Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Song of Moses from a Psalter
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis), below top line., and Decoration: 1-line initials alternate red and blue; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment (leaves are very uneven due to irregular trimming) originally composed of roughly executed full-page illustrations and diagrams that constitute the Speculum theologie
Description:
In Latin., Script: Inscriptions written in gothic bookhand, additions in either textura or running scripts (ff. 2r. 7v)., The illustrations on ff. 1r-7v are drawn in red ink, heightened with green, orange, and yellow. The diagram on f. 8r is drawn in brown and red, touched with blue, red, yellow and gold., Folio 8r darkened and rubbed with some loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of old statutes related to the Carthusian order
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by two scribes in gothic script, one writing littera hybrida script (fols. 1-2) and the other writing littera textualis (fols. 3-4)., and Decoration: there are spaces for 2-line initials and rubrics, but they have not been added; 1-line capitals within text are in black; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
Title and text in lower margin in Latin and German., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., In margin lower center: Cum Priv. Sac. Caes. Maj., The church and monastery depicted were located in Vienna, Austria. The church was erected after the Great Plague of Vienna in 1679., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Vienna (Austria).
Subject (Topic):
Church buildings, Monasteries, Plague, and City & town life
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Quaestiones de quolibet. 2) A series of Quaestiones on the soul. 3) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura generis. 4) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De principio individuationis. 5) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura accidentis. 6) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De quattuor oppositis. 7) Treatise on the immortality of the soul, being a shortened version of the beginning of Guillelmus de Alvernia (Guillaume d'Auvergne, c. 1180-1249), De immortalitate animae. 8) Thomas de Sutton (d. in or after 1300), De productione formarum substantialium. 9) Thomas Aquinas, De iudiciis astrorum. 10) Thomas Aquinas, De mixtione elementorum. 11) Thomas Aquinas, De aeternitate mundi. 12) Thomas Aquinas(doubtful), De instantibus. 13) Thomas Aquinas, De occultis operationibus naturae. 14) Thomas Aquinas, De principiis naturae. 15) Thomas Aquinas, De natura materiae et dimensionibus interminatis. 16) Thomas Aquinas, De motu cordis. 17) Anonymous (Ps.-Thomas Aquinas), De universalibus. 18) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), De intellectu et intelligibili. 19) Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome, c. 1244-1316), Theoremata de ente et essentia. 20) Anonymous commentary on Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Quomodo substantiae in eo, quod sint, bonae sint (De hebdomadibus, CPL 892). 21) Albertus Magnus, De intellectu et intelligibili. 22) Albertus Magnus, De natura et origine animae. 23) Heymericus de Campo (Heymeric van de Velde, c. 1390-1460), Problemata inter Albertum Magnum et sanctum Thomam, written 1423-1426, printed Cologne, Iohannes Landensis, 1496 (GKW 12405) and 1517. 24) Franciscus de Mayronis OFM (François de Meyronnes, d. c. 1328), attrib., Vinculum de esse essentiae. 25) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), Quaestiones de esse et essentia. 26) 27. Fragments preserved as sewing guards from a printed indulgence issued by Marinus de Fregeno (d. 1486), who sold indulgences for an expedition against the Turks in the years 1473-1480.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary unbevelled wooden boards covered with dark brown pigskin, simply decorated with fillets. Spine with four raised bands. Five cylindrical brass bosses and corner and side-pieces on each cover. Remnants of two engraved brass clasps attached to the rear cover, the catches with the inscription “Maria”. Yellow edges., Red stroking of majuscules. Red headings only in art. 23. Red plain or slightly decorated initials, 2-9 lines, sometimes taking the shape of a littera duplex or a flourished initial (f. 49v); no initials in artt. 2-3. At the top of the left-hand column of f. 1r there is a blank space (for a small miniature?)., Script: Probably six scribes, all writing highly abbreviated Gothic scripts., and Watermarks: var. Briquet 14871-14872 and 14549?.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism