Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing 8 chapters from a Latin manual on letter writing, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Chapters include: De principalibus partibus epistole; De accidentalibus epistolarum partibus; De titulorum epithetorum; De titulis et epithetis secularium et scholasticorum personarum; De kalendarum, nonarum et iduum invencione diversisque temporum annotacionibus; De annorum annotacionibus; De valedictorum positi. Also contains Samuel Karoch von Lichtenberg's Dialogus inter adolescentem et virginem, with marginal and interlinear glosses. Incipit: Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exara[tus] incipit foeliciter
Description:
In Latin., This manuscript is number 4 of 6 titles bound together. The other five texts are printed and include: 1) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Sermo de Passione Domini, nuper e Gallico in Latinum traductus (Strasbourg, [Matthias Schuerer], 1510). 2) Petrus de Rosenheim (1380-1433), Rationarium evangelistarum omnia in se evangelia prosa, versu, imaginibusque quam mirifice complectens, with woodcuts ([Pforzheim], Thomas Anshelm, 1505). 3) Caius Iulius Solinus, De memorabilibus mundi diligenter annotatus et indicio alphabetico prenotatus, ed. J. Badius Ascensius (Speyer, Conrad Hist, 1512). 4) Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus OCarm (1448-1516), Parthenice tertia, divarum Margaritẹ, Agathes, Luciẹ et Apoloniẹ agonas continens, with the commentary of J. Badius Ascensius (Paris, Jean Petit, 1507). 5) Franciscus Florius (c. 1428-after 1480), De amore Camilli et Emilie ([Paris], Jehan Lambert, s.d.)., Script: copied by one hand in two levels of script: large and bold Gothica Semihybrida Libraria for the headings and part of the text; small Gothica Semihybrida Currens for the glosses and part of the text., Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin quarter binding over wooden boards. Two brass clasps attached to the rear board., Decoration: red stroking of the majuscules. Rubricated throughout., and The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907 vol. 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Palm Sunday
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Isidore's Synonyma
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials in brown square capitals highlighted with red; other 1-line initials in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)