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
Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on paper of 1) Collecta super grammatica, final part. 2) Full declension of the degrees of comparison of “doctus”, “fortis”, “sapiens” and “bonus”. 3) Antiphon for Purification, with musical notation..
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper over pasteboard., From the library of John Milton Berdan, Yale 1896. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red heightening of the majuscules and red decoration of the horizontal lines separating the various sections of the text of art. 1, art.1 up to f. 4v; reserved initials (not executed) in the same art.; no decoration in the second part of art. 1 and in artt. 2 and 3., Script: Three hands: art. 1 is copied by the scribe Conrad Payel in a highly abbreviated Gothica Cursiva Currens; art. 2 is in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 3 in the same type of script; "Hufnagel" musical notation., and The fragments are badly cropped, soiled and damaged and important text parts are lost; reading is very difficult. Rectangular excisions at the upper or at the lower edge of the leaves.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Hippocratic oath. With a text headed Nicolaus Perottus Jaboco Constantio, and a portion of De Primo bello Punico, by Leonardi Bruni Aretini.
Subject (Name):
Hippocrates
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic War, 1st, 264-241 B.C
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Epiphanius Scholasticus, Historia tripartita, an ecclesiastical history.
Subject (Name):
Epiphanius,--Scholasticus
Subject (Topic):
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on the Gospel of Luke, containing extensive commentary on chapters 19:41, 19:45 and 19:47: the Temple of Solomon, Jesus' prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem and his ejection of the money-changers from the Temple.
Description:
Script: Late Carolingian handwriting with Italian features.