- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 861
- Image Count:
- 698
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Booksellers, Berkeley, CA (MS 111). Purchased from him in 1994 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., and Script: Copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; we see Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3.
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--N.T.--Epistles, Bible--Commentaries, Confession--Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Repentance--Christianity, Science, Medieval, and Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Sunday Epistles; theologico-moral treatises
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- Creator:
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 264
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (irregularly trimmed pieces) of Jean Gerson, De potestate ecclesiastica.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Sewn on three tawed skin support, two pink, the central one green, laced into a thick parchment wrapper. Contemporary title written in ink on back cover: "Tractatus de potestate eclesiastica***". Rodent damage at tail., Crude initial, red with an asymmetrical configuration of red and black penwork designs. Floral line-filler at conclusion of prologue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, mark text divisions. Heading, f. 1r, in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Contemporary sketches of intertwining snakes on ff. i recto and ii verso., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
- Subject (Topic):
- Ecclesiastical law, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De potestate ecclesiastica
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1510]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 907
- Image Count:
- 494
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of 1) Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exarata incipit foeliciter adolescens: 5 chapters of a dialogue between a young man and a young woman. 2) 8 chapters from a manual on letter writing. Bound with a printed text: Gerson, Jean (1363-142), Sermo de passione domini: Nuper e Galiico... (Strassburg: [Mathias Schuerer], 1510).
- Description:
- The woodcuts in this work are allegorical pictures containing the Evangelists’ symbols and figures referring to the principal subjects dealt with in each gospel. Some are hand-coloured. The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907.2
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
- Subject (Topic):
- Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Palm Sunday
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogus samuelis
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1510]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 907
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of 1) Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exarata incipit foeliciter adolescens: 5 chapters of a dialogue between a young man and a young woman. 2) 8 chapters from a manual on letter writing. Bound with a printed text: Gerson, Jean (1363-142), Sermo de passione domini: Nuper e Galiico... (Strassburg: [Mathias Schuerer], 1510).
- Alternative Title:
- Enumerat Matheus ...
- Description:
- The woodcuts in this work are allegorical pictures containing the Evangelists’ symbols and figures referring to the principal subjects dealt with in each gospel. Some are hand-coloured. The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907.2
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
- Subject (Topic):
- Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Palm Sunday
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogus samuelis