Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux (Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), 1) De interiori homine (Mediationes). 2) De illis qui ingrediuntur religionem ut abundent bonis. 3) De interiori domo. Due to the loss of a quire 20 pages are missing, foliated 49-58. Due to the loss of f. 83 the final paragraphs of this text are lost. 4) A compilation on virtues and vices, followed by quotations of a theological and moral nature. The beginning of this text was on the lost f. 83.
Description:
In Latin., Script: With the exception of f. 1r apparently copied by one hand, writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; f. 1r, in the same type of script, is by another more rapid hand and is perhaps palimpsest., Headings in red added afterwards, with instructions for the rubricator in Gothica Cursiva in the margins (the headings are missing from f. 91r onwards). Red plain initials, 2-3 lines, sometimes with simple flourishing. A few pointing hands and Nota-marks., and Binding: Original deerskin over bevelled wooden boards. On each cover four small brass bosses. Four similar bosses at the four corners of the spine and at the attachment of a white leather strap attached to the front cover and clutching with a decorated brass piece over a pin in the rear cover. The front paste-down is a fragment of a 14th-century Latin grammatical treatise in two columns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Copy of passage omitted from Institutiones VII.9 and supplied in a later hand. 2) Prefatory material. 3) Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII. 4) Lactantius, De Opificio Dei. 5) Lactantius, De Ira Dei
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a "fractured" gothic script. Marginal notations by several later writers, one of whom made extensive corrections to the text and added Latin translations for the Greek passages., Ten neat gold initials, 9- to 8-line, infilled and surrounded by white vinework on blue, pale green, and pale red grounds, with white dots and pale yellow highlights (ff. 9r, 33v, 53v, 77r, 100r, 119v, 144r, 163r, 163v, 177v). Greek quotations in red (only for ff. 1r-88r). Capitals and paragraph marks, alternating red and blue for ff. 2r-8v., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf case, gold- and blind-tooled with interesting pictorial tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.
Subject (Topic):
Apologies, Christian literature, Latin, Church history, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval