Manuscript fragment on paper of 1) Collecta super grammatica, final part. 2) Full declension of the degrees of comparison of “doctus”, “fortis”, “sapiens” and “bonus”. 3) Antiphon for Purification, with musical notation..
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper over pasteboard., From the library of John Milton Berdan, Yale 1896. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red heightening of the majuscules and red decoration of the horizontal lines separating the various sections of the text of art. 1, art.1 up to f. 4v; reserved initials (not executed) in the same art.; no decoration in the second part of art. 1 and in artt. 2 and 3., Script: Three hands: art. 1 is copied by the scribe Conrad Payel in a highly abbreviated Gothica Cursiva Currens; art. 2 is in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 3 in the same type of script; "Hufnagel" musical notation., and The fragments are badly cropped, soiled and damaged and important text parts are lost; reading is very difficult. Rectangular excisions at the upper or at the lower edge of the leaves.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Hippocratic oath. With a text headed Nicolaus Perottus Jaboco Constantio, and a portion of De Primo bello Punico, by Leonardi Bruni Aretini.
Subject (Name):
Hippocrates
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic War, 1st, 264-241 B.C
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Epiphanius Scholasticus, Historia tripartita, an ecclesiastical history.
Subject (Name):
Epiphanius,--Scholasticus
Subject (Topic):
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragments on paper of loose leaves of a judicial register. The lawsuit before the court of the Parliament of Dauphiné (“curia Dalphinalis parlamenti,” founded 1453) is about land, meadows (“prata”), a barn (“grangia”), and a house.
Description:
Badly deteriorated by glue, worm holes and the fading of the ink on many pages., Detached from a binding. With the fragments a strip of parchment (goatskin), obviously coming from the same binding, is preserved. It is a fragment (c. 12 lines on both sides) of a Latin manuscript containing an unidentified text of Roman law (Italy, 14th century), written in two columns with a column of gloss at both sides of the text. The handwriting is Southern Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda)., Foliated by cataloger in order suggested by worming. This may not reflect original organization., Script: Copied by various scribes all writing a rapid documentary script (Gothica Cursiva Currens)., and Watermark: letter P?.
Subject (Geographic):
Dauphiné (France)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Fragment of a legendary of Saints Nicostratus, Claudius, Symphorian, Castorius and Simpliius, stonemasons martyred by Diocletian. The passage mentions the quarrying of porphyry columns for the temple of Diocletian.
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 115). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., Leaf has several small marks and holes indicating that it was used as part of a later bookbinding., and Script: written in a proto-Carloingian miniscule. The scribe has been identified (by Bernard Bischoff) as Cundpato, monk of the Benedictine monastery of Freising.
Subject (Name):
Cundpato and Freisinger Domkloster
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Moralia in Iob.
Description:
Script: Written in bold Praegothica marked by strong bifurcation at the top of the ascenders, frequent use of lengthened i, unusual ct-ligature and the Southern form of tironian et., The inner margin is trimmed, damaging part of the initial on the recto. Both pages are stained and the recto (hair side) is worn., and The text opens with a 6-line decorated initial P, half inset, with long tail in the margin in red and blue.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Job, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library