Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the Hystoria Tartarorum (The Tartar Relation), a detailed account of the history and customs of the inhabitants of the Mongol Empire, composed in 1247. Originally the Vinland Map (Beinecke MS 350A), Speculum historiale (Beinecke MS 350), and Hystoria Tartarorum were bound together in this order in a single volume, as is indicated by the patterns of the wormholes
Alternative Title:
Tartar relation
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet Tête de boeuf 15056., Layout: Double columns of 39-41 lines., Script: well-formed running hand with bâtarde shading., Decoration: incipit and explicit in red., and Binding: Modern. Heavy tan calf, blind- and gold-tooled.
Manuscript on paper of Iacobus de Cessolis, Giovanni del Virgilio, Walter Burley, and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: most of the text is apparently written by four different hands, all using Gothica Cursiva Libraria: hand A copied ff. 1r-39r, hand B ff. 49r-60v, hand C ff. 61r-80v, hand D ff. 85r-117r. The indexes (artt. 3-4), slovenly copied in Gothica Cursiva Currens on blank pages in quire IV, are younger than the text and difficult to decipher. The same hand seems to have written the running headlines in artt. 1 and 5 and the foliation in art. 7., There is early foliation from "f. 1" to "f. 32" in the center of the upper margin of ff. 85r-116r; the numbers are repeated on the verso and are to be understood in the modern sense, being valid for recto and subsequent verso. Many pages are blank., The manuscript contains: 1) Iacobus de Cessolis OP (d. after 1322), Libellus de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scaccorum. 2) A largely fabulous and incoherent history of the Roman empire up to the siege of Rome by the Muslims in 846. 3) Alphabetical index to artt. 1-2, referring to the number of the book as indicated by the running headlines, and the number of the chapter as indicated by numbers in the margin, by Dominicus de Dominicis OCarm, bishop of Sitia in Crete (1395-1399). 4) Alphabetical index to art. 5, referring to the number of the book and of the Metamorphose, by the same author as art. 3. 5) Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, the prose parts only; instead of the poetical parts, there are excerpts from the Narrationes fabularum Ovidiarum by Lactantius Placidus (dates unknown) and perhaps from other sources. 6) Historia septem sapientum Romae. 7) De vita et moribus philosophorum, generally ascribed to Gualterus Burlaeus (Walter Burley, 1275-after 1344)., Simple decoration consisting of red headings and red paragraph marks. In artt. 1-2 2-line plain red initials (3-line at the opening, f. 1r); in artt. 5-7 2-line plain initials with rudimentary flourishing (often consisting of dots), all in red; the opening initials of artt. 5 and 7 are 3-line initials; a human face has been drawn in the initial on f. 51r. Guide letters. Red stroking of majuscules on ff. 49r-85r only., and Binding: 18th century (?). Quarter binding: brownish parchment and uncovered heavy paper boards On the spine is written in ink "Tedesco".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322.
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Biography, Chess, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper of 1) Iacobus de Cessolis O.P. (d. after 1322), De ludo scaccorum. 2) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Qualiter confessor debet se habere in confessionibus audiendis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 is copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Currens. Art. 2 is copied by a second hand writing a smaller Gothica Cursiva Libraria., In art. 1 red stroking of majuscules; guide letters and 2-3-line plain red initials; all decoration is missing on ff. 8v-12v, 21v-24v; 4-line red initial f. 29v and 32v; 4-line red initial decorated as littera duplex f. 30v. No decoration in art. 2., The paper is damaged by the acid ink in art. 1., and Binding: Between 1850 and 1900. De luxe, gold-tooled orange brown pigskin over pasteboard; spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions: “Cessolis, Solacium Ludi Scacorum” and “Manuscript a(us) d(em) 15. Jahrh(undert)”; also a paper label with the number “4723”; marbled endpapers and gold-tooled doublure margins. One parchment tab at the outer edge of f. 1.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322. and Dominicans.
Subject (Topic):
Chess, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a historiated initial and on the obverse a chant for the sprinkling of water in Paschaltide
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: historiated initial "R"; the initial is blue with white highlights on a gold ground contained within a square green border; the inside of the letter depicts Christ rising from a coffin surrounded by three sleeping guards; musical notation in black on a 4-line staff of lead, yellow, lead, and red lines.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentarius in sequentiam “Ave preclara maris stella”, falsely attributed to Caesarius de Heisterbach O. Cist.(c. 1180-c. 1240). 2) Commentarius in sequentiam “Benedictio Trine Unitati”. 3) Addition to art. 2, dealing with the Hebrew alphabet. 4) Humorous note explaining why the eater of cheese (obviously a most unhealthy food) will never thrust a wine-goblet from his hood (?), why he never will be bitten by a dog and why a thief will never enter his house
Description:
In Latin. and Script: main text copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria marked by striking hairlines at r and final t. Quotations are clumsily written in a deviating form of Northern Gothica Textualis. Ascenders at the top line are often lengthened and decorated. Art. 5 is copied in a more rapid form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria, possibly by the same hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Hebrew language, Alphabet, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Latin treatise on the Passion, attributed to Johannes Weitmann (d. 1509), although the style of the present work significantly differs from that of Weitmann's known devotional work, Meditationes vitae, passionis mortisque Iesu Christi; 2) Pseudo-Augustine, De diligendo Deo; 3) Treatise on the love of God
Description:
Script: Copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Cursiva Currens: A) copied ff. 2r-16v21 and ff. 97r-112r; and B) copied ff. 16v21-90v., Decoration: Art. 1 has red paragraph marks, underlining and stroking of majuscules; this decoration is missing ff. 35v-90v. On f. 1r the 3-line opening initial is clumsily executed in black ink. In art. 2 red paragraph marks, underlining and stroking of majuscules, but also red headings and plain 3-line initials in the same colour, often of fancy execution; art. 3 has the same lower decoration, but neither headings nor 3-lin initials. Artt. 2 and 3 open with complicated large red initials in a style recalling cadels but essentially fanciful., Binding: Original pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on three cords. Both covers blind-tooled with fillets, a frame, and vertical rows of stamps: a fleur-de-lys in a diamond, a rosette, an f-shaped twig with two leaves, and a floweret. Remnants of one brass clasp, attached to the rear cover, clutching a brass catch on the front cover. Both metal pieces are engraved., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Weitmann, Johannes.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, and De modo orandi. 2) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 3) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae. 4) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-18v in Gothica Textualis Formata; Hand B copied ff. 19r-38v in Gothica Hybrida Formata/Libraria; Hand C copied ff. 39r-47r in bold Hybrida Libraria; Hand D copied ff. 48r-50r and 54r-57r in Semihybrida Libraria; Hand E, which is perhaps identical with Hand D, copied ff. 50v-53v in Hybrida Libraria; Hand F copied f. 57v in Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 58r-116r in Hybrida Libraria (in two sizes for text and gloss of art. 21). Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and (in articles 10-19) underlining in red. All initials in the same colour: 1-line versals; 2- and 3-line plain initials; a 4-line plain initial with interior reserved shapes on f. 1r; a 3-line plain initial containing a human face on f. 48r., Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, 2) Thomas a Kempis, De tribus tabernaculis and Sermones ad fratres, 3) Hugh of St. Victor, De modo orandi (shortened version), 4) Extracts from Hugh of St. Victor, St. Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux and others on the value of prayer and of the reciting of psalms, 5) Compilation from the works of St. Augustine on the value of the psalms, 6) Alcuinus, De psalmorum usu, preface (partim), 7) Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, 8) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam, 9) Commentary on the Ave Maria, 10) Psalms to be recited on special occasions or for special purposes, 11) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae, and 12) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss., and Binding: contemporary binding: brown leather over wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with diagonal fillets and fleur-de-lis stamps in the diamond-shaped spaces. Spine with three raised bands (rebacked). Remnants of one brass clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract concerning land near Bruneck, a description in Latin of the damage to Mohammed's tomb in Mecca by a storm in 1481, and an account of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian I at Aachen in 1486, written in southern German dialect
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: written in a cursive gothic script (littera cursiva) in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.144., and Decoration: the first word of the document ("Ich") is enlarged, with the initial "I" trailing down the margin of the entire text; there is no punctuation.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a legal document containing a document concerning tenure of land; an account of the election of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486; and a brief description of how one is to celebrate the feast of a newly canonized saint
Description:
In German and Latin., Script: written in cursive gothic script (littera cursiva), similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.143., and Decoration: the document begins with a flourished initial; there is no punctuation.
