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
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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, of an Italian translation of Book 8, chapters 4-5 of the Facta et memorabilia dicta of Valerius Maximus
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In Italian., Script: humanist cursive., Decoration: rubricated. 9 initials of 2 or 3 lines in alternating red and blue ink., and Layout: single columns of 35/36 lines.
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, of this narrative poem by John Lydgate. The text was almost certainly originally complete but now lacks the Prologue and the opening stanzas of Book I, opening at the line "For to be crowned in that regeous" and lacking the final few leaves of text as well. There is also a textual lacuna between f92v and f93r, Contemporary textual corrections and insertions marked by red crosses. Occasional pen trials and names in contemporary hands, and Autograph letter signed from Frederic Madden to Lord Braybrooke, 1840 March 9, tipped in at front of volume. The letter contains a description of the manuscript and advises that it be rebound while preserving the initials of Mary Sidney
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In Middle English., Script: anglicana and secretary; in the hands of at least two scribes., Decoration: initials in red and blue, some with marginal scroll decoration., Layout: 56 lines in two columns, 15 stanzas per page. Catchwords., and Binding: 19th-century calf over wood, covers inlaid with fragment of 16th-century binding preseving the initials "M.S." (Mary Sidney).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
Illuminated manuscript on parchment of the four Gospels. Contains (1) Eusebius' Letter to Carpianus, ff. 2v-3r; (2) Canon Tables I-X, ff. 3v-11r; (3) Gospel of Matthew, including index, concordance, and portrait, ff. 12r-96v; (4) Gospel of Mark, including index, preface, and portrait, ff. 97r-149v; (5) Gospel of Luke, including index, preface, and portrait, ff. 150r-233v; (6) Gospel of John, including index, preface, and portrait of John and Prochoros, ff. 234v-297v; (7) reading on the woman taken in adultery, ff. 297v-298r; (8) principal colophon, ff. 298v-299v
Alternative Title:
Bible. Armenian Gospels
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In Armenian., Layout: two columns of 19 lines. Section numbers in margins against text, and concordance numbers in lower margins., Script: bolorgir., Decoration: miniatures and illuminations by Tʻoros Taronacʻi, some signed. Full-page portraits of the Evangelists. Ornate frames, headpieces, marginal decorations. Zoomorphic letters, ornate initials., Binding: leather over boards. Front cover has metal cross and other ornaments; rear cover is stamped. Patterned linen doublures on inside covers., Colophon (fols. 298v-299v) indicates the manuscript was written for Ovanē Ōrpēli (also Awrpēli), a member of the Ōrbelean family which held extensive domains in the same province. Codex was executed at the monastery of Noravank' by the scribe Momik, who was assisted by the vardapet Pawłos. These two scribes completed the greater part of the writing by AE 756 (=AD 1307), when Momik had serious trouble with his eyes. Manuscript was completed by another scribe, Yohanēs or Yovhannēs. Momik recovered his sight in AE 780 (=AD 1331) and wrote the colophon in which he gives interesting information concerning the copy of the manuscript and the feudal lords of Siwnikʻ. The book then passed into the possession of Archbishop Step'anos-Tarsayič, also a member of the Ōrbelean family. In AD 1331 Archbishop Step'anos-Tarsayič had the manuscript "adorned with gold and silver" by order of prince Biwrt'ēl, the head of the Ōrbelean family. Since replaced by current leather binding., and In AE 855 (=AD 1406) the manuscript belonged to a priest named Sēt' (fol. 235r). Later inscriptions indicate that the manuscript was acquired by the craftsman Awēt and his brothers and sons, who in turn offered it to the church of Surb Yakob (St. James) in the town of Cʻałman (fol. 235v); a second indicates the manuscript subsequently belonged to an individual named And[r]ēas and his sons (fol. 236r).
Subject (Geographic):
Armenia., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a German gradual, containing parts of the chants for several saints' feasts in November. Interlinear neumes for Gregorian chant
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In Latin., Script: protogothic., and Decoration: rubricated. Large and small capitals in red ink. Drawing of a face within one large capital "D."
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from this Latin grammar text
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In Latin., Layout: single columns of 24 lines, centered, with gloss in a much smaller script surrounding the central text., Script: gothica textualis semi-quadrata, with gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: paraph marks in alternating red and blue inks, in both the text and the gloss.
Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, containing part of a didactic poem about Latin grammar
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In Latin., Script: Italian gothic. Marginal annotations in a contemporary cursive gothic hand., Decoration: Initial letters in red and blue ink., and Ownership? inscription in gutter of bifolium: "Al molto nobilo Messer Antonio R----."