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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
