Manuscript on parchment of Manual for Franciscan inquisitors in the Roman province, including letters from Popes Clement IV (d. -1268) and Alexander IV (d. -1261); various consilia; and other prescriptions and instructions from bishops and inquisitors
Description:
Script: Copied by two hands: A) writing in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria (ff. Ir-40r6); B) writing in Gothica Textualis Formata (ff. 40r8-47v). Marginal annotations in small Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: Red headings, paragraph marks, chapter numbering, and stroking of majuscules. Red running headlines (up to f. 16v). Red plain or flourished initials. But on ff. 39v-47v, there are generally no headings, paragraph marks or stroking of majuscules., Binding: Unbound., and In Latin.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary or missal containing portions of the biblical books of Wisdom, Hebrews, Proverbs, and the Apocalypse
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: 3- and 4-line initials are written on the inner vertical bounding line; one of them is a plain red square capital "I"; the others are brown square capitals filled with red foliate ornamentation; 1-line initials are brown, highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary containing readings from Luke 1 and 3 and John 1.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: one 4-line and two 3-line initials are in red, decorated with blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in brown uncials highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation and accents in the same ink as the text; there are three signs that occur over syllables of words, one similar to a backwards "3", one similar to a squarish backwards "C", and the third a virgule; perhaps theese are pitch or accent marks or some other type of aid for reading aloud.
Manuscript on parchment of the earliest known redaction of the Constituta legis et usus of Pisa, issued ca. 1146-56.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in well formed bookhands. Scribe 1: ff. 1v (1r erased)-20r; Scribe 2: ff. 20r-38v; Scribe 3: ff. 39r-62v., Decorative initial, 7-line, f. 1r, in red and black with simple foliage designs in interior; red initial, 4-line, at beginning of art. 3, f. 18v; rubrics throughout, some perpendicular to text in margins. Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and paragraph marks, in red; on f. 15v only, two initials, 1-line, and paragraph mark in blue. Guide-letters for rubricator in gutter or margins., Folio 1r almost entirely erased and illegible., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound with reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards. Paper label, with title "Statuta Civitatis Pisanae An. 1186" written in ink on spine.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a judicial decision emanating from the podesta of Trento, Riprandus Otonis Rici, by order of Bishop Aldricus of Trento concerning easement of a stable
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by Rolandinus., and Decoration: at the opening of the document there is a design in brown ink resembling a chalice; a cross stands above the entire document; the initial "E" of the notary's signature is a 2-line square-shaped capital in black ink decorated with dots; punctuated with the punctus and, at the end of the document, the punctus versus.
Manuscript on paper of recipes for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, and removal of stains. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table, a Lunar Table, and a number of prophecies on the pope and the emperor
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: the main text is copied by one hand in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The prophecies on the pope are copied by a similar hand writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens. The Italian headings to the tables of the Easter table and Lunar tables are written in very small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The final text is an addition in large Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. The texts are undecorated. The Easter and Lunar tables are traced in black ink., The manuscript contains recipies, in mediocre Latin, for the preparation and application of gold, silver and colours, dyeing leather, removal of stains, etc. The manuscript also includes an Easter Table for the years 1431-1530, a Lunar Table for the Nineteen Years Cycle 1432-1450 and following Cycles, and prophecies on the pope and the emperor by the unrecorded Iacobus de Cantone de Bononia (Giacomo Cantone of Bologna) and (probably) others., and Binding: 20th century grey paper binding. On the front cover an 18th century label with the inscription “Insegnamento per pictori ed doratori”.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Medieval, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederick II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123).
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Probably written by one hand in extremely small Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under some Cursiva influence. The script of art. 9 is larger., The ink on the first pages has flaked, making them very difficult to decipher., Red headings, red heightening of majuscules and red plain initials, mostly 2-3 lines; the red initials were to alternate with blue ones but the latter have not been executed. Many initials are anyhow missing. Guide-letters are seen close to the fold or to the edge of the pages. The running titles were also planned to be executed in alternately red and blue majuscules, but the blue letters are missing; there are no running titles after f. 20 (quire II)., and Binding: Modern limp vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century, Catholic Church. Council of Lyons, and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Religious poetry, Latin, and Sermons, Latin
Parchment fragments of an antiphonary, including two strophes of the hymn "Sancte Dei pretiose / Protomartyr Stephane", and the end of the hymn "Te Deum laudamus."
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda), using Uncial and Half-Uncial d. The colophon and the colophon formula on f. 2r are in a small Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca)., Red rubrics. Alternately red and blue flourished initials, with respectively blue and red penwork, in two sizes: the smaller ones reaching to the third line of the accompanying stave, the large ones to the top line of the accompanying stave. The writing, musical notation and illumination are by the scribe and miniaturist Iacobellus Muriolus de Salerno, whose first product this is according to the colophon., and Manuscript fragment on parchment of the end of "Te deum" in a Gradual, as well as two strophes of the hymn "Sancte Dei pretiose / Protomartyr Stephane." The colophon is signed by the scribe, Jacobellus de Salerno. With an additional leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragments on parchment of John 1:1-14 and 13:33-35.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule with some later forms and chancery influence., and John 1:1-14. Noticeable spellings and variants: “comprenderunt” (“comprehenderunt”), “misus” (“missus”), “periberet” and “perhiberet”, “cotquot”,“ex voluptate” (“ex voluntate”). John 13:33-35. In 13:34 the words “ut et vos diligatis invicem” are missing. From a modern note accompanying the present leaf it was used in the binding of a copy of Iohannes Fontanus (Jean Fontaine, 16th century), Hortulus puerorum pergratus ac perutilis latine discentibus.
Manuscript, on paper, in a number of hands, containing a variety of religious and devotional texts, many related to the Franciscan order. Contents include lives of Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, and Anthony of Padua; a poem on the day of judgement in ottava rima; lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary in Italian; writings of St. Bridget of Sweden in Italian; an account of the dedication of St. Lawrence's cathedral in Genoa; St. Anselm's Miracles of the Virgin; and two itineraries of visits to the Holy Land
Description:
In Latin and Italian. and Binding: modern full red leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Devotional literature, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
