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10. Letters and treatises
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 932
- Image Count:
- 488
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Binding: Seventeenth Century (?). Brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames., Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters in artt.1-111. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in ... at the opening of the various texts (3-line initial at the opening of art. 112). On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva on ff. ...... . The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters and treatises
11. Liber de vita Christiana and Libellus de Sacramentis
- Creator:
- Bonizo, of Sutri, ca. 1045-ca. 1095
- Published / Created:
- [between 1125 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1154
- Image Count:
- 255
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, containing two works by Bonizo, Bishop of Sutri.
- Description:
- Binding: modern full red leather., Bonizo of Sutri was born around 1045, probably in Milan, and was appointed bishop of Sutri soon after his arrival in Rome in 1074. He was sent to Cremona as papal legate in 1078. Bonizo sided with Gregory VII during the investiture controversy, and lived for several years under the protection of Countess Mathilda of Tuscany., From the library of Thomas Gascoigne. Ex libris Heythrop College, Oxford. Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 99). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 43) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., and Modern binder's blanks (iii + iii) not digitized.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber de vita Christiana and Libellus de Sacramentis
12. Liber visionum et instructionum
- Creator:
- Angela, of Foligno, 1248?-1309
- Published / Created:
- 1492 February 17
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 993
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber visionum et instructionum
13. Libro di mascalcia
- Creator:
- Ruffo, Giordano
- Published / Created:
- 14th century.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 944
- Image Count:
- 72
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on goat parchment of Giordano Ruffo di Calabria's De medicina equorum (Mascalcia) in Sicilian dialect.
- Description:
- Binding: 16th century light brown leather over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with a double frame of multiple fillets, the inner frame divided by two diagonals. Small engraved bronze bosses at the four corners of the inner frames. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front board, with decorated brass catches on the rear board. Rebacked., On folio 1recto there is a 17-line historiated initial, showing the author presenting his work to Emperor Frederick II on horseback. The initial has been erased and the scene is hardly recognizable., and Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda).
- Subject (Name):
- Ruffo, Giordano
- Subject (Topic):
- Horses--Early works to 1800, Italian literature--To 1400, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libro di mascalcia
14. Prayers, litany, calendar and excerpts from patristic writings
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1078
- Image Count:
- 319
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayers, litany, calendar and excerpts from patristic writings
15. Pseudo-Augustine; Texts relating to the Pelagian controversy
- Creator:
- Innocent I, Pope, d. 417
Pseudo-Augustinus - Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 826
- Image Count:
- 138
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Ps.-Cyprianus Carthaginensis (Pseudo-Cyprian of Carthage or Pseudo-Augustine), De singularitate clericorum. 2) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), De incarnatione Verbi ad Ianuarium. 3) Pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis. 4) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Carthage, A.D. 416, to pope Innocentius I. 5) Letter of pope Innocentius I to the bishops at the council of Carthage A.D. 416. 6) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416 to pope Innocent I. 7) Innocentius I, letter to the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416. 8) Prayer to be said before the image of Corpus Christi. 9) Prayer to Jesus Christ. 10) Prayer to Jesus Christ ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
- Description:
- Binding: Original Italian reddish brown leather over pasteboard with a flap at the rear cover closing over the front cover with leather ties. Covers and flap are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of quadruple fillets, decorated with small circular tools either single or in clusters, and a full border consisting of a scroll motif. At the top of the front cover, in black ink, Capitalis ca. 1500: “Aur. (?) Augustini opus”. Parchment flyleaves. On the front flyleaf verso a Table of Content written in red by hand A, recording artt. 1-7 only, under the title “Que in hoc libello inserte sunt”., Headings in purplish red. Spaces for 1- or 2-line initials have been reserved throughout the codex (in artt. 1-3 with guide letters), but these have not been executed, except in artt. 8-10, where they have been clumsily written in black ink in the left margin. At the opening of art. 1, 3-line half inset Humanistic dentelle initial on a square background in green and blue decorated with silver and gold penwork. It has floral extensions with gold balls in the upper and inner margin. In the lower margin of the same f. 1r, between three similar floral decorations, a circular medallion containing the coat of arms of the Ugolini family of Florence (parti per bend, or on azure, with two lions passant counter changed, surmounting)., and Script: Two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica hesitating between Semitextualis Currens and Cursiva Currens. A, the main scribe, copied ff. 1r-60v; B, an inexperienced hand, marked by the use of d with ascender curving to the right, i longa and round s in all positions, added the prayers on ff. 61r-63r.
- Subject (Name):
- Council of Carthage--(411) and Pseudo-Augustinus
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pelagianism, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pseudo-Augustine; Texts relating to the Pelagian controversy
16. Rhetorica ad Herennium
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Cicero
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 30
- Image Count:
- 109
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse, remains of deckle edges) of 1) Unidentified Italian epitome of the Ps.-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. 2) Unidentified and anonymous treatise on memory.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Half bound in vellum with a gold-tooled spine and Spanish marbled sides. Ribbon bookmark., Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line., Spaces left for initials remain unfilled, except on f. 25r where there are three poorly executed initials in red; guide letters for decorator. Paragraph marks and initial strokes, in red., and Watermarks, along upper edge: unidentified mountain and hunting horn.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Cicero
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Memory, Rhetorica ad Herennium, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rhetorica ad Herennium
17. Roma instaurata.
- Creator:
- Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 779
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Flavius Blondus (Flavio Biondo, 1396-1463), Roma instaurata.
- Description:
- Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Brown goatskin over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with frame and centre-piece, the latter in the shape of a cross composed of small rhomboid stamps showing some remnants of gold. Remnants of one clasp attached to the front cover, with a brass catch fixed with three nails to the rear cover., Rather carelessly written headings in purplish red ink, added posteriously at the beginning of the Prologue and of each Book, not corresponding to the instructions for the rubricator written in the margins by the scribe (no such instruction is visible on f. 3r). White vinestem initial (5 lines) and border in the same style in the upper and inner margins at the head of the Prologue (f. 3r). The Books open with 2-3-line plain initials (Capitalis) in blue; a similar 2-line initial was planned (and executed) at the beginning of what would be chapter 3 (“Ambitum”, f. 4v), but this practice was afterwards abandoned. Guide letters for the initials in the margin., Script: Copied by a single hand writing a rapid Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The first line of the Prologue and the first word or second letter of the three Books are written in Capitalis., and Sold by Alberto Govi, Modena to Fred K. Schreiber, New York. Purchased from Schreiber on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Roma instaurata.
18. Treatises on orthography
- Creator:
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
Festus, Sextus Pompeius, 2nd cent
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1064
- Image Count:
- 384
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Sextus Pompeius Festus (s. II2), De verborum significatione, epitome by Paulus Diaconus (Eighth Century). 2) Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona, 1374-1460), De vocabulorum observatione (Lexicon Servianum). 3) Gasparinus Barzizius Pergamensis (Gasparino Barzizza, c. 1360-1431), De orthographia (alphabetical part; see art. 4). 4) Gasparinus Barzizius, De orthographia (systematic part), incomplete.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrappers with turned edges., Contemporary pagination contains some errors., Red stroking of majuscules on pp. 1-11, 22-31, 44-51, 64-73, 88-93 only.There is ample space for headings and initials (with guide letters), but they have not been executed, except headings in Gothica Textualis on pp. 46, 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; plain red Gothic initials (4 lines) on pp. 46 , 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; a few initials have been entered at a later date., and Script: Copied by two scribes: artt. 1-3 copied by a scribe called Stephanus in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; according to Barbero this scribe is perhaps identifiable with Stefano Guarnieri; art. 4 is by a scribe writing a script halfway between Humanistica Textualis Libraria and Cursiva Libraria. The opening majuscules of paragraphs protrude into the margin.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on orthography