Manuscript on parchment of Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1228-1298), Legenda aurea, in French translation according to Jean de Vignay (c. 1285-1350).
Description:
In Middle French., Script: Copied by various similar hands, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Formata (Bastarda)., Decoration: Red headings and underlinings; alternately red and blue paragraph marks; yellow heightening of majuscules; 2-line dentelle initials in gold, blue, and red, with white penwork; 3-line initials of the same type and with the same decoration; and on f. 1r, 6-line foliate initial and two-column-wide oblong miniature showing the translator presenting his work to queen Jeanne, ascribed to the Master of the Cité des dames., and Binding: Eighteenth century brown calfskin over cardboard, with undecorated covers but five raised bands and an inscription on the spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a description of several alchemical and medical ingredients and processes. Includes a table of contents, using alchemical symbols, on f. 1: Aurum potabile (ff. 1-4), Lapis animalis (ff. 4-14), Lapis Vegetabilis (ff. 14-19), Lapis mineralis (ff. 19-26), Aurum potabile (ff. 26-30), Tinctura cum mercurio (ff. 30-33), Tinctura magna (ff. 33-36), Das war Auz[] pota[]le (ff. 36-41), Testamentum Raimundi Lulii (ff. 41-58), [mercuriis?] corporibus, Sequitur solutiones, Tinctura animalis, Tinctura albedinis (ff. 77-80), Coagulatio Mercurii (ff. 80-82), De oro argento (ff. 82-83), Verus elixir (ff. 83-86), Secreta Antionii (ff. 86-92), Proiectio (ff. 92-99).
Description:
In Latin and German., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: headings in red ink. Spare rubrication., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: red vellum binding., and Foliation in later hand.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Materia medica, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Minorica elucidativa racionabilis separationis fratrum minoru[m] de observantia ab aliis fratribus eiusdem ordinis
Description:
BEIN Marston MS 277: Bound with manuscripts relating to the Franciscan Order., BEIN Marston MS 277: Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on verso F6: Mors tua mors [Christi] trans mu[n]di gaudia celi et dolor inferm. sint meditenda tibi. Armorial Bookplate of Marston. Gift of the Library Associates., BEIN Marston MS 277: Binding: sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491., Authorship also attributed to Alexander de Ariostis., and Signature: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁶ E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank).
BEIN 2017 +313: Capital spaces with manuscript guide-letters. Capitals supplied in red or blue. Some Latin manuscript marginal notes. Contempory note on author and his times on front flyleaf., BEIN 2017 +313: Provenance: 1. Antonio Pillone, 2. Odorico Pillone, 3. Venetian dealer Paolo Maresio Bazolle purchased from the Pillone family in 1874 and sold to 4. Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate) sold by his heirs in 1957 to 5. Pierre Berès (Bookplate: Libro no [in manuscript: 58] de la Bibliothèque Pillone, Pierre Berès). Acquired by the Beinecke Library from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., BEIN 2017 +313: Binding: Contemporary Italian goatskin over wooden boards, blind-tooled by Belluno binder A (see Hobson tools 3, 7 and 10), 7 (of 10) bosses, 2 clasps and catches, vellum endleaves. Title lettered in ink on upper cover "iulii [cor.tacitus] agricolae vita." Fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of Tacitus with his name abbreviated at bottom: COR T. See Hobson, A. "Pillone library." in Book collector, v. 7 (1958), 28-37., BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 1: Book-plate of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex. A few manuscript notes in margins. Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 175-176 (c.sigs.&⁷⁻⁸, &8 blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting; the text of f. 175a has been supplied in manuscript on a sheet of paper pasted at the bottom of f. 174b. Slightly water-stained., BEIN Zi +5838 Copy 2: Book-plate with the letters B and O in center. From the library of Dean Clarence W. Mendell. 27 cm. Ff. 1, 160 (c.sig.y10, blank), 176 (c.sig.&8, blank) and 188 (c.sig.B6, blank) wanting. Water-stained, worm-holes in the beginning; f. 2 mended. Old polished calf binding, stamped in gold., Ff. 160 (c.sig.y10), 175 b (c.sig.&7), 176 (c.sig.&8), 187b (c.sig.B5) and 188 (c.sig.B6) blank., The second, third, and fourth sheets of quire a are signed a¹⁻³, the rest of the quire being unsigned., Capital spaces blank., and Hain gives no imprint or date; Proctor leaved the book undated; Copinger and Voullième (in the Bonn catalogue) ascribe the printing to Christophorus Valdarfer, between 1475 and 1480, but in the Berlin Catalogue Voullième names Zarotus as printer and omits the date; Castan and Brunet date the book between 1475 and 1480, but name no printer; Collijn dates the book at about 1490; The Brit. museum cat. dates the book about 1487.
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.
ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378 عثماني، محمد بن عبد الرحمن، ناشط 1378
Published / Created:
1498.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 610
Image Count:
484
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Raḥmat al-ummah fī ikhtilāf al-aimmah "Mercy of the nation in the differences of the scholars." A treatise on the different opinions and interpretations of leading Islamic law scholars pertaining to legal matters, by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʻUthmānī (active 1378), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law scholar, originally from Damascus (Syria) who became the Qāḍī (Chief Judge) of Ṣafad. The author finished writing his treatise on Tuesday, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī (9 March, 1379), in Ṣafad (Tsefat, Israel). Copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī (or al-Jaʻbarī ?) al-Hāshimī on Saturday, 12 Ramaḍān, 903 (13 May, 1498) in the city of Salānīk (Selânik, Turkey), from the copy which had been copied in Muḥarram, 855 Hijrī (February/March, 1451) by Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqriʼ al-Azʹharī (1407 or 1408-1489), a well-known Egyptian muqriʼ "Qurʼan reciter" and Qurʼanic scholar
In Arabic., Title from folio 2a., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī ajzala iḥsānah wa-anzala Qurʼānah wa-bayyana fīhi qawāʻid dīnih wa-arkānah, thumma jaʻala ilá Nabīyih bayānah, wa-awḍaḥa dhālika li-aṣḥābih fī ḥayātih, thumma tafarraqū baʻda wafātih yabtaghūna faḍlan min Allāh wa-ruḍwānih ...", Secundo folio: ṭarīqah wa-aḥsan namaṭ., 12.5 x 17.5 cm; written surface: 8.5 x 12.5; 15 lines per page., Binding: In dark brown leather binding with flap (in 24 numbered quires), central medallion on both covers., In good naskh script; in black ink, on white paper; headings and markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords. Some parts of the manuscripts are replaced in different hands: folios 1b-7b (written surface: 9 x 15 cm, 21 lines per page, in fair naskh taʻlīq script); folios 53a-54b (written surface: 9.5 x 14.5, 15 lines per page, in fair ruqʻah script)., Pages also numbered in Indian numerals: 1-474., Text folios 1b-236b (pages 1-472)., Includes an elaborate index of contents: Folios 237a-237b (pages 473-474)., On folio 1a: "Hādhā Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah, al-musammá, Raḥmat al-ummah, taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī, taghammadahu Allāh bi-ruḍwānih. Āmīn. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. Āmīn.", On the margin of page 472: "... Ṭālaʻa fī hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sibāhī bi-Dimashq al-maḥrūsah, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-man daʻá la-hu bi-al-maghfirah. Āmīn. Fī tāsiʻ wa-ʻshrīn shahr al-Ḥijjah sanat arbaʻ wa-ʻishrīn [year not mentioned].", Author's colophon: "Qāla muʼallifuhu, raḥimahu Allāh raḥmatan wāsiʻah wa-nafaʻanā bi-barakatihi wa-ʻilmih, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, Qāḍī Ṣafad al-Shāfiʻī: Faraghtu min taʼlīf hādhā al-kitāb al-mubārak fī laylah yusfiru ṣabāḥuhā ʻan nahār al-Thulāthāʼ, ḥādī ʻashar Dhī al-Qaʻdah al-ḥarām, sanata thamānīn wa-sabʻimiʼah bi-rabḍ Ṣafad, ḥamāhā Allāh taʻālá.", Translation of the author's colophon: "The author (Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Qurashī al-ʻUthmānī, the Chief Judge of Ṣafad), may God have abundant mercy upon him, and may He benefit us by his blessing and knowledge, said: I finished writing this blessed book on Tuesday morning, 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah, 780 Hijrī [9 March, 1379], in the city of Ṣafad, may God protect it.", Copyist colophon: "Qāla kātibuhu al-ʻabd al-faqīr al-muʻtarif bi-al-dhanb wa-al-taqṣīr, al-rājī ʻafwa rabbihi al-qadīr, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban: Katabtuhu min nuskhah waqaʻat bi-yadī bi-madīnat Salānīk min arḍ al-Rūm, maktūb fīhā: Qāla kātib hādhihi al-nuskhah bi-yadihi al-fāniyah li-nafsih wa-liman shāʼa Allāh min baʻdih, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī nazīl al-Qāhirah al-maḥrūsah, fī shahr Allāh al-Muḥarram al-ḥarām, sanat khams wa-khamsīn wa-thamānimiʼah. Wa-faraghtu min kitābatihi yawm al-Sabt baʻda al-ẓuhr bi-madīnat Salānīk al-madhkūrah fī thānī ʻashar min shahr Ramaḍān min shuhūr sanat thalāth wa-tisʻmiʼah. Allāhumma ighfir lanā wa-li-wālidaynā wa-li-mashāyikhinā wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn ajmaʻīn, yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn.", and Translation of the copyist colophon: "The copyist ... Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Jafrī [or al-Jaʻbarī (?)] baladan, al-Hāshimī nasaban, said: I copied this copy from a copy I saw in the city of Salānīk ... in which was written: The copyist of this book, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Jaʻfar ibn Sulaymān al-Sanhūrī al-muqrī al-Azʹharī, copied it for himself ... in Muḥarram, 855 [February/March, 1451]. The present copy was completed on Saturday afternoon, in the afore mentioned city of Salānīk on 12 Ramaḍān, 903 Hijrī [13 May, 1498] ..."
Subject (Name):
Sanhūrī, Jaʻfar ibn Ibrāhīm, 1407 or 1408-1489. and ʻUthmānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 1378.
Guglielmo, da Saliceto, approximately 1210-1276 or 1277
Published / Created:
1473.
Call Number:
Manuscript 54 vault
Image Count:
734
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, on paper, in two unidentified hands, containing Guglielmo da Saliceto's Summa conservationis et curationis (ff. 1r-275r). Followed, in a third hand, by an alphabetical glossary of plants in Latin and German (ff. 275r-278r). Ends with the text of the Chirurgia (ff. 280-364), ending imperfectly. Texts of the Summa conservationes et curationis and of the Chirurgia were likely written separately in Italy, but bound in Germany
Alternative Title:
Summa conservationis & curatione : [and] cyrurgia
Description:
In Latin and German., Title from title page (front flyleaf)., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: double column of 51 lines., Binding: German 16th-century half blind-tooled pigskin binding over oak boards with two fore-edge brass clasps, with catches on the upper board. Lower board repaired with one clasp missing. Parchment binding stay (Germany, 15th-century) between ff. 10 and 11). Binding was rebacked and repaired in the 20th century; pastedown and flyleaf were added (watermark "P" with 4 petals on top, not located in Briquet). Leather spinal label with a gold-tooled title: "Guilielmi/ Placentini De [?]/ Saliceto Summa/ Conservationis/ Et Curationis/ 1473"., Title page has colophon: Wilhelmi Placentini medici de Saliceto summa conservationis et curationis -- item Chirurgia. 1473. Claruit auctor tempore Rudolphi I imp..., End of Summa (f. 275) has colophon: Explicit liber quart et ultimus practice phisicalis excellentissimi magistri guilhelmi piacentini 1473., and Two units foliated separately.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery, Medieval
