Manuscript on paper (sturdy but of uneven weight; no watermarks, wavering chain-lines ca. 53 mm. apart) of a collection of excerpts from Biblical commentaries and sermons by patristic writers. Mainly drawn from Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio super Matthaeum; and Bede, Expositio super Lucam. Also includes texts by Leo, Gregory, Gualterus Anglicus, Augustine, Anselm, Ambrose, and Boethius. Sermons written for feast days and about the Passion of Christ
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written mostly by one scribe, perhaps over a period of time, in a small gothic book hand with many abbreviations. Additions by slightly later hands in more or less formal script, e.g. ff. 1v, 3r-5v, 87v-105v., Initials (3-line), paragraph marks, underlining and strokes on 1-line capitals in red., and Binding: Date? Square, flush boards. Trimmed out turn-ins suggest a late date. Covered in vellum with contents and a compass-drawn circle on lower cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Remigius, of Auxerre, approximately 841-908.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Catenae, Church year sermons, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., Rubrics on ff. 2r-6v by same scribe who copied text; another hand added rubrics on f. 1r-v. Spaces for initials left unfilled; guide letters for decorator., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Greyish green paper case with a black gold-tooled label: "Aesopus. Sec. XIV".
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 Fatti di Cesare, Italian adaptation of the French prose romance Li fait des Romains
Description:
In Italian., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The first word of a Book, after the (planned) initial, is written in Gothic majuscules., There are guide letters and space has been reserved for 2-line initials (3-line at the beginning of a Book), but only a few of these have been executed (plain initials with the simplest penwork decoration, by a later hand); the large fancy black initial at the beginning of the Prologue is equally a later addition made by an unexperienced hand. There are neither headings nor other decoration., and Binding: the binding is lost. The quires are sewn on four double white leather thongs.
Manuscript on paper, written in two stages. Part II was copied in the mid-14th century (before 1369) in Tuscany, possibly in Pisa. Part I was copied by Niccolo di Giovanni Cinuzi da Siena in Ferrara, Italy, by 1 Sept. 1415. Part I: Boccaccio, Filostrato. Part II: Articles 2-35 and 38-39 consist of a collection of Italian canzoni by various authors as well as anonymous poems. Artt. 36 and 37 are fragments of Petrarch, Rerum vulgarum
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Monts 11678. Part II: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3737., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-78v): Written by a single scribe in a bold upright notarial script. Part II (ff. 91r-110v): Written in a clear notarial script by a single scribe; later writers have added the initials, offset in margins, for the major sections of text (sometimes inaccurately) and the notes on ff. 109v-110v., Crude drawings include a falconer with birds, f. 103v, and a ghost (?), f. 103r., The pattern of stains suggests the two parts were originally bound separately. Stained throughout; some ink blotches affect text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled. Red-brown, gold-tooled label. Parchment reinforcements between quires.
Manuscript on parchment of Formularium novum, copied after an unbound exemplar in the hands of master Ulrich, librarius at the papal court in Rome. Preserved from the end of chapter 531 up to the end of the text, i.e. chapter 586. Many documents have connections with Bologna. Also contains an undated and unsigned letter addressed to a Pope, answering a letter by the General of the Franciscan order and referring to an invasion of property belonging to the writer's family by a certain Tiburtius, made into a formula
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 2 is in another hand, writing a small script of the same type., Headings in red; instructions for them are written in small Cursiva in the margins, together with the chapter numbers. 2-line flourished initials, alternately red with purple and blue with red penwork. Art. 2 is undecorated., The reading is doubtful at many places. The corners and outer edges of the final leaves damaged., and Unbound.
Manuscript, on parchment, of an illuminated and decorated gradual made for use in the choir of the Olivetan monks of the monastery of Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in liturgical bookhand. Music in square musical notation on five four-line red staves., Decoration: five miniatures; eleven large ornamental initials on gold grounds; many decorated initials with penwork., Miniatures have been attributed to the Olivetan Master and the Master of the Lodi Choir Books., and Binding: full deerskin over wooden boards; extensive metalwork on binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Master of the Lodi Choir Books, active 15th century., Olivetan Master, active 1429-1439., Catholic Church, and Olivetans.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
