Manuscript on parchment of William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. Text supplied on f. 10v in the second half of the 15th century. With excerpts from St. Bernard (?) on the Virgin Mary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in compact gothic script with numerous corrections and notes in contemporary and later hands, 13th-15th centuries., Decorative initials, divided red and blue, 3-line, with extensive penwork designs and cascades also in red and blue, for the beginning of each book of art. 5 and for art. 6. Simple initials, red or blue, 2-line, with penwork designs of the opposite color throughout the codex. Running titles (e.g., FLO. B. I) in red and blue; headings, chapter numbers, and underlining, in red., Outer column of f. 140 cut off; no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case with two ties and two black, gold-tooled labels: "Flores ex operibus B. Bernardi" and "M. S. XIII-XIV C." Wound, caught-up sewing, wound endbands, and vellum lining on the spine between sewing supports. On front and back flyleaves: Deed, in Latin, dated 26 March 1450, issued by Antonius Longobardus [several letters or words lost in binding] neapolis Reginalis ad contractus Iudex. The document was cut in half and trimmed to serve originally as pastedowns; considerable loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. and William of Tournai.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederick II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123).
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Probably written by one hand in extremely small Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under some Cursiva influence. The script of art. 9 is larger., The ink on the first pages has flaked, making them very difficult to decipher., Red headings, red heightening of majuscules and red plain initials, mostly 2-3 lines; the red initials were to alternate with blue ones but the latter have not been executed. Many initials are anyhow missing. Guide-letters are seen close to the fold or to the edge of the pages. The running titles were also planned to be executed in alternately red and blue majuscules, but the blue letters are missing; there are no running titles after f. 20 (quire II)., and Binding: Modern limp vellum.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century, Catholic Church. Council of Lyons, and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Religious poetry, Latin, and Sermons, Latin
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156
Published / Created:
[between 1140 and 1160].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 482.54
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Honorius of Autun's Imago Mundi
Alternative Title:
De imagine mundi
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; the initials that begin new chapters are dotted with orange; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; the marginal chapter headings are written by a contemporary hand in brown minuscule and are encircled in orange, with an orange line connecting each circle; the same orange is used to adorn the chapter initials and to mark roman numerals in the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on vellum and paper of 1) Treatise on the Koran. 2) Ricoldus de Monte Crucis O.P. (Ricoldo da Montecroce, d. 1320), Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum (Confutatio Alcorani). 3) Anonymous treatise against the Koran in the form of letters exchanged between two friends, a Muslim and a Christian. 4) Bonacursius de Bononia O.P. (s. XIII2), De erroribus Graecorum. 5) A short history of the ecumenical councils
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by one hand, who starts writing Humanistica Textualis but gradually changes into a rapid Gothico-Humanistica., and Binding: original binding. Blind-tooled calfskin over bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Brass? bosses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, and De modo orandi. 2) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 3) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae. 4) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-18v in Gothica Textualis Formata; Hand B copied ff. 19r-38v in Gothica Hybrida Formata/Libraria; Hand C copied ff. 39r-47r in bold Hybrida Libraria; Hand D copied ff. 48r-50r and 54r-57r in Semihybrida Libraria; Hand E, which is perhaps identical with Hand D, copied ff. 50v-53v in Hybrida Libraria; Hand F copied f. 57v in Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 58r-116r in Hybrida Libraria (in two sizes for text and gloss of art. 21). Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and (in articles 10-19) underlining in red. All initials in the same colour: 1-line versals; 2- and 3-line plain initials; a 4-line plain initial with interior reserved shapes on f. 1r; a 3-line plain initial containing a human face on f. 48r., Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, 2) Thomas a Kempis, De tribus tabernaculis and Sermones ad fratres, 3) Hugh of St. Victor, De modo orandi (shortened version), 4) Extracts from Hugh of St. Victor, St. Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux and others on the value of prayer and of the reciting of psalms, 5) Compilation from the works of St. Augustine on the value of the psalms, 6) Alcuinus, De psalmorum usu, preface (partim), 7) Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, 8) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam, 9) Commentary on the Ave Maria, 10) Psalms to be recited on special occasions or for special purposes, 11) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae, and 12) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss., and Binding: contemporary binding: brown leather over wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with diagonal fillets and fleur-de-lis stamps in the diamond-shaped spaces. Spine with three raised bands (rebacked). Remnants of one brass clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct sections, of various religious tracts, mostly unidentified, including Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de annuntiatione beatae virginis mariae
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified bull's head. Part II: buried in gutter., Script: Part I (ff. 60): Written in a neat running script by three scribes: 1) ff. 1r-52r; 2) ff. 52r-54v; 3) f. 60r-v. Part II (ff. 132): Written by a single scribe in an elegant running script. Portions of the marginal notes by original scribe have been lost due to trimming., Part I: Small, crude initials in red, some with simple penwork designs; initials strokes, in red. Part II: Headings, paragraph marks, and initial strokes, in red, throughout., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on three thick, double, vegetable fiber cords laced and pegged in grooves in wooden boards. The grooves for the endband cores, which are also vegetable fiber, start on the spine edge of the boards. The spine of the bookblock is cut off at an angle at head and tail so the braided endbands extend very little beyond the edges. The spine is square and lined all along with tawed skin which extends to the inside of the boards. Covered in tawed skin, originally pink, with two labels at the head of the upper board; on the first, "Passionale ad aduentum domini usque ad festum mathie sancte [?] sermonum collectio [?]," on the second, "G.27". Five round bosses on each board and two strap and pin fastenings, the pins on the upper one. Lower board detached, bosses and fastenings wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on paper of Angela of Foligno, Memoriale and Instructiones
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with uneven speed. Headings and the opening words of sections are generally written in Capitalis., and Binding: early quarter binding: leather boards, the leather fixed with a strip of brass to the front and rear board. Remnants of two clasps, attached to the rear board by means of small quadrangular brass plates, and clutching on the front board in two brass catches in the shape of large decorated rosettes. The hinges are strengthened by means of strips cut from a s. XIV manuscript in Southern Textualis Libraria.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Angela, of Foligno, Saint, 1248?-1309.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary. 2) Litanies of the Virgin, of Christ on Ascension Day, of St. Jerome on his feast day. 3) An account of the visions of St. Magnus, and the story of St. Magnus's burial and subsequent translation to the church of San Geremia in Venice. 4) Legend of the three monks in Paradise. 5) Exhortation to suffer illness patiently citing three exempla from St. Gregory's Dialogues. 6) Lists of the 7 works of spiritual mercy, the 7 works of corporal mercy, the 7 sacraments, the 7 virtues, the 7 mortal sins, the 5 senses, the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. 7) Unidentified sermon. 8) Anselm of Canterbury, Commendatio animae. 9) Short unidentified text attributed to Gregory I.
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: Written in small round gothic bookhand, below top line., Crudely executed initials red with blue and/or red penwork designs and vice versa; initials on ff. 7v-8v have green added. Blue headings accompany red initials and red accompany blue. Initial letters stroked with red throughout. Line filler in red, blue and yellow on f. 6r., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and pegged twice. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine is lined with leather between supports. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a central rectangle in concentric frames. Two fastenings; holes from pins on the lower board, the upper one cut in for straps which are fastened with star-headed nails. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; an X of triple fillets in the panels which are bordered with double fillets on the sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604., Magnus, of Anagni, Saint, d. 254., and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1495]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 380
Image Count:
583
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts (De prudentia, De fortitudine, De continentia, De iustitia) from Martin of Braga, Formula honestae vitae, a work often attributed incorrectly to Seneca. 2) Salomonis dicta; excerpts concerning wisdom, including quotes from Seneca, Book of Wisdom, etc. 3) Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum. 4) Excerpts from Petrarch, De remediis utriusque fortunae. 5) Isidore, Chronicon
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Huchet 7693., Script: Written by a single scribe in various styles of italic script; heavy annotations by the scribe and later hands., Several crude initials: f. 1r, 4-line gold initial on blue ground, infilled red, and 3-line red initial on gold ground; on f. 2r, 5-line red initial on blue ground; f. 72v, 4-line red initial on green ground with some flourishes and gold dots, infilled blue. Initials (2- and 1-line), names of authors (added in margins), paragraph marks and headings in pale red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled title on spine: "Miscellanea di Seneca, Petrarcha e d'altri". Orange, leather-grained paper sides. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy
