Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Commentary on the Proverbs (Super parabolas Solomonis), nearly complete. Four original endleaves, at front, contain twelfth-century extracts from Peter Lombard on the Epistle to the Hebrews; exhortational material; and Latin verses (first line: Amittit proscriptus opes nec possi reverti).
Description:
Armorial bookplate of William John Monson, Baron Monson on front pastedown., Binding: nineteenth-century tooled brown leather over pasteboards; gold-lettered spine., Decoration: Rubricated. Two-line initials in red, blue or green with contrasting penwork; two larger initials in red, blue and green with penwork flourishes. Large illuminated initial (f1r) in gold, enclosing gold foliage on blue and green grounds., Layout: single columns of 31 lines., Ownership inscription of "roberti di cantuaria" on verso of final front endleaf., Ownership inscription of Anthony Watson on recto of first front endleaf., Previously owned by Robert of Canterbury (roberti di cantuaria); Anthony Watson. Ex libris William John Monson, Baron Monson. Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 60) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: English book hand.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, Monson, William John Monson, Baron, 1796-1862--Bookplate, and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Proverbs--Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (many holes and repairs) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several hands of different appearances, perhaps by scribes of varying ages or at different dates. The scripts range from rounded to angular minuscule., Plain orange initial, 7- to 2-line; heading and chapter notations (in margins) in same shade. Guide-letters and notes for rubricator., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is slightly rounded and lined, the lining extending onto the inside of the boards. Covered with white pigskin, blind-tooled. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. On the fore-edge of the lower cover is a notation contemporary with binding: "Gesta anglorum bede." Appears to have been bound at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Church history, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript fragment on parchment of one of Bede's homilies on John 16.23-30.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials with the use of some rustic capital forms; punctuated with the punctus, punctus versus, and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Catholic Church
Manuscript on parchment of The Venerable Bede, 1) Templo Salomonis. 2) De questionibus. 3) De octo subiectis questionibus. 4) Liber explantionis allegorice in libro Thobie. 5) Brevis explantio de templo Salomonis extracta de homeliis Bedae.