Manuscript on parchment of the Statutes of the Confraternity of Corpus Christi, Our Lady of Peace and St. Ildefons at Toledo, under the patronage of the King of Castile and the Archbishop of Toledo, renewed during the reign of Henry IV, King of Castile (1454-1474), with an addition dated 11 July 1461. The latest date in the earlier statutes is 24 January 1417
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Written by one hand in bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish features; the addition on f. 17rb-va is by another hand in the same script., In art. 2 red paragraph marks. In art. 3 fine 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions, alternately in red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork. Large littera duplex of the same type and in the same colours on f. 6r. Art. 4 is not decorated. On f. 1v, full-page miniature depicting the King of Castile and four noble members of the Confraternity in adoration of the Resurrection. On f. 2r, full-page miniature showing the Archbishop of Toledo and five clerics in adoration of the Virgin, who hands the chasuble to St. Ildefons Archbishop of Toledo. Both miniatures are set in a courtyard and are framed at the outer and lower side with a border of large acanths in gold and colours. The slight smudge in the middle of the paintings is probably caused by the noble and clerical members swearing an oath of fidelity to the Confraternity and touching the appropriate page., and Binding: ca. 1600. Blind-tooled light brown leather over pasteboard made from waste paper. The covers are decorated with fillets making a double lozenge in a rectangular frame, decorated with impressions of a star-shaped tool. Traces of two leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Spain
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Confraternities, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
Manuscript on paper (sized) of Vincent Ferrer, Sermones. In this version of the sermons the text begins in Latin, presents the main points of the sermon in Spanish, and then returns to the body of the text in Latin
Description:
In Latin and Spanish., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3694-3702, and unidentified cross bow in a circle., Script: Written in gothic cursive script, above top line., Plain red intials for each sermon; headings, foliation and paragraph marks in red. First words of each sermon in large gothic bookhand for display script., and Binding: ca. 1500, Spain. Wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into the wooden boards. Plain wound natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn on cores laced into the boards and pegged. They are tied down around a strip of tawed skin. There is a coarse cloth spine lining. Back pastedown is part of a bifolium from a liturgical manuscript with Aquitanian musical notation. Covered with reddish-brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a rope interlace tool, fleurs de lis and annular dots. Spine: supports outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with double fillets with annular dots at the intersections. There are traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, and traces of five round bosses on each board. Damage from a chain attachment (?) near the tail of the upper board; remains of a paper or vellum label near the head.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper and parchment (goatskin) of 1) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistulae, tr. Franciscus Aretinus (Francesco Griffolini, 1420-after 1465). 2) Ps.-Brutus, Epistulae, tr. Rinucius Aretinus (Rinuccio d'Arezzo, c. 1395-after 1450). 3) Prologue (7 verses) to art. 4. 4) Ps.-Crates, Epistulae, tr. Athanasius Constantinopolitanus
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: letter P, similar to Briquet 8658 (1471-1480)?., Script: Copied by two hands in bold Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with Southern features and under Humanistic influence, visible in the majuscules; hand A copied ff. 1r-51v; hand B, marked by the use of an a closer to Textualis and a preference for straight s in final position, copied ff. 52r-59r., Several lower margins of parchment leaves have been repaired before writing by means of a strip of parchment pasted on the defective edges. A long tear in the parchment of f. 56 has been sewn before writing., Paragraph marks alternately in red and blue (in artt. 3-4 only). Headings in red (in artt. 1-2 only, with sometimes instructions in small script in the margins). Gothic 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide letters (mostly in red ink) written in the outer margin close to the outer edge of the leaves. 3-line littera duplex with delicate blue and red penwork extending into the margin f. 41v (text art. 2); 4-line littera duplex with the same decoration ff. 40v (prologue art. 2) and 52r (art. 5); 6-line littera duplex with the same decorationf. 1r (art. 1)., and Binding: ca. 1500. Repaired blind-tooled brown leather over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on three leather thongs; the original covers are pasted over the light brown new leather, itself blind-tooled with fillets and a roll; the original covers decorated with fillets, vertical rows of rolls, and at the top and bottom one horizontal row of the same. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover, with two brass catches on the front cover, fixed with three nails and engraved with the inscription “nom” (?) in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Phalaris.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and other liturgical texts, with motets by Josquin des Pres added at a later date
Description:
In Latin., Script: original text and additions copied in extremely large Southern (Spanish) Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Praescissus), with music notation in nota quadrata., Richly decorated with red rubrics and painted initials., and Binding: s. XVI: undecorated brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. On both covers four large engraved brass corner pieces and more centrally five smaller engraved brass bosses. The leather damaged and several metal pieces lost. On the front cover upside down large number "26" in white paint. On the rear cover four engraved brass catches for clasps (one both at the top and at the bottom edge, and two at the outer edge), and eight nails towards the top probably for fixing a fenestra with title label (now lost). Leather tabs partly with Spanish inscriptions pasted on the outer edges of the leaves.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing the Ordo missae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic script (littera textualis formata) without feet on the minims., and Decoration: one 9-line initial "P" on fol. 1r in varying shades of blue with foliate decoration on white filigree; in the loop of the letter a peacock in blue and grey with green and gold feathers stands underneath a red rose; the text on the recto is bordered on all four sides and in the center margin with a gold band filled with blue diamons alternating with circles filled with flowers; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence., and Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on paper of Juan de Sant-Fahagun and Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Libros de Cetreria. With the Commentary of Don Beltran de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque, in margins surrounding text
Description:
In Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Main 11154., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand, with a somewhat smaller script for the surrounding commentary., Two initials (both f. 1r), the first, 5-line, for the rubric, purple with red penwork; immediately below, the second, for the text, 9-line, the upper portion red, filled with purple penwork, the lower portion purple, filled with red; attached to a thick bar border (side and lower margins) of red and purple vine scrolls in pen, with touches of light brown. One 7-line initial (f. 88r) red, with purple penwork, with exuberant loops and flourishes extending into top and side margins. Depictions of various implements, in black, within text (ff. 37v, 72v, 114r, 115r, 125r, 127r, and 137r). 3-line initials, paragraph marks, and headings in red throughout (except f. 1r, on which, in keeping with the initials, some of the paragraph marks are purple)., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Limp vellum case; title, now illegible, on spine. Front and back pastedown and back flyleaf contain extensive Latin legal references (17th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
Manuscript on paper (with parchment leaves interspersed) of Manuel Diaz, Libre de cavalls. With three drawings of horses (f. 1r the effects of the signs of the zodiac on the horse; f.1v anatomical parts of the horse; and f. 2r the proper locations for bloodletting [?]); and Sixty-five diagrams of bits for horses, some with explanations in red
Description:
In Spanish (Valencian dialect)., Watermarks: similar to Piccard Turm 132-47 and Briquet Tete humaine 15670., Script: Written by a single person in Spanish fere-humanistic script., In addition to the illustrations mentioned, there is on f. 40r a drawing of a knight in armor on horseback, in red, blue, green. He holds a shield with the arms of Alfonso V, King of Aragon (d. 1458): per pale argent, a lion rampant gules; bendy of 4, argent and gules., 2-line red initials with penwork in black at beginning of each text section. Headings, paragraph marks, and strokes on initials, in red. Remains of directions to rubricator along lower edge., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on three slit-strap, tawed supports laced to the inside of beech boards and pegged. Plain wound endbands with a secondary, multi-colored sewing on tawed cores. The spine is square and lined with vellum between supports, the sewing supports slightly defined. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric frames, the spine diced. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board decorated with floral designs, the clasps wanting. Repaired.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Díaz, Manuel.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual or a missal containing the Common of Martyrs and rubric for the Common of a Martyr
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: musical notation in brown on 4-line staves in red; 1-line initials alternate red with brown penwork and blue with red penwork; the 1-line initial at the beginning of the rubric is a blue capital with red penwork, and the rubric is written in in a smaller version of the text script; words and syllables are divided by red horizontal strokes; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Graduals (Chants).
Manuscript on parchment of gospel and liturgical texts with musical notation for the Vigil of Christmas and the Holy Week. Includes a variety of feriae
Alternative Title:
Passiones Christi
Description:
In Latin., Script copied by two hands in a rather angular southern gothica textualis formata (rotunda)., Decoration: headings in red; yellow heightening of majuscules and cadel; numerous elaborately decorated cadels; neumatic chant notation on four-line staff., and Neumatic chant notation on four-line staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Gregorian chants, and Manuscripts, Medieval
