Manuscript on parchment of 1) Anonymous grammatical treatise in prose (Grammatica Latina secundum Donatum). 2) Disticha Catonis.
Description:
1-line red versals and 2-line red plain initials. Two large initials: f. 1r, at the beginning of the text of art. 1, historiated 10- line initial in pink on a blue background, containing a half-length profile of a poet or teacher in outline with a yellow dress; f. 10r, at the beginning of art. 2, decorated 9-line initial in pinkon a blue background, filled with red, yellow and green leaves., Binding: Original half brown leather binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; sewn on two split leather thongs; the spine damaged. Remnants of one strap attached to the front cover, with iron pin on the rear cover., Due to intensive use the pages are badly rubbed and the legibility is impaired; whole passages have been rewritten by a later hand. The corners of the leaves are worn off. Holes and sewings., and Script: Copied by one hand in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The opening majuscule of each verse set off in a separate column.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
4, XII, s. XII^^4, and XIII [ca. 1175-1200, 12th-13th centuries]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 315
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment composed of three distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-64): Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae. Part II (ff. 65-80): Pseudo-Hugh of St. Victor, Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae. Part III (ff. 81-122): Jean Beleth, Summa.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case with a black label, gold-tooled, and arms of Athelstan Riley on covers. Bound by John R. Hering, London, active 1817-35., Part I: Initials, 12- to 2-line, red, green, blue, with exuberant designs in contrasting colors that often extend full length of folio, some trimmed. Headings in red. Part II: Decorative initials, 8- to 2-line, alternate red and blue, with designs in contrasting colors; plain initials, 1-line, some with simple ornamentation, in red or blue throughout. Heading in red. Guide-letters in inner margin. Part III: Simple initials, a few with designs. Paragraphs marks in red and/or black. Guide-letters in outer and inner margins; notes to rubricator perpendicular to written space in gutter and outer margin. Headings in red., and Script: Each part written by a different scribe, all in early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Honorius,--of Autun,--ca. 1080-ca. 1156
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345? Giovanni del Virgilio, fl. 1319 Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:
[ca. 1400]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 892
Image Count:
248
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Iacobus de Cessolis OP (d. after 1322), Libellus de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scaccorum. 2) A largely fabulous and incoherent history of the Roman empire up to the siege of Rome by the Moslems in 846. 3) Alphabetical index to artt. 1-2, referring to the number of the book as indicated by the running headlines, and the number of the chapter as indicated by numbers in the margin, by Dominicus de Dominicis OCarm, bishop of Sitia in Crete (1395-1399). 4) Alphabetical index to art. 5, referring to the number of the book and of the Metamorphose, by the same author as art. 3. 5) Iohannes de Virgilio (Giovanni del Virgilio, 1300-1350), Allegoriae librorum Ovidii Metamorphoseos, the prose parts only; instead of the poetical parts, there are excerpts from the Narrationes fabularum Ovidiarum by Lactantius Placidus (dates unknown) and perhaps from other sources. 6) Historia septem sapientum Romae. 7) De vita et moribus philosophorum, generally ascribed to Gualterus Burlaeus (Walter Burley, 1275-after 1344).
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Quarter binding: brownish parchment and uncovered heavy paper boards On the spine is written in ink "Tedesco"., Script: Most of the text is apparently written by four different hands, all using Gothica Cursiva Libraria: hand A copied ff. 1r-39r, hand B ff. 49r-60v, hand C ff. 61r-80v, hand D ff. 85r-117r. The indexes (artt. 3-4), slovenly copied in Gothica Cursiva Currens on blank pages in quire IV, are younger than the text and difficult to decipher. The same hand seems to have written the running headlines in artt. 1 and 5 and the foliation in art. 7., Simple decoration consisting of red headings and red paragraph marks. In artt. 1-2 2-line plain red initials (3-line at the opening, f. 1r); in artt. 5-7 2-line plain initials with rudimentary flourishing (often consisting of dots), all in red; the opening initials of artt. 5 and 7 are 3-line initials; a human face has been drawn in the initial on f. 51r. Guide letters. Red stroking of majuscules on ff. 49r-85r only., and There is early foliation from "f. 1" to "f. 32" in the center of the upper margin of ff. 85r-116r; the numbers are repeated on the verso and are to be understood in the modern sense, being valid for recto and subsequent verso. Many pages are blank.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus,--de Cessolis,--active 1288-1322
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Chess--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Philosophy, Ancient
Manuscript on paper of Didymus' interpretation of the Odyssey.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Wooden boards. Quarter bound in brick-red goatskin. Bound for the convent of San Marco, Florence; title in gold on spine with number "232"., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 10371), who purchased it from Payne. Acquired in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston from C. A. Stonehill. Gift of Thomas E. Marston in 1959., Script: Written and signed by the scribe Ioannes Skoutariotes, who finished the manuscript 4 October 1453., Simple initials and headings, in red, at the beginning of each book., and Watermarks: Harlfinger Fleur 108, from a manuscript dated 4 Nov. 1445 and attributed to Ioannes Skoutariotes.
Subject (Name):
Didymus,--Chalcenterus
Subject (Topic):
Classical poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentarius in sequentiam “Ave preclara maris stella”, falsely attributed to Caesarius de Heisterbach O. Cist.(c. 1180-c. 1240). 2) Commentarius in sequentiam “Benedictio Trine Unitati”. 3) Addition to art. 2, dealing with the Hebrew alphabet. 4) Humorous note explaining why the eater of cheese (obviously a most unhealthy food) will never thrust a wine-goblet from his hood (?), why he never will be bitten by a dog and why a thief will never enter his house.
Description:
Script: Artt. 1-4 are copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria marked by striking hairlines at r and final t. Quotations are clumsily written in a deviating form of Northern Gothica Textualis. Ascenders at the top line are often lengthened and decorated. Art. 5 is copied in a more rapid form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria, possibly by the same hand.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus,--Contractus,--1013-1054
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of a Gospel lectionary containing the daily lessons for the ecclesiastical year for both fixed and moveable feasts. Manuscript begins the readings of John from Easter to the sixth Sunday after Easter, and concludes with the readings from 21 May to 31 August.
Description:
Accompanied by detailed list of contents., Binding: Fifteenth-century? Greek-style binding of full brown leather over squared and grooved boards. Blind-tooled; bordered with interlace tendrils, diapered and checker-ruled with additional circular tools containing peacock, Agnus Dei, vase, rampant lion, eagle and fleuron designs., Bookplate: L. A., Decoration: ornamented headbands in red ink mark the four major sections of the text. Ornamented initials in red ink at the beginnings of some Gospel readings., Purchased in Beirut by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, 1886. Formerly owned by Anson Phelps Stokes; Anson Phelps Stokes II; Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sold 18 November 2003 at Christie's London (sale 6853, lot 14). Ex libris L. A. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: Greek miniscule.
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, piscopal Theologi, Stokes, Anson Phelps,--1874-1958--Ownership, Stokes, Anson Phelps,--1905-1988--Ownership, and Stokes, I. N. Phelps--(Isaac Newton Phelps),--1867-1944--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Lectionaries--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Complete version of the earliest German translation of the Legenda aurea., Teil I: Sommerteil, and Teil II: Winterteil
Description:
2 volumes bound together with discreet foliation., On paper, and Teil II wanting ff. 4, 292.
Subject (Name):
Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad, 1722-1798, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints --Biography --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Calendar --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Legends --Early works to 1800, Church calendar --Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, German--Germany, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany