Manuscript on parchment of Albertano da Brescia, 1) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi. 2) Liber consolationis et consilii. 3) De amore et dilectione Dei. 4-8) Sermones. 9) De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum. 10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages. 14) Ps.-Seneca, Proverbia. 15) Seneca, De beneficiis (extracts).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal gothic bookhand, below top line., Initials for major text divisions in red with designs on parchment ground, 18- to 4-line, and some (e.g., f. 28r) with modest penwork designs in red and/or black. Small plain initials, 3- to 1-line, rubrics, and paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in tan paper with semi-limp paper sides. Written, in ink, on spine: "De Scientia/ Loquendi/ Tacendi/ Manos" and "Albertani/ Pergomena". On parchment leaves at front and rear: rust stains from five bosses and 2 fore-edge fastenings of an earlier binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent.
Subject (Topic):
Consolation, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, Sermons, Latin, and Theology
Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf (cut in halves in the middle of the height) of Passion of St. Terentianus, bishop of Todi (1 Sept.).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Beneventan script., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in red and yellow. 5-line initials in same colours., Stained with paste. The outer edge is heavily trimmed and 8 rectangular cuttings have caused important text losses in the outer column., and Used in a binding. On the top of the verso, in the middle and at the bottom of the leaf the offset of texts written on a flyleaf (?) of the binding from which the fragments were taken [to be read with a mirror]. In the inner margin of the same verso is an undeciphered 19th-century inscription.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Psalms of the Passion, and other Latin prayers and devotions. The text is preceded by two pages of rubrics in Middle French; there are Middle English rubrics concerning indulgences on ff. 55-57. Several pages contain short pieces of music in the margins, probably in a contemporary hand and The manuscript also contains two miniatures not original to the text. The first (f. 4) is a full-page miniature of St. Christopher in color against a stylized landscape and a gold ground with a title sewn to the top margin, possibly predating its current binding by 50 years. The second (ff. 62b-63) is a double-page miniature of the Adoration of the Magi; the figures are outlined in ink and finished with washes in green, red and blue. Possibly intended as a pattern for embroidery or for wall-painting
Description:
In Latin, with a small number of rubrics in Middle French (ff.1-2) and Middle English (ff. 55-57)., Front and back pastedowns from a contemporary? printed German play about Adam and Eve., Layout: first section in single columns of 17 lines; second section in single columns of 12 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 110 initials in blue with red penwork. Full-page miniature illustration of St. Christopher; double-page illustration of the Adoration of the Magi., and Binding: 16th-century English blind-stamped calf, with panels of heads in medallions, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 819
Image Count:
132
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Petrus Blesensis (Peter of Blois, c. 1135-c. 1204), 1) De amicitia Christiana. 2) De caritate Dei et proximi. 3) Devotional texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: Horn, var. Briquet 7965?., Script: copied by one hand writing a peculiar Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under Humanistic influence., Headings and stroking of the majuscules in red (but some headings are missing). Spaces left blank for inset initials (2-5 lines); guide letters are sometimes visible. A few pointing hands., The top of the leaves badly water-stained, and the edges of the front flyleaves and quire I very defective, with loss of text., The devotional texts include: (a) On the value of attending Mass, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine ("Agustinus"), St. Paul, Luke, Matthew ("Mactheus"), Bede, Gregory the Great, etc. (b) 9 selected Psalm verses. (c) On the value of Confession. (d) On Christian hope., and Binding: original quarter binding: undecorated white leather fixed with a strip of leather and engraved iron nails onto square-edged heavy oak boards; sewing on two split leather thongs. Folio 60 used as pastedown. Remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with a hole of the pin in the front board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing four Latin prayers for personal use. One of the rubrics is in Middle English
Description:
In Latin, with one rubric in Middle English., Probably written for the use of a man named Thomas, as that name is inserted in several passages., Layout: single column., Script: gothic script., and Decoration: Rubricated. Two initials with marginal penwork decoration.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prayers, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of Speculum humane salvationis. With Pseudo-Bonaventura, Meditationes de passione Christi
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in similar gothic textura bookhands. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-90v) in brown ink. Scribe 2 (ff. 91r-104v) in a darker ink and more compressed script. A few marginal comments and corrections of 15th-16th centuries., The manuscript originally contained 192 miniatures, of which 29 have been entirely and 1 (f. 53r) partially removed. Those remaining are drawn in light brown ink and tinted in brown and yellow washes with touches of red. The miniatures on ff. 7r-38v have been redrawn in black ink by a second hand. A dirty tan ground has been added to miniatures on ff. 67v and 68r., 2-line calligraphic initials, blue, at the beginning of each chapter and "figura" or type (I-initials, 6-10 lines; at the bottom of the page, e.g., f. 29v, the I breaks and runs beneath the lowest line of text), with elaborate, angular penwork and flourishes, in red (some, e. g., ff. 17r and 21r, with faces). On ff. 91r-104v 2-line blue initials, plain; spaces for some initials, including a 6-line initial on f. 91r, left blank. 1-line red or blue initials, some of the blue with red penwork. Capital A's in each Amen alternate red and blue. Guide-letters for initials throughout. Paragraph marks, blue. Tituli, inscriptions in miniatures, chapter numbers, and pagination in red throughout. Guide-numbers for pagination still visible, especially on ff. 58v-60r., The parchment is worn and dirty, with many torn and slashed folios. Apart from the folios which are missing entirely, the upper portions (with miniatures) on ff. 47, 53 and 57 have been removed., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Dutch or German? Sewn on six double, tawed cords laced into beech boards and pegged in three holes. Endband cores laid in grooves and pegged. There is an inner cover of pink, tawed skin. Over this is a chemise of thin, white tawed skin stitched to a heavy outer, tawed pigskin cover which extends about 25 mm. at the head, 70 mm. at the fore-edge, and was whip-stitched at the edges. The tail edge has been cut down. Two straps are attached to the upper cover and tacked to the extending skin at the fore-edge with a narrow, tawed thong. There are two square marks where pins were attached to the lower cover. The original sewing cords have broken and have been replaced, a part of the book resewn, and part of the chemise pocket cut away. The ends of the fastening straps and the endbands are wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica., Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration., Mutilated., and Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
