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, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type
Description:
In Latin and German, partly in cipher., Watermarks: 1) unidentified eagle watermark somewhat resembling Briquet 104; 2) a crown pattern resembling Briquet 4921 and 1922; 3) the Paschal lamb resembling Briquet 61., Script: Part I (ff. 1-29): Written in 1536 in red and black in a gothic cursive by Wolfgang the Organist. Part II (ff. 30-65): Written in a well-controlled gothic cursive without color. Part III (ff. 66-132): Written in one or possibly two scrawling gothic cursives, with red headings on ff. 109-124., Several initials illuminated in trick have been cut from a late 15th-century MS and pasted into the present MS at ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 10r, and 16r. Marginal drawings of alchemical apparatus are cropped, as also marginalia., and Binding: Probably ca. 1586 for Martin Roesel. Red-stained limp parchment (most of the stain now lost), single central clasp and catch now missing from center of fore-edges, two slits on each fore-edge for thong or ribbon ties, also missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
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 sheet, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing an anatomical drawing of a seated woman. Text includes descriptions of the different parts of the body
Alternative Title:
Anatomie pour congnoistre les parties interieures : [a large anatomical drawing in color, surrounded by explanatory text]
Description:
In Middle French., Title from heading., Script: humanist hand., Layout: anatomical drawing in center, double columns of 80 lines surrounding and underneath drawing., No text on verso. Used as binding waste., Included in a portfolio (66 x 51 cm.) with eight 58 x 38 cm. color photoreproductions., and Dr. Peter Jones, May, 2003, states that this single sheet most likely is a manuscript copy of the Jean Ruelle fugitive sheet (female figure only) Paris, 1540. cf. Carlino, A. Paper bodies ... London, 1999, page 171.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Human anatomy, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of pseudo(?)-Eustachi' Tabulae Anatomicae. Includes 307 pen and ink anatomical drawings, many hand colored, with commentary. Consisting of three parts written by the same hand and bound together: part 1 (107 leaves) on bones, muscles, veins, arteries and nerves (water mark anchor in circle with star); part 2 (13 leaves) on veins (thinner paper without water marks showing); part 3 (40 leaves) on muscles (thinner paper without water marks showing).
Alternative Title:
Bartholomaei Eustachii Tabulae quaedam anatomicae cum explicatione autographa, quae diu apud haeredes Matthaei Pini Urbinatis delituerunt; tandemque anno MDCCXV inventae sunt and Tabulae quaedam anatomicae : cum explicatione autographa
Description:
In Latin., Title from title page, added in 18th-century hand., Script: humanist minuscule., Layout: 1 column of 30 lines., Binding: 19th-century red leather half-binding over cardboard. Gold-tooling and spine title on spine: Eustachii / Tabulae anatomicae / M.S., Pagination added in modern pencil., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Human anatomy, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Dealers' descriptions pasted onto back cover (1959) say Johannes Serapion Senior is Jahiah Ben Serabi, 802-849., Leaf a1 (blank) preceded by seven others filled with manuscript notes in a contemporary hand., and Signatures: a8, b8, c6, d8-h8, hh8, i8, k6, l8, m6, n8, o6, p6, q8-t8.
Publisher:
Reynaldus de Novimagio
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, and Materia medica
Petrus Rochabonella, ed.; Prosdocimus Mutius, corr., "Libellus Avicene de viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de villa nova": 6 leaves next to end., and Med: Later German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Publisher:
Dionysius Bertochus
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Materia medica, and Heart
Manuscript fragment on parchment of book two of Avicenna's Canon medicinae as translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona; the section contained in the fragment details a variety of herbs and their medicinal qualities
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated, Gothic hand., Decoration: each medicinal entry begins with a 3-line initial, alternating red and blue with penwork in the contrasting color. Headings at the top of each page in red and blue. Each column contains decorative borderwork consisting of elongated strokes alternating in red and blue with red penwork., Layout: in two columns of 68 lines each., and Damage: the fragment has been removed from a binding, where it possibly served as a wrapper. Glue and binding material are still attached to one side of the leaf; the other side is discolored with offsetting from the later book. A piece from the spine remains attached and reads "Bbb" [?].
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Avicenna, 980-1037 and Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, and Medicine, Arab
Translated by Gerardus Cremonensis (or rather Gerardus Sablonetanus), with commentary by Jacobus de Partibus and additions by Johannes Lascaris; edited by Jacques Ponceau., Yale Med has volumes I and III, part 1, as described in Goff 1438., and Yale Med has a contemporary German binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
