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2.
- Creator:
- Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1086?-1153
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 615
- Image Count:
- 165
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Treatise on the various religious sects and philosophical schools, Beginning missing; end (leaf 163 verso) pasted over, and A note on leaf 163 verso is dated A.H. 699 (A.D. 1299) at Taʻizz, Yemen
- Description:
- Compared with Cureton's edition., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the back cover is preserved.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Milal wa-al-niḥal / [before 1299].
3.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 479
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5
- Image Count:
- 502
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ / [13--?].
4.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 479
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3
- Image Count:
- 532
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ / [13--?].
5.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 479
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 262
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ / [13--?].
6.
- Creator:
- Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 53a
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 702
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Beginning and end missing, and Perhaps a holograph (cf. Landberg MSS 283).
- Description:
- Fair naskhī. and Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, flap and back missing.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ : al-thālith / [before 1327].
7.
- Call Number:
- Persian MSS 8
- Image Count:
- 101
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Treatise on the Prophet's ascension to heaven. Incomplete at beginning
- Description:
- Title found on slip pasted to front cover., Fair modern nastaʻlīq (17th century?), except for the first leaf in naskhī script., With colored miniatures., and Limp Islamic binding; blind tooling with the name Muḥammad Bāqir.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Miʻrājʹnāmah], [16--?].
8.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.5
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, from an unidentified theological work. Subjects include prayer, the Trinity, creation, and Revelations 6:21.
- Description:
- In Latin., Bottom of sheets trimmed with loss of margin and at least one line. One column of each bifolium largely cut away., Recovered from a binding., Script: small cursive gothic hand., Decoration: rubricated., and Layout: 20 columns, originally 50 lines each?, now 49 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified theological work (fragment).
9.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450 (1436)]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 904
- Image Count:
- 494
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper containing theological and ascetic treatises and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9)., The manuscript contains: 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents., and Binding: circa 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, History, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Theological and ascetic treatises, etc
10.
- Published / Created:
- 1432-1448.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 813
- Image Count:
- 609
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of texts on the Psalms and Canticles, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: apparently four hands: A writing a bold Gothica Hybrida Libraria copied ff. 1r-186r and 201r; B writing Gothica Cursiva Currens copied ff. 189r-199va15; C writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens copied ff. 199va16-200v; D writing Gothica Semihybrida Currens copied ff. 203r-299v; the document on f. 226v is probably in the same handwriting. Scribe D is the unrecorded Hinricus Landesberch in Wernigerode., Red underlining, paragraph marks, heightening of majuscules and plain initials, generally 2 lines, at the head of various texts larger. Pointing hands., The manuscript contains: 1) Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun, c. 1090- c.1150), Expositio in psalmos CI-CL et in cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 2) Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202), Glosatura super cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 3) Notes on the Book of Psalms, its subdivisions, significance, on Ps. 1 and Ps. 150, etc. 4) Extracts on the Psalms from a florilegium of the works by or attributed to St. Augustine, called Summula Florigeri sancti Augustini. 5) Treatise on the virtues and vices arranged according to the course of the sun through the signs of the Zodiac; the names of the months and of the zodiacal signs are given in Latin and in German, with examples from the Bible and legend. 6) Miracles and legends. 7) Copy of a notarial document. 8) Isidorus Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville, d. 636), Quaestiones in vetus testamentum. 9) Vision of the horrors of Hell shown to St. Paul of Thebe (Paulus Eremita, 228-341). 10) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353). 11) Two sermons on the Immaculate Conception, quoting many exempla. 12) Incomplete legend of St. Catharine of Alexandria. 13) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De essentia divinitatis: an excerpt from Eucherius Lugdunensis (Eucherius bishop of Lyons, d. c. 450), Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, chapter 1., and Binding: original undecorated white deerskin over bevelled heavy wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs; spine with plaited headbands; in its upper compartment a paper label with a 17th-century indication of the content; in the second compartment a paper label with the number "VIII". On each cover five small brass bosses on indented square plates; marks of two leather straps attached to the rear cover, the holes of the pins visible in the front cover. At the top of the front cover a contemporary Table of Contents is written in ink in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, now badly legible; at the bottom of the same cover, in a large Gothica Hybrida Formata: "Tractatus Honorii pape" [sic]. The rear pastedown (half detached) consists of a large fragment and scraps on paper from a 15th-century Latin register of personal interdicts attached to persons with German names; the handwriting is Gothica Cursiva Currens.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alanus, de Insulis, -1202., Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint., Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156., Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636., Paul, the Hermit, Saint, -approximately 341., Pseudo-Augustinus., and Samuel, Marochitanus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Texts on the Psalms and Canticles, on the Old Testament, etc
11.
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 355
- Image Count:
- 378
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, ending abruptly
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Red and blue split initial, 10-line, at beginning of text (p. 11) with fine penwork flourishes within body and length of inner margin, in red, blue, and purple. Similar initials, 6- to 3-line, without penwork extensions, on pp. 68, 130, 284. Small initials, 5- to 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red, throughout. Headings in red; running titles in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on five double, tawed thongs laced into flush oak boards through tunnels in the edge and pegged with rectangular pegs. The back board is cracked and mended. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin. Plain, wound endbands sewn on twisted, tawed skin cores laced into the boards. Added embroidery is sewn through the cover and shows on the spine and the edge, with whip-stitching around the entire endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with corner tongues. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Five foliate bosses on each board. A pin, straps and two bosses wanting. Original front pastedown: incomplete alphabetical index, 14th century, of subjects from amor through uita (no entries for x). Original back pastedown, also contemporary with main text: fragment of a theological text on the biblical prophets, on recto; unfinished diagram of the books of the Bible, divided into categories in mandata diuisio, in exempla diuisio, in ammonitiones diuisio, in reuelationes diuisio (with material from Old Testament only), on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Dominicans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa contra gentiles
12.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 416
- Image Count:
- 23
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (leaves are very uneven due to irregular trimming) originally composed of roughly executed full-page illustrations and diagrams that constitute the Speculum theologie
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Inscriptions written in gothic bookhand, additions in either textura or running scripts (ff. 2r. 7v)., The illustrations on ff. 1r-7v are drawn in red ink, heightened with green, orange, and yellow. The diagram on f. 8r is drawn in brown and red, touched with blue, red, yellow and gold., Folio 8r darkened and rubbed with some loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum theologiae, etc
13.
- Creator:
- Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 652
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 272
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Volume II only and Incomplete at beginning and end
- Alternative Title:
- Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
- Description:
- The identification of author and title of this volume is uncertain., Title given on the lower edges., Fair naskhī, probably of the 14th century., Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover is preserved., and Other volumes wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ al-Wasīṭ : [al-juzʾ] al-thānī / [13--?].
14.
- Creator:
- Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 675
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 660
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Yaḥyá al-Nawawī. and Copied in A.H. 877 (A.D. 1473).
- Description:
- Fair naskhī, in red and black. and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.
- Subject (Name):
- Nawawī, 1233-1277.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ Minhāj al-ṭālibīn / 1473
15.
- Creator:
- Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint
- Published / Created:
- 1494.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 614
- Image Count:
- 72
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Table of Contents. 2) Praefatio in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes, translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia (Rufinus Aquileiensis, c. 345-411). 3) Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregorius Nazianzenus, d. c. 390), Apologeticus, Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia. 4) Gregory of Nazianzus, De epiphaniis sive de natali Domini. 5) Gregory of Nazianzus, De luminibus, quod est de secundis epiphaniis. 6) Gregory of Nazianzus, In semetipsum de agro regressum. 7) Gregory of Nazianzus, Ad cives Nazianzenos gravi timore perculsos et praefectum irascentem. 8) Gregory of Nazianzus, De Pentecoste et de Spiritu Sancto. 9) Gregory of Nazianzus, De reconciliatione et unitate monachorum. 10) Gregory of Nazianzus, De grandinis vastatione. Ends incomplete. 11) Gregory of Elvira (Gregorius Illiberitanus, d. after 392), De fide orthodoxa. Missing beginning. Often ascribed to Gregory of Nazianzus and erroneously considered a Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermark: var. Briquet 2482., Script: Copied by one hand in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Pale red headings. Plain initials (Capitals) in pale red ink, 2-3 lines., The paper is at places slightly damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. English brown polished calf over pasteboard, both covers and turn-ins framed with gold-tooled fillets. Back repaired. Gold-tooled title on spine "GREGORI NAZIANZENIS OPUSCULA LATINA INTERPRETE RUFFINO. M.S. CART 1494". Grey paper endleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.
- Subject (Topic):
- Doctors of the Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons; with Gregory of Elvira, De fide orthodoza
16.
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 377
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, etc
17.
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 846
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Regula pastoralis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by various scribes writing Praegothica, difficult to distinguish from each other because of the uneven level of execution of their hands., Headings in red, missing from f. 12v onwards. 1-3-line plain initials in red of various shades. On f. 1v very large (c. 25 lines) decorated Romanesque initial "P" in red., Holes and defective corners, many repaired; the lower margins of ff. 63 and 91-92 are repaired by means of a strip of parchment; the lower margin of f. 93 is cut off. The manuscript is heavily trimmed at the top. First and last pages very soiled., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. De luxe, gold-tooled green morocco over cardboard; each cover framed by rich gold-tooling imitating the decorated initial on f. 1v; turn-ins gold-tooled. Gold-tooled spine with repeated motif in the same style and title: "GREGORII / PASTORALIS / M.S.". Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Regula pastoralis
18.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1325 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 470
- Image Count:
- 97
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment in two parts of an anonymous, and apparently incomplete, collection of questions and responses on theological subjects
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I written primarily in a tiny English gothic bookhand (with some German features), with numerous abbreviations; marginalia and texts in art. 33 added by several 15th-century English hands. Part II written in an untidy English script, with Anglicana features; texts added on ff. 43v-46v by same hands as art. 33; another hand entered text on f. 43v., Initials, 2-line, in red with brown flourishes, alternate with blue with red flourishes; paragraph marks alternate red, blue; guide-letters for flourished initials in margins., and Binding: Date? Limp vellum folder. Off-set impression of turn-ins from original binding on f. 46v.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, Study and teaching, and Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Quodlibeta theologica
19.
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Augustinus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 826
- Image Count:
- 138
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pseudo-Augustine, texts relating to the Pelagian controversy, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica hesitating between Semitextualis Currens and Cursiva Currens. A, the main scribe, copied ff. 1r-60v; B, an inexperienced hand, marked by the use of d with ascender curving to the right, i longa and round s in all positions, added the prayers on ff. 61r-63r., Headings in purplish red. Spaces for 1- or 2-line initials have been reserved throughout the codex, but these have not been executed, except in artt. 8-10, where they have been clumsily written in black ink in the left margin. At the opening of art. 1, 3-line half inset Humanistic dentelle initial on a square background in green and blue decorated with silver and gold penwork. It has floral extensions with gold balls in the upper and inner margin. In the lower margin of the same f. 1r, between three similar floral decorations, a circular medallion containing the coat of arms of the Ugolini family of Florence (parti per bend, or on azure, with two lions passant counter changed, surmounting)., The manuscript contains: 1) Ps.-Cyprianus Carthaginensis (Pseudo-Cyprian of Carthage or Pseudo-Augustine), De singularitate clericorum. 2) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), De incarnatione Verbi ad Ianuarium. 3) Pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis. 4) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Carthage, A.D. 416, to pope Innocentius I. 5) Letter of pope Innocentius I to the bishops at the council of Carthage A.D. 416. 6) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416 to pope Innocent I. 7) Innocentius I, letter to the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416. 8) Prayer to be said before the image of Corpus Christi. 9) Prayer to Jesus Christ. 10) Prayer to Jesus Christ ascribed to Thomas Aquinas., and Binding: original Italian reddish brown leather over pasteboard with a flap at the rear cover closing over the front cover with leather ties. Covers and flap are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of quadruple fillets, decorated with small circular tools either single or in clusters, and a full border consisting of a scroll motif. At the top of the front cover, in black ink, Capitalis ca. 1500: “Aur. (?) Augustini opus”. Parchment flyleaves. On the front flyleaf verso a Table of Content written in red by hand A, recording artt. 1-7 only, under the title “Que in hoc libello inserte sunt”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Augustinus. and Council of Carthage
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Pelagianism, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pseudo-Augustine; Texts relating to the Pelagian controversy
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- Creator:
- Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 819
- Image Count:
- 132
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Petrus Blesensis (Peter of Blois, c. 1135-c. 1204), 1) De amicitia Christiana. 2) De caritate Dei et proximi. 3) Devotional texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermark: Horn, var. Briquet 7965?., Script: copied by one hand writing a peculiar Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under Humanistic influence., Headings and stroking of the majuscules in red (but some headings are missing). Spaces left blank for inset initials (2-5 lines); guide letters are sometimes visible. A few pointing hands., The top of the leaves badly water-stained, and the edges of the front flyleaves and quire I very defective, with loss of text., The devotional texts include: (a) On the value of attending Mass, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine ("Agustinus"), St. Paul, Luke, Matthew ("Mactheus"), Bede, Gregory the Great, etc. (b) 9 selected Psalm verses. (c) On the value of Confession. (d) On Christian hope., and Binding: original quarter binding: undecorated white leather fixed with a strip of leather and engraved iron nails onto square-edged heavy oak boards; sewing on two split leather thongs. Folio 60 used as pastedown. Remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with a hole of the pin in the front board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peter of Blois
