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1. Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Victorinus, Marius - Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 86
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212., Contemporary accounts on f. 49v refer to one Jordanus de Walchelina, and to Rotbertus, Liulfus and Leofric. Partially effaced inscription on f. 49v indicates that Stefano Guarnieri (d. 1495) bought the manuscript in Rome in 1465 (see U. Nicolini, "Stefano Guarnieri da Osimo cancielliere a Perugia dal 1466 al 1488," L'umanesimo umbro: atti del XI convegno di studi umbri-Gubiio 22-23 settembre 1974 [Perugia, 1977] pp. 307-23)., On parchment., Purchased from Lathrop Harper in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands., Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins., and Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Victorinus, Marius and Victorinus, Marius. Explanationes in Ciceronis rhetoricam
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
2. Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi.
- Creator:
- Petrus Pictaviensis
- Published / Created:
- s. XIII 2/4 [2nd quarter 13th century]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 26
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Pictaviensis, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi.
- Alternative Title:
- Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Grubby blue paper wrapper. Title, in ink, on upper cover: "Manuscript des XIII#t#e#n Jahrhunderts. Historia mundi sec. ord. chronol. usque ad mortem Jesu Christi"., Genealogical tables accompany text throughout: drawn in red with roundels connected by pairs of parallel lines and aligned between red vertical rulings. Roundels for Adam and Eve, f. 1r, in yellow and blue, respectively; the roundels for their descendants on green ground. The plan of the temple at Jerusalem, f. 4r, in red, green and blue. The roundels for Christ, f. 5r, in blue, yellow, and red. Headings in red; spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled., Lower portion of f. 1 torn, with loss of text., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fine gothic bookhand, above top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Genealogy and Petrus Pictaviensis
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi.
3. Frere Laurent, Somme le Roi
- Creator:
- Laurent, Frère
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1470
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 204
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Frère Laurent, Somme le Roi (The Book of Vices and Virtues). Written presumably for Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, who died at Moulins-sur-Allier in 1476.
- Description:
- At the beginning of each book there are spaces (9 to 13 lines) left blank for miniatures. 4- to 2-line initials for each book and for a few chapters, gold against blue and red grounds with silver or white filigree, with coarse gold ivy and black hair-spray. 2-line initials in blue or red for chapters; 1-line initials, blue or red, in table of contents. All initials with guide-letters. Chapter numbers and paragraph marks in red. Rubrics throughout., Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges red. Brown calf, spine gold-tooled, with a red label: "Miroir du Monde M. S. S. Antiq.", Script: Written by two scribes in batarde script. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-100v, 131r-217v; Scribe 2) ff. 101r-130v, 217v-312r, 313r., and Watermarks: ff. ii-5, Briquet Armoiries 1876; ff. 6-315, similar to Briquet Lettre P 8527.
- Subject (Name):
- Laurent,--Frère
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Frere Laurent, Somme le Roi
4. Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc.
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent.
Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 406
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
- Description:
- Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc.
5. Opera varia
- Creator:
- Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 248
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fine; leaves repaired before pricking and ruling) of the Collected Works of Hugh of St. Victor.
- Description:
- 8-line illuminated initial, blue with white highlights on square ground, magenta with blue and white highlights; interior of initial inhabited by scrolling vines, rabbit and two animal heads on gold and blue ground; tail of letter extends down inner margin. 11- to 7-line red and blue initials divided by a zig-zag line in parchment and with interior red and blue flourishes resembling the design on a peacock's tail feathers, mostly in red with small blue circles. This style of initial accompanied by long penwork extensions in red and blue I designs and with small spirals, circles, flourishes. Small 3-line initials alternate red and blue with penwork flourishes in the opposite color. 1-line plain initials alternate red and blue for chapter lists. Remains of guide letters for decorator. Headings, running titles (often incorrect), deletions (single horiztonal red line) and initial strokes in red., Binding: France [?], ca. 19th c. Brown calf, elaborately blind-stamped with figure of Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book with alpha and omega displayed on the open pages. Original endbands (and therefore sewing?) and yellow edges., Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Brown calf, elaborately blind-stamped with figure of Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book with alpha and omega displayed on the open pages. Original endbands (and therefore sewing?) and yellow edges., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1960 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in uniform gothic bookhand throughout; contemporary marginal notes in several less formal hands., and Written in uniform gothic bookhand throughout; contemporary marginal notes in several less formal hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Hugh,--of Saint-Victor,--1096?-1141
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia