Manuscript on parchment of Isidore of Seville, Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands, all writing Praegothica., Red headings, chapter numbers and running headlines. Red, blue, brown or green half inset 2-line (sometimes 1-line) plain initials. Yellow heightening of the opening majuscules in the chapter lists. 4-line decorated initial in green, blue and red on f. 1r., and Binding: early binding, the back repaired with a piece of leather fixed with nails: dark brown leather over wooden boards. On both covers numerous marks of clasps, bosses and corner pieces. On the rear cover remnants of a paper title label. On the back a parchment label with the handwritten s. XVII title "S. Isidor. Hisp. / In Sacr. Script."
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Latin recipes copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Italian recipes (Hand B) are in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation "Yhesus"., and Binding: paper binding, 20th century. On the front board a small parchment label with the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r and 12r).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 2 works that belong to the Pseudoclementine Literature, ascribed to Clement bishop of Rome (ca. 96), in a Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: resembles Piccard, v. 2, IV.36 (?)., Script: Copied by one hand in light red-brown ink in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Ample space was provided for headings and initials at the beginning of the Prologue and the ten Books of art. 1 and at the beginning of art. 2, but these were never executed., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Deerskin (formerly red) over pasteboard. Spine with three raised bands and worn handwritten title " ******* Epistola. M.S."; at the bottom of the spine handwritten worn pressmark. Remnants of four leather ties, including one in the middle of the upper and one in the middle of the lower edge of the covers. On the lower edge of the book the handwritten title in ink (17th century): "Epist. D. Clementis".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Clemens I.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment rolls of records of real estate transactions between individuals and institutions in Pistoia, Italy
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by various hands in Pregothic documentary script., and The charters include: Pope Alexander III(1159-1181) to the archdeacon, provost and canons of Siena, granting permission to the parishioners of Pugna to enter the church of Alfiano on holidays; concession by way of livellum of a piece of land by Maximilla, abbess of the abbey of San Mercuriale in Pistoia, to the brothers Paganellus and Iucta quondam Baldini Guidori; as well of sales of land and rental agreements.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Pistoia (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Business records, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Real property
Manuscript on paper of Gaspare da Verona, Regulae de constructione
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks, buried in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6647-49, Briquet Croix grecque 5576 and Piccard Kreuz II.607, Piccard Einhorn III.1648., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Guide letters for initials in margin., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays adhered inside each quire. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. A natural color endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on a tawed skin core which is laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. Tied down through brown leather. Quarter bound in mottled brown tawed skin cut out around the head and tail supports. Two fastenings, the leaf-shaped catches (wanting) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps. The letter R written in ink on head edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare, da Verona, ca. 1400-1474.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Guarino of Verona, 1) Regulae grammaticales. 2) De orthographia. 3) Carmina differentialia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations in humanistic cursive., One illuminated initial of poor quality, f. 1r, 11-line, purple with white filigree on gold and blue ground; filled with a stylized flower red and green with white filigree, upper terminal extending into pen-and-ink inkspray with gold balls and a mauve flower in upper border; pen-and-ink flourish with gold balls, ending in a bird's head, mauve, green and blue. Plain initials and paragraph marks alternate in blue and red; headings in red. Arms of the Valaresso family of Venice in lower border (azure, 3 bars gemelles or); partially effaced arms of Cardinal Bessarion in outer margin (azure, a cross botonny gules, a chief or; crest, cardinal's hat and crozier)., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Rigid vellum case. Remains of a brick red label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Language and languages, Orthography and spelling, Latin language, Medieval and modern, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on goatskin parchment of the Regulae grammaticales by Conradinus de Pontremulo (Corradino de' Belmesseri).
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Cancelleresca). The author, Conradinus de Pontremulo, has been identified with the notary Corradino de' Belmesseri, active between the 14th and 15th centuries in Pontremoli (northern Tuscany, province of Massa and Carrara). and In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Conradinus de Pontremulo.
Subject (Topic):
Italian language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
