Manuscript on paper (watermarks hidden in gutter) of alchemical texts including works by Albertus Magnus, Johannes Andreae, and Paracelsus. With treatises on the Philosopher's Stone and alchemical recipes
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: Written by 10 or more hands, all of the 17th and 18th centuries; most are cursive, but the one on ff. 176r-183r is gothic textura., Drawings in watercolor, of mediocre quality, including various symbolic depictions of alchemical processes taking place within flasks. Table of Hermes Trismegistus, f. 175r. Diagrams scattered throughout., and Binding: 18th century (?). Brown calf blind-tooled, edges gilt. Arms (unidentified) stamped on binding: on front, quarterly 1 and 4, barry of 6, 2 and 3, a lion rampant; inescutcheon, a bar fess impaled with barry of 6; the whole held by a two-headed eagle, displayed, below a crown. Back cover: barry of 8 impaled with a patriarchal cross on a hillock.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348., and Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, German poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript of two fragments of Isaiah. Also includes an unidentified folio
Description:
In Sahidic Coptic, Script: Uncial script. Multiple scribal hands., Decoration: Rubrication., and Black and red ink. Significant staining on leaves 2 and 3. Fiber backing used to support ff. Folio 1 preserves only one column per side; leaves 2-3 preserve two columns. Folio 1 contains a narrative about grapes, cutting, the Lord of Hosts, Judea (1r); strong drink, a cithara, a psaltery, and wine (1v). Folio 2 contains a narrative about eating and drinking, those whom God remembers, divine judgment (2r); and Isaiah 24:4-15 (2v). Folio 3 contains Isaiah 40:2-20.
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, Franciscan Use, created for a clergyman. Contains 1) Calendar, ff. 1r-12v; 2) Mass of the Virgin, ff. 13r-15v; 3) Gospel extracts, ff. 15v-19v; 4) "Obsecro te," "O intemerata," and other prayers, ff.19v-28v; 5) Office of the Dead, use of Rome, ff. 29r-61v; 6) Fifteen Gradual Psalms, ff. 61v-70r; 7) Hours of the Virgin, ff. 70r-121v; 8) Hours of the Cross, ff. 121v-127v; 9) Hours of the Spirit, ff. 127v-132v; 10) Office of the Dead, ff. 132v-134r; 11) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 134r-153r; 12) Preparation for the Mass, ff. 153r-164v. Items 5-6 belong after f. 132v; text on f. 29r continues from f.133v and Bound with contemporary illuminated manuscript on parchment containing 13) Benedictions, ff. 165r-173v; 14) Pontifical ordos, ff. 173v-180. Benedictions open with 3-line historiated initial. Rubrication. 2-line initials excised at f. 166 and f. 179
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 17-19 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: Forty historiated initials of approximately 6 lines. Inhabited full borders. Rubrication., Binding: nineteenth-century full brown calf. Covers framed with gilt and blind ornament; spine gilt and lettered. Spine title: Missale., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Nicetas, Archbishop of Heraclea, active 11th century
Published / Created:
[between 1550 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 257
Image Count:
456
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (polished).
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3467, 3486, 3488, 3489 and 3507; unidentified crossbow., Script: Written by a single scribe who is the same as Scribe 2 in Beinecke MS 289, as Scribe 3 in MS 290, and as Scribe 1 in MS 490., Floral headpiece, in red, on f. 9r; elaborate initials, 10- to 2-line, in red, throughout text, many with accompanying floral motifs. Headings and most marginalia in red., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges spattered red and blue/green. Rigid vellum case. According to J. L. Sharpe this manuscript was bound at the Jesuit College of Clermont, Paris.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicetas, Archbishop of Heraclea, active 11th century.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Mechthild of Hackeborn, Liber specialis gratiae (excerpts), f1r-5r; 2) Meditations of St Bernard (excerpts), f5v-8r; 3) Thomas à Kempis, Hortulus Rosarum, f8v-36v
Description:
The Liber specialis gratiae records the visions of Mechthild of Hackeborn as told to St. Gertrude Helfta (Gertrude the Great) and another unidentified nun-scribe., In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: Single columns of 21 lines. Ruled in plummet., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: 2-line red initials; rubricated., Binding: Modern gilt full red morocco by Charles de Samblanx (1855-1943). Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Spine reads: "Ortulus rosarum" and "Manuscrit du XVe." Marbled slipcase., Secundo folio: lens., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mechthild, of Hackeborn, 1241 or 1242-1299?
Subject (Topic):
Devotio moderna, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Meditation, Mysticism, Catholic Church, and Women mystics
Illuminated manuscript, in an unidentified hand, on parchment, of La Foy se complaignant and Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, two poems by a certain Nachier summoning Catholics to embark on a crusade. Rubricated
Alternative Title:
Foy se complaignant, Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, Complaincte de la Foy, Complainctes de la Foy, and Complaintes de la Foi
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Script: lettre bâtarde., Decoration: single large miniature (f.1r) shows Faith dressed in black, kneeling before a vision of God in heaven, accompanied by a white dog. The King of France (decorated with golden fleurs-de-lys) and other mounted courtiers advance from the right. The miniature is attributed to the Master of the Entry of François I. Initials in gold on a red or blue background. Rubricated., Binding: 18th-century brown calf, blind stamped with marbled paper flyleaves. Contained in brown box., Secundo Folio: A qui., Bookseller description available., Title assigned by cataloger., Both poems are unedited as of April 2023., and Title on spine: La foy se complaignant ms. sur velin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nachier.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Church History, Crusades, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 532
Image Count:
1416
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
Alternative Title:
Address to young men
Description:
In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing 8 chapters from a Latin manual on letter writing, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Chapters include: De principalibus partibus epistole; De accidentalibus epistolarum partibus; De titulorum epithetorum; De titulis et epithetis secularium et scholasticorum personarum; De kalendarum, nonarum et iduum invencione diversisque temporum annotacionibus; De annorum annotacionibus; De valedictorum positi. Also contains Samuel Karoch von Lichtenberg's Dialogus inter adolescentem et virginem, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Incipit: Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exara[tus] incipit foeliciter
Description:
In Latin., This manuscript is number 4 of 6 titles bound together. The other five texts are printed and include: 1) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Sermo de Passione Domini, nuper e Gallico in Latinum traductus (Strasbourg, [Matthias Schuerer], 1510). 2) Petrus de Rosenheim (1380-1433), Rationarium evangelistarum omnia in se evangelia prosa, versu, imaginibusque quam mirifice complectens, with woodcuts ([Pforzheim], Thomas Anshelm, 1505). 3) Caius Iulius Solinus, De memorabilibus mundi diligenter annotatus et indicio alphabetico prenotatus, ed. J. Badius Ascensius (Speyer, Conrad Hist, 1512). 4) Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus OCarm (1448-1516), Parthenice tertia, divarum Margaritẹ, Agathes, Luciẹ et Apoloniẹ agonas continens, with the commentary of J. Badius Ascensius (Paris, Jean Petit, 1507). 5) Franciscus Florius (c. 1428-after 1480), De amore Camilli et Emilie ([Paris], Jehan Lambert, s.d.)., Script: copied by one hand in two levels of script: large and bold Gothica Semihybrida Libraria for the headings and part of the text; small Gothica Semihybrida Currens for the glosses and part of the text., Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin quarter binding over wooden boards. Two brass clasps attached to the rear board., Decoration: red stroking of the majuscules. Rubricated throughout., and The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907 vol. 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Palm Sunday
Manuscript, on paper, of Walter (Gualterus) de Wervia, Expositio in Isagogen Porphyrii cum quaestionibus Iohannis Duns Scoti. Authorities quoted include Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, the Moderni, and Giles of Rome
Description:
Walter (Gualterus) de Wervia was born at Rijswijk in the Netherlands and died after 1472., In Latin., Script: Small Gothica Semihybrida Currens, in a single hand, with many abbreviations., Layout: Double columns of approximately 47 lines., Decoration: Undecorated. Drawing of a bearded bishop's (?) head, with the caption "Albertus" (i.e. Albertus Magnus), in the margin of f. 27v., Binding: Brown pigskin over pasteboard, the covers framed with a gold-tooled fillet. Rebacked. Spine with five raised bands and 19th-century red leather label with gold-tooled inscription in Gothic letters "Gualt. Burley 1481"., The acid ink has on many pages faded and damaged the paper and made reading difficult., and Number 2 of 2 items bound together. Item extent: 1 item (ii + 119 + 48 + ii leaves).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. and Premonstratensians.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism and interpretation, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript, on paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts related to geomancy, divination, alchemy, and astrology. The principal work is a Latin translation of the Geomancia of Alkardianus, usually attributed to Bernard Silvester. This text is heavily annotated and surrounded by other notes and shorter works
Description:
In Latin. and Binding: contemporary limp parchment wallet-style wrapper binding, cockled and damaged. Effaced lettering on upper cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alkardianus. and Bernard Silvestris, active 1136.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Astrology, Divination, Geomancy, and Manuscripts, Medieval
