Manuscript on parchment and paper of treatises on vice and virtue
Description:
In Latin., The manuscript includes: 1) Bindus de Senis (d. 1390), Aureum Bibliae repertorium sive Aurea Biblia. 2) Alphabetical table of the themes treated in art. 1, referring to the chapter numbers. The latter are not always correct, as appears from the final chapters. Ascribed to Petrus de Utino (d. 1368) by Stegmüller 6939. 3) Concordantia Prophetarum cum Symbolo Apostolico: the Apostles' Creed as supposed to be jointly composed by the twelve Apostles, each article being preceded by an appropriate utterance by one of the twelve prophets. 4) Table of the chapters of an alphabetically arranged treatise on the virtues and vices, referring to the foliation of the manuscript in which it occurred. 5) Treatise on virtues and vices in alphabetical order. 6) Biblical quotations upon the twelve defences protecting the spiritual city. 7) Index of the chapters of art. 5, referring to the original foliation of this part of the manuscript. 8) Commentary on the text of the Memento of the Deceased and of the Living in Mass., Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-20v (quires I-III) in Gothica Textualis Libraria; Hand B (Durandus Caponis) copied ff. 21r-121v in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens; Hand C copied f. 122r-v (art. 3) in large angular Gothica Cursiva Formata close to Fractura; Hand D (Raymundus de Beyrinis) copied ff. 122v-123r (art. 4) in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria; Hand E copied ff. 125r-133r (first section of art. 5) in a wide Gothica Semihybrida Libraria; Hand F copied ff. 133v-145r (last section of art. 5 and artt. 6-7) in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 146r-147r (art. 8) in the same type of script, but Libraria/Currens. Running headlines in rapid script., and Binding: leather binding s. XV/XVI over wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls, the central panel decorated with small rosettes (half of the front cover is missing). Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Vice, and Virtue
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. With Dedication to Giovanni Colonna of the commentary of Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri; Commentary on Valerius Maximus by Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri; Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus
Description:
In Latin., Large historiated initial, f. 5r, 17-line, mauve with white filigree and stylized foliage in red and green against gold ground, thickly edged in black. Initial filled with a half-length portrait in profile of a man in black robes and a black cap, probably Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri. Foliage serifs, blue, red, mauve, and green with gold balls thickly edged in black extending into the upper and inner margins to form a partial border, which extends as stylized foliage scrolls, blue and purple into the lower margin. Gold balls partially or completely flaked. Numerous illuminated initials, 9- to 4-line, mauve with white highlights, filled with stylized foliage, green, red and blue on blue grounds with white filigree. Initials for the text against gold grounds, thickly edged in black; initials for commentary against blue ground with white filigree. Some initials with foliage serifs, pink, red and/or blue and gold balls thickly edged in black extending into margins. Pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate blue and red with red and purple penwork. Headings in red. Plain initials touched with yellow., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Own parchment endleaves, one cut out in back. Original sewing on five tawed skin slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and fastened. Yellow edges. The natural color, plain wound endbands are sewn through the spine lining on tawed skin cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with vellum extending inside the boards between supports. Covered in red-brown goatskin blind-tooled with an X in an outer frame and crosses made of decorated circles in the divisions. Four fastenings, truncated diamonds at head and tail and shields at the fore edge, on the lower board. The clasp straps are attached with star-headed nails. Traces of five small round bosses on each board. Traces of incised inscription near the head of the lower board. Spine leather missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included
Description:
In Latin., Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., and Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Germany, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Processionals (Liturgical books), Holy Week music, and Manuscripts, Medieval
