Digital Scriptorium
PREVIOUS
New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,  Beinecke MS 542
Description: ff. 202 - Eighteenth century. Italian blind-tooled calf with unidentified arms in gilt on both covers. - Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 4203). Purchased from H.P. Kraus, 21 January 1974 with funds from the E.J. Beinecke Trust.
Notes:-Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I: Aristoteles, Topica. First folio of De sophisticis elenchis inserted after f. 137. Many folios replaced on 16th-century paper. Part II: 1) Heraclius (attributed author), Brontologion (Rules for interpreting thunder). 2) Ezra the Prophet (attributed author), Prognosis (Weather prophecies). 3) Stories from the Old Testament. The 2 parts of the book were probably bound together in Venice about 1500.
Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 0
Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/BeineckeMS542_47
Language: Greek Country: Italy Century: 15th
View a detailed description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms542.htm
View in the Beinecke's Digital Library: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Search/Results?lookfor=Beinecke_MS_542&type=CallNumber&sort=title
Part 1:
Description: - paper - 215 x 143 mm.
Country: ItalyCardinal point:
Region: Italy (?) and Mistra (?)City:
Assigned Date: [between 1400 and 1500, ca. 1400]Searchable Date Range: 1400 - 1500
Dated by scribe: NoInscribed Date:
Document: NoNumber of Scribes:
Notes: Headings in red. Binding: Eighteenth century. Italian blind-tooled calf with unidentified arms in gilt on both covers.
Number of Texts: 1
Text 1:
Author: Aristotle.
Title: Topica.
Subjects: Aristotle.; Classical literature.; Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.; Philosophy--Early works to 1800.; Science, Medieval.;
Language(s): Greek
Technical support provided by The University of California, Berkeley Library