Manuscript on parchment (fragments) of Eugippius (c. 500), Excerpta ex operibus sancti Augustini
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in early Carolingian handwriting of the type described by B. Bischoff as "Arn minuscule"., and Binding: twentieth century quarter binding, parchment and purplish decorated paper over pasteboard.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Eugippius.
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
Manuscript on parchment of William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. Text supplied on f. 10v in the second half of the 15th century. With excerpts from St. Bernard (?) on the Virgin Mary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in compact gothic script with numerous corrections and notes in contemporary and later hands, 13th-15th centuries., Decorative initials, divided red and blue, 3-line, with extensive penwork designs and cascades also in red and blue, for the beginning of each book of art. 5 and for art. 6. Simple initials, red or blue, 2-line, with penwork designs of the opposite color throughout the codex. Running titles (e.g., FLO. B. I) in red and blue; headings, chapter numbers, and underlining, in red., Outer column of f. 140 cut off; no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case with two ties and two black, gold-tooled labels: "Flores ex operibus B. Bernardi" and "M. S. XIII-XIV C." Wound, caught-up sewing, wound endbands, and vellum lining on the spine between sewing supports. On front and back flyleaves: Deed, in Latin, dated 26 March 1450, issued by Antonius Longobardus [several letters or words lost in binding] neapolis Reginalis ad contractus Iudex. The document was cut in half and trimmed to serve originally as pastedowns; considerable loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. and William of Tournai.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
1423.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 393
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (coarse) composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-84): 1) Long extracts from Hugh of Strasbourg. 2) Speculum humane saluacionis. 3) Statutes of Prague. 4) Commentary of Joannes Andreae on the second Clementine decree Ad nostrum qui desideranter promulgated against Beghards and Beguines in November 1311. 5) Theological notes. 6) Albert of Diessen, Speculum vel lavacrum sacerdotum. Part II (ff. 85-234): 7) Conrad of Brundelsheim, Sermones de sanctis
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I similar to Piccard Kreuz III.805; unidentified mountain and unidentified bull's head. Part II has two similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 15229 and to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.288; unidentified horn and elongated bell., Script: Part I: Written by three scribes in a running hybrida script: 1 (ff. 1r-75r; arts. 1-3); 2 (ff. 75r-79v, 84v; arts. 4, 5); 3 (ff. 80r-84r; art. 6). Part II: Written by several scribes, all in various styles of running hybrida; ff. 133r-145v, 234r-v is the same hand as Scribe 2 of Part I., Part I: Plain initials, 6- to 2-line, in red; headings in red or black in gothic textura, those in black often enclosed by red rectangles; initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for rubricator in margins. Part II: Plain initials, 5- to 2-line, in red; headings and final colophon enclosed in red rectangles; initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for rubricator., Pattern of stains on ff. 84v-85r suggests parts were originally separate books., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on tawed slit straps laced through a tunnel in edge to outside channels in flush wooden boards, pegged with rectangular pegs and the channels filled in. Plain, wound endbands sewn through the spine lining onto tawed cores laced into the back cornering of the boards. The spine is rounded with a parchment lining (unidentified liturgical text: Germany, 12th century) that extends on the inside of the boards between sewing supports; parchment reinforcement strips from same manuscript and from others. Remains of parchment bifolios of a liturgical manuscript (Germany, 13th century) glued inside both covers. Length of page and written space: 121 (88) mm.; 6 mm. between rulings for text. Covered in cream colored, tawed skin. Five hat-shaped bosses and two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board. The lower board is cut in to accomodate the straps. Parchment label glued to upper board: "de sacramentis Speculum humanae saluationis/ Questiones bone Sermones de sanctis;" added below in another hand: "de Sacra questione [?] bo. S. de. S." Lettering on tail: "de sacra question: bo. S. de." Straps wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Prague (Czech Republic)
Subject (Topic):
Beguines, Church year sermons, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment of Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as lais. All of Books I and VI, and part of Books II and V are missing
Description:
In French., Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each chapter. Headings in red. Guide letters for decorator., Many leaves stained, damaged, but with little loss of text, except on bottom of f. 1 and top of f. 36, which are torn with loss of text., and Binding: Thirteenth century, England. Original wound, caught up sewing with heavy thread, on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of oak boards and wedged. The natural color endbands are sewn on leather cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. The spine is back bevelled. Covered in tawed skin, originally white, but now dark brown on the outside. The turn-ins of the upper board are serrated. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins (traces only) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the fabric-reinforced leather straps. Some sewing supports broken, one board detached, and some covering leather and straps wanting.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pierre, de Peckham, -1293.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Laity, Books and reading, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and Study and teaching
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Composed of two distinct parts. Written by multiple scribes in cursive, with or without loops., Part I (ff. 1r-92v): illustrated with 79 column miniatures; two others on ff. 83v and 85r have been cut out. The miniatures are simple pen drawings, tinted pink, red, tan, purple, and blue, in pen-ruled frames, tinted in yellow; on ff. 18r and 22r with ivy leaves on hair-line stems at corners and centers. On f. 16v an unframed drawing of the carpenter's pax. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with black or red penwork. First letter of each verse stroked in yellow. Proper names in red., Part II (ff. 93r-129r, 129v-141v) has two distinct formats. Between ff. 93r and 135r (art. 5), two 2-line initials, red, with simple brown penwork. Some capitals stroked in red or yellow. Between ff. 135v and 141r (art. 6), three crude tinted drawings, red, green and brown, in initials, either divided red and brown with red flourishes and dots, or red, with a scroll and a fish incorporated. Three drawings cut out from ff. 135v, 136v and 137r. Space left for one drawing on f. 139r and for two on f. 140v. 2-line initials in red, some with red penwork., Folio 1r-v damaged, with loss of text and parts of miniatures., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label. Edges spattered red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Cosmography, Devotional literature, Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Full page woodcut on title page, which reads: Liber de vilitate conditionis humane., Final leaf entitled: De proprietatibus romanorum., and Signatures: a8-d8, e4.
Minorica elucidativa racionabilis separationis fratrum minoru[m] de observantia ab aliis fratribus eiusdem ordinis
Description:
BEIN Marston MS 277: Bound with manuscripts relating to the Franciscan Order., BEIN Marston MS 277: Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on verso F6: Mors tua mors [Christi] trans mu[n]di gaudia celi et dolor inferm. sint meditenda tibi. Armorial Bookplate of Marston. Gift of the Library Associates., BEIN Marston MS 277: Binding: sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491., Authorship also attributed to Alexander de Ariostis., and Signature: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁶ E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank).
Manuscript on parchment. Includes: Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus; Eusebian Canons; the New Testament; Epiphanius of Cyprus, In Sabbato magno; and John Damascene, De dormientibus in fide
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written throughout in an extremely small Greek minuscule, by five scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-32v and 171r-173r; Scribe 2, ff. 33v-68v; Scribe 3, ff. 69r-168r; Scribe 4, ff. 168r-170v; Scribe 5, ff. 173r-188v. Notes added on f. 33r (originally blank) and in margins by various later hands; in some of the notes on f. 33r Latin letters are used for Greek words., Two headings and title of Matthew in blue (f. 37r). Initials in red with simple floral ornament. Extensive rubrication. Headpieces and bars between sections in red, blue, green and yellow (all faded). Eusebian Canons done with compass and ruler, in red and blue., Several folios originally had holes, which have been written around., and Binding: Date? Original sewing on three chain supports laced in a Z pattern into square, flush wooden boards, grooved on the edges. Two pin holes in the edge of the upper board and three holes for each strap in the lower. Traces of rectangular plates (?) at the fore-edge near the head of the upper board and the tail of the lower. Rebacked and the sides covered with cloth.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
The first and last pages and page 15 are blank., Includes, in Latin, his Divinae institutiones, liber 7; De ira Dei; and De creatione hominis., and Med: Later Italian binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Publisher:
Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) and Simon Nicolai Chardella
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Philosophy, and Theology
