Manuscript on paper of Apocryphal Gospel Books and Miracles of the Virgin, including 1) Evangelium infantiae; 2) Liber passionis et resurrectionis Iesu Christi; 3) miracle legends about the Virgin
Description:
In Italian., Script: Copied by two scribes. Hand 1, the notary Franciscus Salvator (Francesco Salvatore) from Ventimiglia, copied artt. 1-4 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Mercantesca). Hand 2 copied artt. 5-6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca)., Decoration: Long red headings up to f. 29r (artt. 1-2). In artt. 3-4, space for headings was provided, but they were not executed. Space was reserved for 2-line initials, but these were not executed. Artt. 4 and 5 are undecorated; there are no guide letters for the 1-line initials at the opening of each of these articles, for which space was reserved., and Binding: 20th century, brown leather and wooden boards. Spine has three raised bands.
Manuscript on paper of Apollinaris Offredus Cremonensis (ca. 1450), Expositio in primum librum Analyticorum Posteriorum Aristotelis, Quaestiones super primum librum Posteriorum Analyticorum Aristotelis, Tractatus suppositionum, and Commentum super tractatu de instanti Petri Mantuani
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands: A) copied ff. 1r-84r in Gothico-Humanistica; B) copied ff. 84v-92r (artt. 3-4) in Humanistica Cursiva, in pale brown ink. Large display script in Gothico-Humanistica (hand A) or in Capitalis (hand B)., Decoration: Stroking of majuscules and paragraph marks in red. 2- or 3-line red plain initials. Guide-letters for the rubricator in the part copied by hand A. Painted initials at the opening of artt. 1 and 2. On f. 1r, a 17-line historiated initial in red on a square blue background; in the letter, a scholar is shown studying a book on a desk. At the bottom a large coat of arms, apparently deleted, except for the letters P and A. On f. 21r, a half-inserted initial P in red, heightened with groups of white or blue dots, ending at the top in a green acanthus leaf and filled with flowery decoration which looks modern., and Binding: 17th century(?) parchment over cardboard, spine with four raised bands strengthened with parchment, and handwritten inscription.
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice (1476-1478), Commission (dogale) to Girolamo Michiel as governor of Asolo, near Treviso
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 is copied by one hand in a narrow Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, art. 2 by a hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens., On f. 1r white vinestem initial (6 lines) with long extensions in the upper and left margins; in the lower margin partial border in white vinestem, containing three medallions: the two outer ones feature the initials “I” and “M” in gold on a blue background; the larger, central one contains the coat of arms of Girolamo Michiel on a purplish red background in a green wreath., and Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Asolo (Italy), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Vendramin, Andrea, 1392-1478.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment of Ivanus Veronensis, Eloquium
Description:
In Italian., The manuscript also contains a collection of quotations, added at a much later date, tending to demonstrate that one should not immoderately grieve over the dead., Script: main text copied by a single scribe, who writes a careful Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca), only towards the end becoming somewhat more rapid., and Binding: early binding of leather over wooden boards; sewing on three white leather straps fixed with nails on the outer side of both covers. One clasp.
Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of coats of arms of the Doges of Venice, on the verso pages, with biographical notes on the facing recto, two items per page; introduced by a short history of the founding of Venice, the beginning of which is missing
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: The main scribe writes a careful Humanistica Cursiva. The additions on ff. 46r and 47r are written in a rapid Humanistica Cursiva., Decoration: The biographical notes open with a large black initial in Capitalis. The coats of arms are largely drawn in brown ink and have red or yellow borders with colouring mainly in red, blue, and yellow., and Binding: 19th century parchment over cardboard, with a flat spine, and a gold-tooled title in Capitalis on the front cover.
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.
Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names
Description:
In Latin., Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back.
Manuscript on paper containing ascetic and devotional treatises, the Life of St. John Calybita, and Italian poetry in praise of the Virgin
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: copied by two similar hands: A, writing a rapid Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria, copied ff. 2r-56v and 69r-104v; B, writing a more formal version of the same script, under slight Humanistic influence, copied ff. 57r-68v. The Latin of both scribes is very defective., Red headings and paragraph marks. 2-line red and blue plain initials, with guide letters., The manuscript contains: 1) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, Manuale (preface and chapters 1-24). 2) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum, large final part of chapter 2. 3) Arnulphus de Boeriis (ca. 1200 (?), Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), Speculum monachorum. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo de vita et passione Domini. 5) Vita S. Iohannis Calybitae or Vita S. Iohannis monachi. 6) Flores ex operibus S. Bernardi de dignitate et excellentia beatae virginis Mariae. 7) Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), Epistola 111, written in the name of the monk Elias to the latter's parents. 8) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Contemplationes de passione Domini secundum septem horas canonicas. 9) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Formula honestae vitae. 10) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae. 11) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Varia et brevia documenta pie seu religiose vivendi. 12) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Regula novitiorum, 3. 13) Bonaventura, Regula novitiorum, 4.1-3. 14) Matthaeus de Cracovia (c. 1335-1410; Ps.-Thomas de Aquino, Ps.-Bonaventura; here ascribed to Iohannes de Capistrano OFM, 1386-1456), De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientiae (Speculum munditiae). 15) F. Carboni, Incipitario della lirica italiana dei secoli XIII e XIV, v. 1, Studi e Testi, v. 277 (Vatican City, 1977), 863. 16) Carboni 212. 17) Carboni 96. 18) Religious poems in Venetian dialect. 19) Lamentatio Virginis Mariae ad Crucem, attributed to Philippus de Grevia (Philippus Cancellarius, Philippe de Grève, d. 1236). 20) Zeno Veronensis (d. before 380), Tractatus, 1.1.7.20-21. 21) Moral sentences and quotations by or ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 22) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo 12., and Binding: the two covers and the spine are covered with a fragment from a large Italian choirbook in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata; parts of two 4-line red staves with notation in Nota Quadrata and two lines of text are preserved.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to., Asceticism, Christian hagiography, Christian poetry, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of six ascetical treatises, including Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), two seroms against the love of money; Ambrosius Autpertus O.S.B. (d. 784), Libellus de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, 1-263; Paulinus Aquileiensis (Pseudo-Augustine, d. 802), Liber exhortationis; Prayers and hymns to Christ and to the Virgin; and Galvano de Padua (15th century), Memoriale di confessione gentile
Description:
Script: probably copied by various hands in Gothico-Humanistica Currens., Decoration: Red headings. Red stroking of majuscules on ff. 57r-72v and 74r. Space has been reserved for 2- or 3-line initials which have not been executed. Guide-letters in red ink have been provided up to f. 72v., Binding: early limp parchment. Both covers blind-tooled., and In Latin and Italian.
