Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Bede's Exegesis on the Gospel of John
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In Latin., Script: written in caroline minuscule., Decoration: unheightened neumes; initials and rubrics in red., and This fragment is contained in Zi 466 (Johannes de Lapide, Resolutiorium dubiorum...), in which it is used as the back pastedown.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Catholic Church
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Commentary on the Proverbs (Super parabolas Solomonis), nearly complete. Four original endleaves, at front, contain twelfth-century extracts from Peter Lombard on the Epistle to the Hebrews; exhortational material; and Latin verses (first line: Amittit proscriptus opes nec possi reverti).
Description:
In Latin., Armorial bookplate of William John Monson, Baron Monson on front pastedown., Ownership inscription of Anthony Watson on recto of first front endleaf., Ownership inscription of "roberti di cantuaria" on verso of final front endleaf., Layout: single columns of 31 lines., Script: English book hand., Decoration: Rubricated. Two-line initials in red, blue or green with contrasting penwork; two larger initials in red, blue and green with penwork flourishes. Large illuminated initial (f1r) in gold, enclosing gold foliage on blue and green grounds., and Binding: nineteenth-century tooled brown leather over pasteboards; gold-lettered spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Commentaries, Early works to 1800, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (much worn; many natural flaws; trimmed).
Description:
In Latin., Script: The commentary is written in a somewhat uneven early Caroline minuscule; the Biblical passages for commentary are written in orange uncials, many of which have faded and are now illegible (some letters written over in brown ink by a later hand)., Heading, f. 1v, square capitals and uncials, in orange. Initials, outlined in black, filled with orange and yellow, ff. 26v, 77v, 131v. Plain initials, black or red, some with modest scroll designs, at beginning of each segment of commentary., Upper portions of ff. 61, 68, 69 torn, loss of text; f. 132v extremely worn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green goatskin; gold-tooled. Title on spine: "Bedae Opera. VII. Siecle".
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Bede, Expositio in Lucae Evangelium: Luke 6.43-46.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in elegant Anglo-Saxon minuscule, with rubrics in which A and S are majuscule., Biblical passages, in red, are inset in columns., and Trimmed along outer column with some loss of text.
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato
Description:
In Latin., Script: the original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional sections are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials., and Binding: 18th century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription. Red mottled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856., Solomon, King of Israel., and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
11 manuscript fragments (10 on parchment, 1 on paper): 1) Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, with commentary. 2) Grammar. 3) Eberhardus of Bethune, Grecismus. 4) The Venerable Bede, Grammatical text. 5-8) Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale (each fragment produced in a different location). 9) Grammar, in verse. 10) Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18. 11) Grammar
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., and Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies
Description:
In Latin., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Script: gothic text hand., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., and Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Great Britain, Church history, and History
Manuscript on parchment (many holes and repairs) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several hands of different appearances, perhaps by scribes of varying ages or at different dates. The scripts range from rounded to angular minuscule., Plain orange initial, 7- to 2-line; heading and chapter notations (in margins) in same shade. Guide-letters and notes for rubricator., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is slightly rounded and lined, the lining extending onto the inside of the boards. Covered with white pigskin, blind-tooled. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. On the fore-edge of the lower cover is a notation contemporary with binding: "Gesta anglorum bede." Appears to have been bound at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Church history, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript fragment on parchment of one of Bede's homilies on John 16.23-30.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials with the use of some rustic capital forms; punctuated with the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Catholic Church