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28. Latin treatises on the Passion and on the love of God
- Creator:
- Weitmann, Johannes, -1509
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1599].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1076
- Image Count:
- 231
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Latin treatise on the Passion, attributed to Johannes Weitmann (d. 1509), although the style of the present work significantly differs from that of Weitmann's known devotional work, Meditationes vitae, passionis mortisque Iesu Christi; 2) Pseudo-Augustine, De diligendo Deo; 3) Treatise on the love of God
- Description:
- Script: Copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Cursiva Currens: A) copied ff. 2r-16v21 and ff. 97r-112r; and B) copied ff. 16v21-90v., Decoration: Art. 1 has red paragraph marks, underlining and stroking of majuscules; this decoration is missing ff. 35v-90v. On f. 1r the 3-line opening initial is clumsily executed in black ink. In art. 2 red paragraph marks, underlining and stroking of majuscules, but also red headings and plain 3-line initials in the same colour, often of fancy execution; art. 3 has the same lower decoration, but neither headings nor 3-lin initials. Artt. 2 and 3 open with complicated large red initials in a style recalling cadels but essentially fanciful., Binding: Original pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on three cords. Both covers blind-tooled with fillets, a frame, and vertical rows of stamps: a fleur-de-lys in a diamond, a rosette, an f-shaped twig with two leaves, and a floweret. Remnants of one brass clasp, attached to the rear cover, clutching a brass catch on the front cover. Both metal pieces are engraved., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Weitmann, Johannes.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Latin treatises on the Passion and on the love of God
29. Noted Breviary (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1090 and 1110]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.26
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Office of the Dead with lessons from Augustine, Sermon 173
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; by the same scribe who copied the psalter preserved in Beinecke MS 481.46., and Decoration: 3-line initial on f. 1v in orange that has been filled with crude, brown cross-hatching, perhaps later; 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in orange square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in orange minuscules with rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus in chants and punctus and punctus elevatus within lessons; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; marginal notation in a contemporary hand on 3r.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Noted Breviary (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
30. Offices of St. Martha, St. Monica and other saints
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 867
- Image Count:
- 56
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Offices of Saints Martha and Monica, each with 9 Lessons and the Homily by Haymo Halberstadiensis; Hymns; Antiphons
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in large but somewhat uneven Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda) under Humanistic influence (uncial and half-uncial d). The orthography is very defective., Headings in red; alternately red and blue versals in the text; 2-line plain initials alternately red and blue; 2-line flourished initials in liquid gold with red penwork on ff. 2r, 16v and 19r. A 7-line initial of the same type and in the same colours at the beginning of the text., and Binding: 17th century (?), Italian. The quires are sewn without cords directly into the pasteboard cover, which itself is covered with blind-tooled goatskin. Marks of two pairs of ties.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430., Martha, Saint., Monica, Saint, d. 387., Augustinians., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Antiphons (Music)., Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Offices of St. Martha, St. Monica and other saints
31. Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv (fragment).
- Creator:
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Published / Created:
- [between 1190 and 1199].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.93
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a monk from the abbey of Lambach, Austria, whose hand appears in of other manuscripts, including Beinecke MS 481.51., and Decoration: In the upper left corner of the verso is a faint sketch of a cat (or possibly a wolf or lion), probably contemporary with the manuscript; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tractatus in Iohannis Evangelium ccxxiv (fragment).
