Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Riga, Aurora, as well as Aegidius Parisiensis, De poenis inferni, and an unrecorded poem on the vices and virtues
Description:
Script: main text copied by three hands writing Gothica Textualis Libraria: scribe A (ff. 1r-198r and 243r-279v6); B (ff. 198v-204v) wrote larger and bolder; C (ff. 205r-242v and 279v7-360r)., Decoration: headings in red, partly written in the margins, missing after f. 350r. Line fillers at the end of almost every line. Guide letters; flourished initials., Binding: 19th century, signed by P. Lefebvre: dark blue straight-grained leather over cardboard, the covers decorated with simple frames of gold-tooled fillets., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209. and Abbaye de Cîteaux.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) The author, Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus (1449-1499) of Vicenza, speaking to his book of poetry, 6 lines. 2) 28-line encomium dedicated to Niccolo Donati, Patriarch of Aquileia, 1493-97. 3) Rhapsodia I. 4-7) Rhapsodia I-V. 8) De mysteriis christianis. 9-10) Poems to Angelus Padavinus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a well-formed upright humanistic bookhand., Half-page coat of arms (argent [oxidized], a chief with 3 roses gules above 2 bars gules; crest: bishop's mitre surmounted by gold cross) enclosed by a wreath with flowers and fruit and four ribbons, f. 1v. Plain gold majuscules outlined in black, 4- to 2-line, mark beginning of arts. 2-8; headings for each poem in black epigraphic square capitals., and Binding: Date?, Italy. Tacketed to a limp vellum wrapper made from a parchment document: Agostino Barbarigo, doge of Venice (1486-1501), writes on behalf of the secretary Joannes B[remainder of name missing due to hole in parchment], dated Venice, 5 May 14[8?]8. Filing notes on upper cover. Title in majuscules on upper cover: "Quintii Haemiliani Cimbriaci Vti [for Vincentinus?]".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Quintus Aemilianus Cimbriacus.
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a regular heavy hybrida formata script with features of bastarda by a single scribe who placed small circular flourishes above the letter u., 10-line illuminated initial on f. 5r, blue and mauve with white designs and highlights on gold cusped ground, a blue and gold bar border extending into the left-hand margin and terminating in acanthus leaves in the lower margin; interior of initial in orange, blue and gold checkered pattern. Fine red and blue divided initials, 8- to 7-line, with parchment designs and extensive pale purple flourishes, for major texts. Smaller plain initials in red or blue with parchment designs. Headings and initial strokes in red. Some instructions to rubricator in outer margins., and Binding: ca. 1500, Belgium. Covered in brown calf with corner tongues over wooden boards, a central panel diapered with blind-tooled triple fillets. Center and corner fittings and title written in a careful gothic bookhand under a brass-framed window on the upper board: "liber gloriose uirginis et martyris christi barbare". Lower board cut in for the straps which are attached with metal plates. Hasps of a chain on the lower board. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barbara, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prophecies
Parthenice tertia, Parthenice tertia Baptistae Mantuani divarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e & Apoloni[a]e agonas continens, and Parthenice tertia Baptistae Mantuani divarum Margarit[a]e, Agathes, Luci[a]e et Apoloni[a]e agonas continens
Description:
BEIN Beinecke MS 907: Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Extensive interlinear and marginal manuscript annotations in the first half of the text, some bled. Blind-stamped pigskin binding over wooden boards; with two metal clasps. Manuscript note on rear pastedown: Anno 1561 22 Febr. 3. g. M. Pauli Bussini Magdeburg. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund. Number 5 of 6 titles bound together., Commentary by Josse Badius., Printer and date of imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ 3A-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E-3I⁸ 3K⁴ 3L-3M⁸ (3M8 blank)., Includes index., and Colophon: Explicitum est hoc opus agonum quattuor diuarum virginum Parisius impressum Pro Ioanne Petit. Commorante in vico diui Iacobi Sub Leone argenteo. Anno d[omi]ni. 1507 die 9 Mensis Iulii.
Publisher:
Jean Petit
Subject (Name):
Margaret, of Antioch, Saint, Lucy, Saint, -304, Agatha, Saint, -approximately 250, and Apollonia, Saint, -249
