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1. Sermons
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1210]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 69
- Image Count:
- 400
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a collection of anonymous sermons, mostly drawn from the Italian Homiliary.
- Description:
- Attractive pen-and-ink drawings throughout the manuscript, in red, though much of manuscript now stained. Folio 1r with a partial border formed of fantastic beasts, dragons and grotesques. Other drawings in margins include a fantastic bird, f. 9r; a dragon with a human head issuing forth stylized scrolls, f. 40v; a scroll inhabited by a fantastic bird, f. 49r; a lizard-like creature, its tail forming a partial border, f. 53r; a grotesque, f. 73v. Several drawings in the lower margin have been trimmed. Plain initials in red, some with penwork scrolls or simple flourishing. Headings and underlining of Biblical passages in red., Binding: Nineteenth century (?), Italy (?). Brown leather case with title, in ink, on spine: "Homil. in Evangel". Fragment of an unidentified 13th-century Latin document (monastic register?) bound in as second front flyleaf., and Script: Written in a nice large early gothic script, above top line.
- Subject (Topic):
- Homiliaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons
2. Theological and moral florilegium
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 821
- Image Count:
- 302
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a huge collection of mostly short quotations, arranged under more than one hundred headings; the first ones deal with God and his qualities, but the majority are of a moral nature; the collection also includes short treatises, exempla, verses and prayers. With two fragments 1) of a Latin theological treatise on parchment, ca. 1300. 2) of a Latin philosophical treatise, probably a commentary on Aristotle's De caelo et mundo.
- Description:
- Script: Mainly copied by one hand writing a small Gothico-Humanistica with single-compartment a; a few additions and marginal notes by a contemporary hand. Art. 3 is copied in an unusual linear Humanistica Textualis close to Cursiva, marked by numerous loops. and The foliation is incorrect, comprising successively ff. 95, 96, 95bis, 96bis, 97.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Theological and moral florilegium