Manuscript fragment on parchment of Justinian's Digesta with the glossa ordinaria commentary of Accursius
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis), with a larger script for the text and a smaller script for the commentary (notularis), possibly by a different hand; later marginal and interlinear notes in a cursive hand., and Decoration: 1-line initials are enlarged minuscule forms, preceded by a paragraph mark in blue; running chapter number "II" in the upper center of both sides is red and blue; punctuated with the punctus, though rarely.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Law, Roman
Subject (Name):
Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182-approximately 1260. and Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.52
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Saint Prosper of Aquitaine's Epigrammata. One partial bifolium also contains a fragment of the poem Ad Uxorem, once thought to be by the same author
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: larger initials in red ink; smaller initials in brown ink touched with red ink., and Layout: single columns of 24 lines each.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, containing text from Horace's Epistolae, Book I.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothica textualis., Decoration: Initial letters of lines in margin, touched in red ink., and Some interlinear annotations in a gothic cursive hand.
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in less formal scripts., 8 large initials, 10- to 7-line, of poor quality, pink against gold ground thickly edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, green, orange, and yellow on blue ground. Foliage serifs, pink, blue, orange and yellow with white filigree extending into margins to form partial borders. Gold balls, thickly edged in black. Numerous small initials, 5- to 3-line, pink against gold ground edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, orange and yellow on blue ground. Numerous flourished initials, 2- to 1-line, alternate in red and blue with brown or red penwork. Headings in red by at least two rubricators. Paragraph marks in blue for chapters in tables preceding each book; in red and blue for text., Folio 1r damaged with some loss of text. Most of the decoration is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown leather case, blind- and gold-tooled. Title (citing portion of table of contents for Book II, f. 1r) on spine: "De institutis/ antiquis/ de disciplina/ militari/ de iure" and "Triumphandi".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Formularium novum, copied after an unbound exemplar in the hands of master Ulrich, librarius at the papal court in Rome. Preserved from the end of chapter 531 up to the end of the text, i.e. chapter 586. Many documents have connections with Bologna. Also contains an undated and unsigned letter addressed to a Pope, answering a letter by the General of the Franciscan order and referring to an invasion of property belonging to the writer's family by a certain Tiburtius, made into a formula
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 2 is in another hand, writing a small script of the same type., Headings in red; instructions for them are written in small Cursiva in the margins, together with the chapter numbers. 2-line flourished initials, alternately red with purple and blue with red penwork. Art. 2 is undecorated., The reading is doubtful at many places. The corners and outer edges of the final leaves damaged., and Unbound.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing the Second and Third Sundays after Easter
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: one 4-line initial "I", the body of which is divided into three columns of blue, blue-grey, and light brown, each column decorated with a different pattern of white filigree; the first letter of the rubric is a blue uncial with red penwork, and the rest of the rubric is written in red; punctuated with the punctus; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script, with notation in nota quadrata., Many illuminated, several historiated initials, the rest in red and black penwork. Made for a church where there was a special veneration for Sts. Lawrence, Concordia and Pope Marcus., Many folios are damaged, some were repaired and all were cut off at the upper and side edges., and Binding: old wooden boards covered with leather; metal corners and center pieces, leather clasps; rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books)., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Music