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2.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1470-1530.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1274
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 131
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript compendium of astronomical and astrological texts, including a version of the Kalendarium of Regiomontanus, with lunar eclipse tables for the years 1475-1530 and a solar calendar for 1475-1513. Other contents include a number of astronomical and astrological tables and texts. including a poem on auspicious and inauspicious days (first line: "Fortunata dies operum disponere causas"); the Canon de aspectibus planetarum; the Cognitiones naturarum secundum nativtates; and a variety of prognostic texts based on zodiac signs and the day of the week on which January 1 falls in a given year. The volume also contains several quadrant diagrams and a working volvelle
- Description:
- In Latin., Bookseller description available., Inscribed at the head of 2r: S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo., Signature of Joseff Gregri da Bologna? on back cover., Bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman on front pastedown., Tipped in before f1: printed catalog description of this volume, undated., Layout: main text in single columns of approximately 35 lines; wide margins., Script: gothica textualis italiana., Decoration: rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink, some with penwork flourishing; many blank spaces for initials. Illustrations of lunar eclipses. Charts, diagrams, and volvelles in red, blue and brown ink., and Binding: contemporary boards, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astrology, Italian, Astronomy, Calendars, Lunar eclipses, Quadrants (Astronomical instruments), Solar eclipses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of astronomical texts
3.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Incunabula +E-113 (Goff)
- Image Count:
- 610
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in several unidentified hands, containing a collection of 30 astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and matematical instruments, such as the organ, clavichord, Turkish instrument, cylindrical clocks, sundial, astrolabe, etc. Texts include treatises by Franco de Polonia, (Pseudo-)Bede, Johannes Symonis de Zalandria, Johannes de Lineriis, Petrus Peregrinus of Maricourt, and Gerardus Cremonensis. Number 2 of 4 titles bound together
- Alternative Title:
- Manuscripts, composed of astronomical and mathematical texts and instructions for making musical instruments written down by two different scribes [i.e. Yale Medical Historical Library Manuscript 25]
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothic cursiva., Decoration: Ample rubricated mathematical tables and diagrams. Two- to four-line capital letters in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 35 lines., Binding: 16th-century red blind-tooled leather on wooden boards. Rebacked in the 19th century. Two clasps closing on the top cover., Locally also referred to as Manuscript 25., Foliation in modern ink; starting at f. 1., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomical Instruments, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Musical instruments
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of astronomical treatises and instructions for the creation of musical and mathematical instruments
4.
- Published / Created:
- between 1291and 1454.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 11 Vault
- Image Count:
- 358
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in several unidentified hands containing a collection of various medical treatises. Manuscript consists of tree sections bound together. First part contains several works by Aristotle (all in William of Moerbeke's recension): De anima (ff. 1r-26r; marginal commentary by Thomas Aquinas), De somno et vigilia (ff. 26r-37r), De generatine et corruptione (ff. 38r-55r), De causis (ff. 56r-61r), De motibus animalium (ff. 62r-63r, beginning imperfect), De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 63r-66v), De longitudine (ff. 67r-69r); and Henricus Monachus' Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha (f. 70r). The second part (15th c. date on the basis of paleography) contains Johannes de Sacrobosco's Algorithmus (ff. 70v-74r), De sphaera (74r-81v), and Compotus ecclesiastius (82v-98r), the anonymous' De simplici et composito quadrante (98r-100v), Robertus Grosseteste's De sphaera (ff. 101r-106r) and Compotus (ff. 106r-124r), Campanus de Novara and Robertus Grosseteste's Tabulae (ff. 124r-126r), Expositio tabule de annis Arabum Magistri Campani (f. 126r), De pratica quadrantis (ff. 127r-130r), Chylindrus (ff. 137r-139r), Compotus manualis (ff. 139r-142r), and Gerardus Creonensis' Theorica planetarum (ff. 143r-155r). The third part (14th c. date on the basis of decoration) contains Prophatius Hebraeus' Tractatus quadrantis novi (ff. 156r-171r), and the Tabula ad sciendu quantum cum quolibet gradu zodiaci... (f. 171v) Ends with two diagrams (ff. 172v-173r) and a table the fixed stars (f. 173v)
- Alternative Title:
- De anima, De somno et vigilia, De generatione et corruptione [etc.] : [the Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha of Henricus Monachus, followed by selections, mostly astronomical and arithmetical, from Johannes de Sacrobosco, Robertus Grosseteste, Johannes de Ahrweiler, Gerardus Cremonensis]
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothica textualis., Decoration: decorative red and blue initials, and several hand drawn maps of the fixed stars. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown pig-skin binding, blind-tooled. Contemporary pig-skin tabs attached to fore-edges to demarcate beginins of new texts. Traces of straps from back to front cover. Traces of metal bosses on front cover and 3 holes in triangular formation for chain attachment on back cover. Label on front cover: Algorism[us] ... / Sper materialis / Compo[si]tus philosop[] / uel custod[]. Label on back cover: Sphaera materialis / Joannis de Arweilerio. Quadra[n]s / nouus Probacii Hebrei 1554. Note on binding on inside front cover: Anno domini MCCCCLIIII. Ligatus est iste liber per reuerendum patrum fratrem Matthiam Halddenof suppriorem conuentus wiennensis., Date of the first and oldest part is based on scribal note (f. 26r): Explicit liber de anima petri Rodeheym. Amen. Anno domini MCCLXXXXI in uigilia pentecostes., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, Manuscripts, and Psychology
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of mathematical and astronomical treatises
5.
- Creator:
- Leopold, of Austria
- Published / Created:
- 1480.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 209
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of Leopold of Austria, Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Part II was copied to finish the incomplete text of Part I.
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified letter P similar in general design to Piccard Buchstabe XIII. Part II: Briquet Coupe 4586., Script: Part I (ff. i-vi and 1-83): Written in well formed hybrida script. Part II (pp. 1-76): Written in a small gothic bookhand with many initial letters of the opening word of each section of the text written in oversize majuscules., Part I: Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, for major text divisions. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, some punctuation, marginalia keyed to art. 1, all in red. Part II: Plain initials, 3-line, paragraph marks and initials strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Paper wrapper held by stitching at head and tail of spine and sewing around the edges of sides. Astronomical diagram and title in ink on upper side: "Astronomia Leupoldi ducis Austrie filij et cetera".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Leopold, of Austria.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compilatio de astrorum scientia
6.
- Creator:
- Robertus, Anglicus, active 1272
- Published / Created:
- about 1477].
- Image Count:
- 92
- Description:
- Perugia is named in the dedicatory letter as the place of printing.
- Publisher:
- Epon. press
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy and Astrolabes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > De astrolabio canones : de astrolabi compositione
7.
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 574
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), Die deutsche Sphaera, an adaptation in German of Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. With 23 verses dealing with the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet, excerpted from Hugutio of Pisa (d. 1212), Liber derivationum
- Description:
- In German., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., The initials are not executed. Coarsely drawn diagrams; the principal ones are on ff. 2r (Earth in the middle of the circles of the elements, the planets and the heavens), 9v (a quadripartite circular map of the world, three quarters covered with sea and inhabited by fish), 10v (a circular diagram and another with "cauda Draconis" and "caput Draconis"), 11r (two diagrams showing eclipses), 11v (related diagrams)., and Binding: Yellow limp vellum too large for the present manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, German poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Numerology, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera
8.
- Creator:
- Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476, author
- Published / Created:
- August 31, 1496]
- Call Number:
- Taylor 34
- Image Count:
- 228
- Description:
- BEIN: Imperfect: ff. 2-3 (Abiosus' letter) wanting., BEIN: For fuller description see collation slip in volume., and KSL: Photocopy [New Haven?, 1971?]
- Publisher:
- Johann Hamann
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolomaei
9.
- Creator:
- Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
- Published / Created:
- 1713.
- Call Number:
- 1987 621
- Image Count:
- 510
- Description:
- Signatures: Engraved t.p. *⁴ 2*⁸ [pi]² A-2C⁸ [croix fleurettée]⁸., Includes index., and "Dell'eccellenza invenzione, e progresso dell'astronomia, discorso del Sig. Carlo Malavista": p. [1]-[8] at end.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Topic):
- Cosmography and Astronomy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttione all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia : per l'uso, e delucidatione de' globi, e tavole geografiche, particolarmente degli stampati, e spiegati nelle publiche lettioni
10.
- Creator:
- Cesareo, Agostino
- Published / Created:
- 1568.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 562
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Agostino Cesareo (Rome, 16th century), L'arte del navigare
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by one scribe in careful Humanistica Cursive., Coloured and uncoloured diagrams, illustrations and maps., Many pages are spoiled by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp vellum. On the front cover the inscription "L'arte de ***"; on the rear cover contemporary calculations.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cesareo, Agostino.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Cosmography, Navigation, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'arte del navigare
