Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of text from a Brut chronicle in Anglo-Norman rhyming octosyllabic couplets
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French., Layout: two columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic hand., Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red., and Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Description:
In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Subject (Topic):
Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single late Beneventan hand, probably that of a nun, containing a collection of 27 prayers by Saint Thomas Aquinas and others for use at Mass
Description:
In Latin., Ff. 74v-75r contain 20 lines of a prayer: "O sacro sanctissimo ochino di pieta," in an Italic script., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., Script: late Beneventan miniscule., Decoration: Extensive. Many small capitals alternately blue and gold with penwork in red and purple. 30 three-line and rwo-line initials either in burnished gold with purple penwork or dark blue with red penwork; very large illuminated initial on opening page with leafy design and burnished gold outlined in red enclosing formal floral pattern, with full-length bar extending into upper and lower margins., Binding: 16th century limp parchment. Cover is made from a 15th-century portolan chart of part of the Adriatic coast of Apulia (Schøyen Collection title: Portolan map of the Adriatic Coast of Apulia in the kingdom of Napoli from Rinaldo south as far as Port Badisco, including Otranto and inland towns with little hills.) 230 mm x 160 mm (flattened). Lettering of portolan in small humanist hand., and Binding: green gilt quarter morocco folding case, Aquarius, 1995, with Schøyen Collection bookplate.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Portolan charts
