Laude caritatis, etc

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Description

Title
Laude caritatis, etc
Creator
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Contributor
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471.
Alcuinus, 735-804.
Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397.
Published / Created
1459
Publication Place
Western Germany
Abstract

Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, and De modo orandi. 2) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 3) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae. 4) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss

Description
In Latin.
Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-18v in Gothica Textualis Formata; Hand B copied ff. 19r-38v in Gothica Hybrida Formata/Libraria; Hand C copied ff. 39r-47r in bold Hybrida Libraria; Hand D copied ff. 48r-50r and 54r-57r in Semihybrida Libraria; Hand E, which is perhaps identical with Hand D, copied ff. 50v-53v in Hybrida Libraria; Hand F copied f. 57v in Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 58r-116r in Hybrida Libraria (in two sizes for text and gloss of art. 21). Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and (in articles 10-19) underlining in red. All initials in the same colour: 1-line versals; 2- and 3-line plain initials; a 4-line plain initial with interior reserved shapes on f. 1r; a 3-line plain initial containing a human face on f. 48r.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, 2) Thomas a Kempis, De tribus tabernaculis and Sermones ad fratres, 3) Hugh of St. Victor, De modo orandi (shortened version), 4) Extracts from Hugh of St. Victor, St. Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux and others on the value of prayer and of the reciting of psalms, 5) Compilation from the works of St. Augustine on the value of the psalms, 6) Alcuinus, De psalmorum usu, preface (partim), 7) Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, 8) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam, 9) Commentary on the Ave Maria, 10) Psalms to be recited on special occasions or for special purposes, 11) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae, and 12) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss.
Binding: contemporary binding: brown leather over wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with diagonal fillets and fleur-de-lis stamps in the diamond-shaped spaces. Spine with three raised bands (rebacked). Remnants of one brass clasp.
Provenance
Presented by William Mewburn, Banbury, to the Library of the Wesleyan College, Headingly (bookplate). Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 97). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent
ff. 116 : 205 x 140 mm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Beinecke MS 889
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material
paper (ff. 1 and 12 parchment) ;
Resource Type
unspecified
Subject (Geographic)
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name)
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.
Subject (Topic)
Versions
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Ave Maria
Bible. Latin > Versions
Lord's prayer
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation
Hugh of St. Victor, Laude Caritatis, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9884074
Object ID (OID)
11007466

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