Pier, delle Vigne, 1190?-1249 Thomas, of Capua, Cardinal, d. 1243
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 77
Image Count:
317
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Pietro della Vigna, Epistolae. On ff. 120v-130v, mixed in with the letters, is an incomplete text of Thomas of Capua, Summa dictaminis.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1500, Northern Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps reinforced with fragments of a parchment manuscript (Lectionary?) set in channels on the outside of beech boards. The spine is lined with pieces of parchment manuscript, extending inside the boards between supports. Quarter bound in reddish brown leather with a blind-tooled floral roll along the edges (later but early?). Spine: multiple fillets at head, tail and outlining supports on the spine. Panels tooled with X's with fleurons around them and floral tools in squares on their points in the outer panels. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. The lower board is cut in for straps. Title in ink near the head of the upper board ("Epistole Petr. de Vineis de gestis Friderici Romanorum Imperatoris II **") which is cracked and has been repaired., Headings and some marginalia in red (often faded), by two hands, the second of which ruled two parallel lines in lead for each line of headings that were added in a more upright gothic text hand., Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: similar to Piccard Anker VII.181-83, Briquet Monts 11813, and Briquet Indetermines 16061-63; unidentified letter P with forked descender.
Subject (Name):
Pier,--delle Vigne,--1190?-1249
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Used as binding for Daemonolatreiae libri tres / Nicolai Remigii serenissimi ducis Lotharingiae a consiliis interioribus, & in eius ditione Lotharingica cognitoris publici, ex iudiciis capitalibus DCCCC. plus minus hominum, qui sortilegii crimen intra annos XV. in Lotharingia capite luerunt ; miris ac iucundis narrationibus, variarum naturalium quaestionum ac mysteriorum daemonicorum discussionibus, valde suaues & grati, adque sales mouendos imprimis apti.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Iustinus, Epitome historiarum Pompei Trogi, 20.1-3.
Description:
A vertical fold about the middle of the leaf has apparently caused the loss of a narrow section of the text on lines 1-6 and damage to all the subsequent lines; a large stain in the lower half of the leaf has also caused some damage to the text., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley CA, MS 201., Script: Copied by one hand in early Carolingian script., and The text on the recto opens with a half inset 5-line black Insular initial D, filled with yellow and its circumference at the inner and at the outer side decorated with red dots.
Subject (Name):
Justinus, Marcus Junianus and Trogus, Pompeius
Subject (Topic):
History, Ancient, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274 Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141 Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 123
Image Count:
450
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Epistolae of Isidore, Braulio and Sisibutus. 2) Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae. 3) Richardus de Wedinghausen (Richardus Praemonstratensis), Expositio missae. 4) Bonaventure, Sermo VI de assumptione Beatae Virginis Mariae. 5) Extract from Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion IV.14. 6) List of forbidden magical arts.
Description:
2[?] preliminary leaves excised., Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Bohemia. Stays from 15th-century parchment manuscript. Original sewing on three double supports attached to flush, sharply bevelled wooden boards. Spine leather originally sewn around endbands. Covered in cream colored suede-like skin with very faint traces of a blind-tooled X in an outer frame. Spine: double fillets at head and tail; a neat, sewn mend near the head. Pink paper place marks on the fore edge. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board and stubs of kermes pink straps attached to lower one with flower-shaped plates. Trace of a chain attachment near head of lower board; title (mostly effaced) in gothic bookhand near head of upper board., MS waste used in binding., Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in running hybrida script., Unattractive initials in red (or red and black divided) with penwork designs, dots, knobs and/or heart-shaped appendages, all in red and black. Numerous plain red initials of similar design. Headings, running headlines, chapter numbers and initial strokes in red. T-O map of the world on f. 131v in red., and Watermarks for both end papers and text: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.685, Nuremberg 1430.
Subject (Name):
Isidore,--of Seville, Saint,--d. 636
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language--Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Expositio in canticum canticorum, containing points 7, 9, and 14.
Description:
Contained in Zi +7157 2 (Ovid, Opera) as a pastedown extending over the interior surface of both the front and back boards., Decoration: rubrics and initials in red., and Script: written in caroline minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--approximately 540-604
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Song of Solomon--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of 1) Johannes Weitmann, Expositio Passionis. 2) Augustine, Meditationes.
Subject (Name):
Weitmann, Johannes
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Gesta Silvestri papae (d. 335). 2) Excerpts from Liber Quare (11th century?) containing notes on the liturgy and church year. 3) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Sermo. 4) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), Epistula 54. With Anonymous sermons.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1900. Pasteboard covered with large sections of two parchment leaves from a 15th-century antiphonary (?) from Germany, with Hufnagel notation on 4-line staves traced in black, brown and red. The handwriting is Gothica Textualis Formata. The leaf on the rear cover has the folio number “208”., Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis Libraria., and Space for headings not used. A red line-filler on f. 21v. Plain initials of 1-3 lines in red, located partially in the text, partially in the margin, at the beginning of all artt. (except artt. 4, 6 and 12); in art. 1 also at the beginning of the text itself. The words after an initial generally in majuscules; other words often in majuscules are “Maria”, “rex Salomon”, “Amen”.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and Sylvester--I,--Pope,--d. 335
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
