Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. Marginal and interlinear notes accompany the text of each letter (except for that to P. Vatinius appearing on ff. 26v-27v which was copied twice, apparently in error). Written probably for use as a school text (vocabulary lists on ff. 4 and 9).
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum case; spine fragile and splitting., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic cursive, with a smaller script for glosses., Simple initials in red at the beginning of each letter; titles preceded by paragraph marks, and underlined, in red., and Watermarks: unidentified letter P in gutter.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Used as binding for Daemonolatreiae libri tres / Nicolai Remigii serenissimi ducis Lotharingiae a consiliis interioribus, & in eius ditione Lotharingica cognitoris publici, ex iudiciis capitalibus DCCCC. plus minus hominum, qui sortilegii crimen intra annos XV. in Lotharingia capite luerunt ; miris ac iucundis narrationibus, variarum naturalium quaestionum ac mysteriorum daemonicorum discussionibus, valde suaues & grati, adque sales mouendos imprimis apti.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Gesta Silvestri papae (d. 335). 2) Excerpts from Liber Quare (11th century?) containing notes on the liturgy and church year. 3) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Sermo. 4) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), Epistula 54. With Anonymous sermons.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1900. Pasteboard covered with large sections of two parchment leaves from a 15th-century antiphonary (?) from Germany, with Hufnagel notation on 4-line staves traced in black, brown and red. The handwriting is Gothica Textualis Formata. The leaf on the rear cover has the folio number “208”., Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis Libraria., and Space for headings not used. A red line-filler on f. 21v. Plain initials of 1-3 lines in red, located partially in the text, partially in the margin, at the beginning of all artt. (except artt. 4, 6 and 12); in art. 1 also at the beginning of the text itself. The words after an initial generally in majuscules; other words often in majuscules are “Maria”, “rex Salomon”, “Amen”.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and Sylvester--I,--Pope,--d. 335
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on paper of 1) Collecta super grammatica, final part. 2) Full declension of the degrees of comparison of “doctus”, “fortis”, “sapiens” and “bonus”. 3) Antiphon for Purification, with musical notation..
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled paper over pasteboard., From the library of John Milton Berdan, Yale 1896. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red heightening of the majuscules and red decoration of the horizontal lines separating the various sections of the text of art. 1, art.1 up to f. 4v; reserved initials (not executed) in the same art.; no decoration in the second part of art. 1 and in artt. 2 and 3., Script: Three hands: art. 1 is copied by the scribe Conrad Payel in a highly abbreviated Gothica Cursiva Currens; art. 2 is in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 3 in the same type of script; "Hufnagel" musical notation., and The fragments are badly cropped, soiled and damaged and important text parts are lost; reading is very difficult. Rectangular excisions at the upper or at the lower edge of the leaves.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340 Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410
Published / Created:
[ca. 1250]
Call Number:
Marston MS 11
Image Count:
287
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick; holes and end pieces) of Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica, translated into Latin by Rufinus, preceded by the prologue of Rufinus. Written presumably at the Premonstratensian abbey of St. Peter at Weissenau.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Bound in a grey-beige paper case with the title, in ink, on a label on the spine: "Eusebii Caesariensis Hystoria Ecclesiastica"., Decorative initials, 8- to 6-line, in red, some with modest penwork designs in red and black, or with foliage type appendages, in red, mark the beginning of each book; plain red 3-line initials, with knobs, for beginning of chapters. Rubrics, chapter numbers, and initial strokes, in red. Guide letters and instructions for rubricator., From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 19049)., Outer edge of f. 1v damaged and repaired resulting in some loss of text., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand below top line by several scribes whose hands are uneven; text is written for the most part between the rulings.
Subject (Name):
Eusebius,--of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea,--ca. 260-ca. 340 and Premonstratensians
Subject (Topic):
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Literature--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:
1459
Call Number:
Marston MS 16
Image Count:
420
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli and narrationes in margins.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Adhered vellum stays on the inside of the quires. Original wound sewing on three wide, tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn to tawed cores laced into grooves on the outside of the boards. Front pastedown: reused paper manuscript with text side pasted face down. Quarter bound in blue, tawed skin with a strip, now wanting, nailed along the edge. Two leaf-shaped catches with three five-petalled flowers on them on the lower board and the upper one cut in for kermes pink straps attached with metal plates; damage from a chain fastening at the head of this board, and the board broken; outer edge wanting. Title, in same (?) hand as on f. 1r, on upper and lower boards: "Ouidius methamorphoseos.", Plain red 5-line initial, in outline only, f. 3r; two smaller initials of similar style, ff. 3v-4r. First letter of each verse stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r. Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled elsewhere in codex., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a small neat gothic text hand with hybrida features., and Watermarks: unidentified bull's head and mountain.
Subject (Name):
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Latin fiction, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia