Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Greyish green paper case with a black gold-tooled label: "Aesopus. Sec. XIV"., Rubrics on ff. 2r-6v by same scribe who copied text; another hand added rubrics on f. 1r-v. Spaces for initials left unfilled; guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on paper, in a number of hands, containing a variety of religious and devotional texts, many related to the Franciscan order. Contents include lives of Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, and Anthony of Padua; a poem on the day of judgement in ottava rima; lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary in Italian; writings of St. Bridget of Sweden in Italian; an account of the dedication of St. Lawrence's cathedral in Genoa; St. Anselm's Miracles of the Virgin; and two itineraries of visits to the Holy Land.
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 21). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 69) on the T. Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, Binding: modern full red leather., and Modern binder's blanks (ii + ii) not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment of Book 1, lines 61-120 of Virgil's Georgics.
Description:
Fifteenth-century marginalia on verso., Layout: single column., Previously owned by Bernard Rosenthal. Schøyen MS 61. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, London, 2012 July 10, lot 8) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Script: Beneventan miniscule, in brown ink.
Subject (Name):
Schøyen, Martin--Bookplate and Virgil.--Georgica
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Pastoral poetry, Latin
Manuscript on paper of 1) Servius Honoratus (390-400), De finalibus. 2) Life of Boethius (c. 485-524). 3) Aelius Donatus (350), Ars grammatica, 1.5.
Description:
Leaves are in succession and constitute the central part of a quire, f. 1 being now a singleton and ff. 2-5 a binio., Lower section of the leaves is damaged by mould, badly impairing the legibility, and parts of them are lost., and Script: Copied by two hands, both writing a rapid Humanistica Cursiva. Hand A copied art. 1, Hand B artt. 2-3.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--4th cent
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript leaf, parchment, in a single hand, containing text from the Homiliae in Evangelia of Gregory the Great.
Description:
Ex libris Santa Maria della Colonna di Piacenza. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column, varying length., Leaf also contains the ownership inscription of the Cistercian of Santa Maria della Columba, followed by an anathema against theft., and Script: proto-gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Piacenza (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--approximately 540-604., Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy), and Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy) Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment of Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, translated into Italian. With Office of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus de aeterna sapientia), composed by Henry Suso; and several anonymous, miscellaneous texts.
Description:
[Notes on back pastedown refer to the Venetian monastery for Benedictine nuns, San Zaccaria], Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of wooden boards to channels on the outside and nailed. A tawed skin endband core is laid in grooves and covered with plain, wound primary and red secondary embroidery. Spine: supports outlined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Covered in light brown goatskin with corner tongues, and decorated with interlace squares on their points within concentric frames. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the lower board and the upper one cut in for a red fabric strap attached with star-headed nails. The cover has been varnished., For main text divisions good blue initials with plain parchment designs and red penwork flourishes; elsewhere 2-line initials alternate red with blue harping designs and blue with red. On f. 11r red rectangular page filler at bottom of text space. Small plain 1-line initials alternate red and blue. Headings and paragraph marks in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Remains of guide letters., and Script: Main text written in gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800