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1. Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, etc
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 890
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Cicero, Paradoxa, Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: the original parts are copied by two scribes: A copied art. 1 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens; B, writing a bold Gothica Cursiva Formata with “northern” features and marked by lengthened and decorated ascenders on the top line, copied artt. 4, 6 and 7. The additional texts, copied on blank spaces or pages, are in badly shaped Humanistica Cursiva (art. 2), slovenly executed Gothica Semihybrida Currens (art. 3), Humanistica Cursiva (art. 5, [1] and [2]) and Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva (art. 5, [3] and [4])., There are remnants of an early foliation in arabic numerals (17th century?) in the upper outer corner of the recto pages, starting f. 16 ("1")., In the original parts all initials are missing; at the opening of art. 6 the upper half of f. 17r is blank (in view of a picture which was not executed?) and a later hand has entered a large and coarse initial “C” (8 lines) containing a human face; in that art. there are guide letters for the small initials which were intended to open each entry; a few of these initials were added afterwards. The initial planned at the opening of art. 7 is 6 lines high. The opening lines of art. 1 are in a large fanciful display script overdecorated with flourishes and almost illegible. There is some pale red stroking of the majuscules on ff. 68v, 69r and 70v., The manuscript contains: 1) Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Paradoxa. 2) Prophecy in 11 verses added by a slightly later hand on the blank lower half of the page. The text is corrupt. 3) Two rhetorical exercises by an unrecorded author addressed to an emperor, who is praised with all possible exaggeration. 4) Astronomical or computistical table, recording for each month 3 up to 7 days, of which two are superscribed with a cross and an hour, the remaining ones only with the letter "p". The crosses are crutched crosses up to September inclusive, afterwards simple crosses. 5) Notes added by slightly later hands on a blank page; notes on ancient Roman abbreviations; various Latin names applied to the Greeks. 6) Ps.-Cicero, Synonyma, printed from 1487 onward, with 17th century Italian annotations, in the same hand as in art. 1, found in the margins of ff. 23v-25r. 7) Ps.-Sallustius, Invectiva in Marcum Tullium Ciceronem., and Binding: 20th century. Yellow parchment over light cardboard, with turned edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Stoics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cicero, Pseudo-Cicero, Pseudo-Sallust, etc
2. Epistolae
- Creator:
- Pier, delle Vigne, 1190?-1249
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 77
- Image Count:
- 317
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pietro della Vigna, Epistolae. On ff. 120v-130v, mixed in with the letters, is an incomplete text of Thomas of Capua, Summa dictaminis
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Piccard Anker VII.181-83, Briquet Monts 11813, and Briquet Indetermines 16061-63; unidentified letter P with forked descender., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., Headings and some marginalia in red (often faded), by two hands, the second of which ruled two parallel lines in lead for each line of headings that were added in a more upright gothic text hand., and Binding: ca. 1500, Northern Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps reinforced with fragments of a parchment manuscript (Lectionary?) set in channels on the outside of beech boards. The spine is lined with pieces of parchment manuscript, extending inside the boards between supports. Quarter bound in reddish brown leather with a blind-tooled floral roll along the edges (later but early?). Spine: multiple fillets at head, tail and outlining supports on the spine. Panels tooled with X's with fleurons around them and floral tools in squares on their points in the outer panels. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. The lower board is cut in for straps. Title in ink near the head of the upper board ("Epistole Petr. de Vineis de gestis Friderici Romanorum Imperatoris II **") which is cracked and has been repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pier, delle Vigne, 1190?-1249.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae
3. Epistolae ad familiares
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400; between 1415 and 1431]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 59
- Image Count:
- 380
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (hairside yellow and speckled) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. With Extract from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III.8.8: Epistula Fabricii et Aemilii consulum ad Pyrrhum regem. The text was copied ca. 1400 and the border decoration added between ca. 1415 and 1431
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a neat fere-humanistic hand by a single scribe, below top line., 14 elegant illuminated initials and partial borders at the beginning of each of the 16 books (the opening pages of Books XII and XV have been excised). Initials, 5- to 3-line, blue with white filigree or red with gold filigree on cusped grounds of gold. Most of the illuminated initials filled with bust-length portraits, presumably of Cicero's correspondents, on red, blue or diapered ground. Some initials filled with vine scrolls with trilobe leaves in red with white highlights against gold ground. Partial borders, scrolling vine with trilobe leaves or acanthus in blue, pink, red and gold with white highlights and green, red and blue with gold highlights. Small figures of angels, dressed in green with gold wings in borders or margins, some playing musical instruments, one holding an open book, one holding the cloth of Veronica. Other marginal figures include the "Agnus Dei" and a pelican piercing its breast. The figures are all characterized by white faces, small angled black eyes, and a preference for green and gold, the green with contour lines in gold. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Red velvet case with a dark green gold-tooled label: "M. T. Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Familiares MS. in Membranis". Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae ad familiares
4. Epistolae ad familiares
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1000 and 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1057
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares. Used as cover on a copy of Nicolas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres (Frankfurt: In officina Palthenii, 1596).
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: Single column of 26 lines., and Decoration: Rubrication.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae ad familiares
5. Epistolae, etc
- Creator:
- Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 100
- Image Count:
- 224
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 2) Unidentified couplet. 3) Ps.-Brutus, Epistolae, translated by Rinuccio Aretino and dedicated to Pope Nicholas V. 4) Ps.-Plutarch, Epistola ad Traianum. 5) Ps.-Philip of Macedon, Epistola ad Aristotelem. 6) Plutarch, Pyrrhus (extract), Lat. tr. of Leonardo Bruni. 7) Ps.-Caesar, Epistola ad Ciceronem. Arts. 8-11 are excerpts from an 11th- or early 12th-century supplement to Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni. 12) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistula ad Demotelem, Lat. tr. Giovanni Aurispa. 13) Tibullus (attributed), Priapea I.
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6597, 6601., Script: Arts. 1 and 3-12 written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; arts. 2 and 13 added in a more flamboyant style of humanistic cursive., Two illuminated initials, 4-line, gold against blue, green and dark red grounds with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. From the corners issue penwork inkspray with leaves, green with yellow or gold highlights, and blue or red blossoms, extending into margins to form partial border. Plain initials alternate in blue and red. Headings in pale red., and Binding: Date? Italy (?). Sewn through pieces of vellum. Limp vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Phalaridis Epistole". Badly worm eaten.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. and Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae, etc
6. Epistulae et tractatus
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- 1439-1440.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 766
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Jermone, Epistulae et tractatus. With Ambrosius Mediolanensis (St. Ambrose, 339-397), De excessu fratris
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Apparently four scribes: A, Iohannes de Carnago, is the main scribe and copied ff. 1r-260v (with the exception of 8 lines at the bottom) in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; B copied from the bottom lines of f. 260v to f. 270v, in Humanistica Textualis Libraria; C copied ff. 271r-275v in Gothico-Humanistica Textualis Libraria; and D copied ff. 276r-304v in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria., Headings in red. Red heightening (stroking) of the majuscules. 2-3-line flourished initials (with guide letters) in red with penwork varying from pale red to purple. A large (10 lines) decorated flourished initial in red, with developed purple penwork ("R" instead of "D") in littera duplex style on f. 229v. Two Gothic historiated initials on gold background with floral marginal extensions: f. 1r: St. Jerome with lion and boy holding open a book (damaged); f. 25v: a monk copying., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown leather over cardboard boards, the covers blind-tooled with a triple fillet lozenge inside a floral roll frame, the center and the corners gold-tooled with two different floral tools. Spine with four raised bands and remnants of gold-tooled lilies in the compartments. Edges painted blue. Marks of two pairs of ties.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistulae et tractatus
7. Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc
- Creator:
- Curlo, Giacomo
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 51
- Image Count:
- 538
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (slightly polished) of 1) Giacomo Curlo, Preface addressed to Ferdinand I of Naples. 2) Giacomo Curlo, Epitoma Donati in Terentium. 3) Antonio Cassarino, Preface addressed to Giacomo Curlo. 4) Plutarch, Apophthegmata, Latin translation by Antonio Cassarino. 5) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 6) Phalaris, four additional Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to King Alfonso I of Naples. 7) Pliny, Epistolae I.1-III.15.
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: ff. 1-112, similar to Briquet Lettre R 8941; ff. 113-160 and 209-256, similar to Briquet Echelle 5904, 5908; ff. 161-208, 257-265, similar to Piccard Kreuz II.616, 619, 622., Script: Written in an unusual style of loose and sloping humanistic script with cursive features; angular, little shading of letters, well spaced., Plain lumpy initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate blue and red. Headings and paragraph marks in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Original wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Yellow edges. The beaded chevron endbands are sewn with red and yellow thread on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards. Covered in brown sheepskin with the surface mostly worn off; decorated with concentric frames, the central panel and one frame filled in with square goat (?) and flower tools standing on a point. Title in ink on a paper label, now mostly wanting. Four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board have a raised design of the Virgin and child and a flower.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius., Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458., Curlo, Giacomo., Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494., and Terence.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc
8. Humanistic miscellany
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 937
- Image Count:
- 49
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing humanistic miscellany
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Script: copied by various hands writing either Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens or Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens., Watermarks: Piccard, Waage V.135. Many blank leaves., Headings in red in artt. 1-7; the planned initials in that section were not executed, except the first one (f. 1r, 3-line plain red initial); art. 8 is undecorated; paragraph marks, underlining and 2-line plain initials with guide letters, all in red, in the main section of art. 9. Pointing hands in artt. 1-5., The manuscript contains: 1) Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.), Sententiae, as transmitted by Vincentius Bellovacensis (Vincent de Beauvais, d. c. 1264), Speculum historiale, 6.59. 2) Excerpts from Virgil (70-19 B.C.), followed by notes on this poet. 3) Excerpts from Horace (65-8 B.C.), followed by a note on this poet. 4) Excerpts from Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.), in the order of the books of the various works. 5) Excerpts from Valerius Maximus (beginning of first century A.D.), Facta et dicta memorabilia, in the order of the books. 6) Laurentius Valla (1407-1457), Dialogi in Poggium, 1. Prologue. 7) Aeneas Sivius Piccolomini (1405-1464), Proverbiorum libellus, ed. Vienna, 1509. 8) Extensive collection of Latin (and one German) letter models and letter formulas without a clear order, addressed mostly to clerics or students. Mentioned are the necessity for students to dedicate themselves to study, the love of one's country, recommendations of persons, the death of the widow of the German King Albert II (d. 1439) and a peace treaty with Poland (f. 21v), a Diet, the Duke of Saxony and the barons (f. 24r), Bohemia (f. 30v). With (a) a German letter to a prince, in which the author promits to forward a message from the King of Bohemia to the King of the Romans (f. 21r); (b) a letter from Frederick III, King of the Romans (1440-1493), dated Wiener Neustadt ("in Nova Civitate"), 8 April 1443, dealing with Hungary, his young cousin Ladislaus (Posthumus), and calling for a meeting with the Hungarian representatives at or near Posen and another meeting in Hamburg (ff. 25r-26r); (c) a passionate letter from an astronomer against the reform of the calendar proposed by friar Herman of Münster at the Council of Basel (ff. 28v-30r). 9) Bibliographical notes on works by or related to St. Augustine (354-430), dealing briefly with Ps.-Augustinus (Cyprianus?), De XII abusionibus saeculi, Augustinus, Sermones de verbis Domini et de verbis apostoli (ff. 34v-35v) and Martinus Bracarensis, Formula vitae honestae (CPL 1080, f. 41r)., and Binding: 19th - 20th century. Paper over cardboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Council of Basel
- Subject (Topic):
- Church calendar, Classical literature, Latin letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanistic miscellany
9. Letters and treatises
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [1425-1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 932
- Image Count:
- 488
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of St. Jerome, 96 Epistles. With 1) Hieronymus Stridonensis (c. 348-420), Epistulae, and related texts. 2) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Vita Malchi. 3) Table of contents. A later hand has added in the right margin the folio numbers where the various texts are to be found
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva. The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded., Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) at the opening of the various texts. On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti., and Binding: seventeenth century (?): brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters and treatises
