- Published / Created:
- 1 May 1457.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 801
- Image Count:
- 185
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment containing 1) Ownership inscription and note on the scribe, followed by a variant form of a Biblical quotation (Lamentations 3:27-28). 2) Legend of St. Jerome in Italian, with special attention for miraculous events, as an introduction to artt. 4-6. Quotes Iohannes Belet (12th century), St. Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, Sulpicius Severus. 3) Ps.-Eusebius, Epistula de morte Hieronymi (BHL 3866), Italian translation. 4) Ps. -Augustinus Hipponensis, Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi (BHL 3867), Italian translation. 5) Ps.-Cyrillus, Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi (BHL 3868), in Italian translation. 6) History of abbot Daniel living in Thebais and his disobedient servant, to whom he tells the life of a virtuous man they have met, called Eulogius, who eventually became patricius and praefectus praetorio in Constantinople at the time of emperor Justinus I (518-527); due to the loss of one or more quires the major part of the text, containing the intervention of the Virgin, is missing.
- Description:
- Binding: Quarter binding of bevelled wooden boards (worm-eaten) and brown leather; spine with three raised bands and paper title label with handwritten 17th-century inscription: “Vita / di S. / Girola.” On the boards marks of one clasp attached to the front board and on the front board the ca. 1800 inscription “JO.” written in black ink. Possibly the binding once belonged to another manuscript., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal (MS 38). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Description follow modern foliation which includes two preliminary leaves.., Headings in pale red, often difficult to read. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. Initials, with guide letters written in the space reserved for the initial: (1) flourished initials (3-4 lines) in red with pale red (or brown) penwork or in blue with red penwork, sometimes with marginal penwork extensions; (2) at the beginning of each text a larger initial; the letters following this type of initial are majuscules. F. 3r: 12-line blue initial of the littera duplex type with extensive penwork in red and some blue, with decorative border in the same colours in the inner and lower margin and tendrils in the other margins containing flowers and acorns; the border of the lower margin terminates in a medallion containing a coat of arms; ff. 8r, 41r: 9-line initial of the same type and in the same colours; f. 47v: 6-line, idem; f. 77v: 7-line black initial., Script: Copied by one hand in a peculiar form of Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence as visible in the total lack of compression; special features are: the sloping hairline at the top of the second stroke of e, parallelled by the sloping stroke on i; h with exceptionally long curved extension under the baseline; the forked lower ending of f and straight s on or under the baseline and the forked descender of p; and the very fancy majuscules., and The lower margin of f. 62 torn off.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Texts on St. Jerome
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- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^2 [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 43
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an unidentified treatise, incomplete, on the Cardinal Virtues; material taken mostly from Valerius Maximus, with additional material from Augustine, the Bible, Cicero, Seneca, Macrobius, Aristotle, and Vegetius. and Unidentified treatise, incomplete, on the Cardinal Virtues; material taken mostly from Valerius Maximus, with additional material from Augustine (De civitate Dei, De beata vita, Epistolae), Bible (Proverbs), Cicero (De officiis, etc.), Seneca (Epistolae morales, De ira, De constantia), Macrobius, Aristotle, Vegetius, the "Storie Romane" of "Arineo" (f. 6r), and "Salino" (f. 23v). The presence of the "versificatore" (f. 11r), cited in Latin (Walther, Sprichwoerter 33507), and a similar constellation of sources suggest that Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Doctrinale was a major (though not exclusive) source for this author.
- Description:
- Imperfect: incomplete manuscript; leaves 42-43 also wanting. and Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script.
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Cardinal virtues, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on cardinal virtues
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1003
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Description:
- Folio 181 wanting. Ff. 218-226 blank.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on falconry
- Creator:
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
Festus, Sextus Pompeius, 2nd cent
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1064
- Image Count:
- 384
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Sextus Pompeius Festus (s. II2), De verborum significatione, epitome by Paulus Diaconus (Eighth Century). 2) Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona, 1374-1460), De vocabulorum observatione (Lexicon Servianum). 3) Gasparinus Barzizius Pergamensis (Gasparino Barzizza, c. 1360-1431), De orthographia (alphabetical part; see art. 4). 4) Gasparinus Barzizius, De orthographia (systematic part), incomplete.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrappers with turned edges., Contemporary pagination contains some errors., Red stroking of majuscules on pp. 1-11, 22-31, 44-51, 64-73, 88-93 only.There is ample space for headings and initials (with guide letters), but they have not been executed, except headings in Gothica Textualis on pp. 46, 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; plain red Gothic initials (4 lines) on pp. 46 , 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; a few initials have been entered at a later date., and Script: Copied by two scribes: artt. 1-3 copied by a scribe called Stephanus in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; according to Barbero this scribe is perhaps identifiable with Stefano Guarnieri; art. 4 is by a scribe writing a script halfway between Humanistica Textualis Libraria and Cursiva Libraria. The opening majuscules of paragraphs protrude into the margin.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on orthography
- Creator:
- Salimbeni, Jacopo, d. ca. 1427
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1475].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 928
- Image Count:
- 54
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Jacopo Salimbeni's Viaggio de quatro chavalieri andarono cercando il mondo, an account of travel to the East.
- Description:
- Contemporary foliation employed: ff. 61-84. Also has modern foliation in pencil at bottom right., Disbound., Manuscript on paper of Jacopo Salimbeni's Viaggio de quatro chavalieri andarono cercando il mondo, an account of travel to the East undertaken 1416 May 1, starting from Venice. The language of this manuscript is influenced by the Venetian dialect. The first sixty folios are missing., and Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Mercantesca).
- Subject (Name):
- Salimbeni, Jacopo,--d. ca. 1427
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian literature--15th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Voyages around the world
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Viaggio de quatro chavalieri andarono cercando il mondo