Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
William,--of Melitona
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Pecia
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Justinian's Digesta with the glossa ordinaria commentary of Accursius
Alternative Title:
Digesta
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a rounded gothic script (littera textualis); later marginal and interlinear notes., and Decoration: initials of the names of authorities are 2- and 3-line blue capitals with red penwork; the initials of the first word of each section are 1-line red capitals; 1-line initials within the text are in black; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; paragraph marks are either red, blue, or black; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the end of Te deum in a Gradual. The colophon is signed by the scribe, Jacobellus de Salerno. With an additional leaf.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, composed of two parts. Part I (ff. 1-44): Ovid, Heroides I-XIV; XVI-XXI (line 12). Part II (ff. 46-82): Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, I.1-IV.16. For the first eight letters, a brief introductory paragraph, written by the same scribe as the text, appears in outer margin.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth-century. Caught up sewing on four double, tawed supports. Covers wanting., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Ovid, Heroides. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Decorative initials, 4-line, body split red and blue, with neat penwork flourishes, in red (ff. 1r, 46r); plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each letter throughout text; first letter of each verse placed on middle ruling of three vertical bounding lines., Early modern provenance unknown. Belonged to Martin Bodmer, from whom it was acquired by H. P. Kraus. Purchased from Kraus in 1970 with the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Manuscript on parchment composed of two parts of similar agenda format that were bound together by the 15th century when notes were added to the parchment pastedowns, now the flyleaves. Part I written in Rheims in 1303 (see colophon, art. 1); Part II was written by the same scribe in a contemporary period. Part I: ff. 1-44, 39 lines of verse. 1) Ovid, Heroides I-XIV; XVI-XXI (line 12). Part II: ff. 46-82, 45 lines of verse. 2) Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, I.1-IV.16. Letter 2 of Book I divided into two sections at lines 68-69. For the first eight letters, a brief introductory paragraph, written by the same scribe as the text, appears in outer margin. Stains in upper margin result in some loss of text. Written by one scribe whose hand is characterized by an unusually tall double compartment a.
Subject (Name):
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederick II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123).
Description:
Binding: Modern limp vellum., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederic II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123). Probably written by one hand in extremely small Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under some Cursiva influence. The script of art. 9 is larger., On the front fly-leaf r a table of contents written in pencil by the owner S. Harrison Thomson. Purchased in 1972 from Thomson on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red headings, red heightening of majuscules and red plain initials, mostly 2-3 lines; the red initials were to alternate with blue ones but the latter have not been executed. Many initials are anyhow missing. Guide-letters are seen close to the fold or to the edge of the pages. The running titles were also planned to be executed in alternately red and blue majuscules, but the blue letters are missing; there are no running titles after f. 20 (quire II)., and The ink on the first pages has flaked, making them very difficult to decipher.
Subject (Name):
Comestor, Petrus, 12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, Religious poetry, Latin, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown capitals; there are brief notes on the text written in the margin in a cursive humanistic script of the fifteenth century; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. and Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, History, and Historiography
Manuscript on parchment of Petrus de Tarentasia (Pope Innocent V), In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias. With Distinctiones on the scholastic and monastic life, entered in a later highly abbreviated script; and Anonymous commentary on the Psalms.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Germany or Italy (?). Resewn (early) on three tawed skin slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged; channels filled with glue. A pink, green and white, five core endband is sewn through a leather lining on a tawed skin core laced into the boards and pegged. Covered in brick red sheepskin with corner tongues; blind-tooled with an X and sparse use of oak-leaf edging tool. Two truncated diamond catches on lower board, the upper board cut in for the red fabric clasp straps which were attached with star-headed nails. Corner fittings and six-petalled central medallion. Traces of title, in ink, on spine. Spine of the bookblock partially eaten by rodents., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand; arts. 2 and 4 in less formal scripts., and Two historiated initials, 7- and 4-line. Folio 1r: mauve initial with white filigree on blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing a man drawing water from a well, against gold ground, illustrating the Biblical passage "Haurietis aquas...." Serifs, ending in heart-shaped red leaves, on blue and red cusped grounds, with gold balls, extending along the inner margin to form a partial bar border. Perched on the top of the initial is a small bird, grey with red wings. Folio 1v: blue initial with white shading against dark red ground with white filigree. Ascender blue against dark red ground, extending along text column to form a partial bar border. The initial shows the good Samaritan riding on a donkey, against gold ground. Numerous flourished initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator visible beneath initials.
Subject (Name):
Innocent--V,--Pope,--ca. 1224-1276 and Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Psalms, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia