Manuscript on paper of commentaries on the Sunday Epistles and other theological and moral texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., The manuscript contains: 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities., and Binding: 19th century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Christianity, Science, Medieval, Theology, and History
Manuscript on parchment (irregularly trimmed pieces) of Jean Gerson, De potestate ecclesiastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script, below top line., Crude initial, red with an asymmetrical configuration of red and black penwork designs. Floral line-filler at conclusion of prologue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, mark text divisions. Heading, f. 1r, in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Contemporary sketches of intertwining snakes on ff. i recto and ii verso., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Sewn on three tawed skin support, two pink, the central one green, laced into a thick parchment wrapper. Contemporary title written in ink on back cover: "Tractatus de potestate eclesiastica***". Rodent damage at tail.
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
