Manuscript on paper (thick) of 1) Five lines of verse on the proper formulaic conclusion to prayers addressed to members of the Trinity. 2) Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl, De septem peccatis capitalibus (Confessionale). 3) Latin and German names of the books of the Bible; Latin and German names of Aristotle's principal works; Latin names of the Minor Prophets; etc. 4) Johannes Herolt ("Discipulus"), Sermones dominicales. 5) Johannes Herolt, Sermo in festo Iohannis Baptiste
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11786 and unidentified bull's head., Script: Written by multiple scribes in varying styles of gothic hybrida and bookhand scripts., Crude red initials, 3- to 2-line, throughout; ff. 33v-38r, 113v-114v and 166r-203r rubricated., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. The backs of the quires are cut in. Original sewing on three double supports is laced into almost flush wooden boards, and the tawed skin cores of braided endbands, sewn through the cover, are also laced. The spine is back cornered with lining extending between supports on the outside of the boards. Large vermilion and sepia roses are painted on each edge. Back pastedown (and perhaps the inner front pastedown, covered by paper) consists of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 1200-1250) containing the Sermones de tempore of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla. Written in small neat early gothic bookhand, above top line. Binding stays from this and other parchment manuscripts, 13th-14th centuries. Covered in kermes pink skin blind-tooled with an X in a frame on the front board, tying-up marks on the spine, and a frame on the lower one. Five round, brass bosses on each board and one fastening, the catch inset on the upper board, the lower one cut in for the strap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint. and Dinkelsbuehl, Nicolaus de.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of the decease of the persons involved. Includes a sealed transcription of a charter, granted by Joseph Bergaigne, Provincial of the Franciscan Order, dealing with the lightening of the obligations incurred towards the benefactors and drawn up in the Convent of Poor Clares at Trier, Jan. 1618, and confirmation of that charter drawn up at Trier, 16 May 1725. Its patronym "Sta. Maria Magdalena" is mentioned in one of the printed documents kept together with the manuscript
Description:
In German., Script: Many Gothic hands ranging from the early 16th to the 19th centuries, but mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries., The Day Letters are in red ("A") or stroked with red ("B-G"). Names of months and feasts in red., and Binding: Original brown blind-tooled leather over oak boards, decorated with double fillets and small lozenge tools ("Ihesus" and "Maria" monograms) and rosettes; bound on five white leather thongs. Spine with five raised bands, rebacked. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear cover. The front pastedown is detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of the decease of the persons involved. Includes a sealed transcription of a charter, granted by Joseph Bergaigne, Provincial of the Franciscan Order, dealing with the lightening of the obligations incurred towards the benefactors and drawn up in the Convent of Poor Clares at Trier, Jan. 1618, and confirmation of that charter drawn up at Trier, 16 May 1725. Its patronym "Sta. Maria Magdalena" is mentioned in one of the printed documents kept together with the manuscript
Description:
In German., Script: Many Gothic hands ranging from the early 16th to the 19th centuries, but mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries., The Day Letters are in red ("A") or stroked with red ("B-G"). Names of months and feasts in red., and Binding: Original brown blind-tooled leather over oak boards, decorated with double fillets and small lozenge tools ("Ihesus" and "Maria" monograms) and rosettes; bound on five white leather thongs. Spine with five raised bands, rebacked. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear cover. The front pastedown is detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
Manuscript on paper of three works copied from incunabula: 1) Giovanni Antonio Campano, Oratio in conventu Ratisponensi ad exhortandos principes Germanorum contra Turcos et de laudibus eorum. 2) Johannes de Margarit, Oratio pronuntiata in senatu Venetiarum. 3) Franciscus de Toleto (Francois Busleiden), Oratio in funere Leonardi de Robore. Formerly part of a larger volume
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified, in gutter, similar to Piccard Buchstabe P XII., Script: Written in a small running hand exhibiting batarde influence., and Binding: Twentieth century. Black goatskin, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Campano, Giannantonio, Bishop, 1429-1477.
Subject (Topic):
Crusades, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on paper of Heinrich von Sankt Gallen (c. 1350-after 1409), Passionstraktat, a treatise on the Passion. With various prayers
Description:
In German., Script: Two scribes: A, called S. Bawman (Baumann), from Nördlingen (Bavaria), writes Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Formata with calligraphic extensions on the top and bottom lines (ff. 2r-140v); B writes Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens (ff. 141r-168v)., Headings and names of quoted authorities in the text in red. Red stroking of the majuscules. Plain initials in red. Decorated initial (6 lines) in purple on gold background with floral engraving, in a rectangular trompe-l'oeil frame in the shape of a green and red stone slab, on f. 2r; with vegetal border (acanthuses in purple, blue, green and yellow in the four margins). On the facing page (f. 1v, art. 1) full-page miniature in a similar frame and with a similar engraved background in gold: the Annunciation, with God the Father in the upper left corner. Border decoration: at the four corners and in the middle of the sides a golden ball with sprays in ink., and Binding: Original (?) brown leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled with central panel and fillet frames with circular and lozenge-shaped stamps: one recognizes a Christ's head, an angel, birds, and a curious stamp in the form of a wooden branch. Remnants of two brass clasps fixed to the rear cover. Spine (repaired) with three raised bands, the upper and lower one over double thongs, the middle one over a single one.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Heinrich von Sankt Gallen. and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Christian literature, German, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) of a Collection of the letters and papal bulls of Pope Pius II. With other texts concerning the Pope's life and prayers for him after his death. The manuscript section of the codex is divided into 13 sections. Articles 1-3 are printed texts that were bound together with the manuscripts (arts. 4-21) in the 16th century
Description:
In Latin., Script: Each of the 13 sections written by a different scribe, usually in a cursive hand. Format and decoration differs from section to section. Rubrication throughout., Stains throughout suggest that the sections were once bound separately., and Binding: Sixteenth century. There are vellum stays from a 15th-century humanistic manuscript in the center of the quires. Original sewing on three double, twisted, vegetable fiber cords laced into square wooden boards. Plain wound endbands, also laced, and covered with the covering leather which is back-stitched around them. Covered in brown leather with corner tongues, blind-tooled with six-petalled flowers at the intersections of diamonds within a linear border. Brass clasp-and-catch fastening, the catch on the upper board. Rebacked, clasp and strap wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Epitaphs, Letters, Papal, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (watermarks trimmed; unidentified) of various prayers
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: Text written in formal gothic by one scribe. Prayers added on the flyleaves, front and back, by several later hands in italic of the 17th century and later. 2- and 1-line initials in blue-grey or orange-tinted red. 1-line initials within the text, with red stroke. Extensive rubrication in orange-tinted red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on three single, round, vegetable fiber cords laced into wooden boards. "Made" endbands glued on and extending onto the outer face of the boards. Red edges and numerous place marks of vellum or tawed skin on the fore-edge. The spine rounded and lined. Covered in dark brown calf with two brass catches on the upper board and brass clasps hinged to the lower. The lower board is detached and one clasp and some leather at head and tail of the spine are wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinians. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Prayers
Manuscript on parchment. Written as a gift for Barbara Pfintzing, who entered a nunnery in 1441 at the age of 16. The text indicates that the manuscript was produced for use in a Dominican house of nuns; liturgical directions are written in German (the feminine forms in the antiphons and prayers often bear suprascript masculine endings, in red).
Description:
In Latin and German., Script: Written by a single scribe in well formed gothic textura. Articles 1 and 6 have 4-line staves, in red, and black square notes., Uninspired blue initial, 2-stave, on f. 1r, infilled and surrounded by red penwork flourishes with blue accents. Similar plain initials, 2-line, alternate in blue, red, and black with red throughout. Running titles and headings in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn, using original sewing holes, on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into back-cornered and indented oak boards. Endbands embroidered on a strip of vellum and adhered, the vellum extending onto the outside of the boards. The spine is square and lined all along with manuscript fragments extending to the inside of the boards. Covered in vellum blind-tooled with concentric borders containing heads in oval frames among foliage in the outer, and busts of saints in the inner. Two brass fastenings, the catch on the upper board, straps attached to the lower with a metal plate. Straps wanting and a slight crack in one joint.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Dominican sisters, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
