Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, Franciscan Use, created for a clergyman. Contains 1) Calendar, ff. 1r-12v; 2) Mass of the Virgin, ff. 13r-15v; 3) Gospel extracts, ff. 15v-19v; 4) "Obsecro te," "O intemerata," and other prayers, ff.19v-28v; 5) Office of the Dead, use of Rome, ff. 29r-61v; 6) Fifteen Gradual Psalms, ff. 61v-70r; 7) Hours of the Virgin, ff. 70r-121v; 8) Hours of the Cross, ff. 121v-127v; 9) Hours of the Spirit, ff. 127v-132v; 10) Office of the Dead, ff. 132v-134r; 11) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 134r-153r; 12) Preparation for the Mass, ff. 153r-164v. Items 5-6 belong after f. 132v; text on f. 29r continues from f.133v and Bound with contemporary illuminated manuscript on parchment containing 13) Benedictions, ff. 165r-173v; 14) Pontifical ordos, ff. 173v-180. Benedictions open with 3-line historiated initial. Rubrication. 2-line initials excised at f. 166 and f. 179
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 17-19 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: Forty historiated initials of approximately 6 lines. Inhabited full borders. Rubrication., Binding: nineteenth-century full brown calf. Covers framed with gilt and blind ornament; spine gilt and lettered. Spine title: Missale., and Bookseller description available.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of fragments from an Epistolary of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Temporale
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand writing a large and regular Carolina. Headings in a mixture of Capitalis and Uncialis. Neumatic notation on a red line., Headings in red. Heightening of majuscules in yellow. Initials in red heightened with yellow, placed between the double bounding lines., and Binding: red morocco over pasteboard; spine with 4 raised bands. The front cover decorated with a wreath in green, silver and gold containing the initials “S.C.C.” in gold.
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the text of a prophetic work concerning the Papal Schism. The text recounts a dream-vision Telephorus claims to have received on Easter morning of 1386, in which an angel directed him to research the causes of the Schism, to determine the identity of the true and false popes, and to prophesy the end of the schism. Telesphorus draws on and interprets escatological treatises by such authors as Joachim de Fiore and Johannes de Rupescissa, and predicts that the Italian antipope will be killed in Perugia in 1393, following which the crown of the Holy Roman Empire will be given to France
Description:
Telesphorus of Cosenza (active approximately 1360-1390) was the pseudonym of the author of a popular apocalyptic work of prophecy about the Papal Schism., In Latin., The volume opens with a dedicatory preface addressed to Antoniotto Adorno, doge of Genoa., Incipit: Libellus fr[atr]is thelofori p[re]sbiteri heremite...., Layout: single column, usually 37 lines., Script: Italian semigothic., Decoration: Rubricated with red penwork initials. Multiple illustrations on ff. 5,19r,19v,21r,22e,22v,24r,28v,31v and 32r, drawn in brown with ochre, red, blue and brown body colors and pale pink wash for flesh, depicting key events of the prophecy, including the battles with the various Anti-Christs, showing rulers, angels, demons, and the true and false popes., and Binding: 19th-century English full calf, heavily embossed with lattice pattern.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365, Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202, Telesphorus, of Cosenza., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Prophecies, Apocalyptic literature, Eschatology, Manuscripts, Medieval, Prophecy, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 7 parts bound together
Description:
In Latin., Script: Each part written in different hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged: sprinkled brown leather over cardboard. Spine with five raised bands, gold-tooled, with gold-tooled title on a red leather label: "MANUSCRIPT". Red sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. and Catholic Church
