Manuscript on paper (polished) of Gasparino Barzizza, Commentary on Epistolae morales ad Lucilium, 65-124 only
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tour 15909 and Piccard Turm II.617., Script: Written in gothic cursive with humanistic features by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated initial, f. 1r, 8-line, blue with white highlights and burnished gold on gold ground with stylized foliage in green and dark red with yellow highlights. Terminals ending in foliage serifs, red, green with yellow highlights, and gold balls with hairline extensions. Numerous pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate red and bright blue with penwork designs of the other color extending along margin., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays are adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of beech boards. The endbands, which are wanting, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed or held in place by the bosses; they were tied down through a tawed skin spine lining. Covered in sheepskin, originally brick red, with the surface now badly rubbed and shedding. Corner tongues. Blind-tooled with an X in concentric frames. Four leaf-shaped catches with three flowers on each on the lower board, one wanting; the upper board cut in for two kermes pink straps attached with star-headed nails. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and the trace of a chain attachment at the tail of the lower one.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431. and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper, ca. the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, of 1) Bernard Silvestris, De cura rei familiaris; 2) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum; 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta; 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemotechnic verses, calendar tables, lists and other notes; 5) Office for the feast of Our Mary "ad Nives," hymn for the Virgin and Child, and biblical prayers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-6v and 16r-26v in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; B) copied ff. 8r-14r in Gothica Cursiva Currens; C) copied ff. 14v and 27r-36v in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria., Decoration: Red paragraph marks, underlining, stroking of majuscules, rubrics (rare, except in the Calendar, art. 5). Red 1-2-line plain initials. Alternately red and blue 1-2-line plain initials in art. 7. Red KL-ligatures in the Calendar., and Binding: none.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Silvestris, active 1136., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (good quality) of 2) Jerome, Prologus beati Ieronimi presbyteri. 3) Ps.-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae, Neronis imperatoris magistri, ad Paulum apostolum et Pauli apostoli ad Senecam. 4) Complete 6-line text of Anthologia latina 667. 5) Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales. 6) Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii. 7) Seneca, De clementia libri ii. 8) Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. 9) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum liber. 10) 19 sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus and Seneca. 11) Claudian, Excerpta. 12) William of Saint-Thierry, De tribus dicendi generibus. Written in the Cistercian abbey at Igny near Rheims
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand; arts. 11-12 in less expert hands., Carefully drawn monochrome initials with modest penwork designs, 12- to 2-line, in red, green and blue. Headings in red., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Bound in light brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and red label: "Opera Senecae MS". Red edges. Mended at tail. Discoloration from bosses (?) of earlier binding on first and last leaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Ethics, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper and parchment of Seneca's Tragedies
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by three hands. A copied the parchment f. 1r-v in a large Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria/Formata; B copied ff. 2r-177r, 180r4-183v and 185r-216v in a handwriting hesitating between Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria close to Cancelleresca and Hybrida Libraria; C copied ff. 177v-180r3, 184r, 217r-247v in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The majuscules at the opening of the verses are set apart and are carefully executed in various styles; in the main hand B the shape of "S" is conspicuous. The unevenly spread interlinear and marginal gloss is in tiny script by various contemporary hands., and Binding: S. XV northern European binding: red leather over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with frames and St. Andrew's crosses traced in double fillets.
