Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script., Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines., and Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Boethius' De syllogismo categorico and De differentiis topicis
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a highly abbreviated, late Caroline script., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each section are red; 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; the explicit is written in brown rustic capitals with some use of uncial and minuscule forms; there are nine diagrams, one outlined in red; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Augustine's De trinitate
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a heavily serifed late pregothic bookhand., Decoration: red running head and discolored initial visible., and This fragment is contained in Zi 1764.3 (Joannes de Cuba, Gart der Gesundheit), around which the fragment is used as a wrapper.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of selections from Books I and IV of St. Augustine of Hippo's De trinitate
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: crude 6-line initial "D" and 5-line initial "L" in brown and orange-red ink, L terminates in a bird's head; 1-line initials in brown uncials with enlarged minuscule "e" and frequently touched in red on f. 1r; incipits and explicits in brown rustic capitals and the word explicit traced in red; punctuated primarily with punctus; three scribes; scribe one occasionally uses punctus elevatus and punctus versus; contemporary corrections in lighter ink.
Manuscript on parchment (one bifolium, one fragment) of 1) Hermannus Contractus, De utilitatibus astrolabii, text of bifolium not continuous. 2) Hermannus Contractus, Liber de mensura astrolabii, Book 1, portions of chs. 5-6. Annotated by several contemporary hands
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in romanesque minuscule verging on gothic bookhand., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, headings and horizontal lines for chart in orange. Diagram of dial on f. 2r; star chart on f. 3v., and Bifolium used as a wrapper for a book numbered "5311".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054.
Subject (Topic):
Astrolabes, Astronomy, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (highly polished) of Xenophon, De venatione, translated into Latin by Leonicenus Omnibonus and preceded by a dedicatory epistle to John Tiptoft
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Oiseau 12127., Script: Written in a well formed italic by a single scribe., Spaces left for rubrics and initials., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Paper case with paste paper sides. Rebound in Yale Conservation Studio in 1982.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of Pseudo-Isidore's Decretales
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red square capitals; one initial is in brown; rubrics are written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Decretales, containing the end of an unidentified text and a text containing a portion of the Synod of Tribur (895).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line capital "A" is a red square capital; 1-line initials are in brown capitals; the rubric is written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus.