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).
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).
Manuscript document. Partial translation indicating John 16:22 provided by bookseller: ...your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you..., Collation: Parchment; disbound sheets., Decoration: Red capitals with pink linework; blue capitals with red linework; staves and foliation in red., Binding: Disbound sewn quire., Lettering: Written in Textura script., Partial translation indicating John 16:22 provided by bookseller: ...your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you...
Manuscript document. Seller describes leaf as being from an early monk's girdle bible; uterine vellum; from the collection of Henry E. Luhrs., Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: One initial in red, with blue flourishing; rubrication; running title in red and blue., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Textura.
Manuscript codex. The properties of herbs: hexameter poem on medicinal uses of herbs, written in the late 11th century under the pseudonym of Macer (with reference to the Roman poet and naturalist Aemilius Licinius Macer, d. 16 BC). The French physician Odo de Meung-sur-Loire, known as Odo Magdunensis, has been suggested as the real author, as his name is mentioned in a 12th-century copy of the text (Dresden, Sa_chsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dc. 160, f. 37v, explicit) and a number of later manuscripts. The epithet 'Floridus' was added to the name by scribes from the 13th century onwards (Wellcome Library). The text draws from classical and early medieval sources, Pliny (23-79 AD) and Walafrid Strabo (d. 849) in particular. Cited for the first time by Sigebertus Gemblacensis (d. 1112), the poem circulated widely in Europe, both in Latin and in vernacular translations, for the following five centuries, with the number of hexameter lines varying greatly (Wellcome library). The poem is one of the earliest Western documents proving a medieval revival of interest in botany., Collation: Three quires of 8. Catchwords on f. 8b, f. 16b., Decoration: Illuminated capital 'H' on first recto: Brownish-purple with white highlights on raised gold square, filled with foliage in blue and pink, with green foliate extensions and 9 scattered raised gold dots outlined with ink. Four Lombardic capitals, three in red and four in blue; some unfilled capital spaces. Gothic ornamental capitals (same ink and size as script) starts each line. First five divisions have headings in red., Binding: Gray-green paper and brown morocco leather spine over boards. Leather is blind-tooled with four pairs of horizontal lines, each bracketed by a small gold dot. Spine labeled MACER lengthwise in gold. Paper pastedowns and four paper flyleaves at front and back., Script: Rounded Gothic book minuscule in brown ink with rubrication.
Manuscript codex. Justinus the historian [was] of unknown date, but not later than 300 or 400 AD. His work is taken from the Historiae Philippicae of Progus Pompeius ... writing the history of Macedonian monarchy ... Justin's work is not so much an abridgment as a selection of those parts [of Trogus' history] which seemed to him most worthy of being generally known--Edward Sandford Burgess notes., Includes two pages of written notes by Edward Sandford Burgess on Justinus and his text, and notes on the veneration of Cicero's texts by later scholars., Collation (Cicero): 50 leaves, Quires of 10 + 2 front flyleaves. No page headings, numbers, signatures. Catchwords in middle lower margin at end of quires., Collation (Justinus): 69 leaves, quires of 10 except last of 9. Catchwords in middle lower margin at end of quires. No page headings, numbers, signatures., Binding: Both works bound together in grained brown morocco over heavy boards. Spine has six panels with gold stamped letters: Argumenta Tullii, Justini Historia, M. S. in chart. Interior covers have gold fillet border with fleurons at corners. Flyleaves have watermark J. Whatman, 1833., Script: Cicero manuscript written in Humanistic minuscule in brown ink; smaller script in Justinus manuscript.
Manuscript codex. Contained in this volume are the fragmentary sermons of Iohannes Halgrinus de AbbatisVilla (died 1237), A French philosopher and writer of Sermons, as well as Papal legate to the court of Fredric II of Spain & Portugal, and Cardinal of Sabina(1227). He has been described as a theological follower of Petrus Cantor and Cardinal Stephen Langton. He studied in Paris with Hugolino of Ostia (Pope Gregory IX) at the University of Paris., Collation: In quires of 10. Catchwords in middle lower margin, no signatures. Marginal headings. Folio numbers., Decoration: Decorative blue and red paragraph marks, some large initials in blue or red. Headings rubricated throughout., Binding: 18th century parchment binding, rounded spine, head and tail bands of green and white thread. Lined with 18th c. Italian figured art paper: foliage designs printed in brown and red on a background of small brown dots. Edges stained brown. 9 blank leaves besides endpapers in front and 10 leaves of index, at end 11 blank leaves and endpapers; flyleaves have a tri-lobed watermark at center Title written in brown ink on spine., Script: Gothic minuscule in brown ink.
Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: Two initials in gold and blue with marginal extenders in purple and red; text in black and red., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Gothic.
Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: Initials in red and blue, with red and blue flourishing; running title lettered in red and blue; rubrication., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Written in a Carolingian minuscule script.
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).