Manuscript on paper of 1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. 2) Mateusz z Krakowa, De modo confitendi. 3) Thomas Aquinas, De consideratione. 4) Series of short texts on simony, adultery and other abuses, including works by Bernardus de Reijsa and Wilhelmus Blok.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Adultery (Canon law), Biography--To 500, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Simony (Canon law)
Manuscript on parchment of Leonardo Bruni, Commentaria rerum graecarum (De principatu Graeciae), preceded by Bruni's letter to Angelo Acciaiuolo.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case with a green, gold-tooled label on spine: "L. Bruni De principatu graeciae. Sec. XV"., Purchased from Hoepli of Milan in 1955 by L. C. Witten who sold it in the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in round humanistic bookhand by two scribes who use somewhat different physical formats. Scribe I) ff. 1r-16r, written above top line, with initials for paragraphs set apart from the text between outer vertical bounding lines. Scribe 2) ff. 16v-26v, written below top line and leaving blank the final line of written space., and Two illuminated initials on ff. 1r and 2r, 5-line and 3-line, gold on blue, green and pale mauve ground with white vine-stem ornament and grey-green dots. On f. 1r vine-stem ornament on blue ground extends into inner margin (3-lines) to form partial border. Possibly by the same artist who executed the initials in Marston MS 257.
Subject (Geographic):
Greece--History
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, of the commentary on the fourth book of Peter Lombard's Sentences by Petrus de Tarantasia's (later Pope Innocent V). This manuscript is a palimpsest; the parchment is from at least three unidentified thirteenth century Italian manuscripts. The first, apparently a glossed legal text, is most apparent at f21-22v.
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century half sheep; patterned paper over pasteboards., Decoration: two-line initials in pen and ink., Ex libris Convent of San Domenico, Gaeta; HIspanic Society of America (MS B2566). Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. on the Asahel Henry Grant Fund, 2014., Ff. 89-80, back flyleaf and former pastedown, is a bifolium in a different, round gothic book hand, containing part of an alphabetical index to an unidentified legal text., Foliation given as found in the manuscript, including six foliated stubs., Laid in: fragment of a description of the manuscript, in French, in a nineteenth-century hand., Layout: double columns throughout, mostly of 60-65 lines each. Four-column list of chapter headings on f87v-88v., Ownership inscription in the lower margin of f1r: Iste liber est conventus sancti dominici de gayeta ordinis predicatorum..., and Script: semi-cursive gothic book hand.
Subject (Name):
Dominicans, Innocent--V,--Pope,--approximately 1224-1276, Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--approximately 1100-1160.--Sententiarum libri IV, and San Domenico (Church : Gaeta, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Palimpsests, and Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentary on the Latin translation of Porphyrius (233-c. 301), Isagoge. 2) Commentary on Aristoteles (384-322 B.C.), Praedicamenta. 3) Commentary on Gislebertus Porretanus (Gilbert de la Porrée, c. 1076-1154), Liber de sex principiis, redaction A. 4) Commentary on Aristoteles, Ars vetus (final form, 1337).
Description:
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks, with long vertical extensions when at the beginning of a line; alternately red and blue flourished initials (2- or 3-line) at the opening of the chapters; larger flourished initials with more developed penwork in the same colours, of course execution, on ff.1r (9 lines), 15r (7 lines), 60r (6 lines), 73r (6 lines), 99r (5 lines), 113r (5 lines). There are carefully executed logical diagrams in the text on ff. 100r-v, 115v,116v-117v (their inscriptions partly in Northern Gothica Textualis); diagrams are sketched in the margins of ff. 19r and 59r., Binding: Original, thin wooden boards sewn on three thongs; the leather cover missing, replaced with mottled orange paper; rebacked with brown leather. Remnants of two red leather clasps attached to the front cover, with brass catches on the rear cover. The front endleaves are cut from large sheets of paper ruled with ink for two columns, mounted transversally (width of the leaf: 290 mm.; of the ruling 175 mm., intercol. space 30 mm.)., Script: Copied by a single hand writing a small highly abbreviated Gothica Hybrida Libraria; exceptions are a few folios by other hands using the same type of script (ff. 1, 11-13, etc.), and the replacement leaves 28 and 35 written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Currens. Lemmata in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., and Watermarks: spiked wheel, var. Briquet 13268; ox head, var. Briquet 14306. The upper outer corners damaged by moist in the second half of the codex.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Porphyry,--ca. 234-ca. 305
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Petrus Cantor (c. 1130-1197), Commentum in libros Proverbiorum, Ecclesiastes, Sapientiae et Ecclesiastici.
Description:
Binding: Unbound., Many leaves are badly soiled., Red underlining of biblical passages. 2-line flourished initials with extensions in the margin or in the intercolumnar space; they are in red and blue on ff. in quire I, in red only in quires II-III (two flourished initials on f. 1v are also executed only in red); two initials of that type are missing, ff. 11r and 16r. Larger initials at the beginning of the commentary of new Bible books: 4-line littera duplex "B(eatus)" on f. 4r, Prologue to Ecclesiastes; 3-line "Q(uecumque)" on f. 8v, Prologue to Wisdom; 11-line "S(ummi)" and 6-line "O(mnis)", both red on beige background, on f. 15r, Prologue and text of Ecclesiasticus., and Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in flourished majuscules alternately red and blue; they stop after f. 6.
Subject (Name):
Petrus,--Cantor,--ca. 1130-1197
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Bible.--O.T.--Proverbs, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on paper of 1) Henricus de Langenstein (Henricus de Hassia the Elder, c. 1325-1397), Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 2) Henricus de Langenstein, Expositio super Ave Maria. 3) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, Sermo super Symbolum Apostolorum. 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De Oratione Dominica. 5) Expositio in Orationem Dominicam, based on excerpts from the following authors: Ambrosius, Anselmus Cantuariensis ("Anshelmus"), Augustinus, Bernardus Claraevallensis ("Berenhardus"), Cyprianus, Cyrillus Alexandrinus, Fulgentius Ruspensis, Gregorius Magnus, Hieronymus, Hilarius Pictaviensis, Iohannes Chrysostomus, Isidorus Hispalensis, Origenes, "Theophilus", Thomas de Aquino, "Titus".
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. White parchment and marbled paper over cardboard., Headings, underlining and stroking of the majuscules in red. Red plain initials in artt. 1-5, normally 4 lines. On f. 16r, space for a 7-line initial was provided but not executed., Script: Copied by two hands writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria; A copied ff. 1r-15v; B, writing a wider, more sloping and more rapid script, copied ff. 16r-20v. Both hands spell the diphthongs ae and oe in the classical manner., and Watermark: Ox head with eight-petalled flower on a rod and a cross below the mouth (Piccard, Ochsenkopfwasserzeichen, XIII.723 (1471-1474).
Subject (Name):
Heinrich,--von Langenstein,--ca. 1325-1397 and Pseudo-Augustinus
Subject (Topic):
Apostles' Creed, Ave Maria, Lord's prayer, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Booksellers, Berkeley, CA (MS 111). Purchased from him in 1994 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., and Script: Copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; we see Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Epistles, Bible--Commentaries, Confession--Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Repentance--Christianity, Science, Medieval, and Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes of Jerome, Commentaries on the Minor Prophets. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe.
Description:
Acquired from E. Rossignol of Paris in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides. Three green gold-tooled labels on the spine of each volume: "Vol. I", "Vol. II"; "Hieronimi in XII Prophetas Manuscrip"; "Saecul XII". Title on black gold-tooled labels: "Hieronimi in XII Prophetas Manuscrip". Edges spattered blue-green. The same distinctive bindings also found on Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 158, and 159, all of Hautecombe provenance., Fine painted initials, 19- to 5-line, for major text divisions, monochrome red or polychrome in red, bright green, olive green and/or brown, with pale yellow washes. Preliminary sketches in lead often visible underneath; some bows appear to be drawn with compass. Smaller initials of similar design throughout. Initials are characterized by lattice work, acanthus scrolls and decorative empty spaces within initials. The opening initial on f. 1r is executed in red and blue. Headings in red throughout., and Script: Written and neatly corrected in early gothic bookhand by several scribes.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Bible. Prophets, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library