Manuscript on parchment (rough, poorly prepared) of Petrus Quesvel, Directorium iuris. With Eleven short blessings at Easter for meat, cheese, bread, salt, and lard, added in the 15th century.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Brown calf over wooden boards, with the leather sewn around the endbands., Part of outer column of f. 189 cut off, no loss of text., Red and blue split initials, 18- and 16-line, with elaborate penwork designs and plain full border in red and blue mark beginning of Books 1 and 2 (ff. 1r, 91r); smaller initial with partial border at beginning of Books 3 and 4 (ff. 191r, 297r) and for the two parts of art. 3 (ff. 428r, 439r). Numerous initials, 5- to 2-line, alternate blue with red flourishes and vice versa. Running titles in red and blue, paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator, but rubrics never supplied. Initial strokes and underlining, in red, for arts. 2 and 3., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a hasty cursive schoolhand.
Subject (Name):
Quesvel, Petrus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
2 leaves (of 4) trimmed with loss of right columns. and Also in folder: Bibliographic note from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. and notes in pencil by the Dutch dealer von Scherling, who compared the fragments to Reichling's edition of 1893 and found numerous substantial text variants.
The offset on f. 53v of an elaborately decorated border for the opening leaf of the office of St. Felicitas suggests that the codex was originally produced for an institution associated with this saint.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, In tertium librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from an exemplar vended by Guglielmus Senonensis, stationer on the rue St. Jacques.
Alternative Title:
Comment on the 3rd book of sentences of Peter Lombard
Description:
Binding: 1899. Quarter leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled label and brass clasps. Bound by Douglas Cockerell (stamp with date inside back cover)., Script: Written in neat gothic textura by a single scribe secundum pecias (notations along bottom of leaves, mostly trimmed)., Small decorative initials in red and/or blue with penwork designs of either or both colors; notes for illuminator in margins. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue throughout; running headings in red and blue., and Some folios mended with chartreuse thread.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Cutting of an initial I ("Intret") at the beginning of the chants for the mass for the Common of Martyrs. On the verso only a few letters are preserved.
Description:
Illuminated ornamental initial (1 stave) on gold background., Double ruling in beige ink., On parchment., and Written in large calligraphic Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The music is written in nota quadrata on 4-line red staves, width 38 mm.
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429 Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322
Published / Created:
s. XV mid [mid 15th century]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 753
Image Count:
87
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
De arte audiendi confessiones
Description:
MS includes one letter and one postcard addressed to Reinhold Schmidt by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa; dated 1895 June 29 and November 9, respectively., On paper., Other bibliographic notes by Heydebrand und der Lasa on free endpaper and flyleaf., and With: De arte audiendi confessiones by Jean Gerson; paragraphs 1-21.
Subject (Name):
Heydebrand und der Lasa, Tassilo von, 1818-1899 and Jacobus, de Cessolis, fl. 1288-1322. De ludo scachorum
Subject (Topic):
Chess --Early works to 1800, Confession -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800, and Sin -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800