Manuscript on paper of a collection of texts, including: 1) A number of works by Albertano da Brescia, 2) Robertus Grosseteste's Templum De, 3) Laurence of Aquileia's Practica sive usus dictaminis, 4) Correspondence between Charles of Anjou and Peter III, King of Aragon, 5) Henry VII, Emperor, Letter to the citizens of Bologna. Manuscript also includes a number of other works.
Description:
A collection of texts, including: 1) Albertano da Brescia, De doctrina dicendi et tacendi, Liber consolationis et consilii, De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vitae, a sermon delivered before a congregation of Genoese notaries and causidici 1243 December 6, and Sermo. 2) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus hominum in saeculo viventium. 3) Pantaleon Barbo, Sermon on the Incarnation and Nativity. 4) Robertus Grosseteste, Templum Dei. 5) Laurence of Aquileia, Practica sive usus dictaminis. (In tabular form, each table covering two facing pages). 6) Iohannes Bondi de Aquilegia or Laurentius de Aquilegia, Theorica sive ars dictaminis. 7) Charles of Anjou (1226-1285), Letter to Peter III, King of Aragon 1276-1285, after the latter's conquest of Sicily, 1282, and a response by Peter III, King of Aragon, to Charles of Anjou. 8) Letter of the cardinals to the newly elected pope Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux (pope Clemens VI, 1305-1314). 9) Henry VII, Emperor (1308-1313), Letter to the citizens of Bologna, 1311. 10) Astrological treatise ascribed to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy, 2nd century) with extensive gloss. 11) Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Historia Griseldis, Latin translation by Franciscus Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374). 12) A number of other letters, poems, and treatises., Binding: parchment wrappers over pasteboard made from leaves of a 15th or 16th century printed book; three white leather straps preserved., and Script: except article 1 (and 26?) copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Currens (Mercantesca); the orthography is very incorrect.
Subject (Name):
Damiani, Petrus,--Saint,--1007?-1072, Grosseteste, Robert,--1175?-1253, and Peter--III,--King of Aragon,--1239-1285
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Diplomacy, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Medieval
Imperfect: Water damaged with some loss of text. Mutilated at head. and Preliminary leaves (modern binder's blanks) not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--John, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Iacobus de Blanchis de Alexandria OFM (Giacomo Bianchi, 1300-1350), Commentum in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis. 2) Table of contents of art. 1. 3) Gonsalvus de Vallebona OFM (Gonsalvus Hispanus, c. 1255-1313), Conclusiones Metaphysicae Aristotelis. 4) Table of Contents of Aristoteles, Metaphysica.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1900. "Bound by Birdsall, Northampton" (blind-stamped inscription on the inside front cover): blond-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, spine with four raised bands. Gold-tooled title on spine in Gothic script: "Jacobus / Alexan/driae / Com-/pilatio / Metrice [sic] / distincta / Capitu-/lorum / MS. / xiv Cent.", MS 217 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Numerous alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials with penwork in the opposite colours; there are 3-line initials of the same type at the beginning of each book in art. 1 and at the opening of art. 4 (in the latter case a red letter with mauve penwork). A 4-line flourished initial in the same colours with develped penwork at the opening of art. 1, and space for a similar one has been reserved at the opening of art. 3. There is space and there are instructions for the rubricator in view of the adding of headings in art. 2, but these have not been executed. The headings of artt. 1 and 3 have been deleted or rubbed off., Script: Copied in a small, highly abbreviated Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with southern features., and Uneven lower edges. First and last page dampstained, with loss of some text.
Subject (Name):
Bianchi, Giacomo and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation.
Description:
Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges., First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text., Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1., and Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line.
Subject (Name):
Halgrin, John
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), De bello civili (Pharsalia).
Description:
A series of illuminated leaves have been cut out; only the initials at the opening of Books 2, 5, 8, 9 and 10 are preserved. The initials are in Lombard style, pink letters on a blue square background, both decorated with white penwork, and have acanthus extensions of green, orange and yellow in the margin. The decoration is different in each initial; the one on f. 8v contains four yellow flowers. There is no space for a heading at the opening of Books 2 and 5; one line is left free for headings at the opening of Books 8-10, but headings have not been entered., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Blind-tooled brown leather (worn) over slightly rounded beech boards, part of the front cover and the entire spine missing. Worm holes, especially in the rear board. Sewn on three split leather thongs. On the covers a triple frame of four double fillets; the space between the middle and the inner frame filled with interlace design; the four corners of the central panel are decorated with quarter circles of fillets filled with the same design; in the middle an oblong cartouche; on the front board part of the damaged original cover has been replaced by brown leather blind-tooled with a different interlace design. Marks of four clasps attached to the front board; two lily-shaped brass catches remain, fixed by means of three nails to the outer side of the rear board. On the blank wood of the front board there is a fragmentary inscription in ink and large script (upside down, 16th century?)., and Script: Copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria/Formata, using the two forms of d. The opening majuscule of each verse is placed in a separate column. The scribe sometimes adds hairline extensions in the upper margin to letters on the top line; the loops of these occasionally contain a sketchy human face.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65
Subject (Topic):
Epic poetry, Latin, Historical poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Derivationes.
Description:
Part II written in Italy in the middle of the 13th century; Part I added in the 14th century when the two parts may have been bound together.
Subject (Name):
Uguccione,--da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara,--d. 1210
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language--Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on paper, in a number of hands, containing a variety of religious and devotional texts, many related to the Franciscan order. Contents include lives of Francis of Assisi, Clare of Assisi, and Anthony of Padua; a poem on the day of judgement in ottava rima; lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary in Italian; writings of St. Bridget of Sweden in Italian; an account of the dedication of St. Lawrence's cathedral in Genoa; St. Anselm's Miracles of the Virgin; and two itineraries of visits to the Holy Land.
Description:
Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 21). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 69) on the T. Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, Binding: modern full red leather., and Modern binder's blanks (ii + ii) not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library