Manuscript fragment on parchment of Institutio canonicorum promulgated by the Council of Aachen in 816
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina., The upper section of the leaves and the outer half of f. 2 are missing and the pages are stained, obscuring the text. F. 1 is broken in two parts according to a vertical line., One bifolium, being the outer one of the last quaternio of a codex or of a section of a codex. At the bottom of the blank f. 2v the quire mark "XIIII"., and Heading in red. Black 2-line initials at the opening of the canons.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Council of Aachen
Subject (Topic):
Councils and synods, Canon law, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality) of excerpts from the writings of Church Fathers, canon law, and conciliar documents. There has been extensive scholarly debate about the manuscript's provenance and its relation to other copies of the Pseudo-Isidore Decretals. The manuscript seems to have been written, corrected, and rubricated by multiple scribes and to have been composed in units; the quality of the parchment often changes from scribe to scribe
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf with gold-tooled spine. Boards mostly detached, sewing breaking, part of spine leather wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Isidore.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of Pseudo-Isidore's Decretales
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red square capitals; one initial is in brown; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Decretales, containing the end of an unidentified text and a text containing a portion of the Synod of Tribur (895).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line capital "A" is a red square capital; 1-line initials are in brown capitals; the rubric is written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus.
Bonizo, of Sutri, approximately 1045-approximately 1095
Published / Created:
[between 1125 and 1150]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1154
Image Count:
255
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, containing two works by Bonizo, Bishop of Sutri
Description:
Bonizo of Sutri was born around 1045, probably in Milan, and was appointed bishop of Sutri soon after his arrival in Rome in 1074. He was sent to Cremona as papal legate in 1078. Bonizo sided with Gregory VII during the investiture controversy, and lived for several years under the protection of Countess Mathilda of Tuscany., In Latin., and Binding: modern full red leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bonizo, of Sutri, approximately 1045-approximately 1095.
Rufinus, Archbishop of Sorrento, active 12th century
Published / Created:
approximately 1160-approximately 1180.
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 91
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Rufinus' summa on Gratian's Decretum
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns of 35 lines., Script: protogothic., and Shailor and Watters have identified this fragment as coming from the same parent manuscript as Beinecke MS 712.254.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Bernardo of Parma's gloss on the Decretals of Gregory IX, including sections over liber III
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated gothic script., Decoration: running heads, initials, and rubrics in red; some contemporary marginal commentary., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +156 (Bernhard von Breydenbach, Prefatio in opus transmarine...), in which the fragments are used as front and back endpapers.
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: holes, end pieces). The text is also accompanied by extracts from the gloss of Bernardus Parmensis on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX; these were probably added ca. 1245 or later
Description:
In Latin., Script: Text portion written in cramped bookhand; gloss and additions in several contemporary and later hands, some more cursive, all highly abbreviated., Headings in majuscules alternating red and blue with simple pen scrolls in opposite color. Decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, set out in margins, red with blue designs alternating blue with red. Rubrics, and running titles (book numbers) in red for arts. 1-2. Spiral line-fillers and 1-line initials in red or blue. Notes for rubricator., Some leaves stained and/or mutilated, with loss of text and gloss: ff. 1-3, 45, 84. Defects in leaves repaired with red and blue thread., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Spanish (?). Rigid vellum case; lettering on spine, in black: "Inocenti Decreta". On upper cover, painted inscription in red and blue, that attempts to reproduce heading on f. 1r: "Innocentij".
Manuscript on parchment composed in two parts. Part I (13th century): Nicolaus Tornacensis [?], Commentaria super Exodum 14.4-15.5; Commentaria in Lucam 1.19-1.33. With Philippus Cancellarius, Sermones de tempore; and unidentified texts on canon law. Part II (15th century): Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla in Iosuam; Postilla in Iudices
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by multiple scribes in spiky gothic bookhand, both above and below top line; ff. 59v-60r in a later, less formal gothic script. Part II (ff. 114-165): Written in batarde script, below top line., Part I: Poorly executed initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue or red with designs in opposite color; plain red or blue initials for arts. 1 and 5. Headings and underlining for Biblical passages in red. Part II: Plain initials, 4- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, underlining for Biblical passages, initial strokes and punctuation, in red., Rust stains on ff. 109-113 indicate that Part I was once bound separately., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, France (?). Quarter bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Bound by the same binder as Marston MSS 119, 214 and 236.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a charter of Gregory IX mandating Franciscan friars be received charitably
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in chancery script., and Decoration: large initial "G" and 1-line capitals are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; the rope for the seal is at the bottom of the document; there are no chancery marks or signatures under the fold.
