Manuscript on parchment and paper of 1) Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Algorismus. 2) Jordanus Rufus, Medecina equorum. 3) Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum. 4) William Falconer, Falconibus
Description:
In Latin, German and French., Script: multiple hands writing in multiple scripts., and Binding: S. XV limp parchment binding with leather spine stiffener and visible sewing and flap. The parchment is from an erased music manuscript. Remnants of a paper title label on the spine (text lost).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Augustinus. and Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Horses, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mathematics, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, and Occultism
Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper in three distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-78): 1) Euclid, Catoptrica. 2) Euclid, Phaenomena. 3) Euclid, Opticarum recensio Theonis. 4) Euclid, Data. Part II (ff. 79-102): 5) Euclid, Data, incomplete at beginning and end. Part III (ff. 103-142): 6) Theodore Metochites, Introductio in Ptolemaei compositionem mathematicam
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: Part I: Harlfinger Ancre 51 (1540, 1541 A. D.). Part II: similar to those in Part I. Part III: Harlfinger Lettres 66., Script: Each part written by a different scribe, all in Greek minuscule. Part I by Valeriano da Forli, who also wrote marginal notes in red and labelled the diagrams., Part I: Headpiece, 3- and 2-line initials with stylized floral motifs and headings in red. Diagrams in margins of geometrical figures drawn with compass. Part II: Headings in red. Diagrams drawn with compass and ruler, labelled in red, and fitted into written space. Part III: 2- to 1-line initials with stylized floral motifs and headings in pale red., Waterstains throughout. On f. 57r, spills, dirt and pen trials; several words effaced or obscured. Discoloration on ff. 1r and 78v suggests that this part was once separate., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case with a gold-tooled title.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Euclid.
Subject (Topic):
Charts, diagrams, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mathematics, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality; end pieces) of Boethius, De arithmetica. Text begins imperfectly in Bk. I, ch. 23.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes (some copying or correcting only brief portions of text) in late caroline minuscule., Plain intials, 6- to 2-line, red, blue or black, occasionally with modest pen design in red (e.g., ff. 27v-28r). Numerous diagrams and charts throughout., Parchment stained and warped by damp., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, Eastern Europe (?). The back pastedown consists of a portion of a Latin parchment document dated 1374. Front pastedown removed and preserved as Marston MS 89A. Sewn on three supports laced into thick oak boards and wedged. Plain wound endbands on alum-tawed cores originally laced into the boards. Covered with parchment with irregularly serrated turn-ins, with a strap-and-pin fastening, the pin on the upper board. The codex has been so tightly rebacked that it is difficult to open.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (thick) of Giovanni Battista Cortona, Libro di Abbaco, probably an autograph manuscript
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: anchor, var. Piccard, Ankerwasserzeichen?, V.102?., Script: Written by one hand in calligraphic Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The poem on f. A1r (art. 1) is in calligraphic Humanistica Cursiva Formata. A few titles in Capitalis., The decorative frames on ff. A1r and B1r are traced in brown ink. The upper half of the former contains a baroque cartouche in brown and red, containing a monogram apparently consisting of the letters A, K and M. Art. 2 opens with a flourished initial, art. 7 with a calligraphic initial, both in red., and No binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cortona, Giovanni Battista.
Subject (Topic):
Abacus, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Les livres du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio. 2) Le bon chien Soullart (in verse).
Description:
In French., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de cerf 15548, Tete de boeuf 14247, and unidentified unicorn., Script: Written by a single scribe in a running script, with a more formal style of writing for headings., Penwork drawing (with red added) of the hound, Soullart, on f. 59r; drawing of a lion (?) in same style on f. 60r. Simple decorative initials and headings in red, blue and/or black; some with calligraphic penwork designs and grotesques extending into margins. Paragraph marks, underlining, and highlights, in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter purple leather with textured cloth sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, French literature, French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus. 2) Thebit ben Chorat, De recta imaginatione sphaerae. 3) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. 4) Iohannes Campanus of Novara (ascr.), Tractatus quadrantis. 5) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Compotus. 6) Gerardus Sablonetanus (ascr.), Theorica planetarum (also attributed to other authors). 7) Alfraganus, Liber differentiarum, tr. John of Seville
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single scribe writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Numerous and often extensive marginal notes by various 13th and 14th century hands, mostly in small rapid cursive handwriting, some in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria., Red paragraph marks and 2-3-line plain initials with guide-letters; on f. 1r a larger flourished littera duplex inbrown and red; the other artt. open with larger plain initials. Numerous pointing hands. Pen-and-ink drawings and diagrams throughout., and Binding: Early, heavy wooden boards recovered with new brown sheepskin. Spine with three raised bands and gold-tooled inscription: "TRACTATUS ASTRONOMICI. MS A.D. 1281".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of mathematical operations and arithmetic exercises
Description:
In Italian., Script: copied by two contemporary hands in Humanistica Cursiva Currens; the second hand is only visible at the bottom of ff. 2v and 5v. Written in one column in campo aperto., No decoration., Watermark: Dog, var. Briquet 3591 or 3594., and Binding: unbound. Placed in s. XX grey paper cover, with printed title lable on front cover: “SCHOOL EXERCISE-BOOK: / MATHEMATICS // ITALY, FIFTEENTH CENTURY”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mathematics, Medieval, and School notebooks
