Manuscript on parchment of Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV. With a Commentary on Eccles. 38.
Description:
Binding: 1837, England. Bound by Gough in London. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a light brown gold-tooled label with title "Liber Sententiarum"., Purchased in 1957 from Quaritch, London, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Red and blue divided initials, 4- to 3-line, for prologue and beginning of books, with penwork designs in the same colors. For other text divisions, 3- to 2-line initials in red or blue with flourishes in opposite color. Distinctio numbers and running headlines in red and blue; rubrics in red. Initial letters of each entry in chapter lists alternate red and blue., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line; annotations added in less formal, later hands.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Scholasticism, Scholia, and Theology
Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked., Only selected leaves scanned., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., Purchased in 1956 from Bernard Quaritch of London by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., The bookplate of Hilprand Brandenberg (hand-colored woodcut of an angel holding a shield representing his arms: an ox passant with a ring in its nose) is pasted below the ownership inscription, to which the shelf-mark "CXXXI" was added by a later hand., and Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13.
Subject (Name):
Brandenburg, Hilprand, 1442-1514, bookplate, Catholic Church --Sermons, Herolt, Johann, and Marston, Thomas E., bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) containing a collection of sermons with abundant annotations and additions by various hands, which on some pages may cover all four margins. With a Commentary on the Passion and Events of sacred history believed to have occurred or to occur in the future on a Friday.
Description:
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 2- or 3-line red and blue plain or slightly flourished initials, with guide letters., Binding: Remnants of an early binding: heavy bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten, formerly covered with a fragment of a parchment manuscript; sewn on three split leather thongs. Endleaves from a missal on parchment (Italy, 14th century), erased., Many irregular lower edges and lower outer corners. A repair of a tear on f. 80 made before writing., and Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria with many abbreviations, especially in the Biblical quotations.
Subject (Topic):
Lenten sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Leonardus de Datis Florentinus OP (Leonardo Dati, c. 1365-1425), Sermones quadragesimales de flagellis peccatorum. Moral sermons for Lent addressed to a Florentine audience, each dealing with a particular vice.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary quarter brown leather and square-edged wooden boards, the leather secured by means of a strip of parchment (largely lost) fixed with iron nails with floral engraved head. Spine repaired in parchment, three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover; one engraved brass catch preserved on the rear cover. Handwritten title in ink at the top of the rear board, very faded: “Sermones Quadragesimales” (16th century?)., Red headings and 3-line (4-line f. 1r) plain initials at the beginning of each sermon in the same colour., Script: Copied by one hand in small and even Gothica Hybrida Libraria with very few abbreviations. The Biblical themes with which the sermons open are by the same hand writing a large Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus) of mediocre quality., Watermarks: mountain, var. Briquet 11663 or 11652?., and Waterstains in the upper and in a lesser degree in the lower margins, but especially in the fold, where the text in the first part and towards the end of the codex is badly affected.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Leonardo,--1408-1472
Subject (Topic):
Lenten sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Vices
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of anonymous sermons, mostly drawn from the Italian Homiliary.
Description:
Attractive pen-and-ink drawings throughout the manuscript, in red, though much of manuscript now stained. Folio 1r with a partial border formed of fantastic beasts, dragons and grotesques. Other drawings in margins include a fantastic bird, f. 9r; a dragon with a human head issuing forth stylized scrolls, f. 40v; a scroll inhabited by a fantastic bird, f. 49r; a lizard-like creature, its tail forming a partial border, f. 53r; a grotesque, f. 73v. Several drawings in the lower margin have been trimmed. Plain initials in red, some with penwork scrolls or simple flourishing. Headings and underlining of Biblical passages in red., Binding: Nineteenth century (?), Italy (?). Brown leather case with title, in ink, on spine: "Homil. in Evangel". Fragment of an unidentified 13th-century Latin document (monastic register?) bound in as second front flyleaf., and Script: Written in a nice large early gothic script, above top line.
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper containing 119 numbered sermons. and Manuscript on paper of Conrad de Brundelsheim, 119 numbered sermons.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with loss of text., Leaf excised between ff. 272-273., Water damaged at top with some loss of text., and With iron chain attached.
Subject (Name):
Brundelsheim, Conrad de
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
Manuscript of sermons, introductory addresses and preambles for the Church year; sermons and introductory addresses for the dedication of a church.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Church dedication sermons, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), 1) Sermones de diversis, nos. 1-32 and 40-42. 2) In psalmum XC sermones XVII. 3) Super “Missus est” homiliae (In laudibus Virginis matris).
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs; plaited leather headbands; spine missing. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of triple fillets and the following stamps: a lare and a small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis; a large and a small rozette; a circular Pascal Lamb; a rectangular stamp with inscription “MARIA”. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the front board., Most pages slightly damaged by the acid ink. Water stains at the bottom of the outer margins of the leaves in the final quires., Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Red stroking of majuscules. Red plain initials (2-3 lines; 4 lines f. 3r, 7 lines f. 73r); red flourished initials with black penwork (9 lines, f. 72r, 7 lines and of a less careful execution f. 116v). All initials have guide letters in the margin., and Script: Two hands writing careful Gothic scripts: A (ff. 3r-71v) Cursiva Libraria; B (ff. 72r-136r) Hybrida Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin