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2.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1700]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 72
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Horology, and Astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum
3.
- Creator:
- Africanus, Sextus Julius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1580]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 276
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Greek., Same watermark as Harlfinger Croix 41, from a manuscript signed by Andreas Darmarius and dated 5 April 1582., Script: Written by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who signed the completed manuscript., Headpiece in black ink, on f. 1r. Headings and chapter notations, in red. 3-line initial, with decoration above and below letter, in red on f. 4r; other small initials in red throughout codex at beginning of each section., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Limp green vellum case, blue-green edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Africanus, Sextus Julius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography, Ancient, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cestoi
4.
- Creator:
- Origen
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 288
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De engastrimytho, etc
5.
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legendis gentilium libris
6.
- Creator:
- Jacobus Manas
- Published / Created:
- 1720, 1721, 1729.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 295
- Image Count:
- 100
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Encomium, etc
7.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 302
- Image Count:
- 258
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Euchologium
8.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1510]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 606
- Image Count:
- 154
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Geoponica
9.
- Creator:
- Simeon Monachus
- Published / Created:
- 1608.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 807
- Image Count:
- 453
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Simeon Monachus, Hai ton pathon kategorici (on the confession of sins).
- Description:
- In Greek.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Simeon Monachus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Confession and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hai ton pathon kategorici
10.
- Published / Created:
- [after 1457]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 48
- Image Count:
- 510
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti
- Description:
- In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Strambotto
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanistic commonplace book
