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
Manuscript on parchment of a Middle English text of the Book of Sir John Mandeville, probably related to the "Defective Version." Biblical quotations in Middle English on f63v-f64v
Alternative Title:
Itinerarium. English
Description:
Sir John Mandeville is the suppositious author of the "travel" book known as the Book of Sir John Mandeville, or Mandeville's Travels. Written in the 14th century in Anglo-Norman French, it was widely popular and thought to be an accurate account of a knight's journey through Europe, the Middle East and Asia., In Middle English., Title supplied by cataloger., Annotation, in a later hand, on f1r: Sir John Mandevile's Travails., Script: cursive anglicana hand in brown ink; 32 lines per page., Side notes and notation marks in various hands, 15th-17th century., Opening illuminated initial with ivy-leaf sprays into margins and 17 blue initials with extensive red penwork flourishing. Three contemporary or near-contemporary marginal drawings, one with color wash, of manicula., and Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, gilt. Spine label reads: Mandevil's travails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature, Voyages and travels, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice, bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations., Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581)., Script: Gothic bookhand., Decoration: some rubrication of initials., and Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Biblesworth, Walter de.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry, Conduct of life, French language, Study and teaching, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of an untitled collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title devised by cataloger., Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper., Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume., Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum., Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines., Script: several English cursive bookhands (Anglicana and secretary)., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? and Prester John (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript fragment on paper of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a bâtarde script., Decoration: capitals heightened in red; red initials and chapter marks in the text., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 3134 (Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, Confessionale), in which they are used as quire guards and front and back pastedowns.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text, with diagrams showing an array of sins
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated gothic bookhand., and These fragments, from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +4284.5 (Aristotle, Opera), in which they are used as front and back spine guards.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., Decoration: blue and red penwork is partially visible at the end of the fragment, possibly representing decoration of an initial., and This fragment is contained in Zi 6309 (Dante, Convivio), in which it is used as a back spine support.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic script., Decoration: alternating red and blue initials., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 6058 (Francesco Filelfo, Vita di S. Giovanni Battista), in which the fragments are used as front and back end papers and pastedowns.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: pregothic minuscule, Decoration: initials and rubrics in red., and This fragment is contained in Zi 6309 (Dante, Convivio), in which it is used as the front spine support.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated bookhand., Decoration: appears to be lined or underlined in ink., and This fragment is contained in Zi 466 (Johannes de Lapide, Resolutiorium dubiorum...), in which it is used as the front pastedown.
