Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Pilgrim's Guide to Jerusalem and the beginning of a charm for epilepsy in Middle High German
Description:
In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: at the beginning of the text is a cross with ornamentation in brown penwork; 2-line initial "A" in brown ink with the left shaft and crossbar hollow and the right shaft solid; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; the charm is written in a thirteenth-century gothic hand (littera textualis), evidently in German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Travel literature, Charms, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of this unique English prose version of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also includes a short astrological text in Middle English, headed "secreta." The opening leaf is not present; the introduction by the translator praises Sir Miles Stapleton as his patron
Alternative Title:
Secretum secretorum
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Several verses and aphorisms in a sixteenth?-century cursive hand on blank leaves and in margins., Layout: single columns of 21-23 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: numerous initials in gold or in blue with contrasting penwork., and Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards; remains of clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, de Caritate.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Education of princes, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, incomplete, in a single hand, of John Lydgate's and Benedict Burgh's Middle English verse translation of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum Secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also contains several prose pieces in Middle English and Latin, including one with illustrated diagrams and a Latin tract on the interpretation of dreams
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand., Signature of John Bowen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand., Layout: various single-column., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt., and Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Astronomy, Medieval, Education of princes, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper and parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English translation of de Chauliac's treatise on surgery and other aspects of practical medical treatment, particularly of wounds
Description:
In Middle English., Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves., Layout: double columns of 54 lines., Script: cursive bookhand., Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. BInder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medicine, Medieval, and Surgery
Date of publication supplied by cataloger., First line: "Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Clauturbank, high German doctor,"., In two columns with the title in three lines centered above both and the imprint presented as four lines of verse below columns; the columns are separated by a plain rule and enclosed in a border., Full imprint in verse: Printed at No. 41 take notice pray, Leadenhall-Street, the little a, London is needless, without doubt, only it makes the metre out., Below second column: (Price one penny)., Mounted on leaf 71. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed at No. 41 ... Leadenhall-Street, the little a, London
