Manuscript on paper of 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Arnold of Villanova, Epistola de sanguine humano ad magistrum Iacobum de Toleto. 3) Alchemical procedures. 4) Francesco Petrarca, Epistola ad Marcum Tullium Ciceronem. 5) Pier Paolo Vergerio, Epistola in nomine Ciceronis ad Franciscum Petrarcham. 6) Johannes Obrist, Super confectionem auri potabilis. 7) Nicolaus Claudii, Opus super aurum potabile
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe using a clear and regular gothic bookhand without strong nationalistic traits., Headings in red, rubricated., and Binding: Modern parchment over pasteboards, parchment pastedowns and guards, back gilt-lettered: "DE QVINTA ESSENTIA".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of epistolary forms extracted from an unidentified Aurea gemma de arte dictandi
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified bull's head., Script: Written in hasty batarde script by a single scribe., Crude initials, 3- to 2- line, headings, underlining, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Semi-limp vellum case made from French document, with only dorse visible.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Agostino Dati (1420-78), Elegantiolae. Part II: Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, in gutter: Part I: similar in design to Piccard Waage VII.261-66 and similar to Piccard Werkzeug IV.1162-63; unidentified crossed arrows and balance within a circle. Part II: similar to Piccard Waage V.378 and similar in design to Piccard Waage VII.261-66; unidentified bull's head and same unidentified balance in a circle as in Part I., Script: Part I (ff. 1-48): Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 49-77): Written by multiple scribes in different styles of humanistic bookhand., Part I: 3-line red initial, f. 1r, with penwork designs extending length of inner margin. Headings, marginalia, paragraph marks, initial strokes, in red, through f. 39r only., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Tan, mottled sheepskin; gold-tooled spine and red label with title: "Passio/ M. S. XIII. S".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Battista Guarino, Epistola ad Iohannem Bertuccium, dated 1467 in Ferrara
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a stylized humanistic cursive script much influenced by printing, below top line; heading in humanistic bookhand., Plain 1-line initial, f. 1r, in blue. Heading in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Paris. Light brown goatskin with a gold-tooled title ("B. Gua./ Episto.") and doublures. Edges gilt. Bound by Chambolle-Duru (Paris, 1863-1915).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bertucci, Giovanni Battista. and Guarini, Battista, 1434-1513.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Epistolae Magni Turci, texts on the winds, and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: Hand topped by Star, similar to Briquet 10706., Script: Hand A is copied in Humanistica Cursiva; Hand B is copied in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria., Art. 4 is not decorated. In artt. 2-3 there are 2-or 3-line initials, in black ink and in outline; they have generally not been executed on the first pages. Guide letters do not seem to have been written consistently. The schematic drawing of art. 1 is traced in lead and consists of two concentric circles inscribed in a square and crosswise divided with double lines., The manuscript contains: 1) Circular diagram of the world with the four main directions of the winds and the Latin names of 12 winds. 2) Laudivius Zacchia (Laudivio da Vezzano, ca. 1435-after 1475, Ps.-Mahomet II), Epistolae Magni Turci. 3) De Hermaphrodito, ascribed to Hildebertus Cenomannensis (Hildebert of Le Mans,1065-1133) and others, here ascribed to Antonius Panormitanus (Antonio Beccadelli,1394-1471). 4) Note on the winds and their Latin names, according to the title based on Papias, Isidore of Seville and Boccaccio., and Binding: modern paper binding; on the front cover a printed label with the title “EPISTOLAE / MAGNI TURCI / MANUSCRIT”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Turks, and Winds
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato
Description:
In Latin., Script: the original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional sections are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials., and Binding: 18th century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription. Red mottled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856., Solomon, King of Israel., and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of 1) Eutropius, Breviarium, with the insertions and addition of the final six books by Paul the Deacon. 2) Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1412-94), Epistula Achilli Petrucio re regendo magistratu. 3) Extract from Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 2.9.1.
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: two different unidentified ladders, the one on ff. 1-60, the other on ff. 61-70., Script: Written by a single scribe in a sloping humanistic bookhand., Spaces for decorative initials in art. 1 are unfilled; remains of guide letters. Headings and first word(s) in text divisions in epigraphic majuscules., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Yellow marbled paper case with title written in ink on narrow paper label on spine: "Liber Eutropii de Regibus Rom. et de Orig. Imperii".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Description:
In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Subject (Topic):
Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Ps.-Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam; 2) Ps.-Catilina, Responsio in Ciceronem; 3) Franciscus Aretinus, speech delivered in Rome to Pope Paul II; 4) Verses in praise of Francesco Accolti; 5) Franciscus Philelphus, translations of moral quotations from ancient authors; 6) Manuel Guarinus, Letter to Francesco Pendilacqua; 7) Gasparinus Barzizius, De compositione
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand Humanistica Cursiva. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C., Cicero, Marcus Tullius., Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483., and Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Rhetoric, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
Description:
On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47., In Latin., Script: Written in italic, with larger size of script for headings and proper names., Each page has full border incorporating personifications, coats-of-arms, mottoes, putti, birds, and flowers, in red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver, all of mediocre quality. On f. 1r, full-page drawing with arms of the Coignet family of Auxerre (azure, 2 swords per saltire argent, hilted to the base or, between 4 crescents argent)., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with a "seme" pattern of swords and crescents, flames and fleurs-de-lis. Satin doublures. Traces of two fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
