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1. Collationes
- Creator:
- Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Image Count:
- 276
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Cassianus, Collationes
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Headings and running headlines in red. 2-line flourished initials, protruding into the margin or intercolumn, alternately in red and blue with penwork in the contrasting colours, at the opening of the chapters. Historiated initials on square background and with long marginal extensions (foliate bar borders) at the opening of the Prologue and of the Collationes., and Binding: de luxe binding s. XIX by Thibaron (d. c. 1880): blind-tooled brown morocco over cardboard boards, both covers decorated with fillets and flowery ornaments.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collationes
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. Confessions
- Creator:
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Published / Created:
- 1469
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 952
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on calfskin parchment of Augustine's Confessions, with alphabetical index; also includes Augustine's Retractions
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Formata., Decoration: Stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks, underlinings and headings all in red. 3-line plain initials alternately in red and blue at the opening of the chapters, sometimes with white decoration. Generally undecorated after f. 36., and Binding: original, brown leather over wooden boards. Spine has four raised bands. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges traced in triple fillets and floral designs. Red leather tabs at the beginning of each book of the art. 2 and at the beginning of art. 3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessions
4. Divinae institutiones
- Creator:
- Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320
- Published / Created:
- 13 February 1466
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 798
- Image Count:
- 689
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: (1) Lion rampant holding a sword and surmounted by a fleur de lis: Piccard, Wasserzeichen Raubtiere, 1699-1700 (1465-1466); (2) and (3) Mountain: var. Briquet 11702, 11709 (1440, 1466)., Script: copied by one hand in an idiosyncratic Gothico-Humanistica Libraria, with f and straight s with long pointed descenders, Uncial or Half-Uncial d, round or straight s in final position and e caudata used in a totally unorthodox way; unexplained stray letters appear in the text., Headings, paragraph marks and stroking of some majuscules in red. All other decoration is missing: there are guide letters in the margin; space for initials of various heights, but generally exceptionally wide, has been provided at the opening of books and chapters., The manuscript contains: 1) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), note on Lactantius, shortened version of Contra Faustum Manichaeum (CPL 321). 2) Augustinus Hipponensis, note on Lactantius, shortened after Epistula 143.2-3. 3) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from Epistula 58.10. 4) Hieronymus Stridonensis, note on Lactantius (in fact on Origen), after Epistula 62.2. 5) Hieronymus Stridonensis, note on Lactantius, from De viris illustribus, 80 (CPL 616). 6) Table of Contents (list of chapters) of Divinae institutiones. 7) Firmianus Lactantius (d. c. 325), Divinae institutiones (CPL 85)., and Binding: 20th century. Quarter binding, white pigskin and oak boards with rounded edges, the leather blind-tooled with fillets and flowerets. Spine with three raised bands. Brown edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Divinae institutiones
5. Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini
- Creator:
- Eugippius
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 810]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 912
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fragments) of Eugippius (c. 500), Excerpta ex operibus sancti Augustini
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in early Carolingian handwriting of the type described by B. Bischoff as "Arn minuscule"., and Binding: twentieth century quarter binding, parchment and purplish decorated paper over pasteboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Eugippius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini
6. Patristic and medieval theological texts
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 811
- Image Count:
- 516
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing numerous patristic and medieval theological texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria. The running headlines and the marginal notes are written in small Gothica Cursiva Currens of often scant legibility. The pastedowns are copied by a contemporary hand writing a very bold and angular Gothica Hybrida Libraria (Fractura)., The headings are written or underlined in red; red heightening of the majuscules and red plain initials. There is no red heightening and the initials are not executed on ff. 133-156. On many pages the reading is impaired by the acid ink., The manuscript contains: 1) Ps.-Ambrosius Mediolanensis (Pseudo-Ambrose), De dignitate sacerdotali, without the opening section. 2) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, c. 470-542), Sermo 41 (De indigna familiaritate extranearum mulierum et de martyrio). 3) Fastidius (s. V, attrib.; Ps.-Augustinus), De vita christiana. 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Speculum peccatoris. 5) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux) or Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Planctus de passione Domini. 6) Richardus de Sancto Victore (Richard of Saint Victor, d. 1173) or Egbertus Schonaugiensis (Egbert von Schönau, d. 1184), Soliloquia. 7) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom, c. 345-407), Quod nemo laeditur nisi a seipso, Latin version. 8) Iohannes Chrysostomus, De compunctione, Latin version. 9) Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus (Pseudo-John Chrysostom), De paenitentia, Latin version. 10) Iohannes Chrysostomus, De reparatione lapsi, Latin translation ascribed to Anianus Celedensis (5th century). 11) Fulgentius Ruspensis (Ps.-Augustinus, c. 468-533), De fide ad Petrum. 12) Ps.-Augustinus (Pseudo-Augustine), De contemptu mundi. 13) Caesarius Arelatensis (Ps.-Augustinus), Sermo 7 (Admonitio per quam ostenditur quantum boni sit lectionem divinam legere, et quantum mali sit ab illa vel inquisitione desistere). 14) Ps.-Hieronymus Stridonensis (Pseudo-Jerome), Epistula ad Paulinum. 15) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De quattuor beneficiis. 16) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, c. 348-420), Epistula 52 (Ad Nepotianum). 17) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 109 (Ad Riparium). 18) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Contra Vigilantium. 19) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 22 (Ad Eustochium). 20) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 125 (Ad Rusticum de vita monastica). 21) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, c. 470-542), Sermo 44 (De castitate). 22) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 43 (De castitate coniugali). 23) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 157 (De lectione evangelica). 24) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 33 (De reddendis decimis). 25) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii. 26) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii., and Binding: original undecorated white parchment (spine repaired) over wooden boards; spine with three raised bands. Remnants (rectangular brass plates fixed with four nails) of two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover the damaged early inscription in ink: “*******o*ale” (pastorale?).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Patristic and medieval theological texts
7. Peter of Blois
- 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
8. Pseudo-Augustine; Texts relating to the Pelagian controversy
- 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
9. Regula pastoralis
- 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
