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28. Super metaphysicam, Super De causis
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 265
- Image Count:
- 270
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality), composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Thomas Aquinas, Super Metaphysicam. Part II: Thomas Aquinas, Super de causis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Written by a single scribe in small gothic book hand. Part II (ff. 121-132): Written in a less accomplished gothic script than that in Part I., Part I: One illuminated initial, rubbed, f. 1r: blue with white highlights on dark red ground with white highlights; terminals of ground extend up and down as modest border in blue, dark red and gold. Flourished initials of various sizes, styles and quality: blue with red penwork designs, red with blue, red with purple (ff. 75r-119r) and red and blue divided with penwork in purple (e.g., f. 88v); some flourished initials with border extensions (e.g., f. 110v). Running headlines in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Traces of guide letters for decorator. Part II: Spaces for decorative initials remain unfilled., and Binding: 14th-15th centuries, Spain. Original sewing on five tawed skin, double supports laced into beech boards. Plain, wound natural color endbands. Single parchment leaf (front) and bifolium (rear), from what appear to be two different Hebrew Bible manuscripts, serve as pastedowns and spine-lining; they have been cut out around the sewing supports. Yellow edges. Covered in what was originally blue tawed skin (now faded) with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails. Traces of title (?) scratched onto skin of upper board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle. and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Ancient, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Super metaphysicam, Super De causis
29. Topica
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500, ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 542
- Image Count:
- 420
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I: Aristoteles, Topica. First folio of De sophisticis elenchis inserted after f. 137. Many folios replaced on 16th-century paper. Part II: 1) Heraclius (attributed author), Brontologion (Rules for interpreting thunder). 2) Ezra the Prophet (attributed author), Prognosis (Weather prophecies). 3) Stories from the Old Testament. The 2 parts of the book were probably bound together in Venice about 1500
- Description:
- In Greek., Headings in red., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Italian blind-tooled calf with unidentified arms in gilt on both covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Topica
