Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae
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In Latin and Greek., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Caroline minuscule (Turonian script)., Binding: Middle Hill boards., and Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Tours., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Jerome, Epistolae, etc., translated into Italian by Ser Nicolaus Berti Martini de Gentiluzis de Sanctogeminiano, a notary in Florence (ca. 1388-1468). With Ps.-Augustine, Epistula ad Cyrillum, concerning the death of St. Jerome
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In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Piccard Schere III.710, Briquet Chapeau 3387; unidentified eagle., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small upright gothic script with both notarial and humanistic influence, above top line., One illuminated initial, f. 4r, 6-line, gold, filled with red and blue penwork in geometric patterns. The penwork extends the whole length of the text column to form a partial border, terminating in the upper and lower margins in a scroll of blue penwork with small flowers, heart-shaped leaves and red dots. Numerous penwork initials of good quality, 5- to 2-line, alternate in red and blue with purple and red penwork respectively, often extending into the margins. Headings in red. Majuscules and display script touched with yellow., and Binding: ca. 1500, Florence. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps attached to oak boards, with brown and natural color endbands (later additions?) sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Covered in orange/brown sheepskin neatly blind-tooled with rope interlace in concentric frames. Spine: double fillets at head and tail and outlining the supports on the spine; fine diapering with double fillets in the panels. Four flower-shaped catches on the lower board, two wanting. Remains of vellum label (worm eaten) on the spine and pieces of string used as place marks. Off-set impressions of medieval liturgical manuscript on front and back pastedowns. Orange edges. Sticky from excessive oiling.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of St. Jermone, Epistulae et tractatus. With Ambrosius Mediolanensis (St. Ambrose, 339-397), De excessu fratris
Description:
In Latin., Script: Apparently four scribes: A, Iohannes de Carnago, is the main scribe and copied ff. 1r-260v (with the exception of 8 lines at the bottom) in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; B copied from the bottom lines of f. 260v to f. 270v, in Humanistica Textualis Libraria; C copied ff. 271r-275v in Gothico-Humanistica Textualis Libraria; and D copied ff. 276r-304v in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria., Headings in red. Red heightening (stroking) of the majuscules. 2-3-line flourished initials (with guide letters) in red with penwork varying from pale red to purple. A large (10 lines) decorated flourished initial in red, with developed purple penwork ("R" instead of "D") in littera duplex style on f. 229v. Two Gothic historiated initials on gold background with floral marginal extensions: f. 1r: St. Jerome with lion and boy holding open a book (damaged); f. 25v: a monk copying., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown leather over cardboard boards, the covers blind-tooled with a triple fillet lozenge inside a floral roll frame, the center and the corners gold-tooled with two different floral tools. Spine with four raised bands and remnants of gold-tooled lilies in the compartments. Edges painted blue. Marks of two pairs of ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Gospel of Matthew, preceded by Prologue to Gospels from Jerome; letter of Jerome to Damasus; spurious addition to letter attributed to Jerome; Prologue to Matthew. 2) Gospel of Mark, preceded by Prologue. Final leaf missing; the conclusion of Mark is added on a piece of parchment (Germany, ca. 1150) stitched in between ff. 110 and 112 (formerly glued to f. 112).
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In Latin., Script: Written in German minuscule by a single scribe., At the beginning of each Gospel, full-page initials, f. 9r (Matthew) and f. 71r (Mark) incorporating symbols of the Evangelists; f. 9r with gold foliate scrolls with silver tendrils, one with a pink dragon-head terminal, against blue, light green and orange; f. 71r gold and silver, with spiraling foliage in shaded blue, orange and green, supported by a pink and gold dragon; both followed by display capitals in alternate lines of gold and silver, shaded in blue. Large initials in gold and silver as above, 2-line, f. 1r, and 6- or 5-line, ff. 3r, 5r, 5v, and 68v, for prefaces, epistles and prologues. 3-line initials, as above, for chapter divisions. 1-line initials throughout, inner margin, orange, filled with gold and/or silver. Rubrics in orange. Some oxidization of silver., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Red velvet case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a homiliary containing among others: Paul the Deacon's Homiliary, Homily I.41; Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon 121; Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon 177; Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon 128; Augustine, In evangelium Iohannis tractatus; Jerome, Commentariorum in Mattheum
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In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-, 3-, and 4-line homily initials and lesson initials are in red square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; first word of sermon on 3r written in brown rustic capitals highlighted with red; punctuated with punctus, with rare use of punctus elevatus; punctus interrogativus also used; accents and hyphenations in same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420., Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430., Pseudo-Augustine., Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?., and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum; 2) The Venerable Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum, and Nomina regionum atque locorum de Actibus apostolorum; with table of contents, and corrections and notes
Description:
Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-54v; B) copied ff. 55r-97r22, and probably art. 1; C) copied ff. 97r22-101r., Decoration: Headings in red Capitalis/Uncialis or in Gothica Textualis; 2- or 3-line plain or decorated initials, half inserted, in red and/or green; and large red decorated initials with interior spaces., Binding: 19th-century brown leather over cardboard; both covers gold-tooled with a border of fillets and arabesques; gold-tooled spine with gold-tooled inscription. Brown paper endleaves., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Manuscript on paper of St. Jerome, 96 Epistles. With 1) Hieronymus Stridonensis (c. 348-420), Epistulae, and related texts. 2) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Vita Malchi. 3) Table of contents. A later hand has added in the right margin the folio numbers where the various texts are to be found
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In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva. The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded., Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) at the opening of the various texts. On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti., and Binding: seventeenth century (?): brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames.
Manuscript on parchment (well prepared, but with holes and end pieces) in four parts. Part I: 1) Jerome, Liber Hebraicarum questionum in Genesim. 2) Jerome, Epistola LXXVIII. 3) Jerome, Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum. 4) Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum. 5) Abbreviated version of Jerome, Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum, De psalterio. 6) Greek alphabet, from alpha to omega; b) three systems of numbers: Roman numerals, Greek numbers transliterated into Roman letters, letters of the Greek alphabet. 7) Note diuine legi necessarie. Artt. 8-13: Commentaries by Pseudo-Jerome. Artt. 14-17: unidentified commentaries. 18) Unidentified lapidary. 19) De mensuris. 20) Part of a letter of Innocent III (dated 1142) concerning the disputed election at York of St. William Fitzherbert. Part II: 21) Rabanus Maurus, De universo, ending defectively in Book 19, ch. 8, sect. B. Part III: 22) Ambrose, Exameron. Part IV: 23) Eustathius, In Hexaemeron S. Basilii latina translatio
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In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-52): Written by a single scribe in small gothic textura. Part II (ff. 52-172): Written by two scribes in small gothic textura. Scribe 1) ff. 52r-160v; Scribe 2) ff. 161r-172v. Part III (ff. 173-200): Written by one scribe in small gothic textura. Numerous annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Part IV (ff. 201-222): Written by a single scribe in bold gothic textura., Part I: Spaces left for initials (5- to 1-line). Rubrics and running titles in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator, the latter along outer edges of most margins except inner. Part II: Spaces for initials, 6- to 3-line, left blank, with guide-letters in red. Initials within text stroked with red. Headings and some spiral line-fillers in red (lacking in ff. 161-172, final quire). Part III: 6-line initial, f. 173r, divided red and blue with penwork in the same colors; other initials, 3- to 1-line, in blue with red penwork or vice versa. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red. Guide-letters and notes to rubricator in most margins. Part IV: 3-line initial, f. 201r, red with blue penwork; 2-line initials red with blue or vice versa. Guide-letters still visible. Running titles in alternating red and blue versals. Headings in red., and Binding: 14th century. Apparently bound in England before arriving in Italy. Original sewing, wound and caught up, on five tawed skin, slit strap supports laced through tunnels in the edge to the outside of oak boards, laid in channels and pegged with rectangular pegs. The spine is square with no trace of adhesive. Quarter covered with vellum or tawed skin nailed along the edge. The boards are broken, the sewing breaking and most of the cover wanting; the boards were repaired in the 18th or 19th century when presumably the front flyleaf and pastedown from a document, in Italian, listing sale agreements made during 1650-52, were added.
Manuscript on goatskin of Cicero, In Quintum Caecilium divinatio and In Verrem, and texts about St. Jerome by Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona, Pseudo-Augustine, and Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Cicero text: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under some Humanistic influence. Space for headings and large (10-lines) and small initials was provided. Both were supplied s. XVII in brown ink, the initials in a kind of classicising style (on f. 1r in the shape of a tablet with a faun [?] standing in a landscape holding the stems of a plant with both hands)., Scipt: copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis., Decoration: Pale red headings and paragraph marks. Space for large (7-9 lines) and small initials was provided. They were supplied s. XVII in brown ink, by the same hand and in the same style as in the Cicero text., and Binding: 17th century green velvet over pasteboard. At the top of the spine parchment label with s. XVII handwritten inscription "Cic. In Verrem / et / aliquot epi/stolae Patrum / ***."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.