Manuscript sheet, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an anatomical drawing of a seated woman. Text includes descriptions of the different parts of the body
Alternative Title:
Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures : [a large anatomical drawing in color, surrounded by explanatory text]
Description:
In Middle French., Title from heading., Script: humanist hand., Layout: anatomical drawing in center, double columns of 80 lines surrounding and underneath drawing., No text on verso. Used as binding waste., Included in a portfolio (66 x 51 cm.) with eight 58 x 38 cm. color photoreproductions., and Dr. Peter Jones, May, 2003, states that this single sheet most likely is a manuscript copy of the Jean Ruelle fugitive sheet (female figure only) Paris, 1540. cf. Carlino, A. Paper bodies ... London, 1999, page 171.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Human anatomy, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the Chirurgia (ff. 1r-25r) and the anonymous Chirurgia Salernitana or Bamberg Surgery (ff. 26r-41r).
Alternative Title:
Chirurgia : Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", Chirurgia, Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", and Bamberg Surgery
Description:
In Latin., First title from title page. Second title assigned by cataloger., Script: late carolingian minuscule., Decoration: ff. 1r-25r: one large twenty-line red initial; one- to three-line red initials with decorative flourishes. Ff. 26r-41r: one three-line red initial with gold background and blue floral decorations, two-line alternating red and blue initials. Rubrication throughout., Layout: ff. 1r-25r: 1 column of around 4o lines; ff. 26r-41r: 1 column of 33 lines., Binding: original wooden boards covered with tawed sheepskin. Cover has title and notarial sign in black ink. Remnants of 2 fore edge clasps closing to back cover., Bound with 14th-century fragment used as front pastedown, containing Ps-Bartholoaeus Mini De Senis's Tractatus de Herbis. Incipit: debent poni in ... Explicit: Syr[upus] acetos[us] val[et]., Place of production: origin said to be Italian. However, paleographical evidence points to a German origin. Fore edge clasps closing to back cover points to Spanish or Southern French origin of binding., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Surgery, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, containing a series of lectures on Hippocrates and Galen, numbered 1-103, delivered by Matteo Corti at Padua
Alternative Title:
Expositio in Aphorismos Hippocratis
Description:
In Latin., Title from heading., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 42 lines., and Binding: manuscript fragment on parchment reused for binding, containing a notarial registry of Amandola.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, and Manuscripts
Manuscript fragment on paper of the Consolatio peccatorum of Jacobus de Theramo, here in Czech translation. The Consolatio describes a lawsuit between the Devil (Beilal) and Jesus Christ, with Solomon presiding, in which the Devil sues Christ for having trespassed by descending into Hell to redeem lost souls. Leaf was formerly used as a pastedown
Alternative Title:
Consolatio peccatorum. Czech, Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum, and Processus Belial
Description:
In Czech., Layout: 2 columns of 44 lines, with unknown number of lines trimmed from top of leaf., Script: gothic cursiva., and Decoration: one 3-line initial in blue wash, one 3-line initial in red wash.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Theramo, 1349-1417. and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Mock trials, Redemption, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. Contains examples of ancient speeches from famous events in both Greek and Roman history. Also includes the funerary speech of Perides [sic], several speeches attributed to Philip of Macedonia, Demosthenes, Alexander, Nero, and many others. Also includes a speech by Ottoman envoys to Rhodes (dated to 1522) and an ultimatum of Suleiman I (1494-1566) to Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Description:
In French., Script: Gothica Semihybrida Formata (Bastarda)., Layout: ff. 2-57 single column of 40 lines; ff. 58-165 sincle column of 41 lines., Decoration: Line-fillers in the shape of a red or blue horizontal stroke heightened with liquid gold. Paragraph marks in liquid gold on a square red or blue background. 4- or 5-line painted initials. On the second front flyleaf verso full-page frontispiece: in an imitation wooden frame a room is depicted, in which twelve men are engaged in discussion., Binding: Original green velvet binding over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands; two velvet straps attached to the front board closing over pins in the rear board with two enamelled brass clasps with the arms of François II, duc de La Rochefoucauld, and his wife Anne de Polignac; gilt edges., and The original foliation in Roman numbers, at right in the upper margin of the rectos, is incomple.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Greece
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin, Church history, and History
Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550 شاهيدي ابراهيم ده ده
Published / Created:
1500-1699.
Call Number:
Turkish MSS suppl. 257
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript, on paper, of Kitāb-Şāhidī by Muġlavī Şāhidī İbrāhīm Dede, a Persian-Turkish dictionary in masnavi rhyme
Alternative Title:
Ṭuḥfe-i Şāhidī and تحفه شاهيدي
Description:
In Ottoman Turkish and Persian., Title from text opening., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Layout: Double columns of 15 lines. Catchword on each verso., Script: Naskh., Binding: Flap binding, marbled paper over paper pasteboards, brown leather spine. Upper board covered in repoussé/chased metal depicting two peacocks standing in a vegetation., Decoration: Illuminated opening bifolium with full-page miniature of a seated man on verso and floral decoration on facing recto. Illuminated floral headpiece at head of text; illuminated text frames; rubrication., and Later manuscript annotations on front and back pastedown. Calligraphic Besmele ( بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم) (f. 1a).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Şahidî İbrahim Dede, 1470-1550.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Turkish, Manuscripts, Turkish, Persian language, and Turkish
Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing a collection of texts on medicine and surgery. Includes: an index (front flyleaf recto), an unidentified medical text: A malis curis et a falsis (front flleaf verso), "Mens hominis discedendo alitur" (f. 1), a text on surgery: dicatur primo quid est chirurgia (ff. 2r-3v), Descriptions in Latin and Itailan of illnesses and presriptions for their cure (ff. 4r-71v), treatise on the science of medicine (ff. 72r-80r), index, prescriptions, and other notes (ff. 81-105).
Alternative Title:
Medical notebook ; in his autograph (Italian and Latin)
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Title devised by cataloger., Script: italic cursive., Layout: single column of around 20 lines., Binding: bound in a fourteenth-century vellum sheet of music (missal or antiphonary)., Author signs on f. 70 and ff. 72-80., and Dated on f. 37: September 1596, and f. 83: January 15th, 1604.
Subject (Topic):
Surgery, Manuscripts, Medical, Medicine, Practice, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Minorica elucidativa racionabilis separationis fratrum minoru[m] de observantia ab aliis fratribus eiusdem ordinis
Description:
BEIN Marston MS 277: Bound with manuscripts relating to the Franciscan Order., BEIN Marston MS 277: Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on verso F6: Mors tua mors [Christi] trans mu[n]di gaudia celi et dolor inferm. sint meditenda tibi. Armorial Bookplate of Marston. Gift of the Library Associates., BEIN Marston MS 277: Binding: sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491., Authorship also attributed to Alexander de Ariostis., and Signature: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁶ E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank).
A commonplace book containing lists of toasts, dances, songs and quotations assembled by Christopher Finn. A section entitled "Elegant extracts" appears to be an extract from "The unfashionable wife. A novel" (published in London, 1772), perhaps to be used for recitation. The section "Matter for letters" contains suggests for well-turned phrases for the beginning, middle, and 'subscription'. The last page contains instructions to the person who might find this volume, promising a reward; he provides not only his own address but those of two friends, one in Birmingham and one London and a note to his friends assuring them than he will re-imburse them the price of postage and the reward to the finder, clear evidence of how important this volume was to the author
Alternative Title:
Company keepers companion and Chrisr. Finn's book, written Decemr. [the] 20th, 1797
Description:
Christopher Finn was a Dubliner who resided at No. 20 Winetavern Street., In English., Title from title page., Bound in original marbled paper wrapped around seven sheets of paper to create the effect of a soft board; two card endpapers to the front only. Original blotting sheet loosely inserted. Ink stamp "C:F 3" to front board., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Social life and customs, Political ballads and songs, Irish, and Toasts
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
