Manuscript on paper of Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre S 9050; watermark on back pastedown similar to Briquet Fleur 6596-97, 99 and 6602., Script: Written in a round humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., One illuminated initial on f. 1r, 6-line, gold against deep red, green, and blue cusped ground with white filigree and white dots. From left corners penwork sprays issuing forth into inner margin, with blue and red blossoms and green leaves. Plain initials, placed between vertical rulings, alternate blue and red, some omitted., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires cut in V's. Brown goatskin case faintly blind-tooled with concentric frames and spiralling dragon motifs that incorporate flowers and long beaked birds. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Subject (Topic):
Fabliaux, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in less formal scripts., 8 large initials, 10- to 7-line, of poor quality, pink against gold ground thickly edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, green, orange, and yellow on blue ground. Foliage serifs, pink, blue, orange and yellow with white filigree extending into margins to form partial borders. Gold balls, thickly edged in black. Numerous small initials, 5- to 3-line, pink against gold ground edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, orange and yellow on blue ground. Numerous flourished initials, 2- to 1-line, alternate in red and blue with brown or red penwork. Headings in red by at least two rubricators. Paragraph marks in blue for chapters in tables preceding each book; in red and blue for text., Folio 1r damaged with some loss of text. Most of the decoration is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown leather case, blind- and gold-tooled. Title (citing portion of table of contents for Book II, f. 1r) on spine: "De institutis/ antiquis/ de disciplina/ militari/ de iure" and "Triumphandi".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dedication to Ferdinand of Aragon and to his son Alphonse, Duke of Calabria. 2) Dialogue between Lazarelli and his Muse. 3) Books 1-3 on methods of counting time, moveable feasts, the ages of the world, the Jewish patriarchs, popes (the latest, Paul II, 1464-71), etc. 4) Calendar of moveable feasts in 1476 and November-June of 1477. 5) Books 4-16, March through February, and final book entitled Iudicium. 6) Calendar, March through February, with two series per month, the first with Christian feasts, the second with agricultural, zodiacal and historical (Roman and Jewish) information. 7) Thirteen poems by others in honor of Lazarelli. Eleven poets are represented; most of those identified are associated with the Accademia Pomponiana in Rome in the 1480's.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in well formed humanistic script below the top line., Eighteen miniatures, the final six sketched in but unfinished, by an accomplished artist whose identity remains uncertain. The miniatures are usually framed in a pink or mauve egg-and-dart molding and a thin gold band. Dedicatory inscription in gold Roman letters on a marble-patterned panel appears on f. 7r. One historiated initial, below inscription, 10-line, of the author at work: gold, edged in black, against a purple and pink quartered ground with pink and purple filigree; all framed in green. In lower margin, supported by putti, is the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Naples., Four initials all'antica, ff. 1r, 70r, 102r, 222v, 14- to 7-line, gold, black, purple, pink, orange and green with flowers and acanthus. Ten white-vine initials, ff. 45r, 58r, 88v, 115r, 137v, 155v, 170v, 182r, 200r and 213v, 10- to 8-line, colors as above. Numerous 4- to 2-line initials, gold, darkly edged in black, on orange-, pink-, and blue-flecked grounds, with guide-letters; some with faces drawn in interior. 2- and 1-line initials, gold, red, and blue with acanthus serifs. 1-line paragraph marks red or blue. Running titles in yellow, red, and blue. Rubrics in margins in red, blue, and purple. KL monograms, 3-line, yellow, red, and blue., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Worn red velvet case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lazarelli, Ludovico.
Subject (Topic):
Calendars, Chronology, Church calendar, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fasts and feasts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Artelouche de Alagona, Fauconnerie, printed several times between 1567 and 1628
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by scribe Vincent Philippon from Avignon (except f. 1) in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda). Calligraphic extensions of the letters in the upper and lower margin (on f. 48r ending in a monstrous animal's head)., Decoration: Paragraph marks in liquid gold on an alternately red and blue square background. 2- or 3-line, exceptionally 4-line plain initials in liquid gold (Capitalis) on an alternately red and blue square background. Space for a full-page miniature above two lines of text was provided on the facsimile page f. 1r.; a full-page picture, showing a falcon, on f. 45r. includes also a few small marginal images., and Binding: 20th century French red-brown morocco with gilt edges inside; spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Artelouche de Alagona.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Calendar for the Benedictine Order. 2) Ferial Psalter, comprising Invitatories, Antiphons (with musical notation), Psalms, Hymns (with musical notation), Versicles, Responses and Canticles. 3) Hymnal, with notation. 4) Various antiphons
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda), using Uncial and Half-Uncial d. The additions and substitutions at the end of the codex are in a coarse form of the same type of handwriting. Musical notation in black Nota Quadrata., Rich decoration. Initials: (1) 1-line versals (flourished) alternately red and blue; (2) 2-line flourished initials in the same colours infilled with leaves and followed by a flourished majuscule in black, at the beginning of each text; if on the top line, they are surmounted by gable-like penwork. The KL-ligatures in the Calendar (4 lines) have the same decoration; (3) 4-5-line (6-line for I) foliate initials with foliate marginal extensions and generally 3 gold balls in the margin, followed by a 1- or 2-line flourished majuscule in black, at the beginning of the principal texts; (4) historiated initials, with floral extensions or gold balls in the margin, at the beginning of the major subdivisions of the text., The worn and defective edges (especially the lower edges) of many leaves were repaired by means of pieces of used parchment pasted on the damaged places., and Binding: 17th century. Reddish brown leather over wooden boards with square edges. The covers blind-tooled with fillets; spine with four flat bands. Marks of metal corner pieces and central bosses. Paper pastedowns. Numerous brown leather tabs at the outer edge of the leaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Manuscript on parchment of Matthew of Westminster, Flores historiarum. Written presumably at the Cluniac priory of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, Surrey
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold gothic textura; x is crossed., Rubrics, often accompanied by notes to rubricator in well formed current Anglicana script. Decorative initials not filled in. Numerous pen trials and crude drawings in margins (e.g., ff. 28r, 46v, 47r, 63r)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf with a gold-tooled title. Parchment flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) from a Missal (England, 15th century) much rubbed and worn, and with offset impression from original binding of corner tongues and four attachments. Gothic textura. Fine blue initials with intricate herringbone penwork designs in red. Headings in red; paragraph marks in blue.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Aegidius Beneventanus, Collection of extracts on moral subjects (Part I), historical, genealogical and geographical subjects (Parts II and III) drawn from classical, Biblical and medieval texts. With Extracts from Isidore, Etymologiae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in an uneven gothic bookhand., Two attractive illuminated initials, 4-line, with partial borders. Folio 1r, initial constructed of a winged dragon, pale yellow with white highlights and red contouring strokes against a blue ground. Tail of dragon extends down the inner margin to form a partial bar border, blue, red, pale yellow with beads in red, blue, and yellow and small stylized leaves, blue and pale yellow swirling around bar. Border ends in lower margin in stylized scroll inhabited by a bird, outlined in red and brown ink, and a fowler, pointing a bow and arrow. Folio 30r, initial, red and pale yellow against blue ground with white filigree, filled with a grotesque and a dragon. Descender of initial extends into margin to form a partial bar border, same as above; border terminates in lower margin in a stylized scroll, ending in a dragon's head. Several flourished initials of good quality, 3-line, blue or red with penwork in the opposite color, extending the entire length of the text column (e.g., f. 45v). Other pen and ink initials, red with crude penwork in brown ink. Plain initials and headings in red. Paragraph marks primarily in red. Instructions to rubricator throughout; remains of guide letters. Spaces left unfilled for some initials., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, France (?). Quarter bound in blind-tooled brown calf over oak boards by the same binder as Marston MSS 214, 216 and 236.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aegidius Beneventanus. and Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of documents relating to the foundation of a Hospital for the Blind, by the Church of Saint Lorena in Burgos, 15 March 1479. Mostly dealing with the donation or sale of houses for the Hospital
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Written by a single scribe in a highly abbreviated Spanish Gothic cursive script with many later notes and additions., and Decoration: A miniature on f. 2r depicts the hospital, its patron Saint Lorena, and a blind man, with the legend "hospital de los ciegos". Illuminated initials with marginal extensions ff. 2v and 7v. Illuminated arms on f. 8r within roundel with the letters "c b".
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Blind, Hospitals, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of the four Gospels. Contains (1) Eusebius' Letter to Carpianus, ff. 2v-3r; (2) Canon Tables I-X, ff. 3v-11r; (3) Gospel of Matthew, including index, concordance, and portrait, ff. 12r-96v; (4) Gospel of Mark, including index, preface, and portrait, ff. 97r-149v; (5) Gospel of Luke, including index, preface, and portrait, ff. 150r-233v; (6) Gospel of John, including index, preface, and portrait of John and Prochoros, ff. 234v-297v; (7) reading on the woman taken in adultery, ff. 297v-298r; (8) principal colophon, ff. 298v-299v
Alternative Title:
Bible. Armenian Gospels
Description:
In Armenian., Layout: two columns of 19 lines. Section numbers in margins against text, and concordance numbers in lower margins., Script: bolorgir., Decoration: miniatures and illuminations by Tʻoros Taronacʻi, some signed. Full-page portraits of the Evangelists. Ornate frames, headpieces, marginal decorations. Zoomorphic letters, ornate initials., Binding: leather over boards. Front cover has metal cross and other ornaments; rear cover is stamped. Patterned linen doublures on inside covers., Colophon (fols. 298v-299v) indicates the manuscript was written for Ovanē Ōrpēli (also Awrpēli), a member of the Ōrbelean family which held extensive domains in the same province. Codex was executed at the monastery of Noravank' by the scribe Momik, who was assisted by the vardapet Pawłos. These two scribes completed the greater part of the writing by AE 756 (=AD 1307), when Momik had serious trouble with his eyes. Manuscript was completed by another scribe, Yohanēs or Yovhannēs. Momik recovered his sight in AE 780 (=AD 1331) and wrote the colophon in which he gives interesting information concerning the copy of the manuscript and the feudal lords of Siwnikʻ. The book then passed into the possession of Archbishop Step'anos-Tarsayič, also a member of the Ōrbelean family. In AD 1331 Archbishop Step'anos-Tarsayič had the manuscript "adorned with gold and silver" by order of prince Biwrt'ēl, the head of the Ōrbelean family. Since replaced by current leather binding., and In AE 855 (=AD 1406) the manuscript belonged to a priest named Sēt' (fol. 235r). Later inscriptions indicate that the manuscript was acquired by the craftsman Awēt and his brothers and sons, who in turn offered it to the church of Surb Yakob (St. James) in the town of Cʻałman (fol. 235v); a second indicates the manuscript subsequently belonged to an individual named And[r]ēas and his sons (fol. 236r).
Subject (Geographic):
Armenia., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
