Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources
Description:
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew., Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler., Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds., With additions in German and Dutch., Bound in 2 volumes., and Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources
Description:
In German, Low-German, Latin, and Hebrew., Script: Written by a single hand in dark brown and pale red inks in a loose and flowing cursive, often with Fraktur elements, frequently placing capital letters in the midst of words, sometimes in red; with some inserted leaves and additional matter by another, perhaps slightly later hand, and with pasted-in leaves, usually with illustrations, partly taken from older manuscripts, and partly (apparently) by the compiler., Watermarks: The inserted leaves of paper with a large fleur-de-lys watermark, unidentified; the thinner paper used for most of the volumes with unidentified watermark in folds., With additions in German and Dutch., Bound in 2 volumes., and Binding: Uniformly bound in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century marbled boards, red leather backs with three bands, each volume with modern brown calf title labels gold-stamped "ALCHYMICAL MANUSCRIPT," speckled edges.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Pietism
Manuscript on paper of a pocket-size codex containing discussions of painting miniatures in manuscripts. On ff. 1r-30v Mariani provides a list of colors and the recipes for each color; in the remainder of the text he discusses techniques for painting landscapes in perspective. The second portion of the treatise (ff. 84r-95v) is, according to the title-page, the work of Antonello Bertozzi (fl. ca. 1590). The focus of this section is on painting watercolor portraits rather than on painting landscapes. On ff. 97v-113v, miscellaneous additions in at least 3 hands, dated 1612-1627
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written in upright humanistic bookhand for arts. 1 and 2 and for the headings in art. 3. Main text in a gently sloping italic script. Additions on ff. 95v-113v by several hands, some very cursive and poorly formed., Simple headpieces, in brown pen, for beginning of some chapters., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with a gold-tooled spine: "Mariani Della Miniatur [sic]".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Technique, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miniature painting, Italian, and Workshop recipes
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Psalms of the Passion, and other Latin prayers and devotions. The text is preceded by two pages of rubrics in Middle French; there are Middle English rubrics concerning indulgences on ff. 55-57. Several pages contain short pieces of music in the margins, probably in a contemporary hand and The manuscript also contains two miniatures not original to the text. The first (f. 4) is a full-page miniature of St. Christopher in color against a stylized landscape and a gold ground with a title sewn to the top margin, possibly predating its current binding by 50 years. The second (ff. 62b-63) is a double-page miniature of the Adoration of the Magi; the figures are outlined in ink and finished with washes in green, red and blue. Possibly intended as a pattern for embroidery or for wall-painting
Description:
In Latin, with a small number of rubrics in Middle French (ff.1-2) and Middle English (ff. 55-57)., Front and back pastedowns from a contemporary? printed German play about Adam and Eve., Layout: first section in single columns of 17 lines; second section in single columns of 12 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 110 initials in blue with red penwork. Full-page miniature illustration of St. Christopher; double-page illustration of the Adoration of the Magi., and Binding: 16th-century English blind-stamped calf, with panels of heads in medallions, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned
Description:
In Arabic., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., 10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Text folios 1b-11b., Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", and Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851]."
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Invocation, Religious aspects, Islam, and Prayer
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Illuminated manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, including a collection of forty-six texs concerning classical and medieval medicine and surgery and Includes: Ysagoge Joanicii ad tegni Galeni (ff. 1-14), Liber aphorismorum Ypocratis (ff. 14-30), Pronosticorum Ypocratis liber (ff. 30-40), Liber urinarum Theophili (ff. 40-53), Philareti de negotio pulsuum (ff. 53-57), Tegni Galieni (ff. 57-91), Anatomia Ricardi (ff. 91-104), Anatomia Mauri (ff. 104-107), Anonymous tract on bloodletting (ff. 107-108), Versus urinarum Egidii (ff. 109-113), Egidius de pulsibus (ff. 113-118), Galen's De medicinis experimentatis (ff. 121-140), Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (ff. 141-152), Aphorismi Joannis Damasceni (ff. 153-159), Hippocrates' de aqua et aere (ff. 161-172), Hippocrates' de veritate (ff. 172-175), Hippocrates' de secreta (ff. 175-177), Isaac Judaeus' De diaetis (ff. 181-268), Liber de ponderibus (ff. 268-270), Geraldus' De signis digestionum (ff. 270-329), Liber divisionum Arazi (ff. 331-469), Synonyma (ff. 470-477), Cirurgia (ff. 479-636), Rasis' de doloribus iuncturarum (ff. 639-664), Rasis' de curis puerorum (ff. 664-671), Collection of medical recipes (ff. 671-675), De virtute visibili (ff. 675-683), Tacuinum sanitatis (ff. 685-768), De mineralibus (ff. 769-772), Epistola Ameti filii Abrahe de proprietatibus (ff. 773-780), Liber vaccae (ff. 781-811), Cirurgia Bruni (ff. 813-924), Cirurgia Bruni brevis (ff. 924-941), Cirurgia Rolandi (ff. 943-1018), Roger de Barone Major et minor de medicamentia (ff. 1019-1168), Macer de virtutibus herbarum (ff. 1171-1197), De vertutibus gemmarum (ff. 1197-1201), Liber herbolarii (ff. 1203-1317), Isagoge Dauci (ff. 1319-1325), Guillelmi falconerii (ff. 1325-1329), De cura equorum (ff. 1330-1375), Regulae equorum (ff. 1375-1377), Recipes in 14th- and 15th-century hands (ff. 1378).
Alternative Title:
Paneth codex
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: heavily decorated throughout. Texts generally start with historiated initial showing authorial portrait (ff. 1, 8, 12, 15, 29, 46, 54, 57, 61, 71, 77, 86, 88, 91, 108, 137, 219, 240, 252, 301, 320, 343, 462, 407, 439, 472, 489, 507, 510, 560, 571, 579, 582, 586, 602, 660, 665). Other miniatures of numerous medical instruments and other scenarios can be found throughout the manuscript as historiated initials, paragraph markers, or in the margins (e.g. f. 52: pig slaughtered for dissection(?); f. 81: of Aquarius). Varying fantastical animals and creatures in the margins. Also includes a number of rectangular tables containing dietary information. Headings rubricated, subheadings in alternating blue and red letters. Two- to three-line initials in alternating blue and red ink with penwork in contrasting colors. Rubrication., Layout: double column of 43 lines., Binding: modern light brown leather binding over wooden boards with four clasps., Perhaps commissioned in Bologna for the University of Prague. Ornamental documentation may have been started in Bologna, but finished by a Bohemian artist later., Incipits identified by Peter Murray Jones, 2003., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Phlebotomy, Recipes, Surgery, Medieval, Urine, and Veterinary medicine
Manuscript on parchment (rather thick) of a codex containing alchemical verses and other works by Samuel Norton and illustrated with skillful drawings of the arcane figures associated with Norton's work
Description:
In French., Script: Written by a single hand which has also annotated and captioned the drawings in a neat cursive sloping to the right, with the addition of passages in italic and chancery scripts., and Binding: Early, perhaps original, French binding of black morocco, the sides with triple gold fillet around the edges, a similar triple fillet forming a rectangular panel in the center of each cover with fleurons at the corners, the inside edges with a border of small tools stamped in gold, the back gilt compartments formed by five raised bands, modern title label on second compartment from top, some modern repairs with brown leather, including filling up the four holes on each cover which originally held ties, now missing; original gilt edges.
