In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, using Uncial and Half-Uncial d. Headings in red. Alternately blue and red 1-line plain versals. Alternately blue and red 2-line flourished initials, respectively with red and purple penwork., and Manuscript on parchment of fragments of a Psalter in which the Psalms (or parts of them) seem to have been arranged according to various intentions; an unknown number of leaves is missing between ff. 1 and 2. Including Psalms 31, 37, 50, 142, and the Kyrie eleyson.
Manuscript on parchment of a Liturgical Psalter (Pss. 1-108) with hymns, canticles, and antiphons. Capitals A and B in outer margins every two Psalms, perhaps to denote change in reader. With Hymns for Matins and Lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a large round gothic bookhand., One crude historiated initial, 6-line (Ps. 1): David seated on ground with both hands raised in prayer, against a blue ground, the letter-form tan, orange, and red with white filigree; large blue, green, pink, and red acanthus leaves at the corners, against a gold ground, edged with two thick black bands, penwork, gold dots, and hair-spray. In bottom margin a "YHS" monogram, against a blue ground, inside sunburst and green, pink, and blue wreath, supported by large bud from which sprout two large acanthus leaves, red berries, gold dots and hair-spray, as above. 6- or 5-line initials red and/or blue, with large green or red dots, elaborate purple calligraphic decoration, portions filled with green and tan. 2-line initials, red or blue, with calligraphic ornament and flourishes, as above. 1-line initials, blue or red, with guide-letters throughout. On f. 160v a large pen drawing of a hand pointing to text., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on five tawed skin straps. Plain, wound endbands on cores laced into tunnels in the edges of heavy wooden boards. Covered with three separate pieces of dark brown leather (cowskin?) with leather straps extending across the spine and nailed to the boards over the sewing straps. Each board has four corner pieces, a central boss and a strip of metal, probably iron, nailed around the four edges. Strap and pin fastening, the pin on the lower board, stubs of pink, tawed straps attached to the upper one. Fragments from several parchment manuscripts and early printed texts used as binding reinforcements.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Prudentius (beginning of the fifth century), Psychomachia, with interlinear and marginal glosses by various hands in Latin and Italian, variant readings and corrections
Description:
In Latin, with Italian glosses., Script: Copied by one hand writing an uneven Southern Semitextualis Libraria with some two-compartment a's. The scribe Ciutus is not recorded., Red stroking of the majuscules. 2-line red plain initials. Larger and more elaborate initial in red and black at the opening of the text. Numerous pointing hands., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellow parchment over pasteboard, both covers framed with a gilt running scroll. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "PRUDENTII PSYCHOMACHIA . COD. SEC. XV (?)".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prudentius, 348-
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Christian poetry, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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 parchment of Guido de Baysio, Rosarium decretorum, secunda pars. Missing leaves throughout.
Description:
Binding: Date? Brown leather over wooden boards, possibly early. Blind-tooled with concentric frames of fillets and a rectangular rope tool. Hearts in a central panel. Four fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Heavily restored., One fine miniature, f. 1r, 23-line, without frame, bishop enthroned under baldachin instructing the clergy; two trees at sides; two birds above. In lower margin, a roundel with a portrait of a student, in a blue, pink and white frame, surrounded by spiral foliage and large gold dots. At the end of the volume, f. 212v, a roundel with a portrait of an older man, with a thick red and blue frame with blue, green, and gold dots. Thirty initials, 16- to 12-line (ff. 1r, 15v, 36r, 45r, 47v, 52r, 59r, 64r, 68v, 81r, 92v, 96v, 100r, 103v, 123v, 127r, 129r, 131r, 137v, 156v, 163r, 163v, 166r, 166v, 172r, 174r, 190r, 190v, 193r, 194r), most with a single, some with as many as three figures, bishops, priests, monks, students, and women, either reading, instructing or debating; in one case, f. 194r, a priest celebrating mass (De consecratione). The figures set against navy blue grounds with white filigree; the initials shaded pink, orange, red, blue and green against square gold grounds with white filigree, framed in black, blue or green; curling foliate serifs attached to bar stems in inner or central margin, interrupted by initials in margin, blue, light blue, grey, pink, orange, red, and black, extending full length of margin; with large spiral foliate terminals with gold dots and flourishes in brown ink, often incorporating roundels, some with additional figures or birds. Numerous small, 4-line, flourished initials, red with blue flourishes and vice versa, as well as red and blue alternating paragraph marks throughout. Running titles added along upper edge., Script: Written in elegant round gothic bookhand secundum pecias., and Written probably in Bologna from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias.
Subject (Name):
Guido,--de Baysio,--d. 1313
Subject (Topic):
Canon law--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Pecia
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing: an unidentified prayer; prayers for before and after meals; benedictions; and prayers for the exorcism of people possessed by devils (including candidates for baptism).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials are red rustic capitals with single round "D"; 1-line initials are brown uncials; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; accents in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing votive masses
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line initials in red square capitals; 1-line capitals in brown uncials; rubrics written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; a thirteenth-century hand has added text in the margin; there are numerous erasures and corrections in the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae V.56-XVI (lines 29-94 of Satire XV are interpolated between lines 293 and 294 of XIV). 2) Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-V.59; V.149-191
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Echelle 5904, 5908 and Harlfinger Fleche 12., Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic script. Marginal notes and corrections in several hands., Plain decorative initials with vine work designs, outlined in ink but not painted, mark the beginning of satires. Initial of each verse stroked with red (much faded). Spaces left for headings., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum non-adhesive binding.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. 2) Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-VI.
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14873., Script: Written in humanistic script by a single scribe., Six illuminated initials in blue or green, 6- to 5-line on gold rectangular grounds (ff. 1r, 20r, 32v, 45v, 59r, 76r); smaller initials, in blue, for the remaining satires., and Binding: Sixteenth century (?). Vellum stays and vellum reinforcement of own end leaves. Resewn on three slit straps bound in wooden boards covered in brown leather, blind-tooled, with two catches on the upper board. Too heavily restored to tell much about the binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Satire, Latin