Manuscript on paper composed in three parts. Part I: Nicolas of Amiens, De articulis fidei catholicae. Part II: Johannes de Rupescissa, Prophecy. Part III: Various unidentified religious texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Parts I and II: unidentified crossed arrows, in gutter. Part III: unidentified balance, in gutter., Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Written by one scribe in large gothic cursive. Part II (ff. 25-27): Gothic cursive script by one person. Part III (ff. 28-75): Gothic cursive by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 28r-64r, and Scribe 2) ff. 64v-72r., Part I: 2-line initials, paragraph marks and underlining in red. Part III: Headings, strokes on 1-line capitals, underlining and chapter numbers in margin all in red. On f. 30r, a crude 3-line initial in red with brown penwork, including a bear's head (?) above and a man's head at side; on ff. 33v, 44v, 46v a grotesque in profile., Stains on ff. 1r and 24, ff. 25r and 27v, and ff. 28r and 75v suggest that each part was once a separate booklet., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Black cloth spine with olive green decorated paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicolas of Amiens.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Prophecy, Christianity, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper (mutilated) of Ps.-Aristoteles, Tractatus de pomo sive de morte. Latin translation attributed to Manfred, son of Emperor Frederick II (1232-1266). Incomplete; originally part of a larger manuscript
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: crowned fleur-de-lys over initials "J.b.", var. Briquet 7252?., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda)., Red paragraph-marks and underlining. Heightening of majuscules in red. Red plain initials at the beginning of the prologue (5 lines) and at the beginning of the text (2 lines); small guide-letters., and Binding: Twentieth century. Half parchment with corner pieces over pasteboard, the boards covered with grey paper. On the front cover a blank paper label. On the spine the handwritten title in red in modern Gothica Textualis Formata: "De Pomo et Morte".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, pseud. and Manfred, King of Naples and Sicily, ca. 1232-1266.
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Libellus de quinque floribus huius mundi contemnendis, a short moralistic treatise dealing with the five flowers of the world which need to be despised: (1) bona dispositio corporis, scilicet sanitas, fortitudo et pulcritudo; (2) nobilitas generis; (3) habundantia rerum temporalium; (4) sapiencia cum discreta eloquentia; (5) potestas sive dignitas temporalis. The treatise is illustrated with quotations from the Bible, Church Fathers and other authors, and exempla
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens. A later hand has transcribed in the margins in Humanistica Cursiva the words or passages which were found difficult to read., Headings, paragraph marks, underlining, heightening of majuscules and plain initials (3 lines) in red., Worm holes throughout the manuscript; the edges of the last folio are torn., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with greyish marbled paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Conduct of life, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), Die deutsche Sphaera, an adaptation in German of Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. With 23 verses dealing with the numerical value of the letters of the alphabet, excerpted from Hugutio of Pisa (d. 1212), Liber derivationum
Description:
In German., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., The initials are not executed. Coarsely drawn diagrams; the principal ones are on ff. 2r (Earth in the middle of the circles of the elements, the planets and the heavens), 9v (a quadripartite circular map of the world, three quarters covered with sea and inhabited by fish), 10v (a circular diagram and another with "cauda Draconis" and "caput Draconis"), 11r (two diagrams showing eclipses), 11v (related diagrams)., and Binding: Yellow limp vellum too large for the present manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, German poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Numerology, and Science, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper with a table of contents on a single parchment leaf, in a single hand, containing the "Summer" portion of this Dominican-compiled German legendary
Description:
In Middle High German., Bookseller description available., Layout: Double columns of mostly 35 lines., Script: German cursive., Decoration: some rubrication. Three-line and one-line capitals in red., and Binding: tooled and stamped brown leather over wooden boards; four-compartmented spine. Remains of metal clasps with leather straps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints, Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript on paper and parchment, heavily illuminated (trimmed), of Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Written in Cologne/Lower Rhine (Ripuarian language area) for Augustinian use
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1656., Script: Text written in varying bookhands, most with batarde influence; more formal scripts for some rubrics and portions of text on parchment., Two historiated initials, 12- and 10-line, on parchment bifolios, the letters gold and blue with brown and red penwork, the figures crudely drawn in pen and colored brown, blue and green, against bright red grounds with white highlights; brown and red calligraphic flourishes with red, green, blue and yellow dots extending along upper and side edges of written space. 12-, 10-, and 9-line initials (ff. 13r, 96r, 115r, 179r, 222r, 258r, 322v) gold (or red for ff. 258r, 322v) and blue, filled with brown floral penwork designs with calligraphic flourishes and dots, as above. Floral borders for each 12- through 9-line initial (except ff. 15r and 258r), red, blue, and green flowers with gold dot centers, connected by brown ink stems, arranged in rows or spirals; ff. 13r and 84v with a vase and bird in the margins. Two 9-line initials, ff. 274r and 298r, on parchment bifolios, in a markedly different style, green and blue respectively, with yellow and white highlights, against gold grounds, filled on f. 274r with a large flower, blue and red, on f. 298r with short sections of curling pink and green acanthus. Borders large blue or red flowers with gold dots and centers or short sections of blue and red acanthus on spiraling brown stems with small green teardrop leaves. Numerous 7- through 2-line initials, red and/or blue, with brown penwork and flourishes, as above. I-initials, up to 13-line, red or blue throughout. Some capital W's in text in blue or red. 2-line KL monograms, alternating red and blue. Some portions of the text, including proper names, underlined in red. Notes for rubricator in gutter, perpendicular to text., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf with corner turn-in tongues. Blind-tooled with concentric borders, an X, roses and small flowers in the central panel, roses and rampant lions in the outer borders. Two clasp-and-catch fastenings, the catch on the upper board. Rebacked and the endbands probably added. Straps replaced. Covers lined with fragments of unidentified scientific text, in Latin (15th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Augustinians., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Collection of eleven documents, with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach; and villages in the surrounding area
Description:
In German and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Amorbach (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript fragment on one leaf of parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) of 1) Apoc. 21.4-5: Epistle for last Sunday after Pentecost (?). 2) Beginning of Proper of the Saints, with Epistle for St. Andrew (30 Nov.); Rom. 10.10-15.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold, well spaced, and slightly rounded gothic bookhand., and Red hufnagel neumes scattered over the text for the subdeacon who reads the Epistle at Mass. On recto, space of 12 lines (140 mm.) left blank between arts. 1 and 2, perhaps for a miniature. 5-line initial in red, ending in pen and ink flourishes. On verso, illuminated initial C, 11-line, of poor quality, on brownish-red ground within rectangular frame of bright orange, green, and blue. Initial in white with bands of gold and silver; two gold-bordered medallions with white-blue centers, resembling jewels or mirrors. Initial encloses full-length figure of St. Andrew holding cross of his martyrdom. Text initials touched with red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Epistolaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, of Walter (Gualterus) de Wervia, Expositio in Isagogen Porphyrii cum quaestionibus Iohannis Duns Scoti. Authorities quoted include Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, the Moderni, and Giles of Rome
Description:
Walter (Gualterus) de Wervia was born at Rijswijk in the Netherlands and died after 1472., In Latin., Script: Small Gothica Semihybrida Currens, in a single hand, with many abbreviations., Layout: Double columns of approximately 47 lines., Decoration: Undecorated. Drawing of a bearded bishop's (?) head, with the caption "Albertus" (i.e. Albertus Magnus), in the margin of f. 27v., Binding: Brown pigskin over pasteboard, the covers framed with a gold-tooled fillet. Rebacked. Spine with five raised bands and 19th-century red leather label with gold-tooled inscription in Gothic letters "Gualt. Burley 1481"., The acid ink has on many pages faded and damaged the paper and made reading difficult., and Number 2 of 2 items bound together. Item extent: 1 item (ii + 119 + 48 + ii leaves).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. and Premonstratensians.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism and interpretation, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism