Manuscript on parchment of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by Ieronimo Sandei in fere-humanistica for the introduction and rubrics, and in humanistic cursive for the text., Historiated initial on f. 3r, 9-line, St. George and the dragon, curling foliage, mauve, red, and green, with gold and white and yellow highlights, on gold ground, edged in black, in a loose and painterly style. 3- and 2-line initials, blue or red with elaborate red or light purple penwork respectively. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Covered in brown leather, blind-tooled with concentric borders. Four clasp-and-catch fastenings. Modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves, the former covering an unidentified printed text in German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Horses, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (watermarks: unidentified, in gutter; outer and inner bifolios reinforced with parchment strips) of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one person in round gothic bookhand; additions by a later hand., Small plain initials, in red, mark beginning of each section; headings, paragraph marks, some strokes on initials in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on two tawed, slit straps laid in a channel and nailed in square, flush wooden boards. The spine is square. Covered in reddish brown leather with corner turn-in tongues. Decorated with a blind-tooled panel of interlaced rope work and green dots in circles inside concentric borders. A catch on the lower board and a cloth strap (velvet?) attached to the upper with star-headed nails. Strap wanting, otherwise intact.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum, in an anonymous Italian translation. With medicinal recipes and prayers
Description:
In Italian., Watermark: unidentified bull's head in gutter., Script: Written in a poorly formed Italian notarial script; notes in contemporary cursive hands., Plain initial, 5-line, in red and black, at beginning of art. 1; initial strokes and rubrics for ff. 1r-9v only., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case. Stamped on upper cover: "Medecine des chevaux/ manuscrit du XV siecle".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ruffo, Giordano, fl. 1250-1260.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of medical recipes, primarily of a gynecological nature; recipes include: medical recipes for tumors or swelling of the vulva; medical recipes for hardness of the breasts, ulcers, and cancers, increasing milk, so a girl will not grow breasts nor a boy testicles, and so that the hands and neck will be white; there are several undecipherable recipes and a portion of a poem in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century hand on the sounds made by various animals
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis); the added entries on fol. 2r are written in a French or Italian cursive hand from the second half of the fourteenth century; the upper portion of fol. 2v is written in littera textualis currens from the thirteenth century; the verses on animals are in a littera textualis from the latter thirteenth or early fourteenth century., and Decoration: punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Formulas, recipes, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing Palm Sunday and Feria II after Palm Sunday
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of rounded gothic script (littera textualis), a larger script for the lessons and prayers and a smaller script for chants., and Decoration: 2-line initials of prayers and lessons alternate red and blue; 1-line initials within lessons, of chants and the first letters following a 2-line initial are brown and yellow; rubrics written in a red cursive script; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made corrections in black ink.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing: Third Sunday after Pentecost; Fourth Sunday after Pentecost; Fifth Sunday after Pentecost; Eighth Sunday after Pentecost; and Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate red and blue; written over guide letters in black ink; 1-line capitals, which include the first letter after the 2-line initials, are in black filled with yellow; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing among others: St. Felix in Pincis (14 January); St. Marcellus (16 January); St. Prisca (18 January); St. George (23 April); St. Mark (25 April); Letania Maior ad S. Laurentium (25 April); Apostles Philip and James (1 May); and Sts. Alexander, Eventius, Theodolus, and Juvenal (3 May).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule by two scribes, one on fols. 1-2 and the other on fols. 3-4., and Decoration: there are two 7-line initials on fol. 2; they are in red outline with a center shaft filled with red and are decorated with foliate ornamentation; 1- and 2-line prayer initials alternate red and brown; the red initials are sometimes filled with yellow; 1-line chant initials are in brown rustic capitals, occasionally highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus interrogativus; diacritical marks appear over the interrogative word in a question, in the Beneventan fashion; accents in the same ink as the text; there are 2 10-line initials on fols. 3-4; rubrics written in red rustic capitals marked with a horizontal yellow line; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I), Moralia in Iob, chaps. 22.7.17-7.68; 22.8.48-9.28; and 31.43.14-51.27.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, with marginal notation (on f. 1v) in a contemporary hand, probably the text scribe., Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in brown uncials; punctuation consisting of the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus., and Former call numbers: Beinecke MS 482.17 (f. 2).
Manuscript on parchment of Hugo de Folieto, Moralitates de avibus; Moralitates de piscibus; Moralitates de lapidibus. This work is often attributed to Hugh of St. Victor in manuscripts
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic bookhand; many abbreviations., Painted initial at beginning of prologue in blue, brown, pale yellow, green, and orange; smaller initials in red or blue with penwork designs. Paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrics throughout., and Binding: Twentieth century. Quarter paper case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism