Manuscript on trimmed paper of Henricus de Ratisbona's Vocabularius Lucianus. Includes other texts, including sermons by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing, sermons by Konrad Batt, and a partial transcription of Alain de Lille's Liber poenitentialis
Description:
In Latin., Script: The first sections are copied by one or more hands writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens. The Alain de Lille is copied by a hand writing the same script with Bastarda features. The quality of the transcription is mostly low. In the first sections, stroking of majuscules and underlining of biblical quotations and sources in red. 2/3-line red plain initials with little uniformity, sometimes with long extensions; they are missing ff. 55r -62v, 127r-145v., Vocabularius Lucianus, an alphabetical lexicon attributed to Henricus de Ratisbona. Two collections of sermons, the first, Sermones super Evangelia, by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing (c. 1363-c. 1430), from the first Sunday of Advent to the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. The second, Sermones rurales (Equipollarius), by Konrad Batt (Bart, Vatt, s. XIV). The manuscript also contains a transcription of Liber poenitentialis, Prologue and Book 1, chapters 1-11, by Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202)., and Binding: original binding: brown leather over unbevelled wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled with a frame traced with fillets and numerous impressions of a small quatrefoil stamp. On each cover five small many-lobed brass bosses. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alanus, Altissiodorensis, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., Ratisbona, Henricus de., Lille, Alain de, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., and Lucian, of Samosata.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Henricus de Ratisbona, Vocabularius Dictus Lucianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe in small Gothica Cursiva Currens; the opening lines in low quality Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Stroking of majuscules, underlining and plain initials in red; this decoration stops after f. 34v (quire III), although space had been provided for the initials. Very large flourished initials or litterae duplices with elaborate penwork in red and green on multiple folios., and Binding: contemporary German binding: yellowish parchment over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. The upper of the two leather closing straps is preserved, attached to the rear board and closing over a pin in the front board; the lower one is replaced with a “wrap-around” leather strap. On each cover 5 brass bosses. The paper pastedowns are blank leaves with ink frame-ruling for two columns. Numerous white leather tabs. In the upper compartment of the spine a brownish parchment label with the handwritten inscription s. XIX (?) “Vocabularius / MS 1415”; it replaces a similar but earlier label with the same inscription, in the second compartment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Henricus de Ratisbona.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
