Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
Description:
Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9480). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked., In Greek., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied.
Subject (Name):
Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740, Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, Dionysius,--the Areopagite, Saint,--1st cent, Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, Nicephorus, Blemmydes, 1197-1272, and Pachymeres, George, 1242-ca. 1310
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, Sermons--Early works to 1800, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
5
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: II labelled IV., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: III labelled II., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Raoul, de Presles, 1316-1382
Published / Created:
s. XV^^in [ca. 1415]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 215
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Augustine, De civitate Dei, translated into French by Raoul de Presles. Composed of 4 volumes, originally bound as 2.
Description:
French version of Raoul de Presles., Gilt initials., Spines mislabelled: IV labelled III., and Written in an informal batarde by one scribe who also added proper names in the margins.
Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae.
Description:
Binding: Date? Original sewing on two thick, slit leather straps, the endbands sewn on leather cores. Flush beech boards with straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels slanted up to the outer face. The ends of the straps therefore protrude well above the face. Straps nailed and endband cores laid in V shaped grooves and nailed. The spine and about one quarter of the boards covered by brown calf with a nailed parchment strip at the edge, fragments only remaining. No adhesive on the spine. Channels for straps cut in the upper board. Holes for pins in the lower, but no marks of pin plates. This binding could be contemporary or 19th-20th century. It is interesting to note that the manuscript was bought because of the binding and not because of the text., Historiated initial with partial border contains the portrait of Boethius (f. 14r); four illuminated initials of similar design and colors (dark red, red-orange, green, blue, gold) on ff. 6r, 12v, 22r, 29v (beginning of Books II-V). Small initials and paragraph marks in red throughout., and Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe.
Subject (Topic):
Consolation--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (warped and stained by moisture) of Cicero, De divinatione.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 182, 212., Copied in Italy, perhaps in Rome, in 1456 (see colophon in art. 1) by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri probably for his personal use, Imperfect: Water stained at end, f. 57 marginalia excised at fore-edge margin., On parchment, One illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 28r, gold against blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, joined to a partial border, white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold bar on blue, green and deep red ground with white dots on blue, grey on red and pale yellow on green. Headings and running titles in red., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand., and Written in a small humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line. Marginalia added in a contemporary hand.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De divinatione and Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Divination--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law.
Description:
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., Previously owned by Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner; Phillipps MS 3097; William Carr; W. J. Carr. Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., Script: Gothic Textura., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., and Title from incipit.
Subject (Name):
Bracton, Henry de,---1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment (irregularly trimmed pieces) of Jean Gerson, De potestate ecclesiastica.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Sewn on three tawed skin support, two pink, the central one green, laced into a thick parchment wrapper. Contemporary title written in ink on back cover: "Tractatus de potestate eclesiastica***". Rodent damage at tail., Crude initial, red with an asymmetrical configuration of red and black penwork designs. Floral line-filler at conclusion of prologue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, mark text divisions. Heading, f. 1r, in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Contemporary sketches of intertwining snakes on ff. i recto and ii verso., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
Subject (Topic):
Ecclesiastical law, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library