Manuscript fragment on parchment of Humbert of Romans' Liber Constitutionem Sororum O.P., a guidebook for Dominican nuns
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the beginning of chapters are in red with red ornamentation; 1-line initials in the capitula list are in red; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; paragraph marks in red are occasionally used in the margins to mark the beginning of a new lesson; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript on parchment (well prepared, but with holes and end pieces) in four parts. Part I: 1) Jerome, Liber Hebraicarum questionum in Genesim. 2) Jerome, Epistola LXXVIII. 3) Jerome, Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum. 4) Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum. 5) Abbreviated version of Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum, De psalterio. 6) Greek alphabet, from alpha to omega; b) three systems of numbers: Roman numerals, Greek numbers transliterated into Roman letters, letters of the Greek alphabet. 7) Note diuine legi necessarie. Artt. 8-13: Commentaries by Pseudo-Jerome. Artt. 14-17: unidentified commentaries. 18) Unidentified lapidary. 19) De mensuris. 20) Part of a letter of Innocent III (dated 1142) concerning the disputed election at York of St. William Fitzherbert. Part II: 21) Rabanus Maurus, De universo, ending defectively in Book 19, ch. 8, sect. B. Part III: 22) Ambrose, Exameron. Part IV: 23) Eustathius, In Hexaemeron S. Basilii latina translatio
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-52): Written by a single scribe in small gothic textura. Part II (ff. 52-172): Written by two scribes in small gothic textura. Scribe 1) ff. 52r-160v; Scribe 2) ff. 161r-172v. Part III (ff. 173-200): Written by one scribe in small gothic textura. Numerous annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Part IV (ff. 201-222): Written by a single scribe in bold gothic textura., Part I: Spaces left for initials (5- to 1-line). Rubrics and running titles in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator, the latter along outer edges of most margins except inner. Part II: Spaces for initials, 6- to 3-line, left blank, with guide-letters in red. Initials within text stroked with red. Headings and some spiral line-fillers in red (lacking in ff. 161-172, final quire). Part III: 6-line initial, f. 173r, divided red and blue with penwork in the same colors; other initials, 3- to 1-line, in blue with red penwork or vice versa. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator in most margins. Part IV: 3-line initial, f. 201r, red with blue penwork; 2-line initials red with blue or vice versa. Guide-letters still visible. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red., and Binding: 14th century. Apparently bound in England before arriving in Italy. Original sewing, wound and caught up, on five tawed skin, slit strap supports laced through tunnels in the edge to the outside of oak boards, laid in channels and pegged with rectangular pegs. The spine is square with no trace of adhesive. Quarter covered with vellum or tawed skin nailed along the edge. The boards are broken, the sewing breaking and most of the cover wanting; the boards were repaired in the 18th or 19th century when presumably the front flyleaf and pastedown from a document, in Italian, listing sale agreements made during 1650-52, were added.
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a portion of Johannes de Deo's Liber Poenitentiarius
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a rounded gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are spaces with guide letters for 2-line initials, but they have not been added; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; guides for the rubricator are in the margins in light brown ink; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on parchment of a document containing information about ecclesiastical taxes, notes on Herod the Great and his successors, a letter from Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), etc
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand writing Humanistica Libraria/Formata. Marginal additions by the same hand., Illuminated frontispiece picturing the coats-of-arms of Spinelli, of the city of Florence, and of Pope Eugenius IV., and Binding: contemporary binding: brown leather over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets, a roll and rope tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447. and Spinelli, Tommaso, 1397-1472.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Book for the instruction of monks
Description:
The author Hieronymus Miraballius of Naples was vicar general of the Olivetan order 1417-20, 1431-35., In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-22r) in informal humanistic script. Scribe 2 (ff. 22r-54v) in fere-humanistic script., Gold initial, 4-line, infilled and surrounded by blue penwork designs, on f. 1r for beginning of prologue; charming border extending down inner margin, in blue and purple penwork, with gold dots, incoporates grotesque with gold tongue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, with purple penwork, for first incipit. Headings and paragraph marks in red throughout. Guide-letters for rubricator., Some folios repaired with modern paper or parchment along lower margin., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hieronymus de Neapoli. and Olivetans
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Bonizo, of Sutri, approximately 1045-approximately 1095
Published / Created:
[between 1125 and 1150]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1154
Image Count:
255
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, containing two works by Bonizo, Bishop of Sutri
Description:
Bonizo of Sutri was born around 1045, probably in Milan, and was appointed bishop of Sutri soon after his arrival in Rome in 1074. He was sent to Cremona as papal legate in 1078. Bonizo sided with Gregory VII during the investiture controversy, and lived for several years under the protection of Countess Mathilda of Tuscany., In Latin., and Binding: modern full red leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bonizo, of Sutri, approximately 1045-approximately 1095.
Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Italian translation of Giordano Ruffo, Liber marescalcia equorum, as well as recipes for various equine illnesses and schematic drawings of bits
Description:
In Italian., Script: main text copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Capitals and headings in red in main text. Diagrams of various bits for horses on ff. 39v and 40r., and Binding: S. XX binding: plain parchment over cardboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Rufus, Jordanus, fl. ca. 1225-1250.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Amalarius, Archbishop of Lyon, approximately 775-approximately 850
Published / Created:
approximately 1050-approximately 1075.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.64
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing text from Book 3, Chapter 44 of this work
Description:
In Latin., Script: late Caroline minuscule., Decoration: small capitals in margin in black ink (same ink as text)., and Layout: single columns of 31 lines.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Amalarius, Archbishop of Lyon, approximately 775-approximately 850.
Manuscript on parchment of Johannes de Deo, Liber poenitentiarius
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in an abbreviated Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. F. 55v is badly written by a contemporary hand., Decoration: Red headings, expect on on ff. 14v-21r and 39v to the end, where they are not executed or are replaced by headings in brown ink written by later hands. Red stroking of majuscules. 2-line (3-line on ff. 1v and 10r) red plain initials, often with very long and developed penwork extensions in the same color in the margins or in the intercolumnar space. F. 55v is undecorated., Binding: Original binding of red pigskin over rounded wooden boards, sewn on two split leather thongs. The covers are blind-tooled with a frame and a St Andrew's cross traced in fillets. Plaited headbands. Remnants of a strap fixed to the rear board. Flyleaf cut from a 13th century parchment manuscript., and In Latin.
