Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing 8 chapters from a Latin manual on letter writing, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Chapters include: De principalibus partibus epistole; De accidentalibus epistolarum partibus; De titulorum epithetorum; De titulis et epithetis secularium et scholasticorum personarum; De kalendarum, nonarum et iduum invencione diversisque temporum annotacionibus; De annorum annotacionibus; De valedictorum positi. Also contains Samuel Karoch von Lichtenberg's Dialogus inter adolescentem et virginem, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Incipit: Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exara[tus] incipit foeliciter
Description:
In Latin., This manuscript is number 4 of 6 titles bound together. The other five texts are printed and include: 1) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Sermo de Passione Domini, nuper e Gallico in Latinum traductus (Strasbourg, [Matthias Schuerer], 1510). 2) Petrus de Rosenheim (1380-1433), Rationarium evangelistarum omnia in se evangelia prosa, versu, imaginibusque quam mirifice complectens, with woodcuts ([Pforzheim], Thomas Anshelm, 1505). 3) Caius Iulius Solinus, De memorabilibus mundi diligenter annotatus et indicio alphabetico prenotatus, ed. J. Badius Ascensius (Speyer, Conrad Hist, 1512). 4) Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus OCarm (1448-1516), Parthenice tertia, divarum Margaritẹ, Agathes, Luciẹ et Apoloniẹ agonas continens, with the commentary of J. Badius Ascensius (Paris, Jean Petit, 1507). 5) Franciscus Florius (c. 1428-after 1480), De amore Camilli et Emilie ([Paris], Jehan Lambert, s.d.)., Script: copied by one hand in two levels of script: large and bold Gothica Semihybrida Libraria for the headings and part of the text; small Gothica Semihybrida Currens for the glosses and part of the text., Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin quarter binding over wooden boards. Two brass clasps attached to the rear board., Decoration: red stroking of the majuscules. Rubricated throughout., and The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907 vol. 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Palm Sunday
Manuscript on paper (sturdy but of uneven weight; no watermarks, wavering chain-lines ca. 53 mm. apart) of a collection of excerpts from Biblical commentaries and sermons by patristic writers. Mainly drawn from Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio super Matthaeum; and Bede, Expositio super Lucam. Also includes texts by Leo, Gregory, Gualterus Anglicus, Augustine, Anselm, Ambrose, and Boethius. Sermons written for feast days and about the Passion of Christ
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written mostly by one scribe, perhaps over a period of time, in a small gothic book hand with many abbreviations. Additions by slightly later hands in more or less formal script, e.g. ff. 1v, 3r-5v, 87v-105v., Initials (3-line), paragraph marks, underlining and strokes on 1-line capitals in red., and Binding: Date? Square, flush boards. Trimmed out turn-ins suggest a late date. Covered in vellum with contents and a compass-drawn circle on lower cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Remigius, of Auxerre, approximately 841-908.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Catenae, Church year sermons, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I: 1) Brief prologues to the Pauline Epistles, paraphrasing or extracted from the argumenta of Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio in epistolas Sancti Pauli. 2-4) Notes for sermons arranged according to the liturgical year. Part II: 5) Unidentified sermons. 6) John of Wales, Breviloquium
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Scribe I copied ff. 1r-6v in small gothic bookhand with southern features; Scribe II copied ff. 7r-24r in a somewhat more angular gothic bookhand; additions by different scribes on f. 24r-v. Part II (ff. 25-78): Arts. 5-6 copied in small neat gothic bookhand, by a single scribe; some marginalia added in anglicana script (e.g., f. 46v); art. 7 added in a less careful gothic bookhand., Part I: Red initials, 3- to 2-line, with crude harping designs in black; headings and paragraph marks (art. 3) in red. Instructions for rubricator. Part II: Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue; headings, often added in margin, in red. Remains of guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Backs of quires cut in for original sewing. Brown calf case, blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Haimo, of Auxerre, -approximately 855.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment composed in two parts. Part I (13th century): Nicolaus Tornacensis [?], Commentaria super Exodum 14.4-15.5; Commentaria in Lucam 1.19-1.33. With Philippus Cancellarius, Sermones de tempore; and unidentified texts on canon law. Part II (15th century): Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla in Iosuam; Postilla in Iudices
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by multiple scribes in spiky gothic bookhand, both above and below top line; ff. 59v-60r in a later, less formal gothic script. Part II (ff. 114-165): Written in batarde script, below top line., Part I: Poorly executed initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue or red with designs in opposite color; plain red or blue initials for arts. 1 and 5. Headings and underlining for Biblical passages in red. Part II: Plain initials, 4- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, underlining for Biblical passages, initial strokes and punctuation, in red., Rust stains on ff. 109-113 indicate that Part I was once bound separately., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, France (?). Quarter bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Bound by the same binder as Marston MSS 119, 214 and 236.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on paper of Postillae ("sermons," or treatises) on the gospels and epistles in a style close to Petrus Alberti (or, Aldeberti, or Adalberti).
Description:
In Latin., Script: The main text (artt. 5-41) is copied by two hands in Gothica Cursiva Currens: hand (A) copied ff. 13r-108v (quires II-IX); and hand (B) copied ff. 109r-247v (quires X-XXI partim). The other texts are in similar script types., Decoration: Missing on many pages (ff. 37r-40r, 41v-56r, 67v-78v, 85v-89r, 92v-93v, etc.), but there is red underlining, paragraph marks, stroking of majuscules and punctuation, red headings, and occasional annotations and indications of the sources., and Binding: original blind-tooled brown leather over wooden boards; both covers are decorated with a spread eagle, a rampant lion, and a fleur-de-lis, with an inscription on the front cover. Two leather and brass clasps are attached to the rear board while brass catches are on the front board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Church dedication sermons, Church year sermons, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Hugo de Prato Florido, O.P. (d. 1322), Sermones de tempore, summer part
Description:
Script: Probably copied by several hands in Gothica Semihybrida Currens., Decoration: underlining, stroking of majuscules, headings, and 3-5 line plain initials or initials with interior reserved shapes; decoration absent after f. 29r, with the exception of headings and initials found on ff. 31r, 124r, and 136v, and an initial on f. 154v., Binding: 20th century in a medieval style with some medieval matierals: parchment over bevelled wooden boards; spine with 4 raised bands; blind-tooled covers, each with a central brass boss; and two white leather straps, attached to the rear board and clutching brass pins on the front board., and In Latin.
Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Herolt, Johann.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Iohannes Herolt OP (d. c. 1468), Sermones de tempore, incomplete: from the first Sunday of Advent through the fourth Sunday after Easter
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied probably by one scribe writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria. When the first letter on a page is a majuscule it is as a rule made larger, with some calligraphic development., Red stroking of majuscules and underlining, red plain generally 3-line initials., Leaves are badly waterstained in the outer lower corner in the second half of the manuscript., and Binding: 15th-16th century. Parchment over light wooden boards; leather spine with three raised bands; marks of two clasps. At the top of the rear board there is an excavation for the staple to which a chain was attached. On the spine parchment label with the handwritten title (19th century?) “JOHANNES HEROLT / Sermones Discipuli / De Tempore / saec. XV. 1436.” At the top of the rear cover close to the spine a printed paper label containing space for a shelfmark covering a large capital “W”; the handwritten shelfmark is “5867”.
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Cloche 3934, Briquet Cloche 3979, and Briquet Tete de cerf 15499., Script: Written in a running hand by five scribes: 1) ff. 3r-85r; 2) ff. 85r-115r; 3) ff. 116v-117r; 4) ff. 115v, 117v-129v, 130v (art. 58); 5) ff. 131r-137v., Crude 3-line initials, in red, at beginning of each sermon; guide-letters for rubricator. Underlining of names of authors and of Biblical quotations, and initial strokes, all in red. Rubrics often lacking., Rodent damage in outer margins, from f. 68 on; no loss of text., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on four tawed, slit strap supports laced through tunnels in the edge of flush beech boards to a groove on the inside and pegged. The spine is square, back cornered, and lined between sewing supports with stubs of vellum that extend on the inside of the boards (in front: partially visible document in Latin, written in 14th/15th-century chancery hand; in back: Missal, Germany, ca. 1150, initials in orange, with neumes, small format: part of a bifolium). Plain, wound endbands on tawed cores which sit on the spine. Covered in tawed (?) skin, originally white, with a small tab of a single layer of skin at head and tail. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board, and both boards cut in to accomodate the straps. Rodent damage, and all but two bosses wanting. Most quires reinforced in center with narrow strips of parchment, including portions of a leaf used for pen trials (15th century); and of an unidentified text written in batarde with a pen-and-ink drawing (15th century). On outside of upper cover, written in ink: "Super epistolis dominicalibus/ Sermo de preceptis".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing sermons for the church year cycle
Description:
In Latin., Annotations and pen trials on endleaves., These sermons also in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms. 1042., Script: Early gothic minuscule., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, gilt-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
