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 The spine is reinforced by a piece of paper, on which the original title in ink has been replaced by “Sententiẹ / sacrẹ / et prophanẹ / Manuscript** / Sẹculi XV” (16th century).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
Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi
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In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse) of the Life of Saint Birgitta, in two books
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in quasi-italic by a single scribe., Hand-colored engraving of St. Birgitta, standing with open book in left hand and crucifix in right, pasted to f. 11v. Same engraving (but uncolored) of St. Birgitta pasted to f. 106v., Folio 16 cut in half, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Vellum case with stubs of two ties. Title, in ink, on spine and front cover: "Vita Sancta [sic] matris nostrae Birgittae". Red edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373. and Bridgettines.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval