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![Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [190]](/thumbnails/b/4/oregondigital-kp78hp34b.jpg "Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [190]")
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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).
![Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [112]](/thumbnails/g/9/oregondigital-kp78hn79g.jpg "Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [112]")
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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. 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.
![Miniature leaf, possibly from a psalter [002]](/thumbnails/d/6/oregondigital-wm117v06d.jpg "Miniature leaf, possibly from a psalter [002]")
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- Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment., Decoration: Initials in blue and gold, with red and purple flourishing, and red, blue, and gold line decoration., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Written in a Gothic hand.
![Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [163]](/thumbnails/p/7/oregondigital-kp78hp17p.jpg "Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [163]")
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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).
![Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [188]](/thumbnails/c/1/oregondigital-kp78hm01c.jpg "Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [188]")
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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).
![Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [118]](/thumbnails/3/1/oregondigital-kp78hk813.jpg "Institutionum Phisicarum Liber [118]")
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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).
78. Phaedon [006]
![Phaedon [006]](/thumbnails/r/6/oregondigital-wm117r46r.jpg "Phaedon [006]")
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- Manuscript codex., This translation is by humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni. Probably made from a manuscript brought to Italy by Chrysoloras., Collation: Small folio in quires I-II__, III__., Decoration: 2 initials in red with very fine blue tracery, and in blue with red tracery. f1r [initial large majuscule red 'Q']UI LAUDANT SACTITUTEM TUAM/ bearissime pater opus certe bonum ac pium agere/ pergunt. [TRANSLATION] THOSE WHO PRAISE YOUR HOLINESS, most blessed father, certainly continue to drive the good and pious work. f1r [Superscript marginal addendum in cursive hand] Platonis Phaedon, sive de animo in Leonardo Arentino (latine redditum) f1v [Initial Blue 'I'] PSE affuisti o Pheton ea die qua Socrates venenum bibit in carcere. An ab alio quodam audivisti. [TRANSLATION] Oh Phaeton, were you yourself present on this day when Socrates drinks poison in prison, or did you hear from someone else?, Binding: Contemporary binding of gray linen with olive morocco back with title in gilt: PHAEDON E VERS. LEON ARENTI., Script: upright humanistic Roman hand with much abbreviation.
79. De Oratore [006]
![De Oratore [006]](/thumbnails/s/7/oregondigital-wm117r37s.jpg "De Oratore [006]")
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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.
![Leaf from medieval manuscript breviary [001]](/thumbnails/3/5/oregondigital-wm117v453.jpg "Leaf from medieval manuscript breviary [001]")
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- Manuscript document, Collation: Parchment, single sheet., Decoration: Five initials in gold on red and blue, with white penwork; rubrication., Binding: Disbound., Lettering: Textura.
