Manuscript on paper, composed of two independant sections. Part I (ff. 1r-121v): Sermons, excerpts and treatises. With works by Thomas de Hibernia and Albertus de Padua. Part II (ff.122r-180v): Works by St. John Chrysostom; with a treatise on temptations and special Mass prayers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I: Copied by one hand in small Gothica Hybrida Currens. Some additions in a larger and more formal handwriting. Marginal captions. The scribe is Iohannes de Lovanio (John of Louvain), called (de) Dynen, lector in the convent of the Hermits of St. Augustine in Venice. Part II: Copied by the priest Jean Frassent in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda), which is less carefully executed on the final pages. Calligraphic extensions at the ascenders on the top line., Part I: Underlining and plain initials. Headings underlined or framed or written in red. Framed running headlines on the pages where a new article begins. Part II: Headings, heightening of the majuscules, and red 2-line plain initials in art. 41. The heightening is continued up to f. 137v, but the initials have not been executed from art. 42 onwards. Guide letters for all initials., and Binding: Contemporary Northern French or Flemish binding, which no doubt was made for Part II and rebacked when Part I was added: blind-tooled brown calfskin over bevelled wooden boards; the decoration consists of frames and a lozenge pattern traced in triple fillets, the lozenges filled with three tools: a rose, an acorn motif and a standing figure (?). Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover, with engraved brass catches on the front cover. On the 19th-century (?) spine the gold-tooled inscriptions "SERMONES" / and "IOANNES / CHRYSOSTOMUS".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, de Padua, d. 1328., John Chrysostom, Saint, -407., and Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of devotional treatises by numerous authors, including Guillelmus Iordani (Willem Jordaens, c. 1321-1372), Pseudo-Augustinius, Iacobus Mediolanensis, and Leroquais
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Formata; the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line may have calligraphic extensions. The last treatise is by another scribe using the same type of script., Stroking of majuscules, underlining, paragraph marks and headings in red., and Binding: original binding, sewn on three double cords. Brown leather over wooden boards with rounded edges. Plaited headbands. Parchment endleaves. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear board. Red leather tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Augustinus.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 163
Image Count:
522
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of St. Antoninus of Florence, Summa moralis (extracts on sins, virtues and vices arranged thematically).
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, buried in tight binding: unidentified flower., Script: Written by multiple scribes in small informal styles of gothic bookhand with humanistic features, below top line., Decorative initials, 9- to 5-line, for main text divisions, blue with red penwork designs (red much faded); headings, initials (5- to 3-line), paragraph marks in bright red; initial strokes in yellow., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries, Northern Italy. Resewn and bound in alum tawed pigskin, blind-tooled. Lower board cut in for the strap. The boards and cover are probably early (15th century) and reworked and reshaped to fit the text block, given the large number of later blank leaves inserted at end of text and the way the text block appears to have been trimmed at the tail and the new endbands added. In addition, the title written twice, 15th century, on upper cover ("Rationale diuinorum offitiorum" of Guilielmus Durandus) does not correspond to the present text. Title, written in ink, on a square paper label on spine mutilated and largely illegible. Strip of liturgical manuscript with musical notation, 15th century?, used as spine lining.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Vices, and Virtues
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Isidore's Synonyma
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown square capitals highlighted with red; other 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on parchment in two parts. Part I: Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. Due to the loss of quires or leaves the following parts are missing: Ps. 23:1-31:6; Ps. 44:14-50:21; Ps. 88:48-95:10; Ps. 131:8-147:14. The contents of the first quire, which is equally lost, is unknown. Written at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Part II: Unidentified definitions and theological and ethical discussions of Biblical terms and quotations without apparent order, on behalf of preachers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by various hands close to each other in small late Carolingian script, with sudden changes in the shade of ink and sometimes badly following the lines. The handwriting on ff. 77-84 (quire XI) and ff. 112-113 (quire XVI) has markedly different features. Part II (ff. 114-133): Written by a single hand in tiny Southern Gothica Textualis Currens, at different times and in many different ink shades. The scribe opens both quires with "Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia" in the upper margin., Part I: The very simple decoration is uneven and consists of plain Romanesque initials, 2 or 3 lines, in red ink; on f. 41r (Ps. 51) 5 lines; many initials are not executed or later coarsely added in black ink. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled with triple fillets. Spine with three raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bede. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Preaching
Manuscript on paper of a huge collection of mostly short quotations, arranged under more than one hundred headings, with other texts
Description:
In Latin, partly in Italian., Script: mainly copied by one hand writing a small Gothico-Humanistica with single-compartment a; a few additions and marginal notes by a contemporary hand. Art. 3 is copied in an unusual linear Humanistica Textualis close to Cursiva, marked by numerous loops., Headings in red. Underlining in black of the authorities and works quoted. A few plain initials in red. In the margins pointing hands (sometimes with human faces in the calligraphic loops) and arrows which have the same function., The manuscript includes short treatises, exempla, verses and prayers. With two fragments 1) of a Latin theological treatise on parchment, ca. 1300. 2) of a Latin philosophical treatise, probably a commentary on Aristotle's De caelo et mundo., and Binding: 16th century. Brown leather over pasteboard, sewn on three split leather thongs. The covers are blind-tooled with triple fillets and a frame of juxtaposed quadrangular tools with botanical motif. Remnants of one clasp attached to the front cover, with an engraved brass catch on the rear cover. In the center of the front cover a small paper roundel with a contemporary woodcut of one of the Magi; on the rear cover a rectangular contemporary woodcut on paper representing the Flagellation. The spine is reinforced by a piece of paper, on which the original title in ink has been replaced by “Sententiẹ / sacrẹ / et prophanẹ / Manuscript** / Sẹculi XV” (16th century). On the front detached pastedown r: “Opuscula varia” (16th century). Front pastedown is a fragment of a theological treatise, ca. 1300; rear pastedown, fragment of a philosophical treatise, probably a commentary on Aristotle's De caelo et mundo, both on parchment and orginally from the same manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper containing theological texts in Latin
Description:
In Latin., Script: two contemporary scribes: A copied ff. 1r-204v in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; B copied ff. 206r-231r in Gothica Hybrida Currens., In the first section, copied by hand A, heightening of majuscules, underlining, paragraph marks and headings (in larger script), all in red; some headings, in black, are underlined in red and placed in a rhomboid frame in the same colour; 2-3-line plain initials in red, with guide letters; the 3-line initial on f. 1r is framed in red; the initial on f. 169r has rudimentary flourishing in the same colour. The final section, copied by hand B, is undecorated, although spaces for initials were provided. Some pages badly damaged by the acid ink., The manuscript contains: 1) Antonius Rampegolus (de Rampigollis) de Ianua (d. after 1423), Compendium morale (Figurae Bibliorum). 2) Comparisons of the Virgin to the sky, the firmament, a mirror, a lily, balsam, thunder, a sword, paradise, water or a river, a garden, a tree, joy, a staff, dew, gold, a door, etc. With quotations from Alanus (de Insulis?), Alcabitius, Algazel, Aristotle, Averroes, Avicenna, Chalcidius, Constantinus Africanus, Galenus, Hermes Trismegistus, Ignatius, Isidore of Seville, Orosius, Philaretus, Plato, Pliny, Sedulius, Simplicius, Solinus, Theophrastus, Tondalus, etc. 3) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux) or Ps.-Beda Venerabilis (Pseudo-Bede), Meditationes passionis Christi per septem diei horas. 4) Planctus beatae Mariae virginis, ascribed to Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux). 5) Note on the torments of Hell, after Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis. 6) Note on the delights of Heaven. 7) Henricus Totting de Oyta (d. 1397), Quattuor notabilia (Solutiones quarumdam quaestionum ad dominum Rudolphum). 8) A theological treatise in fourteen questions on indulgence and remission of sins. 9) Short treatise of canon law on qualifications for preaching and theological argument. 10) Bonaventura (1221-1274), De praeparatione ad missam. 11) Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1090-c. 1150), Inevitabile sive de praedestinatione et libero arbitrio inter magistrum et discipulum dialogus, two extracts, respectively corresponding with the edition PL 172.1198-1199 and 1201 (the latter extract ending incomplete). 12) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis O.P. (d. c. 1353), with an introductory letter by the translator to master Hugh de Vaucemain, general of the Dominican Order, dated 1339. 13) Nicolaus de Dinckelsbühl (c. 1360-1433), Dicta super beatitudines., and Binding: original binding: brown leather over rounded wooden boards, with some worm-holes, the outer lower edge of the rear board broken off; both covers blind-tooled with a frame and diamond pattern of double fillets, the diamonds decorated with three different stamps: a large quadrangular stamp with a quatrefoil, a circular stamp with a six-pointed star, and a circular stamp with a rosette; in the triangles a small circular stamp containing a trefoil. Hinges broken. Spine with four double raised bands and braided leather headbands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover. On the lower edge the ca. 1500 title “Figure morales [?]” written in ink close to the spine is faintly visible. Parchment pastedowns. The front pastedown consists of (1) a notarial document in Latin, dated 6 Jan. 1428, written in Gothica Cursiva; (2) a leaf, partly covered by the preceding document, from a Formulary of Canon Law, 14th century, written in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior. The rear pastedown consists of fragments of two bifolios from a 13th-century Latin moral treatise, written in Gothica Textualis Libraria and containing innumerable Biblical quotations.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Hieronymus (347-420), Epistola 14 (Ad Heliodorum). 2) Hieronymus, Epistola 52 (ad Nepotianum). 3) Johannes Lange (1503-1567), Sibyllae Erythreae Vaticinium, translated from the Greek into Latin by Iohannes Langus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands in Humanistica Cursiva, with large interlinear spaces., Undecorated, except for a Gothic flourished initial in brown ink on f. 1r and a capital at the opening of art. 2, both probably later additions. In art. 3 the initial at the beginning of the text is not executed. The heading of art. 2 is partly in Capitalis., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard (very worn), decorated with a fleuron in the center of the covers, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Monasticism and religious orders, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment and paper of treatises on vice and virtue
Description:
In Latin., The manuscript includes: 1) Bindus de Senis (d. 1390), Aureum Bibliae repertorium sive Aurea Biblia. 2) Alphabetical table of the themes treated in art. 1, referring to the chapter numbers. The latter are not always correct, as appears from the final chapters. Ascribed to Petrus de Utino (d. 1368) by Stegmüller 6939. 3) Concordantia Prophetarum cum Symbolo Apostolico: the Apostles' Creed as supposed to be jointly composed by the twelve Apostles, each article being preceded by an appropriate utterance by one of the twelve prophets. 4) Table of the chapters of an alphabetically arranged treatise on the virtues and vices, referring to the foliation of the manuscript in which it occurred. 5) Treatise on virtues and vices in alphabetical order. 6) Biblical quotations upon the twelve defences protecting the spiritual city. 7) Index of the chapters of art. 5, referring to the original foliation of this part of the manuscript. 8) Commentary on the text of the Memento of the Deceased and of the Living in Mass., Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-20v (quires I-III) in Gothica Textualis Libraria; Hand B (Durandus Caponis) copied ff. 21r-121v in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; Hand C copied f. 122r-v (art. 3) in large angular Gothica Cursiva Formata close to Fractura; Hand D (Raymundus de Beyrinis) copied ff. 122v-123r (art. 4) in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria; Hand E copied ff. 125r-133r (first section of art. 5) in a wide Gothica Semihybrida Libraria; Hand F copied ff. 133v-145r (last section of art. 5 and artt. 6-7) in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 146r-147r (art. 8) in the same type of script, but Libraria/Currens. Running headlines in rapid script., and Binding: leather binding s. XV/XVI over wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls, the central panel decorated with small rosettes (half of the front cover is missing). Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Vice, and Virtue
