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1. Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 990 and 1010].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.4
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem, an anonymous commentary on Donatus's Ars maior; the portion here is on part II of Donatus's grammar
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; double quotation marks are within the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars Laureshamensis, Expositio in Donatum maiorem (fragment).
2. Ars major
- Creator:
- Donatus, Aelius
- Published / Created:
- [between 890 and 910]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1090
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin. and Schøyen MS 239.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars major
3. Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc
- Creator:
- Curlo, Giacomo
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 51
- Image Count:
- 538
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (slightly polished) of 1) Giacomo Curlo, Preface addressed to Ferdinand I of Naples. 2) Giacomo Curlo, Epitoma Donati in Terentium. 3) Antonio Cassarino, Preface addressed to Giacomo Curlo. 4) Plutarch, Apophthegmata, Latin translation by Antonio Cassarino. 5) Phalaris, Epistolae, translated by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to Malatesta Novella of Cesena. 6) Phalaris, four additional Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco Griffolini of Arezzo and dedicated to King Alfonso I of Naples. 7) Pliny, Epistolae I.1-III.15.
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: ff. 1-112, similar to Briquet Lettre R 8941; ff. 113-160 and 209-256, similar to Briquet Echelle 5904, 5908; ff. 161-208, 257-265, similar to Piccard Kreuz II.616, 619, 622., Script: Written in an unusual style of loose and sloping humanistic script with cursive features; angular, little shading of letters, well spaced., Plain lumpy initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate blue and red. Headings and paragraph marks in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Original wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Yellow edges. The beaded chevron endbands are sewn with red and yellow thread on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards. Covered in brown sheepskin with the surface mostly worn off; decorated with concentric frames, the central panel and one frame filled in with square goat (?) and flower tools standing on a point. Title in ink on a paper label, now mostly wanting. Four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board have a raised design of the Virgin and child and a flower.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius., Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458., Curlo, Giacomo., Ferdinand I, King of Naples, 1423-1494., and Terence.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitoma Donati in Terentium, etc
4. Questiones sup[er] minorem Donatum
- Published / Created:
- [16 April, 1492]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1042.2
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Questiones sup minorem Donatum
- Description:
- BEIN MS 1042.2: Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 16 leaves from first two quires., BEIN MS 1042.2: These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens, Beinecke MS 1042 (Paris, circa 1530). From the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand. Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., BEIN MS 1042.2: Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Cahier A et B d'un livret imprimé à Angoulême en 1491 et intitulé: Questiones super minorem Donatum., Description based on bibliographies., and "Expliciunt questiuncule gra[m]maticales super donatum minorem engolisme impresse bene vise [et] correcte. Anno salutis christiane .M.CCCC.xCii.xvi. die mensis aprilis"--Colophon.
- Publisher:
- Petrus Alanus and Andreas Calvinus
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language and Grammar
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Questiones sup[er] minorem Donatum
5. Rudimenta grammatices; Disticha Catonis
- Published / Created:
- [between 1375 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 70
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Rudimenta grammatices (Grammatica latina secundum Donatum). 2) Disticha Catonis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Historiated initial, f. 1r, 11-line, pink against blue ground with a half-length portrait in profile of the author, dressed in red and green robes and a red hat against parchment ground with brown penwork. Foliage serifs, green, blue and red extending into inner and upper margin to form partial border. In center of lower margin, blank shield for coat of arms, flanked by stylized foliage, blue and red. In outer margin, small patch of green with boy or man sitting under a tree (visible under ultra-violet light). One illuminated initial on f. 11r, 8-line, pink against blue ground filled with stylized foliage, blue, green and red. Plain initials in red. Small initials touched with yellow., The entire manuscript is well worn, affecting the text; f. 1r is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Twentieth century, England (?). Quarter bound in brown, blind-tooled calf over wooden boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Stoics
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rudimenta grammatices; Disticha Catonis
