Manuscript on paper of Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, 347-420), 1) Epistula 79 (Ad Salvinam). 2) Epistula 123 (Ad Geruchiam).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis Libraria., Art. 1 opens with a 4-line Gothic flourished initial in blue with red penwork extending in the inner margin; art. 2 opens with a 4-line Gothic plain initial in red., and Binding: Twentieth century (?). Half binding was removed and the codex restored and rebound in 2000 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The new binding is grey cloth over heavy pasteboard. On the spine a new black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription "SANCTI JERONIMI EPISTOLAE MS 788". Among the flyleaves, the two following f. 50 are earlier than the others, which are yellowish machine-made paper belonging to the discarded binding. A modern hand wrote on the last front flyleaf r the title "Sancti Ieronimi epistolae ad Salvinam et Ageruchiam".
Manuscript on paper of 1) Hieronymus (347-420), Epistola 14 (Ad Heliodorum). 2) Hieronymus, Epistola 52 (ad Nepotianum). 3) Johannes Lange (1503-1567), Sibyllae Erythreae Vaticinium, translated from the Greek into Latin by Iohannes Langus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands in Humanistica Cursiva, with large interlinear spaces., Undecorated, except for a Gothic flourished initial in brown ink on f. 1r and a capital at the opening of art. 2, both probably later additions. In art. 3 the initial at the beginning of the text is not executed. The heading of art. 2 is partly in Capitalis., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard (very worn), decorated with a fleuron in the center of the covers, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Monasticism and religious orders, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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 fragment on parchment, from an unidentified chronicle of Venetian history
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: not present. Spaces for capitals and rubrics left blank., and Bifolia later used as archival wrappers.
Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33).
Description:
In Greek., Script: The text was written by two scribes in similar styles of minuscule. Scribe 1 (pp. 1-238) is the same scribe (Constantine Raphael Byzantinus) as that designated as Scribe 1 in Beinecke MSS 294, 295 and 300, etc.; Scribe 2 copied pp. 239-586. A third person supplied the Table of Contents at the beginning of the codex (pp. i-xv)., No ornamentation or rubrication., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Near Eastern. Brown goatskin with a deeply impressed medallion containing a crown, sword, sceptre, eagle, bull and I. K., N. B., originally gilt. Title gold-tooled. Spattered edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.
Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
