Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.52
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Saint Prosper of Aquitaine's Epigrammata. One partial bifolium also contains a fragment of the poem Ad Uxorem, once thought to be by the same author
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: larger initials in red ink; smaller initials in brown ink touched with red ink., and Layout: single columns of 24 lines each.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, containing text from Horace's Epistolae, Book I.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothica textualis., Decoration: Initial letters of lines in margin, touched in red ink., and Some interlinear annotations in a gothic cursive hand.
Manuscript, on paper, of Walter (Gualterus) de Wervia, Expositio in Isagogen Porphyrii cum quaestionibus Iohannis Duns Scoti. Authorities quoted include Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, the Moderni, and Giles of Rome
Description:
Walter (Gualterus) de Wervia was born at Rijswijk in the Netherlands and died after 1472., In Latin., Script: Small Gothica Semihybrida Currens, in a single hand, with many abbreviations., Layout: Double columns of approximately 47 lines., Decoration: Undecorated. Drawing of a bearded bishop's (?) head, with the caption "Albertus" (i.e. Albertus Magnus), in the margin of f. 27v., Binding: Brown pigskin over pasteboard, the covers framed with a gold-tooled fillet. Rebacked. Spine with five raised bands and 19th-century red leather label with gold-tooled inscription in Gothic letters "Gualt. Burley 1481"., The acid ink has on many pages faded and damaged the paper and made reading difficult., and Number 2 of 2 items bound together. Item extent: 1 item (ii + 119 + 48 + ii leaves).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305. and Premonstratensians.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism and interpretation, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a German gradual, containing parts of the chants for several saints' feasts in November. Interlinear neumes for Gregorian chant
Description:
In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Large and small capitals in red ink. Drawing of a face within one large capital "D."