Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest) of Ps.-Cicero, Synonyma.
Description:
Belonged to Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano. Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1955., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three slit straps. Quarter bound in white sheepskin. The beech boards are early, 15th century, with title written twice on front and once on back. A leaf-shaped catch on the lower board, the upper one cut in for a clasp strap. Spine covering and clasp strap are recent additions., Initials, 5-line, at beginning of text: red with delicate black penwork designs. Heading and each verbum in red; synonyms connected by a curving red line., and Script: Written in a well formed round gothic bookhand by a single scribe.
Subject (Name):
Ps.-Cicero
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Synonyms
Binding: Twentieth century, England. Quarter bound in alum tawed pigskin, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Title, in ink, on head edge: "Statij. thebaidos". Title on spine: "Statii Thebais/ MS. 1406"., One garishly painted initial, 16-line, red and blue divided with penwork designs in both colors. Spaces left for decorative initials at beginning of remaining books are unfilled. For ff. 1r-13r only: headings, paragraph marks, underlining of passages glossed in marginalia and running headlines, all in red; for ff. 1r-16v: first letter of each verse touched with yellow., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1952 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in scripts ranging from calligraphic mercantesca to a more formal gothic bookhand., and Watermarks, obscured by text: similar in type to Piccard Horn VI.110-29.
Subject (Name):
Statius, P. Papinius--(Publius Papinius)
Subject (Topic):
Epic poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)
Double columns on single page with diagrams., Imperfect: mutilated with loss of text., Manuscript fragment on parchment., and With: In Timaeum Platonis, by Calcidius; manuscript on parchment.
Subject (Name):
Calcidius. In Platonis Timaeum commentarius, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Topica, and Plato. Timaeus
Binding: Sixteenth-century. Blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard (very worn), decorated with a fleuron in the center of the covers, rebacked., Cite as: Saint Jerome, Two Letters on Eremitic and Clerical Life. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on paper of 1) Hieronymus (347-420), Epistola 14 (Ad Heliodorum). 2) Hieronymus, Epistola 52 (ad Nepotianum). The first two pages have interlinear and marginal glosses in Humanistica Cursiva. 3) Johannes Lange (1503-1567), Sibyllae Erythreae Vaticinium, printed in Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, Ecclesiasticae historiae libri XVIII, translated from the Greek into Latin by Iohannes Langus. Copied by two hands in Humanistica Cursiva, with large interlinear spaces: A (ff. 1r-40v = quires I-V, art. 1 and major part of art. 2); B (ff. 41r-47v = quires VI-VII, end of art. 2 and art. 3) writes a more heavy and artificial script, with double-dotted y pointing to Germany; in view of the length of the verses the script is smaller and more compact in art. 3., and Undecorated, except for a Gothic flourished initial in brown ink on f. 1r and a capital at the opening of art. 2, both probably later additions. In art. 3 the initial at the beginning of the text is not executed. The heading of art. 2 is partly in Capitalis.
Subject (Name):
Lange, Johann, 1503-1567 and Saint, Jerome, d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., and Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31.
Subject (Name):
Virgil
Subject (Topic):
Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Dionysius, de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri, Bishop, d. 1342 Paris, Julius Valerius Maximus
Published / Created:
[between 1350 and 1400]
Call Number:
Marston MS 37
Image Count:
296
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. With Dedication to Giovanni Colonna of the commentary of Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri; Commentary on Valerius Maximus by Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri; Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Own parchment endleaves, one cut out in back. Original sewing on five tawed skin slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and fastened. Yellow edges. The natural color, plain wound endbands are sewn through the spine lining on tawed skin cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with vellum extending inside the boards between supports. Covered in red-brown goatskin blind-tooled with an X in an outer frame and crosses made of decorated circles in the divisions. Four fastenings, truncated diamonds at head and tail and shields at the fore edge, on the lower board. The clasp straps are attached with star-headed nails. Traces of five small round bosses on each board. Traces of incised inscription near the head of the lower board. Spine leather missing., In Latin., Large historiated initial, f. 5r, 17-line, mauve with white filigree and stylized foliage in red and green against gold ground, thickly edged in black. Initial filled with a half-length portrait in profile of a man in black robes and a black cap, probably Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri. Foliage serifs, blue, red, mauve, and green with gold balls thickly edged in black extending into the upper and inner margins to form a partial border, which extends as stylized foliage scrolls, blue and purple into the lower margin. Gold balls partially or completely flaked. Numerous illuminated initials, 9- to 4-line, mauve with white highlights, filled with stylized foliage, green, red and blue on blue grounds with white filigree. Initials for the text against gold grounds, thickly edged in black; initials for commentary against blue ground with white filigree. Some initials with foliage serifs, pink, red and/or blue and gold balls thickly edged in black extending into margins. Pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate blue and red with red and purple penwork. Headings in red. Plain initials touched with yellow., and Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs.
Description:
2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167"., Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 55 B.C.-ca. 39 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, Epitaphs, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Two diverse cryptic alchemies written by one copyist and linked by two series of alchemical emblems. The first text, Philosophia hermetica, in Italian verse, is linked to Federicl Gualdi. The second text, Compendiolum de praeparatione auri potabilis veri, is attributed to M[arcus] E[ugenius] Bonacina.
Alternative Title:
Compendiolum de praeparatione auri potabilis veri and Philosophia hermetica