Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini : [and other tracts]
Image Count:
11
Description:
Bound with: Martinis, O. de De vita ... S. Bonaventurae. Rome, 1482. Barberiis, Ph. de. Carmen in laudem Sexti IV papae. Rome. 1481. and Modern foliation employed.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo and Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Bible -- Commentaries, Sibyls --Early works to 1800, Theology -- Early works to 1800, and Women prophets --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[Rome : Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 1st December 1481]
Manuscript on parchment of theological and moral treatises.
Alternative Title:
[Trattato di teologia morale in quattro libri:] ms., on parchment, in Italian. With Viridarium consolationis, and Tractatus scale: ms., on parchment, in Italian
Description:
Binding: 19th century (?). Quarter binding, parchment (from a music manuscript with 4-line red staves?) and paper printed in a rose and white decorative pattern over cardboard. On the front cover, in s. XIX handwriting: "Trattato di morale e teologia"; on the spine, in 19th century handwriting: "M.S. / 1421". Blue sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 2- and 3-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue with very developed penwork in the contrasting colours in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space; at both ends the penwork terminates in conspicuous corkscrew ornament. 3- and 4-line litterae duplices with a yet more elaborate execution of the same type of penwork on ff. 2r (beginning of art. 2), 35v (2, beginning of art. 3), 52v (beginning of art. 4). The additional artt. 5-9 are undecorated., Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: main text is copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Formata. The additional artt. 5-9 and the notes are written in extremely small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, all probably by Dominicus de Seraphinis., The first page is badly soiled., and The manuscript contains: 1) Gerardus de Prato OFM, Breviloquium in sententias. 2) Iacobus de Benevento OP (s. XIII2 , Ps.-Bonaventura), Viridarium consolationis. 3) Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella OP (1250-1300), Scala fidei, second recension. 4) Note on the ten virtues. 5) Quodlibet questions with answers based on Raymundus de Pennaforti (d. 1275). 6) Note on the real existence of Purgatory. 7) A legal note on the conditions on which toll must not be paid for the transportation of goods, quoting Henricus de Segusio (Hostiensis, d. 1271). 8) A note about the four senses of Scripture.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics., Christian literature, Latin., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 256
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary. 2) Litanies of the Virgin, of Christ on Ascension Day, of St. Jerome on his feast day. 3) An account of the visions of St. Magnus, and the story of St. Magnus's burial and subsequent translation to the church of San Geremia in Venice. 4) Legend of the three monks in Paradise. 5) Exhortation to suffer illness patiently citing three exempla from St. Gregory's Dialogues. 6) Lists of the 7 works of spiritual mercy, the 7 works of corporal mercy, the 7 sacraments, the 7 virtues, the 7 mortal sins, the 5 senses, the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. 7) Unidentified sermon. 8) Anselm of Canterbury, Commendatio animae. 9) Short unidentified text attributed to Gregory I.
Alternative Title:
Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary, etc.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and pegged twice. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine is lined with leather between supports. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a central rectangle in concentric frames. Two fastenings; holes from pins on the lower board, the upper one cut in for straps which are fastened with star-headed nails. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; an X of triple fillets in the panels which are bordered with double fillets on the sides., Crudely executed initials red with blue and/or red penwork designs and vice versa; initials on ff. 7v-8v have green added. Blue headings accompany red initials and red accompany blue. Initial letters stroked with red throughout. Line filler in red, blue and yellow on f. 6r., and Script: Written in small round gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Magnus,--of Anagni, Saint,--d. 254, and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library