Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1299].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1079
Image Count:
411
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Pseudo-Hugo de Sancto Caro (Hugh of Saint-Cher): 1) Epitome IV librorum Sententiarum; 2) theological excerpts; 3) a list of articles where Peter Lombard is not followed
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single scribe in Southern (Spanish) Gothica Textualis Formata/Libraria (Textus Praescissus) in two sizes. Art. 2 is in small Iberian Gothica Hybrida Currens and art. 3, in another hand, appears in Iberian Hybrida Libraria., Decoration: red headings and stroking of majuscules; 2-line, half inserted flourished initials; 4- or 5-line blue flourished initial with interior reserved shapes on a square background at the beginning of each book., and Binding: 17th century sheepskin over pasteboard. Three raised bands appear on the spine with gold-tooled green leather label and inscription.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Manuscript on parchment of gospel and liturgical texts with musical notation for the Vigil of Christmas and the Holy Week. Includes a variety of feriae
Alternative Title:
Passiones Christi
Description:
In Latin., Script copied by two hands in a rather angular southern gothica textualis formata (rotunda)., Decoration: headings in red; yellow heightening of majuscules and cadel; numerous elaborately decorated cadels; neumatic chant notation on four-line staff., and Neumatic chant notation on four-line staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Gregorian chants, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified grammatical treatise
Description:
In Latin., Decoration: rubrics in red; chapter marks have an extended top stroke and are black within the text; initials heightened in yellow; capitals decorated with red and yellow., and Contained in Zi +9499 (Jaime Perez de Valencia, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum Salomonis), in which the fragment is used as a spine support in both the front and back of the book.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, and Grammar
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment, containing books 1 (1r-97v), 2 (98r-195r), 4 (196r-303v), and 5 (306r-) of Avicenna's Liber Canonis or Canon Medicinae. Book 3 wanting. Collection of short medical texts follows: "Distinctio mensuraru[m] [et] ponderu[m] ex breuiario alfebyr" (342v-343r), "Distinctio ponderu[m] [et] m[en]suratu[m] ex breuiario filii sarapionis" (343r), "Pondera medicinalia signa conati sum[us]" (343r-343v), and the Secreta Ypocratis (343v-344v): "Peruenit ad nos [quia] cu[m] ypocras morti ap[pro]pinquaret". Also includes incomplete alphabetical index of medicial herbs (a-c; leaves iii verso-iv recto) and index of Arabic names: Incipiu[n]t expo[s]itiones nominu[m] arabico[rum] Auice[n]ne (leaves 345r-348v; Alfirdafu-Zicibil).
Alternative Title:
Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Latin, Liber canonis, and Liber canonis medicinae
Description:
In Latin., Title from opening rubric., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: several large puzzle initials in red and blue; alternating red and blue two-line initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: 2 columns of 53 lines., and Binding: modern light-brown calf over pasteboards. Spine title in gold-tooling: Avicenna / Canon Medicinae / MS Saec. XIV.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence., and Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing the Ordo missae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic script (littera textualis formata) without feet on the minims., and Decoration: one 9-line initial "P" on fol. 1r in varying shades of blue with foliate decoration on white filigree; in the loop of the letter a peacock in blue and grey with green and gold feathers stands underneath a red rose; the text on the recto is bordered on all four sides and in the center margin with a gold band filled with blue diamons alternating with circles filled with flowers; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment of Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and other liturgical texts, with motets by Josquin des Pres added at a later date
Description:
In Latin., Script: original text and additions copied in extremely large Southern (Spanish) Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Praescissus), with music notation in nota quadrata., Richly decorated with red rubrics and painted initials., and Binding: s. XVI: undecorated brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. On both covers four large engraved brass corner pieces and more centrally five smaller engraved brass bosses. The leather damaged and several metal pieces lost. On the front cover upside down large number "26" in white paint. On the rear cover four engraved brass catches for clasps (one both at the top and at the bottom edge, and two at the outer edge), and eight nails towards the top probably for fixing a fenestra with title label (now lost). Leather tabs partly with Spanish inscriptions pasted on the outer edges of the leaves.
Manuscript on paper (sized) of Vincent Ferrer, Sermones. In this version of the sermons the text begins in Latin, presents the main points of the sermon in Spanish, and then returns to the body of the text in Latin
Description:
In Latin and Spanish., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3694-3702, and unidentified cross bow in a circle., Script: Written in gothic cursive script, above top line., Plain red intials for each sermon; headings, foliation and paragraph marks in red. First words of each sermon in large gothic bookhand for display script., and Binding: ca. 1500, Spain. Wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into the wooden boards. Plain wound natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn on cores laced into the boards and pegged. They are tied down around a strip of tawed skin. There is a coarse cloth spine lining. Back pastedown is part of a bifolium from a liturgical manuscript with Aquitanian musical notation. Covered with reddish-brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a rope interlace tool, fleurs de lis and annular dots. Spine: supports outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with double fillets with annular dots at the intersections. There are traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, and traces of five round bosses on each board. Damage from a chain attachment (?) near the tail of the upper board; remains of a paper or vellum label near the head.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on parchment (speckled, yellow on hair side) of a collection of sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in early gothic bookhand by several scribes, above top line., Plain monochrome initials in red for ff. 1-18; similar initials, but with simple designs in both parchment and red ink for remainder of codex. Headings in red, ff. 1r-24v, 27r-30v only. Instructions to rubricator along outer and lower edges., Some staining at end of volume; no loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century, England (?). Quires cut in for sewing. Rigid vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Leo P. P. Sermones".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium of an unidentified text that discusses the nature of man's hereditas (christus est hereditas nostra) and the distinction between serui boni and serui mali (perhaps referring to Luke 12:42?); text appears to be continuous
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in upright Visigothic minuscule., Traces of small, 2-line, decorative initial and rubric on f. 1r. Otherwise, text on this folio virtually illegible., and Removed from a binding: ff. 1r and 2v much damaged with loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Catenae, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
