Manuscript on parchment of Gottofredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium. With medicinal recipes and a list of Roman emperors
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations and finding aids by a contemporary hand in less formal script., 5 fine illuminated initials, 30- to 7-line, in blue or pink with white filigree on blue and red grounds framed in blue or red accentuated at the corners by gold dots. Infilled with intertwining or angular vines, some with biting head terminals, mauve or blue with white highlights and gold dots. Ascenders and descenders, red, mauve and blue terminating in spiralling serifs with biting animal heads or grotesques against cusped grounds. Two initials with vines issuing from upper and left corners, blue with white highlights ending in grotesques. 3- and 2-line calligraphic initials, red and blue with blue and red penwork. Plain initials alternating in red and blue. Headings in red; running titles (chapter numbers) alternating red and blue. Instructions to rubricator in lower margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Early sewing on five supports with 19th-century boards covered in parchment. Title on spine: "Gofredo de Trano/ Manuscrit".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Goffredo, da Trani, d. 1245.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality), composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Thomas Aquinas, Super Metaphysicam. Part II: Thomas Aquinas, Super de causis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Written by a single scribe in small gothic book hand. Part II (ff. 121-132): Written in a less accomplished gothic script than that in Part I., Part I: One illuminated initial, rubbed, f. 1r: blue with white highlights on dark red ground with white highlights; terminals of ground extend up and down as modest border in blue, dark red and gold. Flourished initials of various sizes, styles and quality: blue with red penwork designs, red with blue, red with purple (ff. 75r-119r) and red and blue divided with penwork in purple (e.g., f. 88v); some flourished initials with border extensions (e.g., f. 110v). Running headlines in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Traces of guide letters for decorator. Part II: Spaces for decorative initials remain unfilled., and Binding: 14th-15th centuries, Spain. Original sewing on five tawed skin, double supports laced into beech boards. Plain, wound natural color endbands. Single parchment leaf (front) and bifolium (rear), from what appear to be two different Hebrew Bible manuscripts, serve as pastedowns and spine-lining; they have been cut out around the sewing supports. Yellow edges. Covered in what was originally blue tawed skin (now faded) with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails. Traces of title (?) scratched onto skin of upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle. and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Ancient, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Quaestiones de quolibet. 2) A series of Quaestiones on the soul. 3) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura generis. 4) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De principio individuationis. 5) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura accidentis. 6) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De quattuor oppositis. 7) Treatise on the immortality of the soul, being a shortened version of the beginning of Guillelmus de Alvernia (Guillaume d'Auvergne, c. 1180-1249), De immortalitate animae. 8) Thomas de Sutton (d. in or after 1300), De productione formarum substantialium. 9) Thomas Aquinas, De iudiciis astrorum. 10) Thomas Aquinas, De mixtione elementorum. 11) Thomas Aquinas, De aeternitate mundi. 12) Thomas Aquinas(doubtful), De instantibus. 13) Thomas Aquinas, De occultis operationibus naturae. 14) Thomas Aquinas, De principiis naturae. 15) Thomas Aquinas, De natura materiae et dimensionibus interminatis. 16) Thomas Aquinas, De motu cordis. 17) Anonymous (Ps.-Thomas Aquinas), De universalibus. 18) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), De intellectu et intelligibili. 19) Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome, c. 1244-1316), Theoremata de ente et essentia. 20) Anonymous commentary on Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Quomodo substantiae in eo, quod sint, bonae sint (De hebdomadibus, CPL 892). 21) Albertus Magnus, De intellectu et intelligibili. 22) Albertus Magnus, De natura et origine animae. 23) Heymericus de Campo (Heymeric van de Velde, c. 1390-1460), Problemata inter Albertum Magnum et sanctum Thomam, written 1423-1426, printed Cologne, Iohannes Landensis, 1496 (GKW 12405) and 1517. 24) Franciscus de Mayronis OFM (François de Meyronnes, d. c. 1328), attrib., Vinculum de esse essentiae. 25) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), Quaestiones de esse et essentia. 26) 27. Fragments preserved as sewing guards from a printed indulgence issued by Marinus de Fregeno (d. 1486), who sold indulgences for an expedition against the Turks in the years 1473-1480
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: var. Briquet 14871-14872 and 14549?., Script: Probably six scribes, all writing highly abbreviated Gothic scripts., Red stroking of majuscules. Red headings only in art. 23. Red plain or slightly decorated initials, 2-9 lines, sometimes taking the shape of a littera duplex or a flourished initial (f. 49v); no initials in artt. 2-3. At the top of the left-hand column of f. 1r there is a blank space (for a small miniature?)., and Binding: Contemporary unbevelled wooden boards covered with dark brown pigskin, simply decorated with fillets. Spine with four raised bands. Five cylindrical brass bosses and corner and side-pieces on each cover. Remnants of two engraved brass clasps attached to the rear cover, the catches with the inscription “Maria”. Yellow edges.
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Nicolaus de Byard (ca. 1250), Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, often improperly titled Summa de abstinentia (themes treated in alphabetical order). 2) Readings for the liturgical year, referring to the chapters of Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, arranged as follows: the Vespers on Saturdays; Temporale and the feast of the Dedication of the church; Sanctorale ("De sanctis"), at the same time Common of the Saints
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by one hand, writing a small, rapid Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations., Headings and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line half inset flourished initials, respectively with penwork at the opening of the chapters, with guide letters. 6-line littera duplex with penwork in the same colours on f. 1v., and Binding: spine with four raised bands. On the spine and partly on the covers, an 18th century paper title label with handwritten inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur / Velin / Complet / et ********" (cfr. MSS 940 and 941).
