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1. Alchemical and medical miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 15
- Image Count:
- 105
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of the works of Nicolaus, mostly related to medicine. In addition the codex has interesting lists of substances in Latin and German, as well as a tract on the distillation of brandy
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Watermarks: Two batches of unidentified paper watermarked with a gothic "P," the mark plain and smaller in one batch, larger and surmounted by a trefoil in the other., Script: Neatly written in a gothic cursive hand., Large capitals in red at text divisions, sometimes with slight pen ornament, other capitals stroked red throughout, fancy ascenders on top lines transgressing the upper rules and stroked red, similar descenders occasionally below the bottom bordering line, usually not colored., and Binding: Modern three-quarter binding of light brown buckram, plain brown niger back and corners, the back with five (false?) raised bands, gilt-lettered in the second compartment from the top, ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI, and at the foot of the spine, "AB. 1460". Plain edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicolaus, Salernitanus, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Brandy, Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical and medical miscellany
2. Ars major
- Creator:
- Donatus, Aelius
- Published / Created:
- [between 890 and 910]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1090
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin. and Schøyen MS 239.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars major
3. De arte metrica, etc
- Creator:
- Bonisoli, Ognibene, ca. 1412-1474
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 66
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica. 2) Donatus, De Barbarismo et soloecismo (Ars maior, Part 3). 3) Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni de Savone, O. F. M. (1425-1503), Opusculum de re rhetorica. 4) Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Balance 2489., Script: Written by a single scribe in italic for the text and marginal notes, and in modified capitals for headings., Decorative initial and border outlined in red, but uncolored, appear on f. 1r. Frequent use of red ink in headings, marginalia and for long sections of the text., Water and ink stains throughout; some loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bonisoli, Ognibene, ca. 1412-1474.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De arte metrica, etc
4. De centum metris, etc
- Creator:
- Servius, active 4th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 142
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Servius, De centum metris. With Brief notes on accents followed by Latin word list with Italian equivalents
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified quadruped in gutter., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum stays outside the quires. Paste-paper case in shades of deep purple.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius, active 4th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De centum metris, etc
5. De diphthongis
- Creator:
- Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 765
- Image Count:
- 26
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona, 1374-1460), De diphthongis, consisting mainly of annotated lists of words containing the diphthongs "ae" and "oe" successively. In both cases the words beginning with the diphthong come first, followed, in alphabetical order, by those in which the diphthong is in another position ("in mediis"). In the introductory text spaces have been left open for the Greek words, which have not been added
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: One hand, writing an imperfect Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria, using tironian et instead of the ampersand and mixing ae and ẹ., Headings in red ink. There are guide letters and space for a 4-line initial on f. 1r and a 2-line initial on f. 1v, but neither initial has been executed., The paper at places damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: Twentieth century. White parchment over cardboard; paper endleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De diphthongis
6. Derivationes
- Creator:
- Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 40
- Image Count:
- 350
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Derivationes
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-28v): Written by a single scribe in round gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 29r-169r): Written in small gothic bookhand, above top line. Many sections traced over in darker ink., Part I: Divided initial, blue, 8-line, with intricate red pen flourishes extending down inner margin, f. 1r. Plain red initials, 2-line, to mark new letter of the alphabet; first letter of each word in table stroked with red; more important words preceded by paragraph mark. Part II: Blue or red initials (some divided), 20- to 7-line, with pen flourishes in red and/or blue, for prologue (art. 5) and each letter of the alphabet. On ff. 29r, 43v, 60r: a single dragon-like grotesque, in red and blue, extends up or down the margin. Initials, 2-line, alternate red and blue with plain pen flourishing in opposite color., Text has faded and flaked throughout., and Binding: Fourteenth century (?), Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on outside of beech boards and nailed. A beaded, natural color endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with an X within a rectangular frame drawn on it. Traces of five round bosses on each side and four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board; the upper board cut in for the straps. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Derivationes
7. Doctrinale
- Creator:
- Alexander, de Villa Dei
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 64
- Image Count:
- 125
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, pink, red, and green with white filigree on gold ground thinly edged in black, with a half-length portrait of a teacher in red robes and a red cap holding a book, against a blue ground with white filigree. In the lower margin arms of the Pesaro family of Venice (per pale indented or and azure), framed by scrolling acanthus, green, red, blue, and pink. Plain initials and paragraph marks both alternate blue and red. Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Light brown leather, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Rebacked. Title on spine: "Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale. MS: In Memb". Bound for Henry Drury by C. Lewis in 1820.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, de Villa Dei.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctrinale
8. Etymologiae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1199]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.75
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Isidore's Etymologia with portions of books 13 and 14.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red capitals with an uncial M and round E decorated with small round balls or with two or three cross-hatches; 1-line initials are in brown and a mixture of rustic capitals, uncials, and enlarged minuscules; rubrics are in red minuscule with some capital forms; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and the punctus versus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; accents added by later hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Etymology, and Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Etymologiae (fragment).
9. Etymologiae, etc
- Creator:
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 123
- Image Count:
- 450
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Epistolae of Isidore, Braulio and Sisibutus. 2) Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae. 3) Richardus de Wedinghausen (Richardus Praemonstratensis), Expositio missae. 4) Bonaventure, Sermo VI de assumptione Beatae Virginis Mariae. 5) Extract from Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion IV.14. 6) List of forbidden magical arts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks for both end papers and text: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.685, Nuremberg 1430., Script: Written by a single scribe in running hybrida script., Unattractive initials in red (or red and black divided) with penwork designs, dots, knobs and/or heart-shaped appendages, all in red and black. Numerous plain red initials of similar design. Headings, running headlines, chapter numbers and initial strokes in red. T-O map of the world on f. 131v in red., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Bohemia. Stays from 15th-century parchment manuscript. Original sewing on three double supports attached to flush, sharply bevelled wooden boards. Spine leather originally sewn around endbands. Covered in cream colored suede-like skin with very faint traces of a blind-tooled X in an outer frame. Spine: double fillets at head and tail; a neat, sewn mend near the head. Pink paper place marks on the fore edge. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board and stubs of kermes pink straps attached to lower one with flower-shaped plates. Trace of a chain attachment near head of lower board; title (mostly effaced) in gothic bookhand near head of upper board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Etymology, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Etymologiae, etc
