Manuscript on paper of Petrarch, Trionfi (ff. 1r-47r), and Dati, Sfera (48r-76r).
Alternative Title:
Sfera.
Description:
Binding: contemporary, blind-tolled calfskin over wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs. Both covers decorated with a frame and lozenge design. The remains of two brass clasps extant on the front cover., Decoration: In art. 1, space reserved for, but unfilled with, headings between all trionfi; but each trionfo opens with a 3-line blue plain capital. Space similarly reserved for, but unfilled with, headings in art. 2; but also 2- or 3-line blue capitals., Purchased in July 2001 from a private collector on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: copied by two hands both writing Humanistica Cursiva: A, ff. 1r-47r (art. 1); B, ff. 48r-76r (art. 2), in a smaller handwriting.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436. and Dati, Leonardo, d. 1425.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, from an unidentified work on Church rites.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 35 lines., and Script: protogothic.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, containing portions of the lives of saints Nazarius, Celsus, Abdon, and Sennen from the Vitae sanctorum.
Description:
Fragment removed from a binding., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 32 lines., and Script: late Carolingian.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Saints--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of a writ issued in the name of King Henry V of England for the recovery of lands unlawfully entered into, citing acts of Parliament in Westminster, 31 October 1391 and 1420-1421.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Issued at Westminster. Endorsed by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, as Regent of England., Layout: single column of 42 lines., and Script: secretary-influenced Anglicana script.
Subject (Name):
Henry--V,--King of England,--1387-1422. and Humphrey,--Duke of Gloucester,--1391-1447.
Subject (Topic):
Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800., Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page index of readings according to the liturgical calendar and the opening stanzas of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in Latin.
Description:
Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., Ex libris Earl of Egremont; Boies Penrose; Boies Penrose II. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Egremont, George O'Brien Wyndham,--Earl of,--1751-1837--Bookplate., Penrose, Boies,--1860-1921--Bookplate., Penrose, Boies,--1902-1976--Bookplate., Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?, and Wycliffe, John,---1384.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe., Bible.--New Testament., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
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.