Manuscript on parchment (low quality), composed of several manuscripts bound together, of mostly unidentified sermons. Produced at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo
Description:
In Latin., Script: Small early Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria or Currens script by various hands, some very informal and difficult to decipher, often highly abbreviated., Short running titles are written above the right-hand columns of the recto pages in the following articles: 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 18-23, which seem to be the original part of the codex; article 14 has running titles of a different type., The first folios are stained., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over cardboard, blind-tooled with triple fillets as in MS 517; spine with five raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., and Binding: Twentieth century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment (thick, worn, repaired) of a Homiliary with sermons by various authors, spanning the liturgical year
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in well formed early caroline minuscule., Headings in majuscules, some in red rustic capitals (e.g., f. 11r); many omitted. A modern hand has often added names of authors. Plain 2-line initials in red or black., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides and red edges. There are three blackish green, gold-tooled labels on the spine: "Homeliae Usq./ Ad Domi. Post Natale/ Manuscr. Saecul. IX". Bound by the binder of Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 153, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Homiliaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a homiliary containing among others: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon 196; Ambrose, Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam; Gregory the Great, Homiliae xl in evangelia
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: two 7-line initials in yellow on a square ground, colored with blue, red, dark red, and green and decorated with white interlacing foliage; 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons in red square capitals; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubrics written in red uncials with rustic capital "D"; first words of the homily and the first initial of the biblical text are written in brown uncials with rustic capital "D" filled with red; punctuated with punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604., Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397., Pseudo-Augustine., and Catholic Church
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a homiliary containing Maximus Taurinensis, Sermon 48; Conversio Sanctae Justinae virginis et Sancti Cypriani episcopi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: only the upper eight lines of the homily initial "I" are preserved; the initial is yellow on a red, blue, purple, and green ground; 1-line initials are a mixture of brown rustic capitals and uncial forms with the occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; rubric in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation and diacritical marks in same ink as text.
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
Manuscript on paper (thick with heavy chain lines) of Sermons by Graeculus O.F.M. (early 14th century) and Conradus de Waldhausen Can. Reg. (d. 1369). With additional sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands all writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens. Scribes in quires I-V often make remarkable extensions to majuscules or ascenders on the first line, decorated with foliage or grotesque heads., Headings, heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red applied very irregularly and totally missing on ff. 26v-29v, 30v-118v, 119v-130v and 135v-138v. Some 2- or 3-line initials of coarse execution, with or without guide-letters; most initials are not executed., and Binding: Damaged original limp parchment with flap, made from several pieces of parchment sewn together by means of parchment strips. The sewing runs through the spine and is gathered in decorative patterns over two strips of heavy leather.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, holes, end pieces), in two volumes, of a collection of sermons by various writers, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Geoffroi Babion, Jacobus Berengarius, Ivo of Chartres, and Hugh of St. Victor. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged. The manuscript may originally have been a single volume
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in late caroline minuscule by several scribes, above top line., Plain red initials, 4- to 2-line, some with small pearls added to the body of the letter. Spaces for rubrics remain unfilled., Folios 1r and 158v stained with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires of both volumes cut in at sewing stations. Sewn on three cords. Paper lining between supports on spine. Red edges. Both volumes half bound in brown mottled calf with bright pink paper sides and two red gold-tooled labels on each volume: "Manuscr. Homiliae Caes. Max. Cod. I [and II]" and "Saecul. XIII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 151, 153, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance.
Subject (Geographic):
France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a group of sermons, including: Hildebert of Le Mans, Sermones de tempore; Unidentified sermon on John the Evangelist; and Unidentified sermon on the Circumcision (1 January).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an informal gothic script (approaching a littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: spaces have been left at the beginning of homilies for 2-line initials, but they have not been added; 1-line initials are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made some corrections to the text in a darker ink.
Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
