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
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the petition of Joan, widow of William Rykyll to Baron Bergavenny for the restoration of her rights in land held of Robert Lindsey, in Kent, from which she has been disseized by Edward Lindsey and Rose, his wife and the daughter of William Rykyll
Description:
In Middle English., Docketed in a contemporary hand., Layout: single column of 14 lines., and Script: Anglicana.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England., England, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Bergavenny, George Neville, Baron.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Feudal law, Land tenure, and Women
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of works by Rufus of Ephesus: Περὶ πάντων φανερῶν τε καὶ ἀφανερῶν μορίων τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (De corporis humani partium appellationibus; ff. 3-7), Περὶ ὀνομασιῶν (De partibus corporis hominis; ff. 7-16), Περὶ ὀστῶν (De ossibus; ff. 17-18). Also includes extracts from Julius Pollux's Onomasticon Liber II (ff. 20-47). Contains a table of contents (f. 2).
Alternative Title:
Opera : in Greek
Description:
In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: titles and one-line initials in red., Layout: single column of 17 lines., Binding: blind-tooled green sheepskin over paper boards., and Leaf 19 is blank.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscript, in an unidentified hand, on parchment, of La Foy se complaignant and Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, two poems by a certain Nachier summoning Catholics to embark on a crusade. Rubricated
Alternative Title:
Foy se complaignant, Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, Complaincte de la Foy, Complainctes de la Foy, and Complaintes de la Foi
Description:
In Middle French., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Script: lettre bâtarde., Decoration: single large miniature (f.1r) shows Faith dressed in black, kneeling before a vision of God in heaven, accompanied by a white dog. The King of France (decorated with golden fleurs-de-lys) and other mounted courtiers advance from the right. The miniature is attributed to the Master of the Entry of François I. Initials in gold on a red or blue background. Rubricated., Binding: 18th-century brown calf, blind stamped with marbled paper flyleaves. Contained in brown box., Secundo Folio: A qui., Bookseller description available., Title assigned by cataloger., Both poems are unedited as of April 2023., and Title on spine: La foy se complaignant ms. sur velin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nachier.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Church History, Crusades, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household
Description:
In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Draycott, Eleanor., Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?., and Fitzjames family.
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Decedents' estates, Inheritance and succession, Manors, Material culture, Prayers for the dead, Saints, Cult, and Wills
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing an extract of Dioscorides' De materia medica, a medico-botanical dictionary arranged alphabetically
Alternative Title:
Medico-botanical dictionary / extracted from Dioscorides ; manuscript written in Greek during the 15th Century
Description:
In Greek., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Layout: single column of 30 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Dioscorides De plantis Graece Manuscrip., and Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice.
Subject (Topic):
Botany, Medical, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing pseudo-Meletius' De natura hominis eiusque compositione, also known as Constitution of man's body
Alternative Title:
Meletii monachii de natura et hominia structura, Meletiou monachou peri fyseōs kai tēs tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs, Meletii monachi de natura hominis eiusque compositione, Constitution of man's body : in Greek, and Μελετίου μοναχοῦ περὶ φύσεως καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατασκευῆς
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from titlepage., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Meletius, De natura et structura hominis, Graece manuscripta., Author also known as Meletius the monk or Meletius of Tiberopolis (Tiberiopoli, Phrygia)., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing Stephanus of Athens' On urines or Expositio in librum magni Sophistae de urinis (ff. 1-27) and Olymnios of Alexandria's Critical days or De diebus criticis liber (ff. 29-41).
Alternative Title:
On urines / Stephanus of Athens ; and Critical days / Olymnios of Alexandria : manuscripts written in Greek around 1540
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Stephani et Olymnii Varia medica, Graece manuscript., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Urine
Manuscript inventory, on parchment, in a secretary hand, of ceremonial plate and jewels collected from religious houses in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Glocestershire, Wiltshire, and Hertfordshire by several of the King's Commissioners for the suppression of the monasteries and turned over to the Master of the King's Jewels. The commissioners named include Robert Southwell, Edward Carne, John Ap Rice, and William Barnes. The sources of the plate were some of the larger houses targeted in the 1539 Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries and include St. Swithun's Winchester, Amesbury, Malmesbury, Cirencester, Hailes, Pershore, and Tewksbury. The plate listed comprises chalices; crosses; monstrances; cups; a pyx; gold mitres, and "thirteen other Myters garnisshd with perles." and Composed of one sheet of parchment; head indented
Description:
In English., Signed, "by me John Williams" (Master of the King's Jewels)., Binding: modern quarter morocco case., and Bookplate: Mark Lansburgh Collection.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
Subject (Topic):
Church plate, Convents, Church and state, Monasteries, Monasticism and religious orders, and Secularization
Manuscript, in five unidentified hands, on paper, containing books I, II (incomplete), V (incomplete), VI (incomplete), and VII of Ibn al-Jazzār's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek supposedly done by Constantinus Rheginos. Ends with an incomplete table of contents
Alternative Title:
[Viaticum peregrinantium / written in Greek, with incomplete translation attributed to Constantinos Rheginos].
Description:
In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: five different Italian 16th-century hands., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 35-36 lines., Binding: bound in 19th-century brown polished calf. Spinal labels: Liber de morbis curandis / Codex MS. Chartaceus, saeculi XV., Of the 148 leaves in the manuscript, 72 are blank (interleaved)., Watermarks identified as Chapeau 51 (Hilfinger vol.1) from Venice in 1542; suggests that the manuscript was copied in Venice later than 1542., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
