Manuscript on parchment of 1) Lactantius, Divinae institutiones; 2) Augustine, Enchiridion, with preceding table of contents; 3) Bonaventure, Lignum vitae, Breviloquium, and Hymn on the Cross; 4) hymns, and a few works regarding different saints
Description:
In Latin., Script: the manuscript proper (artt. 4-11), is copied by two hands very close to each other: A copied ff. 1r-151r (upper half), 151v-155r, and 156v in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; B copied ff. 151r (lower half) and 155v-156r. Art. 1 is copied by a 15th century hand using deviant spellings. Art. 2 is in 16th century Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 3 (the endleaves) is in large Carolingian handwriting., Decoration: Red headings and stroking of majuscules; red line-fillers for verses; red or blue paragraph marks. The text copied by hand B as well as the additional artt. 1 and 2 are undecorated. Art. 3 (the endleaves) has red heading and red stroking., and Binding: contemporary, undecorated white leather (deerskin?) over wooden boards, sewn onto three split leather thongs. The remains of a leather strap are attached to the front board and closes over a pin (lost) in the center of the rear board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Published / Created:
ca. 1408- ca. 1415
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 941
Image Count:
292
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Breviloquium. 2) Bonaventura, Lignum vitae. 3) Four short texts, the last one by a different hand
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands: the main part is by hand A (the Celestine monk Jean Gerson, colophon on f. 119v) , who writes a small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the evolution of which during the copying of the present book and especially its second section has been studied by Ouy ("Le Célestin", pp. 287-288); hand B, who uses a small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria (rarely adopting Textualis "a"), copied the tabula, the note on f. 119v (see below), most of the headings in art. 5, and the final texts on ff. 140v-141v; he also made a few corrections in the text copied by hand A. The very last text has been added by a third hand in tiny Gothica Cursiva Libraria., Headings, paragraph marks and heightening of the majuscules in red. Numerous 2-line (rarely 3-line) flourished initials in red with black penwork; in art. 4 the seven parts of the text in principle open with a similar initial with diagonal penwork spreads in the margin: ff. 23v (II), 49r (IV), 64v (V), 81v (VI), 103v (VII). The two principal texts open with a littera duplex in red and blue, with black penwork and marginal extension: ff. 4r (art. 2), 5 lines, and 120r (art. 5), 3 lines with diagonal penwork spreads., Running headlines in artt. 2-4 only: up to f.29r they consist of an indication of the page's content and, at right on the recto pages, also in the upper margin, the number of the part dealt with ("I", "II"); thereafter the number only is given., and Binding: contemporary parchment. On the flat spine and partly on the covers, a label with the handwritten 18th century inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur **** / pr**** / Lo*****."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Published / Created:
[between 1275 and 1300]
Call Number:
Marston MS 175
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of St. Bonaventure's Commentary on Book IV of the Sentences of Peter Lombard
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in small gothic bookhand., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, beige with foliage serif, red, against blue ground with white filigree, containing an apothecary (unguentarius) mixing ingredients in a mortar with two pestles. Numerous flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate in red with blue, and vice versa, or often plain initials in red or blue. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks, alternating red and blue, appear sporadically (ff. 1r-36v)., and Binding: Eighteenth century, Germany. Cream colored pigskin, blind-tooled. Gilt edges. Green and cream endbands. Title on spine: "De septem/ Sacrament. Tract. Mst.".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Scholia
