Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam. With Acts of the synod of Piacenza, March 1095 (Urban II), chs. 1-14.
Description:
In Latin., Numerous pen and ink initials of good quality, 8- to 3-line, drawn in red. The initials are constructed of thick vine stems, divided in half and swelling at the ends, issuing sprouts of intertwining stylized foliage. On f. 10v the letter E is formed from a bird and its extended wing; on ff. 75r and 103r the initials terminate in animal heads. The most important initials, ff. 1v, 13r, 36v, 62r, 75r, 114r, 115v and 119v, are touched with patches of ochre and summary modelling in the same color. On f. 1v the continuation capitals are filled in with red and ochre. Plain initials and headings in red. Remains of instructions to the rubricator along outer edge perpendicular to text (e.g., ff. 119v, 120v)., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides that have been covered with tan paper; edges spattered blue-green. Two gold-tooled labels on spine, the first left blank and the lower one reading "Saecul XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 159, and 197, also from the Cisterican abbey of Hautecombe.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Urban II, Pope, ca. 1042-1099.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
Manuscript on parchment (much worn; many natural flaws; trimmed).
Description:
In Latin., Script: The commentary is written in a somewhat uneven early Caroline minuscule; the Biblical passages for commentary are written in orange uncials, many of which have faded and are now illegible (some letters written over in brown ink by a later hand)., Heading, f. 1v, square capitals and uncials, in orange. Initials, outlined in black, filled with orange and yellow, ff. 26v, 77v, 131v. Plain initials, black or red, some with modest scroll designs, at beginning of each segment of commentary., Upper portions of ff. 61, 68, 69 torn, loss of text; f. 132v extremely worn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green goatskin; gold-tooled. Title on spine: "Bedae Opera. VII. Siecle".
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Expositio in canticum canticorum, containing points 7, 9, and 14.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in caroline minuscule., Decoration: rubrics and initials in red., and Contained in Zi +7157 2 (Ovid, Opera) as a pastedown extending over the interior surface of both the front and back boards.
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato
Description:
In Latin., Script: the original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional sections are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials., and Binding: 18th century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription. Red mottled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856., Solomon, King of Israel., and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript, on vellum, containing the text of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, including Baruch, with prologues and commentary. The extensive gloss surrounds the centered Biblical text
Description:
In Latin., Layout: Biblical text centered, single column, variable length; surrounding gloss written in double columns of 65-75 lines., Script: gothic script. Letters in Biblical text larger than in glosses., Decoration: 18 small historiated initials and approximately 30 other illuminated initials; numerous blue and red penwork initials with red or lilac penwork decoration; rubricated., and Binding: modern blind-stamped red morocco gilt, by Riviere.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Gospel harmony, containing portions of the biblical books of Matthew and Luke with two sets of unidentified commentary surrounding it.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: each section from the Bible begins with a 2-line initial in red; the corresponding sections of the commentary begin with a 1-line red initial; other 1-line initials in both the text and the commentary are in black; the lemmata in the commentary are underlined with red; canon table numbers are written in black in the margins and are surrounded by red boxes; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I: 1) Brief prologues to the Pauline Epistles, paraphrasing or extracted from the argumenta of Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio in epistolas Sancti Pauli. 2-4) Notes for sermons arranged according to the liturgical year. Part II: 5) Unidentified sermons. 6) John of Wales, Breviloquium
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Scribe I copied ff. 1r-6v in small gothic bookhand with southern features; Scribe II copied ff. 7r-24r in a somewhat more angular gothic bookhand; additions by different scribes on f. 24r-v. Part II (ff. 25-78): Arts. 5-6 copied in small neat gothic bookhand, by a single scribe; some marginalia added in anglicana script (e.g., f. 46v); art. 7 added in a less careful gothic bookhand., Part I: Red initials, 3- to 2-line, with crude harping designs in black; headings and paragraph marks (art. 3) in red. Instructions for rubricator. Part II: Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue; headings, often added in margin, in red. Remains of guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Backs of quires cut in for original sewing. Brown calf case, blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Haimo, of Auxerre, -approximately 855.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment, illuminated, in several proto-Gothic bookhands, of the Historia Scholastica, probably produced in the scriptorium of the monastery of Sutton-at-Hone. The text is complete but does not contain Comestor's later "additions" to the original chapters
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Text is heavily glossed in several hands., Illuminated initials; rubricated., Ownership: Benedict, Vicar of Sutton; Cathedral Priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, Kent; Philip Mainwaring, Esq. of Over Peover; Sir Henry Mainwaring. Also Royal Archaeological Institute and Warrington Public Library., and Binding: 19th century full paneled calf.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles and Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: thick, holes, ends, repairs) of Gregory the Great, Homeliae in Hiezechielem prophetam. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in spiky early gothic bookhand., Spaces left unfilled, f. 1r, for initials and headings at beginning of prologue and text. Decorative monochrome initials and headings, which extend the width of columns, of modest quality, in red (many oxidized). Minor initials, 5- to 2-line, some with simple penwork designs, headings, initial strokes in red., Many leaves damaged along outer edges, now repaired, but with loss of text; stained throughout., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in mottled brown calf with bright pink paper sides. Two gold-tooled, brick red labels on spine: "Greg. Pape. in Ezechiel." and "Saecul. XIII". Red edges. Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 158, 197, also from the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Cistercians.
