- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 846
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Regula pastoralis.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. De luxe, gold-tooled green morocco over cardboard; each cover framed by rich gold-tooling imitating the decorated initial on f. 1v; turn-ins gold-tooled. Gold-tooled spine with repeated motif in the same style and title: “GREGORII / PASTORALIS / M.S.”. Gilt edges., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 14872)., Headings in red, missing from f. 12v onwards. 1-3-line plain initials in red of various shades. On f. 1v very large (c. 25 lines) decorated Romanesque initial “P” in red., Holes and defective corners, many repaired; the lower margins of ff. 63 and 91-92 are repaired by means of a strip of parchment; the lower margin of f. 93 is cut off. The manuscript is heavily trimmed at the top. First and last pages very soiled., and Script: Copied by various scribes writing Praegothica, difficult to distinguish from each other because of the uneven level of execution of their hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Regula pastoralis
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- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 80
- Image Count:
- 310
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse, thick) of 1) Commentary on selections from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, beginning imperfectly in I.3. 2) 300 exempla. 3) Gualterus Angelicus, Fabulae. 4) More than 100 extracts about the Virgin Mary, and other topics. 5) Extracts about virtues and vices derived primarily from Gregory the Great, Dialogi. 6) Exempla drawn from Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum. Arts. 7-18: collection of epitaphs.
- Description:
- 2-line plain initials, paragraph marks and headings, in red, throughout; some marginalia in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Limp vellum case made from a document; text not legible, but docketing note visible under ultra-violet light on upper cover: "N. 167"., Folio 151 damaged, with loss of text., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in semi-cursive gothic bookhand, above top line. Arts. 8-18 added by one or more contemporary hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11854 and unidentified mountain (?).
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 55 B.C.-ca. 39 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, Epitaphs, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Virtues and Vices, exempla