Humanist, Computistic, Liturgical and Devotional Miscellany

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Title: Humanist, Computistic, Liturgical and Devotional Miscellany
Creator: Bernard Silvestris, active 1136
Published / Created: [ca. 1499].
Publication Place: Netherlands (Utrecht)
Abstract: Manuscript on paper, ca. the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, of 1) Bernard Silvestris, De cura rei familiaris; 2) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum; 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta; 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemotechnic verses, calendar tables, lists and other notes; 5) Office for the feast of Our Mary "ad Nives," hymn for the Virgin and Child, and biblical prayers
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-6v and 16r-26v in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; B) copied ff. 8r-14r in Gothica Cursiva Currens; C) copied ff. 14v and 27r-36v in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria.
Decoration: Red paragraph marks, underlining, stroking of majuscules, rubrics (rare, except in the Calendar, art. 5). Red 1-2-line plain initials. Alternately red and blue 1-2-line plain initials in art. 7. Red KL-ligatures in the Calendar.
Binding: none.
Extent: ff. 38 : 215 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Renaissance Netherlands 16th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance Rhineland (Germany) 15th century
Manuscripts, Renaissance Rhineland (Germany) 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Bernard Silvestris, active 1136.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bernard Silvestris, active 1136
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Didactic literature, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Netherlands > 16th century
Rhineland (Germany) > 15th century
Rhineland (Germany) > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Bernard Silvestris, Humanist, Computistic, Liturgical and Devotional Miscellany. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.