Manuscript fragment on parchment of Bernardo of Parma's gloss on the Decretals of Gregory IX, including sections over liber III.
Description:
Decoration: running heads, initials, and rubrics in red; some contemporary marginal commentary., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated gothic script., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +156 (Bernhard von Breydenbach, Prefatio in opus transmarine...), in which the fragments are used as front and back endpapers.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law--Commentaries., Decretals., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., and Binding: modern vellum boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Herbals, Herbs, Therapeutic use, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Bar scale given in "milliaria Germanica communia/gemeyne Duytsche mylen"., Relief shown pictorially., Sheet measures 41.3 x 53.7 cm. With watermarks., and With inset map: "d'Eylanden Texel Vlielandt en der Schelling".
Manuscript on paper (incomplete) of texts on various religious, devotional, and historical themes. Contents include Kirakos Vardapet, On the eight sacraments, ff. 1r-6v; treatises on gastronomy, adultery, avarice, melancholy, passion, idleness, vainglory, and pride, ff. 6v-42r; Story of the Hermit Macarius and the conversion of the Emir of Nisibis (incomplete), ff. 52r-125r; Story of the Greek emperor Heraclius on the discovery of the Holy Cross, ff. 125r-153r; Story of young Mehmet, ff. 153r-158v; Bishop Methodius, Commentary on the vision of the prophet Daniel, ff. 162r-181v; Victory of the Christians, ff. 181v-196r; Agadon, History of the propitious times when the power of the Armenians increased..., ff. 196v-219v; Miraculous deeds of St. Minas, ff. 220v-231r; Life and martyrdom of the Patriarch St. Cyril of Jerusalem, ff. 266v-284v; Moses of Khoren, Life of St. Hṙip'simē, ff. 284v-293v; and Anania Vardapet, Homily on St. John, ff. 305r-320r
Description:
In Armenian., Layout: one column of 15-24 lines., Script: notragir., Decoration: rubrication., Binding: mutilated leather over boards, with striped linen doublures. Two parchment flyleaves at beginning from a 10th-century manuscript, and two paper flyleaves at end from a 12th-century manuscript, both in erkat'agir., Principal colophon wanting. Dating suggested by paleography. An inscription on f. 196r indicates that the manuscript was copied by the scribe Yandrēas., and Some leaves disordered; some missing, including one quire between ff. 51 and 52.
Subject (Geographic):
Armenia
Subject (Name):
Cyril, Saint, Bishop of Jerusalem, approximately 315-386., Heraclius, Emperor of the East, approximately 575-641., Hṛipʻsime, Saint., Macarius, the Egyptian, Saint, active 4th century., Miniatus, Saint, active 3rd century., and Armenian Church
Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii. German and Moscovia der Hauptstat in Reissen
Description:
BEIN 2011 +124: Bookplate of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Unidentified stamp. Manuscript waste used in binding., Translation by the author from his original Latin edition., Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-D⁴ E² F-Y⁴ Z²., and Map title: Moscovia Sigmunds Freyherns zu Herberstain, Neyperg und Guetenhag u. verteutscht.
Publisher:
Getruckht zu Wienn in Osterreich durch Michael Zimmerman ...
Tartariae Europaeae seu Minoris et in specie Crimeae delineatio Geographica
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated along fold. Watermark. Manuscript number in upper right corner: 69. Reinforced with manuscript waste on verso. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection. and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
[Matthaeus Seutter]
Subject (Geographic):
Black Sea Region--Maps--Early works to 1800. and Crimea (Ukraine)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
"Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Maj.", Inset in upper right margin shows continuation of Halland., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermark. Manuscript number in upper right corner. Manuscript waste pasted to verso. From the Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection.
Publisher:
[Johann Baptist Homann]
Subject (Geographic):
Blekinge län (Sweden)--Maps--Early works to 1800., Hallands län (Sweden)--Maps--Early works to 1800., Skåne (Sweden)--Maps--Early works to 1800., Sweden--Blekinge län, Sweden--Hallands län, and Sweden--Ma
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Expositio in canticum canticorum, containing points 7, 9, and 14.
Alternative Title:
Works. 1480.
Description:
Both blank leaves wanting; mildewed, with considerable damage to paper at beginning and end of the volume, affecting the text of the last two leaves of letterpress. Bound in old stamped leather over wooden boards, lined with sheets of vellum manuscript (canon law); front, top, and bottom clasps; the hooks of the clasps, and the catches of the front cover are missing. Imperfect copy. For fuller description see collation leaf in volume., Bound with: 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +7157 2, Capital spaces., and Fol. 1 and 168 blank.
Sacrae cantiones, voices (5) (1562) and Sacrae cantiones, vulgo motecta appellatae, quinque vocum
Description:
BEIN MS 853: Bound with: Regnart, Jacob. Sacrae aliquot cantiones. Monachii : Excudebat Adamus Berg, anno Domini 1575 -- Salé, François. Francisi Sale musici caesarei Sacrarum cantionum ... liber primus. Pragae : Typis Georgii Nigrini, anno 1593 -- [Music manuscript]., BEIN MS 853: From the library of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Latin inscription on front pastedown. Bookplate removed. Bound in blindstamped half vellum and boards decorated with a ms. leaf., Tenor part only of motets for 5 voices., Latin words., Signatures: 2a-2f⁴., and Woodcut armorial crest of the dukes of Bavaria on t.p. verso.
Publisher:
In officina typographica Catharinae Gerlachiae
Subject (Topic):
Motets and Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Rubricated throughout; capitals in red and blue with initial strokes; paragraph marks and underlining in red; some yellow decoration. Printer's device below colophon decorated with red and yellow. Contemporary shelf-title on tail-edge: Scotus sup quatuor libs siñau., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Imperfect: some minor worming at front with slight damage to text and binding., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Provenance: "1490 Magister Georgius La[e]nntsch de Elling[e]n" (manuscript on page [1]); "Fouxetion" [?] (manuscript on front pastedown endpaper); "Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln, Das schöne gedruckte Buch, im ersten Jahrhundert nach Gutenberg" (bookplate). Marginal annotations throughout in the hand of Georg Läntsch von Ellingen. Ink manuscript sale catalog numbers on front and rear pastedown endpapers and relevant bibliographic citations on rear pastedown endpaper, dated 1948., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf binding with metal clasps. Rebacked in 17th century with pigskin; later leather label on spine. Paper stubs sewn in at end to stabilize binding by 21st-century binder. Manuscript quiring, mostly cut away., Commentary (based on Duns Scotus) on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris., Title from page [2]., Imprint from colophon (page [355])., Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2-11⁸ 12¹⁰ 13-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-22⁸]., Text in double columns; 60 lines and head-line; capital spaces., and Printer's device in colophon.
Publisher:
Spirensis ciuis Drach Petrus arte sua
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
