Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux (Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), 1) De interiori homine (Mediationes). 2) De illis qui ingrediuntur religionem ut abundent bonis. 3) De interiori domo. Due to the loss of a quire 20 pages are missing, foliated 49-58. Due to the loss of f. 83 the final paragraphs of this text are lost. 4) A compilation on virtues and vices, followed by quotations of a theological and moral nature. The beginning of this text was on the lost f. 83.
Description:
In Latin., Script: With the exception of f. 1r apparently copied by one hand, writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; f. 1r, in the same type of script, is by another more rapid hand and is perhaps palimpsest., Headings in red added afterwards, with instructions for the rubricator in Gothica Cursiva in the margins (the headings are missing from f. 91r onwards). Red plain initials, 2-3 lines, sometimes with simple flourishing. A few pointing hands and Nota-marks., and Binding: Original deerskin over bevelled wooden boards. On each cover four small brass bosses. Four similar bosses at the four corners of the spine and at the attachment of a white leather strap attached to the front cover and clutching with a decorated brass piece over a pin in the rear cover. The front paste-down is a fragment of a 14th-century Latin grammatical treatise in two columns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on paper of Aristotle, De interpretatione, translated into Latin by Ioannes Argyropylos, with his prefatory letter to Piero de' Medici. With Aristotle, Priora analytica, through Book 1.7.29b28
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified flower in gutter., Script: Written in italic by a single scribe., Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and headings, in red. Numerous tables and crescent diagrams within the text and margins, in black and red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, spattered paper case.
Manuscript on parchment (fine, smooth) of 1) Prologue. 2) Moamin, De scientia venandi per aves, translated into Latin by Theodorus of Antioch. Although the prologue states that there are four treatises composed by Moamin, the fourth (Quartus naturam et medicamen qutrupedum [sic] cum quibus uenamur) is omitted in this manuscript. 3) Treatise of Dancus rex. 4) Treatise of Guillelmus falconarius. 5) Four anonymous descriptions of types of falcons. Produced probably for Ferdinand II of Aragon (arms on f. 1r).
Alternative Title:
Moamin
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in elegant round humanistic script below top line., One miniature, f. 1r, five falcons sitting on a perch in a niche, with a 6-line initial, blue and light green, with green and blue acanthus, against gold, framed in red, with white dots; full border, pink and blue flowers on stems with pink, orange and green leaves and gold dots spiraling around a pink and gold bar; framed in gold and inhabited by birds, putti, four of the putti in lower margin supporting a coat-of-arms. 5-line initials, gold, filled with blue or crimson with flowers in white, on irregular grounds, crimson or blue with flowers in white, and hair-spray extensions with crimson and blue leaves, flowers and gold trefoil leaves or dots. 2-line initials, gold, filled with crimson or blue against irregular crimson or blue grounds with white filigree. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled with "Cetreria" on spine. Gilt edges with lettering on fore-edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Antonio de Ferrariis (called himself Galateo after his birthplace, d. 1517), De situ Iapygiae. His work is a geographical, historical, epigraphical and literary description of Iapygia, i.e. the Southeastern part of Italy (now Apulia).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Three scribes, all writing Humanistica Cursiva: hand A copied ff. 1r-20v, 24v-26v, 31r-36r line 10, 36v last three lines (Libraria); hand B copied ff. 21r-24r, 27r-30v (Currens); hand C copied f. 36r line 10-36v, except the last three lines (Currens under Gothic influence)., No decoration., Water stains. Some pages badly damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: The damaged covers of the original binding are mounted on the new binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled, featuring two square frames bordered by fillets and rolls.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Puglia (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Ferrari, Antonio de, 1444-1517.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Joannes de Sacro Bosco, De sphaera. 2) Unidentified Cosmographicae libellus. 3) Nicolas Oresme, Traite de la sphere, in a Latin translation apparently extant only in this manuscript
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one person in small fere-humanistic script bordering on cursive, verso., Simple decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in red. Headings, paragraph marks, strokes on majuscules at beginning of sentences, and marginal notes, in red., Seventeen carefully executed astronomical drawings and two tables, in red, black, yellow and beige, accompany arts. 1 and 3., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case. "Tractatus spere" on tail edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Cosmography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of Xenophon, De venatione, translated into Latin by Leonicenus Omnibonus and preceded by a dedicatory epistle to John Tiptoft
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Oiseau 12127., Script: Written in a well formed italic by a single scribe., Spaces left for rubrics and initials., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper case with paste paper sides. Rebound in Yale Conservation Studio in 1982.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of some decretales of Gregory IX.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are guide letters for initials at the beginning of each capitulum, but the initials have not been added; 1-line initials are in red; the heading of titulus VI is written in red; punctuated with the punctus; paragraph marks are in red ink, brackets in brown; corrections have been made by several contemporary hands.
Manuscript on paper of a pocket-size codex containing discussions of painting miniatures in manuscripts. On ff. 1r-30v Mariani provides a list of colors and the recipes for each color; in the remainder of the text he discusses techniques for painting landscapes in perspective. The second portion of the treatise (ff. 84r-95v) is, according to the title-page, the work of Antonello Bertozzi (fl. ca. 1590). The focus of this section is on painting watercolor portraits rather than on painting landscapes. On ff. 97v-113v, miscellaneous additions in at least 3 hands, dated 1612-1627
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written in upright humanistic bookhand for arts. 1 and 2 and for the headings in art. 3. Main text in a gently sloping italic script. Additions on ff. 95v-113v by several hands, some very cursive and poorly formed., Simple headpieces, in brown pen, for beginning of some chapters., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with a gold-tooled spine: "Mariani Della Miniatur [sic]".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Technique, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miniature painting, Italian, and Workshop recipes
Manuscript on paper of Jeronymo Osorio, Della nobilta civile, translated into Italian by Bernardo Gandino
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: unidentified angel similar to Briquet 662, but with BFF as countermark., Script: Written in a calligraphic italic script by Bernardo Gandino of Treviso, with frequent corrections., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Paper case with decorated paper sides. Bookblock detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy.
Subject (Name):
Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Nobility
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Justinian's Digesta with the glossa ordinaria commentary of Accursius
Alternative Title:
Digesta
Description:
In Latin., Script: text of the Digest in a rounded gothic script (littera textualis), that of the commentary in a smaller hand (notularis), perhaps later., and Decoration: initials of the names of authorities alternate 1- and 2-line red and blue capitals; the first word of each section begins with a 1-line capital alternating red and blue; guide letters for both initials are written in light brown ink; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Law, Medieval, and Law, Roman