a single hand, of 21 elaborately illuminated pages, each with a unique decorative boarder, illustrating the ancestry of Lady Henrietta Pomfret and Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl Pomfret as descended from King Edward I. The genealogy appears on each recto; on the facing-page verso is painted a sprouting pineapple plant decorated with coats of arms. On the first page, opposite a portrait of Edward I, are letters illuminated with gold leaf
Description:
In English., Note, in 19th century hand, pasted on front flyleaf: From Horace Walpole's letters to Sir Hor. Mann, Sept. 1st, 1750, "I have seen one [a pedigree] infinitely richer and better done, it is for my Lady Pomfret. She and my Lord both descend from King Edward I by his two Queens. The Pedigree is painted in a book; instead of a vulgar genealogical tree, she has devised a pine-apple plant, sprouting out of a basket on which is King Edward's head; on the leaves are all the intermediate arms." v. 2, p. 222. 1857 ed., Binding: full calf with marble endpapers; elaborately tooled in gilt with the initials "HP" tooled on front cover; new spine., and For further information consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307, Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys Fermor, Countess of, 1700?-1761., and Pomfret, Thomas Fermor, Earl 1698-1753.
