Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence
Description:
In Dutch., Layout: single column of text., Script: gothic., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., and Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Netherlands
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Dutch, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
BEIN Zi 3237: Imperfect: leaf A1 wanting., BEIN Beinecke MS 907: Imperfect: leaf H4 wanting; some leaves bled at head, with partial loss of running title. Blind-stamped quarter pigskin binding over wooden boards; with two metal clasps. Manuscript note on rear pastedown: Anno 1561 22 Febr. 3. g. M. Pauli Bussini Magdeburg. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund. Number 1 of 6 titles bound together., Translated by Jacob Otther., Incipit: Ad Deum vadit., Place and year of imprint from colophon. Colophon: Sermonis de d[omi]nica passione Eexcellentissimi sacraru[m] littera[rum] interp[re]tis Joannis Gersonis celeberrime Parrhisiorum Academie quondam Cancellarii: finis Argentine. M.D.X. Mense Maio., Ascribed to the press of Mathias Schürer., Signatures: A⁴ b⁸ C-D⁴ E-F⁶ G-I⁴., Final page blank., and Title vignette, woodcut; signed HG, possibly Hans Baldung.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Das Leiden Ihesu Christi. 2) Prayers for a woman
Description:
In German., Script: Written in uptight informal batarde by a single scribe., Ordinary blue initials, 2-line, on ff. 1r and 76r, with crude penwork designs in red. Plain 1-line initials, paragraph marks, headings, and letter strokes, as well as some corrections, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Wooden boards, slightly cut in at the fore-edge for two catches on the upper cover and covered in brown calf, blind-tooled in a curvilinear design, are probably early. The rest of the stab-sewn, rebacked binding obviously is not. Upper board detached, fastenings wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Christian literature, German, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, composed of five distinct parts. Part I: 1) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae. 2) Petrus Comestor, Carmen in laudem beatae Virginis. 3) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu gestis Iohannis evangeliste. 4) Pictures of St. Barbara and Thomas Aquinas, and a medieval illuminated initial S (England [?], 15th century) pasted to blank pages. Part II: 5) Stephanus Parisiensis (?), unidentified text supporting the theology of Thomas Aquinas. 6) Augustine, De divinatione daemonum. Part III (paper): 7) Albertus Magnus, De sensu communi. 8) Albertus Magnus, De quinque potentiis anime interioribus. Part IV: 9) Fragment of an account of the Passion of Christ. Part V: Index
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-44): Written by a single scribe in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 45-58): Written by two scribes, the one for art. 5, the other for art. 6, in small, tight gothic cursive scripts. Part III (ff. 59-64): Written by a single scribe in a small gothic text hand. Part IV (ff. 65-66): Written in round gothic bookhand. Part V (ff. 67-80): Written in a neat gothic bookhand., Part I: Blue initial, 6-line, with parchment designs and red penwork harping patterns on f. 1r. Plain initials, 4- to 3-line alternate red and blue. Headings, underlining, paragraph marks and chapter numbers, some initial strokes, in red. Guide letters for decorator in margins. Parts II and III: Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled. Part IV: One initial, 2-line, on f. 65v and remains of another on conjugate stub: red with crudely drawn penwork designs in black and red. Headings, paragraph marks and initial strokes in orange-tinged red. Part V: On ff. 68r-69r every other entry begins with a 1-line plain blue initial; second letter of each entry washed with yellow; citations of Arabic numerals in red. Guide letters for decorator., Folios 65-66, perhaps removed from a binding, are not conjugate: f. 66 is glued to the conjugate stub of f. 65., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Semi-limp vellum case with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Pierson. On spine: "Miscellanea Theologica. Stephanus Parisiensis. S. Augustinus. Albertus Magnus etc. Mss XIVe S".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ, John, the Apostle, Saint., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274., and Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Devotion to., Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of a Devotional miscellany of a Celestine priest containing texts on the Passion and the Sacraments by Augustine, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Anselm, and Bernard, with prayers, hymns, and other anonymous texts
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109., Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430., Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420., Jesus Christ, John Chrysostom, Saint, -407., and Celestines.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Sacraments, and Catholic Church
Manuscript on paper (sturdy but of uneven weight; no watermarks, wavering chain-lines ca. 53 mm. apart) of a collection of excerpts from Biblical commentaries and sermons by patristic writers. Mainly drawn from Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio super Matthaeum; and Bede, Expositio super Lucam. Also includes texts by Leo, Gregory, Gualterus Anglicus, Augustine, Anselm, Ambrose, and Boethius. Sermons written for feast days and about the Passion of Christ
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written mostly by one scribe, perhaps over a period of time, in a small gothic book hand with many abbreviations. Additions by slightly later hands in more or less formal script, e.g. ff. 1v, 3r-5v, 87v-105v., Initials (3-line), paragraph marks, underlining and strokes on 1-line capitals in red., and Binding: Date? Square, flush boards. Trimmed out turn-ins suggest a late date. Covered in vellum with contents and a compass-drawn circle on lower cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ and Remigius, of Auxerre, approximately 841-908.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Catenae, Church year sermons, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Two miniatures, on parchment, both fragments of a Book of Hours, depicting events in the Passion of Christ, both in color with gold and burnished gold. The first depicts the Flagellation of Christ within a stylized architectural frame. The second depicts the Carrying of the Cross in a stylized landscape which includes two other crosses erected against a gold diapered background
Description:
Attributed to the workshop of Jacquemart de Hesdin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacquemart, de Hesdin, active 1380-1411. and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Heinrich von Sankt Gallen (c. 1350-after 1409), Passionstraktat, a treatise on the Passion. With various prayers
Description:
In German., Script: Two scribes: A, called S. Bawman (Baumann), from Nördlingen (Bavaria), writes Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Formata with calligraphic extensions on the top and bottom lines (ff. 2r-140v); B writes Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens (ff. 141r-168v)., Headings and names of quoted authorities in the text in red. Red stroking of the majuscules. Plain initials in red. Decorated initial (6 lines) in purple on gold background with floral engraving, in a rectangular trompe-l'oeil frame in the shape of a green and red stone slab, on f. 2r; with vegetal border (acanthuses in purple, blue, green and yellow in the four margins). On the facing page (f. 1v, art. 1) full-page miniature in a similar frame and with a similar engraved background in gold: the Annunciation, with God the Father in the upper left corner. Border decoration: at the four corners and in the middle of the sides a golden ball with sprays in ink., and Binding: Original (?) brown leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled with central panel and fillet frames with circular and lozenge-shaped stamps: one recognizes a Christ's head, an angel, birds, and a curious stamp in the form of a wooden branch. Remnants of two brass clasps fixed to the rear cover. Spine (repaired) with three raised bands, the upper and lower one over double thongs, the middle one over a single one.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Heinrich von Sankt Gallen. and Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Christian literature, German, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
