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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Scope and content: Notebook on astronomy: the Elements, the Senses. Institutionum Physicarum, books 6, de Astronomia, 5, of 4 elements, 4th of senses, heat, cold ice, odor, taste, sound, sight., Text mentions astronomical events in 1783 and 1791. With 8 page booklet in English by Edward Sandford Burgess, written in black ink. According to Burgess, the manuscript was written in Paris by a student from, possibly, Italy, circa 1760-1783. Burgess describes a manuscript on astronomy, in which, among other things, the author attacks Ptolemy and Tycho, citing Kepler. He reconciles the Bible and Science, justifying Joshua for saying 'Siste sol', since he was referring to the real motion of the earth to the sun; it was more natural to address the Sun than to say 'Earth stand still'. The Copernicans themselves speak of the motion in terms of the Sun as the moving body, and say, 'The sun falls, the sun rises.' Burgess also describes sections dealing with the five senses. With loose paper label upon which is written in black ink: Latin Ms. on paper/ astronomy / 17th or 18th c., Collation: Octavo. Page numbering restarts in various sections; not all pages numbered; some blank pages. 12 ink diagrams tipped in., Origin: Paris?Script: Cursive in brown ink with ascender and descender flourishes., Binding: White alum-tawed parchment over boards. Red morocco spine label with gold stamped letters Institutionum Phisicarum LIBER--Manuscript and two gold lines above and below words. Endsheets of marbled paper, blue on white with black and dark red. Pages have holes from a previous side-sewn binding of 9 stations. Two additional flyleaves of thicker paper (late 19th-early 20th century).
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Scope and content: Notebook on astronomy: the Elements, the Senses. Institutionum Physicarum, books 6, de Astronomia, 5, of 4 elements, 4th of senses, heat, cold ice, odor, taste, sound, sight., Text mentions astronomical events in 1783 and 1791. With 8 page booklet in English by Edward Sandford Burgess, written in black ink. According to Burgess, the manuscript was written in Paris by a student from, possibly, Italy, circa 1760-1783. Burgess describes a manuscript on astronomy, in which, among other things, the author attacks Ptolemy and Tycho, citing Kepler. He reconciles the Bible and Science, justifying Joshua for saying 'Siste sol', since he was referring to the real motion of the earth to the sun; it was more natural to address the Sun than to say 'Earth stand still'. The Copernicans themselves speak of the motion in terms of the Sun as the moving body, and say, 'The sun falls, the sun rises.' Burgess also describes sections dealing with the five senses. With loose paper label upon which is written in black ink: Latin Ms. on paper/ astronomy / 17th or 18th c., Collation: Octavo. Page numbering restarts in various sections; not all pages numbered; some blank pages. 12 ink diagrams tipped in., Origin: Paris?Script: Cursive in brown ink with ascender and descender flourishes., Binding: White alum-tawed parchment over boards. Red morocco spine label with gold stamped letters Institutionum Phisicarum LIBER--Manuscript and two gold lines above and below words. Endsheets of marbled paper, blue on white with black and dark red. Pages have holes from a previous side-sewn binding of 9 stations. Two additional flyleaves of thicker paper (late 19th-early 20th century).
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Scope and content: Notebook on astronomy: the Elements, the Senses. Institutionum Physicarum, books 6, de Astronomia, 5, of 4 elements, 4th of senses, heat, cold ice, odor, taste, sound, sight., Text mentions astronomical events in 1783 and 1791. With 8 page booklet in English by Edward Sandford Burgess, written in black ink. According to Burgess, the manuscript was written in Paris by a student from, possibly, Italy, circa 1760-1783. Burgess describes a manuscript on astronomy, in which, among other things, the author attacks Ptolemy and Tycho, citing Kepler. He reconciles the Bible and Science, justifying Joshua for saying 'Siste sol', since he was referring to the real motion of the earth to the sun; it was more natural to address the Sun than to say 'Earth stand still'. The Copernicans themselves speak of the motion in terms of the Sun as the moving body, and say, 'The sun falls, the sun rises.' Burgess also describes sections dealing with the five senses. With loose paper label upon which is written in black ink: Latin Ms. on paper/ astronomy / 17th or 18th c., Collation: Octavo. Page numbering restarts in various sections; not all pages numbered; some blank pages. 12 ink diagrams tipped in., Origin: Paris?Script: Cursive in brown ink with ascender and descender flourishes., Binding: White alum-tawed parchment over boards. Red morocco spine label with gold stamped letters Institutionum Phisicarum LIBER--Manuscript and two gold lines above and below words. Endsheets of marbled paper, blue on white with black and dark red. Pages have holes from a previous side-sewn binding of 9 stations. Two additional flyleaves of thicker paper (late 19th-early 20th century).
774. Decretals. Libri V
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- Manuscript codex. Catalog 346 on Flyleaf. Inscription: “Iste Liber est S. Bartholomei de Azano diocesis Astensis ordinis S. Benedicti congregationis S. Justine Signatus No. 19” [Translation] “This Document is of (the Abbey of) Saint Bartholomeo of Azzano, of the diocese of Asti, of the order of Saint Benedict, the congregation of Saint Justin. Signed No. 19.” This monumental collection of Cannon Law served to largely build from and clarify former collections of such as Decretum Gratani. 5 books divided into titles, with titles subdivided into chapters; following the divisions of ‘Quinque Compilationes Antique.’, Collation: 270 leaves, with 1 leaf removed (having been stained blue). Quires of 12, VII_, XVI_,XX__,XXII_,XXIII(a)_,XXIII(b)__,XXIV__., Decoration: Capitals in blue with red tracery., Binding: Brown Morocco over boards showing 5 raised bands on the spine. Gilded text, “GREGORII IX / DECRETALIUM / LIBRI V / VARORIUM GLOSSAE / CODEX MEMBRANEUS / SAEC. XIII”, Script: Gothic bookhand in multiple hands. With marginalia in multiple cursives., Content Note: This monumental collection of Cannon Law served to largely build from and clarify former collections of such as Decretum Gratani. 5 books divided into titles, with titles subdivided into chapters; following the divisions of ‘Quinque Compilationes Antique.’
775. De Oratore
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- Manuscript codex., Collation: In quires of 8 (except 1 of 6, 8 of 7, and last of 1). F. 8 first leaf missing. Folio numbers added in brown ink; partially cut off, indicating pages were trimmed. Two blank flyleaves of handmade paper at front and back added in 2011 rebind., Decoration: First page has elaborate illuminated initial and border on three sides with gilding over raised gesso. Large initial C in pink with architectural motif, filled with vines in wash of green, red, and blue, on a background of blue with whitework scrolls, all surrounded by gilding with tiny dotted punch-work. Along left margin, a bar in blue and gold sprouts vines and leaves on three sides. Vines in red or blue ink with painted leaves in pink, green, blue, gold, and red. Scattered raised gold dots outlined with black ink curlicues. Along top, a green acanthus leaf. Along base, a grotesque dragon in red, blue, pink, gold, and green, and a now illegible coat of arms, including red and blue. The document describes a dark brown shield ... across the center a broad fess azure; above rays gules; below, metallic brown. These details may have been more visible in the past than they are now. However, brown is not a normal heraldic color, so this may be discoloration or a bole (clay) wash under gold which has rubbed off. Above the shield are initials M. A. with red penwork flourishes. Throughout, numerous red and blue initial letters, embellished with delicate penwork in alternating purple or red., Binding: 2011 binding by Etherington Conservation Services. Dark brown calf over beveled boards. Blind-tooled in 15th century style: front and back covers have border with small rosettes; within this a frame of larger rosettes; within this a cross motif made up of small and large rosettes. Five-paneled spine with raised cords laced into boards. White linen head and tail bands. Pastedowns and 2 flyleaves of modern handmade paper at front and back. Interrupted borders of frontispiece indicate the manuscript was trimmed. The manuscript was previously bound in a 20th century velvet binding., Script: Rounded Humanistic book hand. A few lines rubricated. Long 's' throughout, short 's' at start of sentence., Illuminated letters: Leaf 33r: Initial letter 'M' in yellow and red, framed in blue, with whitework vines and leaves, on a background of red and white penwork. Green ink sprays with leaves in yellow, green, red, or blue. Leaf 84r: Initial 'I' in yellow with red highlights, on a rectangular background of blue, pink, and dark green with white highlights, and white vines and leaves in an 'X' shape. A spray of green stems with pink and blue flowers emerges from upper and lower left corners of the rectangle. Leaf 113r: initial 'V' made of two curved fish in yellow and orange wash with brown ink; outer background quartered in red and blue with white linework; inner background green with whitework vines and leaves, sprouting two sprays of leaves in green, blue, or red., Formatted Content Note: De Oratore, Libri ff. 1-115. Liber I, f. 1, begins: Cogitanti mihi sepenumero et memoria vetera repententi per beati fuisse. Quinte frater. illi videri solent... Liber II, f. 33: agna nobis pueris. Q. frater si memoria tenes... Liber III, f. 84: Institutendi mihi Quinte te frater. Orator ff. 115-150v, begins: Vtruiii Dificilius aut Maius e[ss]et (negare) tibi s[a]epius idem roganti un effice[re] id quod rogares diu multum q: Brute dubitavi. Ends: Marcii Tullii Ciceronis Oratoris Liber Explet LXXXDI-[?]XII.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Scope and content: Notebook on astronomy: the Elements, the Senses. Institutionum Physicarum, books 6, de Astronomia, 5, of 4 elements, 4th of senses, heat, cold ice, odor, taste, sound, sight., Text mentions astronomical events in 1783 and 1791. With 8 page booklet in English by Edward Sandford Burgess, written in black ink. According to Burgess, the manuscript was written in Paris by a student from, possibly, Italy, circa 1760-1783. Burgess describes a manuscript on astronomy, in which, among other things, the author attacks Ptolemy and Tycho, citing Kepler. He reconciles the Bible and Science, justifying Joshua for saying 'Siste sol', since he was referring to the real motion of the earth to the sun; it was more natural to address the Sun than to say 'Earth stand still'. The Copernicans themselves speak of the motion in terms of the Sun as the moving body, and say, 'The sun falls, the sun rises.' Burgess also describes sections dealing with the five senses. With loose paper label upon which is written in black ink: Latin Ms. on paper/ astronomy / 17th or 18th c., Collation: Octavo. Page numbering restarts in various sections; not all pages numbered; some blank pages. 12 ink diagrams tipped in., Origin: Paris?Script: Cursive in brown ink with ascender and descender flourishes., Binding: White alum-tawed parchment over boards. Red morocco spine label with gold stamped letters Institutionum Phisicarum LIBER--Manuscript and two gold lines above and below words. Endsheets of marbled paper, blue on white with black and dark red. Pages have holes from a previous side-sewn binding of 9 stations. Two additional flyleaves of thicker paper (late 19th-early 20th century).
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- Manuscript codex. As referenced by Jim Marrow Report: Book of Hours with an Office of the Dead of Autun Use., Collation: 101 leaves in 13 quires of 8 (except 1__, 2_, 8_, 13_). No catchwords, No signatures. Folio numbers in pencil. Much variety in emphatic rubrication., Decoration: Larger 3-to-4 line initials in blue OR burgundy upon a gilded square with white floral tracery introducing chapters. Smaller 1-to-2 line gilt capitals upon blue and burgundy square are used to introduce sentences. In addition, five miniatures are found, and bordered with floral acanthus with accompanying pheasantry. Much variety in emphatic rubrication. Miniature illustrations: 1. (fol. 25r) The Annunciation (Hours of the Virgin, Matins). 2. (fol. 63r) The Crucifixion (Hours of the Cross). 3. (fol. 67r) The Pentecost (Hours of the Holy Spirit). 4. (fol. 70r) David at Prayer (Seven Penitential Psalms). 5. (fol. 85r) Funeral Scene (Office of the Dead)., Binding: Modern red morocco with marbled rose endpapers., Script: In one hand of Gothic cursive called the French Batarde Script, notable is the lowercase g, which is as a minuscule y, with a horizontal bar extending through both ascending strokes.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Commentaries on the Book of Numbers by Saint Rabanus Maurus, in 4 volumes. Rabanus Marus was the Abbot of Fulda, as well as the Archbishop of Mainz. This text is a commentary on the Book of Numbers by German teacher and theologian Rabanus Maurus (776-856). The authorship of the text is divulged in three places within the text. The scribe denoted the author as Rabanus Maurus in the phrase that begins the preface, the phrase that begins Book I and the phrase that ends Book IV (see list of contents above). Rabanus Maurus was born of French parents in Mainz in 776. He completed his studies at Fulda and became deacon there in 801. In 802 he traveled to Tours and studied under the famous Alcuin. Rabanus became well-known for his successful teaching and drew many pupils around him as head of the convent school at Fulda. In 822 he was consecrated abbot of Fulda. In 847 he was drawn out of retirement to become archbishop of Mainz. He died on 4 February 856. In addition to successful teaching of literature, science and theology, Rabanus was an erudite Biblical scholar. He wrote commentaries on all of the books of the New and Old Testaments and many of the Apocryphal ones. (McClintock and Strong, p. 1) MS 9 contains commentary on all 36 chapters of the Book of Numbers. The text is divided into four books. Each book is divided into a number of chapters (17, 25, 12 and 12, respectively). However, these chapters and book divisions do not match up with the actual chapter divisions of the Book of Numbers. As a remedy to this problem, another scribe marked the true biblical chapters at the top of the recto and verso of each leaf., Collation: Large folio in 10 gatherings of 8 (except 10_). With signatures. Vertical catchwords at the foot of the final verso of each quire. Rubricated headings on each page indicate book and chapter., Origin: Northern France., Decoration: 3 large and 2 smaller illuminated initials with zoomorphic elements, also alternating blue initials with red tracery, and rubricated initials with blue tracery; f1r (12 line knotted green N upon red square entangled with serif of lion); f2v (11+ line Large blue L with Agape lion in green with floral tail); f63r (blue faced lion inside blue D, upon gold square, 4 lines); f18v (Large blue 35 line L, with foot of a Lion headed bird with floral serif proclaiming from its mouth)., Binding: rebound in 2009, in dark brown calf over laminated boards of 4 layer rag mat board.
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- Manuscript codex. Summary: Scholastic philosophy is at first influenced by Platonism through the mediation of St. Augustine from the 13th Century ... by Aristotle's philosophy ... The Stagirite became the official philosopher ... Toward the middle of the fifteenth century [scholasticism] succumbs to the secular and liberal reaction inaugurated by the Renaissance. Weber's History of Philosophy, pp. 202, 239. The Organon, or instrument of philosophy was earnestly studied before and after the dominance of Aristotelian metaphysics under scholasticism. Aristotle is the real founder of logic, and his system of deductive logic, in the opinion of Weber, constitutes his ... claim to fame., Collation: Quarto (228 x 175 mm) in quires of 8 (except vii^4, viii^2, xi^6, xv-xvii^6, xviii^10, xix^6, xxiii^6, xxiv^10, xxv-vi^6, xxv-vi^6, xxviii^4, xxxv^1, xxxvii^4, xli-ii^4, xlvi^10)(to compliment these exceptions ff. 171-172, ff. 187-188, f245 had been removed before writing). No rubrication; no signatures. Catchwords only before missing pages. Four sets of numeration, to reflect the four books in this volume., Decoration: Line diagrams in same black ink on f21v (Diagram describing the rules of argument oppositions) & f32r (Matrix concerning the methods of forming an arguement)., Binding: Vellum over boards 235 x 176 mm, showing 3 raised bands labelled Aristotles XVe siede MSS. With page edges dressed en rouge. Attempted binding repair with at least 4 bands of reused parchment, with text, strapped between interior board and spine., Script: Humanistic cursive in a single hand.
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- Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger., Scope and content: Notebook on astronomy: the Elements, the Senses. Institutionum Physicarum, books 6, de Astronomia, 5, of 4 elements, 4th of senses, heat, cold ice, odor, taste, sound, sight., Text mentions astronomical events in 1783 and 1791. With 8 page booklet in English by Edward Sandford Burgess, written in black ink. According to Burgess, the manuscript was written in Paris by a student from, possibly, Italy, circa 1760-1783. Burgess describes a manuscript on astronomy, in which, among other things, the author attacks Ptolemy and Tycho, citing Kepler. He reconciles the Bible and Science, justifying Joshua for saying 'Siste sol', since he was referring to the real motion of the earth to the sun; it was more natural to address the Sun than to say 'Earth stand still'. The Copernicans themselves speak of the motion in terms of the Sun as the moving body, and say, 'The sun falls, the sun rises.' Burgess also describes sections dealing with the five senses. With loose paper label upon which is written in black ink: Latin Ms. on paper/ astronomy / 17th or 18th c., Collation: Octavo. Page numbering restarts in various sections; not all pages numbered; some blank pages. 12 ink diagrams tipped in., Origin: Paris?Script: Cursive in brown ink with ascender and descender flourishes., Binding: White alum-tawed parchment over boards. Red morocco spine label with gold stamped letters Institutionum Phisicarum LIBER--Manuscript and two gold lines above and below words. Endsheets of marbled paper, blue on white with black and dark red. Pages have holes from a previous side-sewn binding of 9 stations. Two additional flyleaves of thicker paper (late 19th-early 20th century).