Manuscript on paper of Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre G 8199, Briquet Lettre B 7980, Briquet Fleur 6393, Briquet Joug 7872, 7876., Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., Plain initials, paragraph marks, initial strokes, punctuation, in red. Guide letters for rubricator., Ink has corroded some leaves; many leaves repaired in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in vellum with paper spattered with black on the sides. Gold-tooled spine with black label: "Trattato de' Grecismi in Versi Latini," and "1471" stamped along lower edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Evrard, de Béthune.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic poetry, Latin, Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of an anonymous Latin grammar, with some Italian translations
Description:
In Latin, with some Italian., Written by a single scribe in careful humanistic cursive, above top line., Folio 1r illuminated by Francesco d'Antonio del Chierico. Full border, partially rubbed, of white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar against blue, green and pink ground. In outer border, a medallion, framed in gold, with profile of a young man against blue ground. In lower border a wreathed medallion, framed by two circles of gold with partially erased arms. Medallion supported by six green and red winged putti. The entire border inhabited by a large number of putti playing among the vine stem, various birds and three does. Illuminated initial, 3-line, joined to the border, gold against blue, green and pink ground with white vine-stem ornament inhabited by a seated putto. One small illuminated initial, f. 1v, 2-line, gold against blue and pink ground with white filigree (partly rubbed). Plain initials alternate in red and blue. Guide letters for initials., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Semi-limp vellum case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Servius Honoratus (390-400), De finalibus. 2) Life of Boethius (c. 485-524). 3) Aelius Donatus (350), Ars grammatica, 1.5.
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands, both writing a rapid Humanistica Cursiva. Hand A copied art. 1, Hand B artt. 2-3., Leaves are in succession and constitute the central part of a quire, f. 1 being now a singleton and ff. 2-5 a binio., and Lower section of the leaves is damaged by mold, badly impairing the legibility, and parts of the leaves are lost.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Servius, active 4th century.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, and Christian hagiography
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Anonymous grammatical treatise in prose (Grammatica Latina secundum Donatum). 2) Disticha Catonis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The opening majuscule of each verse set off in a separate column., 1-line red versals and 2-line red plain initials. Two large initials: f. 1r, at the beginning of the text of art. 1, historiated 10- line initial in pink on a blue background, containing a half-length profile of a poet or teacher in outline with a yellow dress; f. 10r, at the beginning of art. 2, decorated 9-line initial in pinkon a blue background, filled with red, yellow and green leaves., Due to intensive use the pages are badly rubbed and the legibility is impaired; whole passages have been rewritten by a later hand. The corners of the leaves are worn off. Holes and sewings., and Binding: Original half brown leather binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; sewn on two split leather thongs; the spine damaged. Remnants of one strap attached to the front cover, with iron pin on the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, containing part of a didactic poem about Latin grammar
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothic. Marginal annotations in a contemporary cursive gothic hand., Decoration: Initial letters in red and blue ink., and Ownership? inscription in gutter of bifolium: "Al molto nobilo Messer Antonio R----."
Manuscript on paper, composed of two closely related parts. Part I: Guarino da Verona, Ipotesia ad Hieronymum (filium) suum, written in 1443. Part II: 3) Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with the prefatory letter to Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici (1395-1440). 4) Anonymous text, 12 lines, listing the moral qualities of a good wife. 5) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris. 6) Lucian, Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Lat. tr. Giovanni Aurispa. 7) Buonaccorso da Montemagno, Controversia de nobilitate. 8) Unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena in 1465. 9) Francesco Pontano, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena. 10) Bartholomaeus Senensis, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty at the university of Siena. Part II was written by the jurist and diplomat Rainerius de Maschis of Rimini
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified two-wheeled wagon. Part II: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387., Script: Part I (ff. 1-3): Written in a small neat humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line. Part II (ff. 4-67): Written in a slanting humanistic bookhand with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated initial, f. 4r, 4-line, gold on blue, green, and red ground with yellow and white filigree. In lower border wreathed medallion with ribbons on either side, bearing the arms of Rainerius de Maschis of Rimini; the initials R and A, in gold, on either side of shield. Headings, paragraph marks, punctuation and marginalia, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and nailed. Natural color endbands, beaded on the spine, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards and nailed. There is tawed skin under the endband tie downs. Covered in green (?) tawed skin with a strip of red leather, 19th-20th centuries, added on the spine. Two truncated diamond catches with the IHS monogram within a sunburst (as used by St. Bernardinus of Siena) on the lower board. The upper board is cut in for clasp straps which are a later addition. Both clasps and catches have the word AVE. The title De re uxoria written in ink on both head and tail edges. The boards are badly worm eaten.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript on paper and parchment of (1) Guido delle Colonne (13th cent.), Historia destructionis Troiae: Italian version by Filippo Ceffi (14th cent.); and (2) Boccaccio, Filostrato; with (3) notes on deceased military figures, poems, and pen and ink drawing
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by the Florentine scribe, Tedice di Ghuigliadore, while a prisoner in Naples in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca)., Decoration: Artt. 1, 2, 6 and 7 are undecorated. In art. 4, there are red headings and paragraph marks; and 4-line red initials at the opening of each book. In art. 5, there are red headings and 2-line red initials. On f. 1r, a 3-line red flourished initial with penwork and a border in a wavy serrated pattern, suggesting a plant issuing from a vase. On f. IVr (art. 3), a full-page pen-and-ink drawing of a battle between the Greek and Trojan armies, with Achilles ("Achille"), Hector ("Ettore"), and Troilus ("Troiolo") in the foreground, and ships at the port and city of Tenedos ("Tenedon") in the background., and Binding: Quarter, reddish brown leather and wooden boards, sewn on four split thongs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. and Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century.
Manuscript on paper of Life of the patriarch Joseph son of Jacob, attributed to Ephraem Syrus (ca. 300-373). The text differs significantly from the known Sermo sancti Efrem in Ioseph. Manuscript also includes Conversion of St. Paul, Passion of St. Paul the Apostle, and Praise of St. Paul
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens., Decoration: Orange-red headings in Humanistica Textualis; 3- to 4-line plain initials in the same colour on ff. 2r, 24r and 26r., Binding: Original limp parchment binding, sewn on two leather thongs. Inscriptions on the spine and the front cover, both in ink., and In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373., Joseph, Saint., and Paul, the Apostle, Saint.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Table for Oppian, Halieutica. 2) Anonymous Life of Oppian. 3) Oppian of Anazarbos, Halieutica. The order of the text is distorted: I.1-66; 380-543; 67-379; I.544-III.189; IV.562-619; III.198-IV.561; IV.620-end. 4) Oppianus of Apamea, Cynegetica. 5) Colluthus, Raptus Helenae. 6) Tryphiodorus, Troiae Halosis. 7) Dionysius Periegetes, Description of the habitable world (De situ orbis).
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3397 for leaves with text, and to Harlfinger Cloche 31 for blank pages., Script: Text was written by a single scribe. A later hand, bold and ill-formed, supplied the table of contents (ff. iii verso-iv verso), minor marginal notations and the foliation in the upper right corner (for ff. 1-60)., Tinted drawing of Oppian writing his poem while contemplating fish in a nearby stream occurs on f. 1v (perhaps an amateur copy of an author portrait); one simple 6-line initial in red and black penwork, f. 2r; headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Title in ink on fore edge. Tan calf case with deep geometric indentations, blind-tooled, with a dark blue, gold-tooled calf label. Similar to the bindings of MSS 256 and 258. Possibly bound by Whitaker (we thank A. R. A. Hobson for this information).
Subject (Geographic):
Greece., Connecticut, New Haven., and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Oppian, active 2nd century.
Subject (Topic):
Geography, Greek poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval
