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1. Cicero, Moral extracts, Canon law
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1143
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of (1) M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Laelius de amicitia; (2) Cicero, Cato Maior de senectute; (3) moral examples from antiquity; (4) commentary on parts of Canon Law
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Artt. 1-2 (ff. 1-38) are copied in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens, except f. 6v, which is in Semihybrida Libraria; art. 3 is copied in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; art. 4 is copied in Gothica Semihybrida Currens in two sizes (large for the texts and small for the commentaries); and art. 5 (the former pastedowns) are written in Gothica Textualis, with the marginal notes in small Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: Undecorated,; the former pastedowns (art. 5) contain Arabic numerals in black, red, and blue., and Binding: original, damaged brown calfskin over wooden boards sewn on three cords; covers are blind-tooled and stamped; two original clasps were replaced by a single clasp (now lost); spine with paper label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Wiblingen (Ulm, Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law, Christian education, History, Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cicero, Moral extracts, Canon law
2. Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses
- Published / Created:
- 1471.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 762
- Image Count:
- 904
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions and institutions of the Roman empire. 6) Note on the structure of Roman personal names. 7) Headings of the chapters of Books 1-9 of Facta et dicta memorabilia. 8) Giunta de Sancto Giminiano (14th century), alphabetical table to Facta et dicta memorabilia, from A to T, with ample blank spaces between each letter of the alphabet. 9) Mentions of Valerius Maximus and Livy in works of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyre. 10) Valerius Maximus (1st century), Facta et dicta memorabilia, including the pseudepigraphic Book 10, De interpretacionibus nominum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the text very large, the glosses small., Underlining, paragraph marks, headings, stroking of majuscules and plain initials (with guide letters), all in red., The pages damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding in brown leather, the cardboard covers covered with marbled brown paper. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and brown title label with gold-tooled inscription: “VALERIUS MAXIMUS / MANUSCRIPTUM”. Red sprinkled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Description and travel, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses
3. Vaticinia Pontificum, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1325 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 225
- Image Count:
- 100
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Ps.-Joachim da Fiore, Vaticinia Pontificum. With additional prophetic texts including a Sibylline tract entitled De imperatore; and a Version of the "Tripoli" prophecy, added by a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand, here recorded as a vision in a Cistercian monastery in 1346
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Arts. 2-4 written in neat gothic bookhand. Art. 1 in a less formal bookhand and art. 5 in a notarial hand with various flourishes., 15 small miniatures, 12-line, within narrow ochre frames inserted into text column, one for each prophecy in art. 3, ff. 15r-22r. The miniatures depict a cycle of Popes and city scapes with emblematic attributes against pink, blue and ochre grounds with small white filigree designs along the edges. Numerous flourished initials, 2-line, alternate in red and blue with purple or red penwork designs. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century (?). Tacketed through a limp vellum (palimpsest?) wrapper to thick leather pads with a basket weave around the sewing threads. Contemporary title in ink, on front: "De imperatore." Backs of quires cut in for sewing.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papacy, History, Prophecies, and Visions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vaticinia Pontificum, etc
