Manuscript on parchment of Pauline Epistles (Epistola ad Romanos 2.27 through Epistola ad Hebreos 11.34), with commentary of Gilbert de la Porree. With Argumenta, later additions, all attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro or Peter Lombard.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century, United States (?). Half bound in dark red goatskin with gold-tooled lettering on the spine ("St. Paul/ Epistulae cum commento/ MS. 12th Cent."), marbled paper sides, and yellow edges., Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand in two sizes of script, above top line., and Three illuminated initials at beginning of first three Epistles of excellent quality, ff. 34v, 69v, 86v, 8- to 5-line, with descenders extending into margins, red, blue, green and beige against gold ground. Bodies of initials filled with stylized scrolling foliage, bright blue, red, green, orange, silver and yellow with white highlights against gold ground. Descenders serve as a trellis for similar scrolls, some ending in biting animal's heads or fantastic birds. Scrolling foliage, f. 86v, inhabited by beasts of a canine variety, white with red shading. The decoration of manuscript is unfinished; f. 99r pen and ink underdrawing for an initial as above, with only touches of red added; blank spaces left for initals for remaining Epistles. Small initials, 3-line, gold with red penwork, for beginning of commentary for each Epistle. Headings in red or alternating red and blue majuscules. Plain initials touched with red. Running titles, later addition, in red.
Subject (Name):
Gilbert, de La Porrée, Bishop, ca. 1075-1154, Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1263, Paul, the Apostle, Saint, and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and I-IV Kings.
Description:
19 pen-and-ink drawings with washes in red, green, blue and pale yellow, some inserted into the text column, others up to half-page size dealing with the Tabernacle in the Desert and the Temple of Solomon: the drawings serve to clarify the written text by depicting differences in interpretations between Jewish and Catholic exegesis; contrasting drawings are usually juxtaposed and labelled with the respective source for each., Binding: Modern restoration? Limp vellum case with earlier title (mostly illegible) running lengthwise on spine and later title added at top of spine: "Fr. Nicolai de Lyra ord. min. Commentaria in Libro historico Sacrae Scripturae"., ff. 43-44 loose., Many fine flourished initials, red and blue divided, 9- to 3-line, with penwork designs in red, blue and/or purple; somewhat smaller less ambitious initials alternate red and blue with designs in the opposite color. The minor decoration appears inconsistently, with running headlines, rubrics, paragraph marks and underlining of Biblical texts, in various colors or totally absent., Purchased in 1958 from Emile Rossignol, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., and Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas,--of Lyra,--ca. 1270-1349
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Historical Books, Bible.--O.T.--Pentateuch, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment composed in two parts. Part I (13th century): Nicolaus Tornacensis [?], Commentaria super Exodum 14.4-15.5; Commentaria in Lucam 1.19-1.33. With Philippus Cancellarius, Sermones de tempore; and unidentified texts on canon law. Part II (15th century): Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla in Iosuam; Postilla in Iudices.
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries, France (?). Quarter bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, over oak boards. Bound by the same binder as Marston MSS 119, 214 and 236., Part I: Poorly executed initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue or red with designs in opposite color; plain red or blue initials for arts. 1 and 5. Headings and underlining for Biblical passages in red. Part II: Plain initials, 4- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, underlining for Biblical passages, initial strokes and punctuation, in red., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Rust stains on ff. 109-113 indicate that Part I was once bound separately., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by multiple scribes in spiky gothic bookhand, both above and below top line; ff. 59v-60r in a later, less formal gothic script. Part II (ff. 114-165): Written in batarde script, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas,--of Lyra,--ca. 1270-1349
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Luke, Bible.--O.T.--Exodus, Bible.--O.T.--Joshua, Bible.--O.T.--Judges, Bible--Commentaries, Canon law--Early works to 1800, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Haimo, of Auxerre, d. ca. 855 John, of Wales, 13th cent
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1350; 1290 and 1325]
Call Number:
Marston MS 223
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
A composite manuscript written in different locations and periods: Part I was written in Italy in the first half of the 14th century; Part II was probably written in England (or Northern France?) at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century. The index was added on blank leaves in Italy in the 14th century, perhaps at the same time that Parts I and II were joined together to form the present codex. and Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I: 1) Brief prologues to the Pauline Epistles, paraphrasing or extracted from the argumenta of Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio in epistolas Sancti Pauli. 2-4) Notes for sermons arranged according to the liturgical year. Part II: 5) Unidentified sermons. 6) John of Wales, Breviloquium.
Alternative Title:
Haimo of Auxerre; John of Wales, etc.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Backs of quires cut in for original sewing. Brown calf case, blind-tooled., Part I: Red initials, 3- to 2-line, with crude harping designs in black; headings and paragraph marks (art. 3) in red. Instructions for rubricator. Part II: Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue; headings, often added in margin, in red. Remains of guide letters for decorator., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Scribe I copied ff. 1r-6v in small gothic bookhand with southern features; Scribe II copied ff. 7r-24r in a somewhat more angular gothic bookhand; additions by different scribes on f. 24r-v. Part II (ff. 25-78): Arts. 5-6 copied in small neat gothic bookhand, by a single scribe; some marginalia added in anglicana script (e.g., f. 46v); art. 7 added in a less careful gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Haimo,--of Auxerre,--d. ca. 855
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul, Bible--Commentaries, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholasticism, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper of 1) Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun, c. 1090- c.1150), Expositio in psalmos CI-CL et in cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 2) Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202), Glosatura super cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 3) Notes on the Book of Psalms, its subdivisions, significance, on Ps. 1 and Ps. 150, etc. 4) Extracts on the Psalms from a florilegium of the works by or attributed to St. Augustine, called Summula Florigeri sancti Augustini. 5) Treatise on the virtues and vices arranged according to the course of the sun through the signs of the Zodiac; the names of the months and of the zodiacal signs are given in Latin and in German, with examples from the Bible and legend. 6) Miracles and legends. 7) Copy of a notarial document. 8) Isidorus Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville, d. 636), Quaestiones in vetus testamentum. 9) Vision of the horrors of Hell shown to St. Paul of Thebe (Paulus Eremita, 228-341). 10) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353). 11) Two sermons on the Immaculate Conception, quoting many exempla. 12) Incomplete legend of St. Catharine of Alexandria. 13) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De essentia divinitatis: an excerpt from Eucherius Lugdunensis (Eucherius bishop of Lyons, d. c. 450), Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, chapter 1.
Description:
Script: Apparently four hands: A writing a bold Gothica Hybrida Libraria copied ff. 1r-186r and 201r; B writing Gothica Cursiva Currens copied ff. 189r-199va15; C writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens copied ff. 199va16-200v; D writing Gothica Semihybrida Currens copied ff. 203r-299v; the document on f. 226v is probably in the same handwriting. Scribe D is the unrecorded Hinricus Landesberch in Wernigerode.
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
Description:
Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin, Bible.--Latin.--Vulgate, Bible--Commentaries, Bible--Prefaces, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library