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
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand, of a collection of works by and commentaries on Hippocrates. Includes Hippocrates' Aphorismi (translated by Constantinus Africanus) and Prognostica with commentaries by Galen; Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' De regimine acutorum (translation attributed to Constantinus Africanus and Gerard of Cremona); and a commentary by ʻAlī ibn Riḍwān on Galen's Tegni (translated by Gerard of Cremona). Diagram with a classification of all nature on f. 143v. Copious contemporary marginal notes throughout
Alternative Title:
Articella and Hippocrates Aphorismi, Prognostica, De regimine acutorum : cum comment. Galeni ; Ali Ibn Ridwan Commentum super Tegni Galeni
Description:
In Latin., Title from headings., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: eight-line initials in red ink with blue flourishing. Text commented upon is underlined in red., Layout: 2 columns of around 50 lines., Binding: 15th-century blind-tooled brown leather binding, with metal furniture (originally 10, now 4) and clasps (closing on the front cover, wanting). Manuscript note on front cover with shelfmark: h188. Rebacked., Pagination added in modern pencil., This manuscipt was formerly believed to have been written in an Italian university (Padua). There is no evidence to support this., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Articella, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a collection of texts on astronomy and medicine: contains a treatise on uroscopy (ff. 1-48r), an index of the significations of the colors of urine (ff. 48v-50v), a table of astrological symbols and their explanations (f. 51r), an astrological figure "The circle of 16 angles" (ff. 51v-52r), a table of the days of the moon (f. 52v), a series of astronomical tables from Aries to Pisces (ff. 53v-57r), a medical treatise describing illnesses and medical recipes (ff. 58r-85v), an stronomical treatise (ff. 87r-119v), a text on the twelve astrological signs (ff. 122v-123r), a number of tables and figures on the planets, the aspects of the moon, and uroscopy (ff. 123v-126r), a series of astrological prognostic texts related to theft (ff. 129v-132v), a weather prognostication (ff. 133r-134r), a series of electionary texts (ff. 134v-137v), a treatise on bloodletting (f. 137v), a series of questionary texts (ff. 138r-146r), a collection of brief astrological proverbs (147r-147v), a series of explanations about astrology (148r-148v), and a questionary text on finding a thief (f. 149r).
Alternative Title:
Commonplace book in English: on miscellaneous subjects, chiefly astrology
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: English secretary hand., Layout: single column of between 36 and 45 lines., Binding: 18th- or 19th-century binding in marbled boards with brown leather spine. Spinal note "M.S 1551" in gold-tooling., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Date of creation from f. 122: "Wryten anno domini 1551.", and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Gilbertus Anglicus' complete Compendium medicinae. Includes later table of content on back pastedown
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: one- and two-line initials in red and blue ink. Rubrication throughout., Layout: 1 column of around 38 lines., Binding: 15th-century light-brown leather binding, with metal furniture and clasps (closing on the front cover). Unidentified coat of arms blind-tooled on front cover. Manuscript note on front cover., In folding case: 35 cm., and Catchwords on the bottom left within a decorative frame.
Manuscript, on parchment, containing Stephanus of Alexandria's Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica in Greek. Written in the hand of Andreas Darmarios
Alternative Title:
Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognostica : in Greek / ascribed to Stephen of Alexandria and Prognostica
Description:
In Greek., Title from title heading., Script: 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of around 17 lines., Binding: blind-stamped light brown sheep over pasteboard., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Hippocrates.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Ps.-Dionysius Areopagita, De caelesti hierarchia, translated into Latin by Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), with his commentary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria in two sizes. The large script used for the text itself is written every two lines. The cursive r-abbreviation could point to England, the z standing on the line and the occasional use of j instead of i reminds us of Spain, the "horn" at the head of r is especially typical of German scribes., and The decoration consists of plain late Romanesque initials in red (2 lines).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Astronomy, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī, -1013?
Published / Created:
between 1400 and 1500.
Call Number:
Manuscript 48 vault
Image Count:
86
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing a Latin translation of Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn ʻAbbās al-Zahrāwī's De cibis sanorum egrorum (ff. 1r-18v) and Bartholomaeus de Montagna's Antidotarium (ff. 19r-41v).
Alternative Title:
Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf. Latin and De cibis sanorum egrorum : followed (on leaves 19-41) by Bartholomaeus de Montagna: Antidotarium
Description:
In Latin., Titles from headings on f. 1r and 19r., Script: minuscule., Layout: single column of 48 lines., Decoration: headings in red ink. Rubrication., Binding: modern printed paper binding., and The Albucasis part consists of the entire 26th chapter of his Kitab al-tasrif.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medical, Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, and Diet
Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, translated into French by Renaut de Louhans. As the translator states in the prologue, his work incorporates material from a commentary on Boethius made by another member of the Dominican order (Nicholas Trevet) as well as his own digressions
Description:
In French., Script: Written in batarde by a single scribe., Two intricate penwork initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r and 2r in red and blue; less detailed penwork initials, 3-line, in same colors throughout text; first letter of each verse stroked in red., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown spattered calf, with peculiarly striped turn-ins. Title, in gold, on spine: BOECE EN VER FRANC.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524., Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328., and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Consolation, French poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of Hieronymus Münzer, containing pseudo-Aristotle's De mundo, sometimes attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus. (A text translated from Arabic by Apuleius.) Includes copious marginal notes by Hieronymus Münzer
Alternative Title:
De mundo / pseudo-Aristotle [probably by Nicolaus Damascenus] ; translated into Latin by Apuleius Madaurensis ; written in ink on paper by Hieronymus Münzer at Nuremberg in 1494
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of around 30 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard., Signed and dated by Münzer on leaf 17r: Hic nobilissimus libellus aristotilis de mundo scriptus est manibus Magistri Hieronimi Monetarii de feltkirchen medicina doctoris etc., uicesima quarta Februarii anno salutis 1494 Nuremberge. Satis correctus est magnoque labore ex incorrecto uolumine in lucem prodiit., and Article, written by Walter Kurt Fränkel with caption title: "Dr. Hieronymus Münzer, 1440-1508 Stadtarztt vun Nürmberg, Humanist, Geograph uns Schwiegervater Holzschuhers", in envelope shelved with the manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Philosophy
Manuscript in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an incomplete copy of Constantine the African's De Remine Sanitatis, or Liber Pantegni (Practica). The text is a Latin translation from Arabic of ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās Majūsī's Kāmil al-ṣināʻah al-ṭibbīyah. Contains 16 leaves: incipit: Quia in p[rima] p[ar]te n[ost]ri lib[ri] panteg[ni]; excipit: melestia[m]. Bound together with parchment leaf (l. 17) with miscellaneous medical notes, in several hands different from the hand of the other 16 leaves
Alternative Title:
Liber pantegni
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric: Hic incipit liber de regimine sanitatis., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: Red and blue illluminated initials with red and blue pen-flourishing in the margin; rubrication., Layout: leaves 1-16: 1 column of 34-37 lines; leaf 17: two-columns of 37 lines., Binding: Modern three-quarter vellum over green printed paper. Spine title: Constantinus Africanus MS. Saec. XIII., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Name):
Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century.
Subject (Topic):
Hygiene, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
