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- Creator:
- Johannes, de Caulibus, 14th cent
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1162
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single cursive gothic bookhand, of this popular Latin devotional work on the life of Christ. Long attributed to St. Bonaventure, the work is now considered to be by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus. This version, copied in England, contains the three "Canticle chapters" often omitted in later copies.
- Description:
- Annotations: numerous corrections and additions in a contemporary or near-contemporary hand, apparently the records of a collation of this copy of the text against another version., Binding: modern brown calf over contemporary wooden boards (leaving original lacing paths visible)., Decoration: numerous two-line initials in blue and red., Former owners include: John Enderby; Cuthbert Dale; Francis Dale; Rev. Matthew Snow; John Paget; Sir John Paget; Joseph Pope. Bergandal Collection of Medieval Manuscripts (Bergandal 27). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's sale 2011 July 5, lot 88) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2012., Layout: laid out in double columns, ruled in plummet., and Script: written in a single cursive gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans, Jesus Christ--Biography--Meditations, Jesus Christ--Biography--Meditations--Early works to 1800, and Johannes,--de Caulibus,--14th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Meditationes vitae Christi
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 818
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation.
- Description:
- Binding: Early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans and Nicholas--IV,--Pope,--1227-1292
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis
- Creator:
- Nicholas, of Osimo, -1453
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 641
- Image Count:
- 359
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Nicolaus de Osimo (Auximo) OFM (d. after 1453), Supplementum Summae Pisanellae, an alphabetically arranged supplement to the Summa de casibus conscientiae of Bartholomew of Pisa (Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio, d. 1347). Produced at the Franciscan convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Milan
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Apparently 8 scribes, all writing Southern Gothica., Decoration: The decoration of artt. 1-4 consists of heightening of the majuscules in yellow; blue or red paragraph marks. In art. 3 the chapters normally open with a 2-line (rarely 3-line) flourished initial with penwork extensions in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space, alternately red with purple or blue penwork and blue with red penwork; the first lemma of each letter opens with a 3- or 4-line flourished initial filled with foliage and with more developed marginal extensions. The text opens on f. 5v with a 5-line dentelle initial with green and blue background heightened with gold and white, followed by 5 lines of text mostly in majuscules. The decoration of art. 7 is similar to that of art. 3 but less carefully executed., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). White parchment over pasteboard, with two modern brass clasps fixed to the front cover. On the spine green leather label with gold-tooled title "SUMA MAGISTRA". On the bottom edge the title "Summa Pisa****" is written.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicholas, of Osimo, -1453. and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Canon law, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Supplementum Summae Pisanellae