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1. Ascetic treatises
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 830
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of ascetic treatises
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in small Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda), with a tendency towards lengthening and making loops to the ascenders on the top line., Headings in red. The manuscript is richly decorated in a uniform style with paragraph marks, line fillers, 1-line versals and 2-5-line initials in liquid gold on a blue or red ground decorated with foliage in liquid gold. On f. 1r arch-topped half-page miniature in the style of Jean Bourdichon, as wide as the writing area, above 12 lines of text, showing King David praying in a landscape. Full paneled border, the panels alternately with uncoloured background and filled with acanths, or with liquid gold background and filled with flowers or fruit; one “acanth” panel in the outer border and two similar panels in the lower one contain each a hybrid animal, one of these wearing a hat., The manuscript contains: 1) Petrus de Alliaco (Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420), Meditationes super septem Psalmos paenitentiales. 2) Table of Contents. 3) Lotharius Count of Segni (1160-1216, 1198-1216 pope as Innocentius III), De miseria humanae conditionis. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De interiori homine (Meditationes). 5) Iacobus de Gruytrode (c. 1400-1475), Speculum aureum animae peccatricis, also attributed to Iacobus de Iuterbog (1381-1465), Dionysius Carthusianus (Dionysius de Ryckel, 1402/1403-1471) and Gerardus de Schiedam (d. 1442).c, and Binding: 19th century. Red silk over thin wooden boards. Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?, Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216., and Jacobus, de Gruytrode, active 1440-1475.
- Subject (Topic):
- Asceticism, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, and Christianity
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ascetic treatises
2. Commentaries on the Sunday Epistles; theologico-moral treatises
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 861
- Image Count:
- 698
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of commentaries on the Sunday Epistles and other theological and moral texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., The manuscript contains: 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities., and Binding: 19th century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
- Subject (Topic):
- Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Christianity, Science, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Sunday Epistles; theologico-moral treatises
3. Curam illius and Summa della penitentia
- Creator:
- Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 947
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Antonius Florentinus's Confessionale in Italian
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence. Headings in smaller handwriting. On f. 1r a 2-line plain initial in red, with guide letter., Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459), Confessionale, Italian version beginning “Curam illius habe”, also known as Medicina dell anima., and Binding: binding is missing. Sewn on four leather thongs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Italian, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, and Christianity
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Curam illius and Summa della penitentia
4. De Tribus partibus penitentie, etc
- Creator:
- Nicolaus von Dinkelsbuehl
- Published / Created:
- 1431
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 747
- Image Count:
- 365
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of three treatises by Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl: 1) De vitiis et virtutibus, 2) De tribus partibus poenitentiae, 3) De septem peccatis mortalibus; and one treatise by Johannes von Marienwerder, also attributed to Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl: Expositio Symboli apostolorum. Includes moral quotations and contemporary notes
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by several hands in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens, sometimes difficult to decipher, especially in the marginal notes and additions and on the inserted leaflets., Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and underlining of biblical references in red. 2- or 3-line plain initials in red, mostly missing. Large flourished initials in red with brown penwork: ff. 2r, 37v, 42v, 61r, 67r, 82r, 109r, 118v, 120v, 144r. Numerous pointing fingers., and Binding: original quarter binding: red leather over bevelled wooden boards sewn on four double thongs, spine lost; the wood covered with white leather; remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with hole for the pin on the front board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dinkelsbuhl, Nicolaus von, approximately 1360-1433 and Marienwerder, Joannes, 1343-1417
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Vices, and Virtues
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De Tribus partibus penitentie, etc
5. La passe solitaire
- Creator:
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550
- Published / Created:
- [between 1509 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1201
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
- Description:
- In Middle French., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r)., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic bastarda., and Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550. and Megret, Remy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories, Devotional literature, French, French prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Soul, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La passe solitaire
6. The prodigal daughter: or, the disobedient lady reclaimed
- Published / Created:
- [1775?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- The prodigal daughter; or disobedient lady and Disobedient lady reclaimed
- Description:
- Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Let every wicked graceless child attend,". - In four columns with the title above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules. - In this edition the "T" of the first "The" in the title is in italics, and the final line of text reads: "And give you crown of glory afterdeath [sic]."., Cf. nos. T44550 and N62316 in ESTC., Mounted on leaf 68. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
- Publisher:
- s.n.
- Subject (Topic):
- Repentance, Temptation, Devil in literature, Fathers and daughters, Mothers and daughters, Religious thought, Faith, Family, Religious life, and Ballads, English
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The prodigal daughter: or, the disobedient lady reclaimed
7. The wanton wife of Bath
- Published / Created:
- [between 1783 and 1796?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Verse - "In Bath a wanton wife did dwell,"., What appears to be the same setting of type was also issued with imprint: Sold at no. 42, Long Lane; dated from that address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157. Appearance of woodcut suggests this issue preceded one with imprint., In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 63. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- J. Evans?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Repentance, Women, Moral and ethical aspects, Heaven, and Gates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The wanton wife of Bath
