Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Pictaviensis, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fine gothic bookhand, above top line., Genealogical tables accompany text throughout: drawn in red with roundels connected by pairs of parallel lines and aligned between red vertical rulings. Roundels for Adam and Eve, f. 1r, in yellow and blue, respectively; the roundels for their descendants on green ground. The plan of the temple at Jerusalem, f. 4r, in red, green and blue. The roundels for Christ, f. 5r, in blue, yellow, and red. Headings in red; spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled., Lower portion of f. 1 torn, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Grubby blue paper wrapper. Title, in ink, on upper cover: "Manuscript des XIII Jahrhunderts. Historia mundi sec. ord. chronol. usque ad mortem Jesu Christi".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Petrus, Wiensis, -1183.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Ripelin, Hugo, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
13th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 502
Image Count:
152
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugo Ripelin. The manuscript also contains fragments of a tract by Praepositinus Cremonensis, theological notes, an ecclesiastical document, a table for finding the date of Easter, and a record of the Houses of the Teutonic Order in northeastern Europe
Description:
In Latin., Script: the main text is copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Textualis Libraria with similar features. The first wrote the Table and the entire text, except the last items in the Table and the final chapters of the text, from f. 68ra, line 17 onwards, which are copied by the second hand. German features are the undotted y and the shape of the con-abbreviation. Similar features are found in the table for finding the date of Easter, copied in a small Gothica Textualis Libraria, possibly by the same hand. The list of Houses of the Teutonic Order is approximately contemporary, in small Gothica Textualis Libraria under cursive influence (some ascenders are looped). Later additions in various hands. The main part of the text has red headings, paragraph marks and stroking of majuscules; 2-line alternately plain and flourished half inset initials, the latter with primitive penwork, 3-line flourished initials at the opening of the Books; at the opening of the additional chapters plain initials only., Hugo Ripelin's Compendium theologicae veritatis, with three final chapters not belonging to the work of Hugo Ripelin, nor found in the version of his work printed from 1470/1472 and attributed to Albertus Magnus. The manuscript also includes fragments of Praepositinus Cremonensis's Tractatus de officiis, as well as theological notes, an ecclesiastical document, a table for finding the date of Easter, and a record of the Houses of the Teutonic Order in northeastern Europe, with the dates of their foundation and of some other events, 1120 -1266., and Binding: quarter binding (circa 16th century): wooden boards with rounded edges and brown leather, the upper and lower parts of the spine strengthened by means of strips of blind-tooled white leather. The broken boards are repaired by means of leather strips and wooden strips. Remnants of one clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ripelin, Hugo, approximately 1210-approximately 1270. and Dominicans.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1299].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1079
Image Count:
411
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Pseudo-Hugo de Sancto Caro (Hugh of Saint-Cher): 1) Epitome IV librorum Sententiarum; 2) theological excerpts; 3) a list of articles where Peter Lombard is not followed
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single scribe in Southern (Spanish) Gothica Textualis Formata/Libraria (Textus Praescissus) in two sizes. Art. 2 is in small Iberian Gothica Hybrida Currens and art. 3, in another hand, appears in Iberian Hybrida Libraria., Decoration: red headings and stroking of majuscules; 2-line, half inserted flourished initials; 4- or 5-line blue flourished initial with interior reserved shapes on a square background at the beginning of each book., and Binding: 17th century sheepskin over pasteboard. Three raised bands appear on the spine with gold-tooled green leather label and inscription.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, approximately 1200-1263. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Manuscript on parchment of William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. Text supplied on f. 10v in the second half of the 15th century. With excerpts from St. Bernard (?) on the Virgin Mary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in compact gothic script with numerous corrections and notes in contemporary and later hands, 13th-15th centuries., Decorative initials, divided red and blue, 3-line, with extensive penwork designs and cascades also in red and blue, for the beginning of each book of art. 5 and for art. 6. Simple initials, red or blue, 2-line, with penwork designs of the opposite color throughout the codex. Running titles (e.g., FLO. B. I) in red and blue; headings, chapter numbers, and underlining, in red., Outer column of f. 140 cut off; no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case with two ties and two black, gold-tooled labels: "Flores ex operibus B. Bernardi" and "M. S. XIII-XIV C." Wound, caught-up sewing, wound endbands, and vellum lining on the spine between sewing supports. On front and back flyleaves: Deed, in Latin, dated 26 March 1450, issued by Antonius Longobardus [several letters or words lost in binding] neapolis Reginalis ad contractus Iudex. The document was cut in half and trimmed to serve originally as pastedowns; considerable loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. and William of Tournai.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment of Folding Calendar, containing calendar, and 1) computistical and liturgical notes; 2) method for calculating Easter; 3) "dangerous days" of each month; 4) biblical prognostication; 5) History of Adam and Eve, and early biblical chronology
Description:
Script: Copied by two hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the final pages, ff. 26-27, are in a more rapid hand. and In French.
Manuscript, on vellum, containing the text of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, including Baruch, with prologues and commentary. The extensive gloss surrounds the centered Biblical text
Description:
In Latin., Layout: Biblical text centered, single column, variable length; surrounding gloss written in double columns of 65-75 lines., Script: gothic script. Letters in Biblical text larger than in glosses., Decoration: 18 small historiated initials and approximately 30 other illuminated initials; numerous blue and red penwork initials with red or lilac penwork decoration; rubricated., and Binding: modern blind-stamped red morocco gilt, by Riviere.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Gospel harmony, containing portions of the biblical books of Matthew and Luke with two sets of unidentified commentary surrounding it.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: each section from the Bible begins with a 2-line initial in red; the corresponding sections of the commentary begin with a 1-line red initial; other 1-line initials in both the text and the commentary are in black; the lemmata in the commentary are underlined with red; canon table numbers are written in black in the margins and are surrounded by red boxes; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. Text missing at beginning of 2 Kings (one folio following f. 85), and at end of 2 Kings and beginning of 3 Kings (one bifolium following f. 90). With a paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. Written for Abbey of Mont-Saint-Quentin in Northeastern France
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold, early gothic bookhand by one scribe. Writing above top line, with tall ascenders in upper margin. Various corrections in a different hand (13th century). Guide-letters for illuminator throughout. Scattered short marginal glosses (brown ink) in a similar but smaller hand (13th century). Transcriptions of rubrics in a 15th-century hand., Richly illuminated in early gothic style. The uncial presentation text is set inside a double frame of orange and blue strips, the latter decorated with orange dots; the entire page crowned by an elaborate architectural canopy above four trilobe arches supported at the side of the frame by columns, in blue. There are twenty-three historiated initials orange or blue, decorated with stylized foliage in white, occasionally with biting dragon and curling vine serifs, set in or above orange frames, on gold grounds., Six large foliate initials, in a style dependent on Channel-School models: tight pink and blue vine scrolls with dragon terminals, in some cases on a green trellis, set in light orange frames, edged in black, against gold grounds; on f. 2v an I running the full length of the page (Preface); f. 66r (Joshua); f. 77r (Prologue, 1 Kings); f. 127r (Story of Susannah), f. 134r (Esther) and f. 144r (2 Maccabees), blue capitals with white highlights, filled with vine scrolls and framed as above, against gold grounds. 6- and 3-line initials, red and blue, with blue or red penwork respectively; a few (e.g., f. 98v) in a more elaborate manner with penwork in both colors. On some pages a single column of text is further divided by a vertical guilloche pattern in orange ink. Rubrics in orange throughout., Some pages sewn; some bleeding of orange ink; upper right corner of f. 190 cut out. Text not damaged., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Gilt, gauffered edges. Brown goatskin blind-tooled, with elaborate bosses and fastenings, by Lortic.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. With a Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in small neat gothic textura by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-214v; Scribe 2) ff. 214v (bottom of first column) -279r. Writing is above top line., Numerous calligraphic initials in red or blue with simple penwork designs of the same colors; some letters have green added as well. Running titles in red., Portions of the text are faded and difficult to read., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red goat-skin, gold-tooled. Two paper flyleaves inserted at beginning contain extracts from the library catalogue of the duc de la Valliere and from the Nouveau dictionnaire historique.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles, Catenae, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Petrus de Tarentasia (Pope Innocent V), In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias. With Distinctiones on the scholastic and monastic life, entered in a later highly abbreviated script; and Anonymous commentary on the Psalms
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand; arts. 2 and 4 in less formal scripts., Two historiated initials, 7- and 4-line. Folio 1r: mauve initial with white filigree on blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing a man drawing water from a well, against gold ground, illustrating the Biblical passage "Haurietis aquas...." Serifs, ending in heart-shaped red leaves, on blue and red cusped grounds, with gold balls, extending along the inner margin to form a partial bar border. Perched on the top of the initial is a small bird, grey with red wings. Folio 1v: blue initial with white shading against dark red ground with white filigree. Ascender blue against dark red ground, extending along text column to form a partial bar border. The initial shows the good Samaritan riding on a donkey, against gold ground. Numerous flourished initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator visible beneath initials., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Germany or Italy (?). Resewn (early) on three tawed skin slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged; channels filled with glue. A pink, green and white, five core endband is sewn through a leather lining on a tawed skin core laced into the boards and pegged. Covered in brick red sheepskin with corner tongues; blind-tooled with an X and sparse use of oak-leaf edging tool. Two truncated diamond catches on lower board, the upper board cut in for the red fabric clasp straps which were attached with star-headed nails. Corner fittings and six-petalled central medallion. Traces of title, in ink, on spine. Spine of the bookblock partially eaten by rodents.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Innocent V, Pope, approximately 1224-1276. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
