Manuscript on parchment containing emblematical drawings related to horology and astrology, and astrological tables, each section opening with an elaborate title page
Description:
In Latin, Hebrew, and Greek., Script: Written epigraphically and always with great calligraphic skill in a variety of styles by a single practiced hand, possibly the same which executed the drawings., Each page of the manuscript has a pen-drawn border on the recto side, containing an emblematical drawing, or complex calendrical or horological drawing, executed in pen and heightened with gold and silver., and Binding: Original calf binding, now rather deteriorated, the sides very elaborately gold-tooled in a multiple rectangle pattern, the large innermost rectangle with a series of circles containing floral ornaments, similar half-circles at the edges, the back in compartments with floral decoration; marbled endpapers, plain edges.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Origen, De Engastrimytho. 2) Eustathius, De Engastrimytho contra Origenem. 3) Gregory of Nyssa, Epistola de Pythonissa ad Theodosium episcopum. 4) Zeno, Admonitio de unione
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: Harlfinger Lettre 18 and similar to Briquet Lettre M 8392 and Monts 11932., Script: Written by a single scribe in calligraphic minuscule., and Binding: Date? The binding has been removed along with all flyleaves. Sewn with long stitches over two pieces of tawed skin to a narrow piece of vellum which is wrapped around the spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Origen. and Witch of Endor (Biblical figure)
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pastoral literature, Greek
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 on paper (watermarks: partial, unidentified) of Jacobus Manas, Encomium of Joannes Constantinus Bassarabas. With Jacobus Manas, Epigram on Joannes Constantinus Bassarabas
Description:
Jacobus Manas and the Bassarabas family are mentioned by S. Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity (Cambridge, 1968) pp. 360-84., In Greek., Script: Written by two copyists who date their work: 1720, 1721, 1729. Scribe 1 (also Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 297, and 300, etc.) wrote ff. iv-4v and gives his name as Constantine Raphael Byzantinus; he dates his work on f. 2v (1721) and on f. 4v (1729). Scribe 2 (ff. 5r-42r) dates his section on f. 5r (1720)., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown goatskin gold-stamped with portrait heads in a foliage border and flowers in central panel. Title on spine reads Demetrius Moschopo[li]tes (author of the life of Jacobus Manas). A green tie.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus Manas.
Subject (Topic):
Greek poetry, Modern, Laudatory poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (thick, with a slight shine; no watermarks visible) of liturgies of the Greek Orthodox Church, prayers, and sermons
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written in a large, bold minuscule by a single scribe., Three miniatures of good quality in Western style added later (19th century?) on blank folios: f. 1v, Sts. Basil, John Chrysostom and Gregory of Nazianzus, all in priestly vestments, in an elaborate red border; f. 23v, Mother of God between two angels swinging censers; f. 53v, Christ on a bier, in front of a patriarchal cross, flanked by angels swinging a censer and burning incense. Original decoration: elaborate headpieces, 4- to 2-line initials with stylized florals, plain 1-line initials and headings, all in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf, gold-tooled, with a black label. On the spine, "LITURG. GRAEC. M. S.".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Liturgics, Manuscripts, Medieval, Prayers, and Sermons, Greek
Manuscript on paper of notes concerning Arcturus and the Pleiades; Preface to Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus; Geoponica
Description:
In Greek., Watermark: similar to Briquet 2538., Script: Written by a scribe associated with Georgius Moschos., Decorative designs, in red, on f. 6v and 90r; headings and initials in red., and Binding: Seventeenth century. French calf with original front wrapper as flyleaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Greek literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (polished, except for ff. 129-136) of Passages on Asceticism by various authors, including John Chrysostom, Basil, Isidore, Theodoretus, Maximus, Nilus. With other theological texts, especially concerning monasticism
Description:
In Greek., Unidentified watermarks: anchor in circle., Script: Written by a single scribe who signed himself "Callistus the holy deacon"., Simple headpieces on ff. 1r, 34r, 58r, 60v, 74r. Initials and headings, in red, for each new passage. Crudely drawn angel hovers over top of initial, f. 34r; birds perch on others. Folios 129-136 are not rubricated., and Binding: Date? Pastedowns sewn with bookblock. Three chain-stitched supports. Endbands attached to the square-edged, flush wooden boards. Loops of thread around the edges of the quires at head and tail. The spine is square and lined all along with vellum extending onto the inside of the boards and there seem to be lining strips extending on the outside of the boards also. Two pin holes with stubs of iron pins in them in the edges of the upper board and two holes for each strap on the lower. Rebacked. Covered with 13th-century Greek manuscript fragment containing musical notation, with front flyleaf from the same manuscript, and back flyleaf from a 12th century Greek liturgical text (all badly rubbed).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700.
Subject (Topic):
Asceticism, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monastic and religious life, and Theology