Manuscript on sheepskin parchment of Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225-1274), Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John, edited by Reginald de Piperno, O.P.; with excerpts (art. 2) from Nicolaus de Gorran, O.P. (d. c. 1295), Postillae in epistolam ad Romanos, chs. 1-9.
Description:
In Latin., Script: The main text (art. 1) is copied in a small Northern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; and art. 2 is in a small Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria (Anglicana)., and Decoration: There are alternating red and blue paragraph marks; running headlines associated with chapter numbers; alternating red and blue 2-line flourished initials, half inserted, with penwork in the contrasting colour (N.B. penwork missing on f. 74va); and on f. 1r, a 6-line littera duplex in red and blue, with delicate penwork in the two colours and a J-stave over the full height of the left margin. Art. 2 is undecorated.
Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line., First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text., Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1., and Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges.
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of John Waleys (John of Wales, Iohannes Gallensis), Communiloquium sive summa collationum ad omne genus hominum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria which, however, differs from Rotunda by the absence of Textus Praescissus features. A few rubrics are added in Gothica Cursiva, e.g. ff. 63v and 64v. Instructions for the rubricator are written in thin Gothica Cursiva Currens in the lower margins, mostly lost due to trimming., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. The decoration consists of (1) alternately red and blue flourished initials, 2 lines; (2) flourished litterae duplices, 3-5 lines, at the opening of the Distinctiones; they have marginal extensions ("J-staves") in pen and ink over the full height of the text area; (3) on f. 4r a damaged foliate initial on a gold, red and blue background, containing a hybrid, with floral extensions featuring a hybrid head and a hybrid. On f. 37r there is a coarse pen and ink drawing of a sword in the margin, probably related to a Hermogenes quotation in the text about murder., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Sprinkled brown leather over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with blind fillets. Spine with five raised bands and two gold-tooled red leather title-labels with the inscriptions "MS. VALLENS. COMMUNILOQ." and "TRACT. DE RE PUBLICA." Red edges. The spine was reinforced by means of two strips of parchment from an English archival document (ca. 1500) in which the names William Holborn, Robert Ball "nuper de Letheringham" and others appear.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, of Wales, -approximately 1285. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Preaching, and Scholasticism
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
[ca. 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 118
Image Count:
250
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality) of Hugo Ripelin, Compendium theologicae veritatis. This text has been sometimes erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, Bonaventure or Thomas Aquinas
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Marginal notes in anglicana scripts., Flourished initials, 14- to 5-line, primarily blue with red and/or parchment designs (including circles), mark beginning of each book. Many blue initials with modest red penwork designs, 5- to 2-line. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, England. Brown, diced calf, gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270.
Ripelin, Hugo, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
13th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 502
Image Count:
152
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugo Ripelin. The manuscript also contains fragments of a tract by Praepositinus Cremonensis, theological notes, an ecclesiastical document, a table for finding the date of Easter, and a record of the Houses of the Teutonic Order in northeastern Europe
Description:
In Latin., Script: the main text is copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Textualis Libraria with similar features. The first wrote the Table and the entire text, except the last items in the Table and the final chapters of the text, from f. 68ra, line 17 onwards, which are copied by the second hand. German features are the undotted y and the shape of the con-abbreviation. Similar features are found in the table for finding the date of Easter, copied in a small Gothica Textualis Libraria, possibly by the same hand. The list of Houses of the Teutonic Order is approximately contemporary, in small Gothica Textualis Libraria under cursive influence (some ascenders are looped). Later additions in various hands. The main part of the text has red headings, paragraph marks and stroking of majuscules; 2-line alternately plain and flourished half inset initials, the latter with primitive penwork, 3-line flourished initials at the opening of the Books; at the opening of the additional chapters plain initials only., Hugo Ripelin's Compendium theologicae veritatis, with three final chapters not belonging to the work of Hugo Ripelin, nor found in the version of his work printed from 1470/1472 and attributed to Albertus Magnus. The manuscript also includes fragments of Praepositinus Cremonensis's Tractatus de officiis, as well as theological notes, an ecclesiastical document, a table for finding the date of Easter, and a record of the Houses of the Teutonic Order in northeastern Europe, with the dates of their foundation and of some other events, 1120 -1266., and Binding: quarter binding (circa 16th century): wooden boards with rounded edges and brown leather, the upper and lower parts of the spine strengthened by means of strips of blind-tooled white leather. The broken boards are repaired by means of leather strips and wooden strips. Remnants of one clasp.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ripelin, Hugo, approximately 1210-approximately 1270. and Dominicans.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1008
Image Count:
289
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Hugo Ripelin de Argentina O.P. (d. 1268), Compendium theologicae veritatis
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand, writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata, changing some of his features in the course of the work (the shapes of tironian et and the orum/arum-abbreviation)., Red headings with instructions in the margins in tiny script. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 2-line plain initials with guide-letters; alternately red and blue 1-line versals in the table of contents. On f. 3r, at the beginning of the text, space for a 6-line initial was provided, which has not been executed., and Binding: contemporary binding in red leather over wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. Both covers blind-tooled with a frame and a St Andrew's cross traced in double fillets. Traces of five bosses on each cover; remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear board. On the second compartment of the spine a parchment label has been pasted in the form of a hide, with the s. XIX inscription in ink : "Compendium / theologicae / veritatis./ (Pergament / Manscrpt)."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270.
Manuscript on paper, with parchment bifolios at beginning and end of each gathering, of Albertus Magnus, De animalibus
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre P 8606 and 8625., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat running script for the text and a more formal style for rubrics., First initial on f. 1r, 10-line, painted blue, on red and green ground, yellow highlights. Many small plain initials in red and/or blue. Major headings lacking; minor rubrics and red initial strokes throughout., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Sewn and wound on five slit, tawed straps laced into oak boards and pegged or nailed. Kermes pink, braided endbands attached to primary ones sewn on hempen (?) cores laced into boards. Covered in brown calf, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern filled in with roses, fleurs-de-lis, eagles, and lions (?). Traces of five round bosses on each board and of three nails to attach a chain at the head of the lower board. Tongue-turn-ins. Two clasps on the upper board and stubs of pink, tawed straps held to the lower with metal plates. Remains of a title on parchment on the upper board. Numerous place markers, some vermilion leather, some very small Turk's head knots of leather or tawed skin. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment, composed of five distinct parts. Part I: 1) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae. 2) Petrus Comestor, Carmen in laudem beatae Virginis. 3) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu gestis Iohannis evangeliste. 4) Pictures of St. Barbara and Thomas Aquinas, and a medieval illuminated initial S (England [?], 15th century) pasted to blank pages. Part II: 5) Stephanus Parisiensis (?), unidentified text supporting the theology of Thomas Aquinas. 6) Augustine, De divinatione daemonum. Part III (paper): 7) Albertus Magnus, De sensu communi. 8) Albertus Magnus, De quinque potentiis anime interioribus. Part IV: 9) Fragment of an account of the Passion of Christ. Part V: Index
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-44): Written by a single scribe in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 45-58): Written by two scribes, the one for art. 5, the other for art. 6, in small, tight gothic cursive scripts. Part III (ff. 59-64): Written by a single scribe in a small gothic text hand. Part IV (ff. 65-66): Written in round gothic bookhand. Part V (ff. 67-80): Written in a neat gothic bookhand., Part I: Blue initial, 6-line, with parchment designs and red penwork harping patterns on f. 1r. Plain initials, 4- to 3-line alternate red and blue. Headings, underlining, paragraph marks and chapter numbers, some initial strokes, in red. Guide letters for decorator in margins. Parts II and III: Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled. Part IV: One initial, 2-line, on f. 65v and remains of another on conjugate stub: red with crudely drawn penwork designs in black and red. Headings, paragraph marks and initial strokes in orange-tinged red. Part V: On ff. 68r-69r every other entry begins with a 1-line plain blue initial; second letter of each entry washed with yellow; citations of Arabic numerals in red. Guide letters for decorator., Folios 65-66, perhaps removed from a binding, are not conjugate: f. 66 is glued to the conjugate stub of f. 65., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Semi-limp vellum case with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Pierson. On spine: "Miscellanea Theologica. Stephanus Parisiensis. S. Augustinus. Albertus Magnus etc. Mss XIVe S".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ, John, the Apostle, Saint., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274., and Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Devotion to., Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script., Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines., and Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology
