BEIN MS 1042.3: Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 24 leaves from quires b, c, e and g., BEIN MS 1042.3: These fragments were removed from the original binding of the manuscript Harangues et oraisons des anciens, Beinecke MS 1042 (Paris, circa 1530). From the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand. Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., BEIN MS 1042.3: Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Fragments d'un livre imprimé à Angoulême, à une date inconnue et intitulé: Auctores octo., Signatures: a-r⁸ s⁶., Description based on Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 2777., and "... correcto[rum] impresso[rum][que] engolisme die .xvii. mensis maii. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxi."--Colophon.
Publisher:
Petrus Alanus and Andreas Calvinus
Subject (Topic):
Fables, Christian ethics, and Christian philosophy
BEIN MS 1042.2: Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 16 leaves from first two quires., BEIN MS 1042.2: These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens, Beinecke MS 1042 (Paris, circa 1530). From the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand. Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., BEIN MS 1042.2: Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Cahier A et B d'un livret imprimé à Angoulême en 1491 et intitulé: Questiones super minorem Donatum., Description based on bibliographies., and "Expliciunt questiuncule gra[m]maticales super donatum minorem engolisme impresse bene vise [et] correcte. Anno salutis christiane .M.CCCC.xCii.xvi. die mensis aprilis"--Colophon.
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
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
