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
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
Manuscript on paper of Georgicorum, Aeneidos et Bucolicorum Vergilii vocabula, an alphabetical compilation of words used by Virgil (and other authors), with their explanations, based on the Virgil commentary by Servius (4th-5th centuries). With two Latin and two Italian proverbs, and an Italian poem (10 verses).
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Art. 3 copied by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The title on the first front flyleaf (art. 1) is by another hand writing a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (the same hand wrote the beginning of the alphabet on the facing pastedown). Art. 2 is copied by an unexperienced hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens, but the date and the first line are by another hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., In art. 3 the opening letter of each lemma is a pale red 1-line capital projecting into the left margin. Each new alphabetical section begins with a 2- or 3-line capital alternately in red and blue (with a guide letter in the left margin), placed within the text area and followed by a black capital. Between the sections a space of two or three lines is left free., and Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards (worm-eaten), spine with three raised bands; both covers blind-tooled with a frame of strapwork; in its interior two horizontal rows of quadrangular stamps at the top and at the bottom (a rosette and a Pascal Lamb) and a lozenge-shaped central part of the same strapwork. Five pointed brass bosses on each cover (together eight of them are preserved) and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover by means of two nails with engraved heads; the quadrangular brass catches on the rear cover are engraved with a Pascal Lamb.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Servius, active 4th century. and Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes
Description:
In Latin, Czech, German, transliterated Arabic, and Polish., Script: The greater part of the manuscript (except the unnumbered quires 15-19) written by a single hand in a clear, round, and steady Gothica cursiva. Quires 15-19 written in a similar but more pointed and flowing hand, sometimes more condensed, similarly decorated., Headings, foliation, rubrics, and capital strokes in red., and Binding: Probably original. Brown calf, the covers ruled with triple parallel lines to a pattern of four rectangles within a rectangle, the larger rectangle crossed with similar ruling; indications of five center and corner pieces on each cover, possibly of iron and certainly fastened with iron nails, now lost; indications of two missing clasps and catches at the fore-edges of the covers; heavily repaired at fore-edges, hinges, and backstrip, the original back divided into four compartments by five heavy double bands, a modern morocco label in the second compartment from the top gold-stamped between double gold rules top and bottom: "ALCHEMICAL-MEDICAL | MISCELLANY | - | MANUSCRIPT | MIDDLE EUROPE | XVTH CENTURY".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Herbs, Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Gasparinus Barzizius (Gasparino Barzizza, 1360-1431), Vocabularium breve
Description:
In Latin., Beinecke MS 897 and MS 898 are parts of the same manuscript., Script: the original text is copied by one hand, writing a small Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria. The additions are in more rapid executions of the same script; the headings in a more calligraphic form, which may comprise Textualis elements., Watermark: a Trefoil. Parchment stays at the outer and at the inner sides of the quires, made from scraps of various manuscripts. Foliation in ink 17th century (?)., Red headings. Red stroking of majuscules and red paragraph marks on f. 1r only. The text opens with a 5-line red plain initial on f. 1r., and Binding: circa 2000. White limp parchment. Two pairs of white leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on trimmed paper of Henricus de Ratisbona's Vocabularius Lucianus. Includes other texts, including sermons by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing, sermons by Konrad Batt, and a partial transcription of Alain de Lille's Liber poenitentialis
Description:
In Latin., Script: The first sections are copied by one or more hands writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens. The Alain de Lille is copied by a hand writing the same script with Bastarda features. The quality of the transcription is mostly low. In the first sections, stroking of majuscules and underlining of biblical quotations and sources in red. 2/3-line red plain initials with little uniformity, sometimes with long extensions; they are missing ff. 55r -62v, 127r-145v., Vocabularius Lucianus, an alphabetical lexicon attributed to Henricus de Ratisbona. Two collections of sermons, the first, Sermones super Evangelia, by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing (c. 1363-c. 1430), from the first Sunday of Advent to the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. The second, Sermones rurales (Equipollarius), by Konrad Batt (Bart, Vatt, s. XIV). The manuscript also contains a transcription of Liber poenitentialis, Prologue and Book 1, chapters 1-11, by Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202)., and Binding: original binding: brown leather over unbevelled wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled with a frame traced with fillets and numerous impressions of a small quatrefoil stamp. On each cover five small many-lobed brass bosses. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alanus, Altissiodorensis, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., Ratisbona, Henricus de., Lille, Alain de, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., and Lucian, of Samosata.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Henricus de Ratisbona, Vocabularius Dictus Lucianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe in small Gothica Cursiva Currens; the opening lines in low quality Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Stroking of majuscules, underlining and plain initials in red; this decoration stops after f. 34v (quire III), although space had been provided for the initials. Very large flourished initials or litterae duplices with elaborate penwork in red and green on multiple folios., and Binding: contemporary German binding: yellowish parchment over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. The upper of the two leather closing straps is preserved, attached to the rear board and closing over a pin in the front board; the lower one is replaced with a “wrap-around” leather strap. On each cover 5 brass bosses. The paper pastedowns are blank leaves with ink frame-ruling for two columns. Numerous white leather tabs. In the upper compartment of the spine a brownish parchment label with the handwritten inscription s. XIX (?) “Vocabularius / MS 1415”; it replaces a similar but earlier label with the same inscription, in the second compartment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Henricus de Ratisbona.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
