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10. Ascetical treatises
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1140
- Image Count:
- 537
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions; Retractiones. 2) Matthaeus de Cracovia, Tractatus de confessione et puritate conscientiae. 3) Thomas Aquinas, De perfectione spiritualis vitae. 4) Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione. 5) Series of short texts, including works by Bernardus de Reyda, Guillelmus Bloc, and Iacobus de Iüterbog
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Probably copied by 10 hands: scribe (A), Cornelius de Middelburg alias de Clinghe, writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria (Bastarda), ff. 1r-104r8 (artt. 2, 3, and the beginning of 4); scribe (B), writing a more rapid Semihybrida, ff. 104r9-113r (central part of art. 4); scribe (C), writing Semihybrida Libraria, ff. 113v-125r (final part of art. 4); scribe (D), writing Semihybrida Libraria/Currens, ff. 125v-126v (art. 5); scribe (E), writing Hybrida Currens, ff. 127r-127bis v and 139r bottom lines-148v (beginning and final part of art. 6); scribe (F), writing Hybrida Currens, ff. 128r-139r bottom lines (central part of art. 6); scribe (G), writing Hybrida Libraria, ff. 149r-155v15 (artt. 7 and beginning of 8); scribe (H), writing Semihybrida Libraria, ff. 155v16-220v (main part of art. 8); scribe (I), Arthurus Reyniers, writing Hybrida Libraria, ff. 225r-247r (artt. 9-11); and scribe (K), writing Cursiva Currens (art. 12)., Decoration: Differs according to the various sections of the manuscript, but in general, there are red headings; red stroking of majuscules; red underlining; and 2- or 3-line red plain initials, sometimes with interior reserved shapes (mostly missing ff. 132v-148v and after f. 215r). Folios 151r-220r (art. 8) contain red numbering. Folio 1r contains red or blue 3- or 4-line flourished initials with interior reserved shapes and developed penwork in the contrasting colour, extending into the margin., and Binding: Original brown calfskin over bevelled oak boards, damaged, sewn on four leather thongs. Both covers are blind-tooled with frame, lozenge and triangle patterns; stamped with rosette, fleur-de-lys, star, "ihs", and dragon patterns. The remains of two leather straps are attached to the rear board, associated with pins (lost) on the front board. The endleaves are fragments of bifolia from a 14th cent. parchment liturgical manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430., Mateusz, z Krakowa, Cardinal, ca. 1330-1410., Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274., and Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery (Canon law), Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Simony (Canon law)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ascetical treatises
11. Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1484]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 882
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 1
- Image Count:
- 415
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft
12. [Commonplace book], [ca. 1630].
- Call Number:
- Osborn b65
- Image Count:
- 323
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing extracts from philosophical, religious, and historical works; sermons; and numerous verses, both philosophical and satirical. The volume contains extracts from Thomas Aquinas; Fuller's History of the Holy War; Livy's History; Godwin's Catalogue of the Bishops of England; Jeremy Taylor's Exercises of Holy Living; and Reynold's God's Revenge Against Murder. Satirical verses include a copy of Thomas Randolph "Salting," which satirizes Randolph's contemporaries under the figure of dishes at a feast, as well as A Poet's Farewell To His Threadbare Cloake. The volume also contains such contemplative poems as Musarum Lachrymae; Ruines of Time; and Mr. Austin's Sepulcrum Domus Mea Est; and a list of English words and their Latin translations
- Description:
- In English and Latin., See Modern Philology, vol. 39, 1942 and English Literary Renaissance, vol. 12, no. 1, 1982., and Binding: full sheep; remains of metal clasps.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661., Godwin, Francis, 1562-1633., Livy., Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635., Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650., Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667., and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elegiac poetry, English, English poetry, Religious literature, English, Religious poetry, English, Sermons, English, Verse satire, English, Intellectual life, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1630].
13. [Portrait of two men] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1775]
- Call Number:
- Waller no. 22
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the left, in profile looking left, the head and shoulders of a man with a laurel wreath around his head, probably Dante. On the right the head and shoulders of a man with a tonsure and a friar's habit, possibly Thomas Aquinas
- Description:
- Title devised by curator. and Approximate date assigned by curator.
- Subject (Name):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of two men] [art original].
