Manuscript on paper of 1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions; Retractiones. 2) Matthaeus de Cracovia, Tractatus de confessione et puritate conscientiae. 3) Thomas Aquinas, De perfectione spiritualis vitae. 4) Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione. 5) S...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430., Mateusz, z Krakowa, Cardinal, ca. 1330-1410., Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274., and Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery (Canon law), Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Simony (Canon law)
Manuscript on parchment of Durand of Huesca (ca. 1160-1224?), Biblical Distinctiones, an early 13th-century revision of Peter of Capua's (d. 1214) Alphabetum in artem sermocinandi. Marston MS 266 is apparently the only known witness to Durand's revisi...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Durand, of Huesca. and Peter, of Capua, Cardinal.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of 1) Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. 2) Mapheius Vegius, Declamatio seu disputatio inter solem, terram et aurum. 3) Selected speeches from Homer, Iliad IX (Oratio Ulixis, Responsio Achillis, Orat...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Epic poetry, Greek, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of classical Orations, Lives, and Exempla, followed by Excerpts from Valerius Maximus, Excerpts from Xenophon (translated into Latin by Francesco Filelfo), Seneca's Tragedies, Comedies by Terence and Plautus, and other mis...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Classical literature, Latin drama (Comedy), Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc, and Latin drama (Tragedy)
Manuscript on paper of 1) Prologue by the translator, addressed to Henry of Lusignan, Prince of Galilee (d. 1427). 2) Plutarchus (c. 46-120), Vita Luculli, Latin translation by Leonardus Iustinianus (Leonardo Giustiniani, 1388-1446). 3) Plutarchus, Co...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cimon, d. ca. 450 B.C., Lucullus, ca. 117 B.C.-ca. 56 B.C., and Plutarch.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single cursive gothic bookhand, of this popular Latin devotional work on the life of Christ. Long attributed to St. Bonaventure, the work is now considered to be by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus....
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ, Johannes, de Caulibus, 14th cent., and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.), Metamorphoses. With Franciscus de Aretio (Francesco Accolti, 1416/1417-1488), Epigramma Ovidii Metamorphoseos; Life of Ovid, based on that by Arnulf of Orléans
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Latin fiction, Epic poetry, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
