Manuscript on paper and parchment, heavily illuminated (trimmed), of Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Written in Cologne/Lower Rhine (Ripuarian language area) for Augustinian use
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1656., Script: Text written in varying bookhands, most with batarde influence; more formal scripts for some rubrics and portions of text on parchment., Two historiated initials, 12- and 10-line, on parchment bifolios, the letters gold and blue with brown and red penwork, the figures crudely drawn in pen and colored brown, blue and green, against bright red grounds with white highlights; brown and red calligraphic flourishes with red, green, blue and yellow dots extending along upper and side edges of written space. 12-, 10-, and 9-line initials (ff. 13r, 96r, 115r, 179r, 222r, 258r, 322v) gold (or red for ff. 258r, 322v) and blue, filled with brown floral penwork designs with calligraphic flourishes and dots, as above. Floral borders for each 12- through 9-line initial (except ff. 15r and 258r), red, blue, and green flowers with gold dot centers, connected by brown ink stems, arranged in rows or spirals; ff. 13r and 84v with a vase and bird in the margins. Two 9-line initials, ff. 274r and 298r, on parchment bifolios, in a markedly different style, green and blue respectively, with yellow and white highlights, against gold grounds, filled on f. 274r with a large flower, blue and red, on f. 298r with short sections of curling pink and green acanthus. Borders large blue or red flowers with gold dots and centers or short sections of blue and red acanthus on spiraling brown stems with small green teardrop leaves. Numerous 7- through 2-line initials, red and/or blue, with brown penwork and flourishes, as above. I-initials, up to 13-line, red or blue throughout. Some capital W's in text in blue or red. 2-line KL monograms, alternating red and blue. Some portions of the text, including proper names, underlined in red. Notes for rubricator in gutter, perpendicular to text., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf with corner turn-in tongues. Blind-tooled with concentric borders, an X, roses and small flowers in the central panel, roses and rampant lions in the outer borders. Two clasp-and-catch fastenings, the catch on the upper board. Rebacked and the endbands probably added. Straps replaced. Covers lined with fragments of unidentified scientific text, in Latin (15th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Augustinians., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., and Binding: Twentieth century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment of Diploma for a doctorate of Civil and Canon Law accorded to Franciscus Adelasius (Adelasio) from the University of Padua, 27 Jan. 1674
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in elegant italic script; headings and names of persons in humanistic bookhand or square capitals, in gold., On f. 1v: coat-of-arms of the Adelasio family of Bergamo (gules, per fess 3 pennants argent on staves or; in chief azure, an eagle displayed or) surrounded by a full floral border in vivid shades of gold, brown, red, orange, and blue, with two peacocks in lower panel and a framed oval miniature of the Virgin Mary supported by griffins in upper panel. On f. 2r similar treatment of folio, but with text of diploma in center of page and a miniature of St. Antony of Padua in upper panel; ff. 2v-3v surrounded by full floral borders of less exuberant design than ff. 1v-2r., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Brick-red sheepskin heavily gold-tooled with a central medallion surrounded by floral arabesques and fan corners in multiple roll borders of different designs, the outer one blind-tooled. A red wax seal (cracked), displaying the arms of Gregory, Cardinal Barbadicus (Barbarigo; 1626-97), and enclosed within the original gold-tooled circular holder (58 mm. diameter) that matches the binding, is attached to the spine with twisted silk cords.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Padua (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a Diploma for a doctorate in Theology accorded to Iosephus Prudentius from the University of Padua, June 1598
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by Franciscus de Oddis, in an elegant italic., On f. 1r, a full vine-scroll border, in purple ink with grapes and highlights in gold, outlined in double purple lines; a 5-line initial, gold, with purple and gold vines. Headings and names of persons in humanistic bookhand or square capitals, in gold., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown leather wrapper, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Padua (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment for a diploma for the doctorate in medicine accorded to Petronius Fabracius de Minerbio
Description:
Script: copied in Humanistica Cursiva Formata, the top line in Capitalis, the second line in Humanistica Textualis Formata. The letters on the top line are alternately written in blue and gold, the second line and the names in gold., Manuscript on parchment for a diploma for the doctorate in medicine., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Bologna (Italy).
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 15
Image Count:
230
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar)., Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic):
Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on parchment of Martial, Epigrams. The codex was misbound; the epigrams are out of order. Excerpts from the critical commentary of Domizio Calderini (Professor of Rhetoric at Rome in 1470) surround the text on ff. 1r-24v and 165r-193r. With an unidentified prose text outlining the development of civilization
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in a neat italic for the text and a less formal hand for the commentary and for the unidentified text on ff. 193r-194v., Gold initials, 5-line, on blue, dark red and green grounds, with white and gold highlights, mark the beginning of each book. Small, plain initials, alternating red and blue, for each epigram. Commentary and titles, in various shades of red., Final folios creased and rubbed; some loss of marginal text due to trimming and wear., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum case, blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Martial.
Subject (Topic):
Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and Verse satire, Latin
Manuscript fragment on one leaf of parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) of 1) Apoc. 21.4-5: Epistle for last Sunday after Pentecost (?). 2) Beginning of Proper of the Saints, with Epistle for St. Andrew (30 Nov.); Rom. 10.10-15.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in bold, well spaced, and slightly rounded gothic bookhand., and Red hufnagel neumes scattered over the text for the subdeacon who reads the Epistle at Mass. On recto, space of 12 lines (140 mm.) left blank between arts. 1 and 2, perhaps for a miniature. 5-line initial in red, ending in pen and ink flourishes. On verso, illuminated initial C, 11-line, of poor quality, on brownish-red ground within rectangular frame of bright orange, green, and blue. Initial in white with bands of gold and silver; two gold-bordered medallions with white-blue centers, resembling jewels or mirrors. Initial encloses full-length figure of St. Andrew holding cross of his martyrdom. Text initials touched with red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Epistolaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Epistle readings for the temporale from Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in large round gothic bookhand with red and black accent marks for recitation., The fourteen full-page miniatures constitute the most extensive extant cycle by the "Spanish Forger". All pages with miniatures have full borders of scrolling acanthus in red, blue, green and purple with hair-spray and gold balls. 3- and 2-line initials, red or blue, with purple or red penwork (6-line on f. 134r). Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Date? Worn red velvet with a silver-gilt crucifix (a fairly recent addition?) on the upper board. Brass clasp engraved with "S. Maria/ ora pro nobis." Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Epistolaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment of Justinus, Epitome in libros Pompeii Trogi. Portions of the text in the first gathering are lacking; some leaves are misbound
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat italic by a single scribe who also added frequent marginal notes., One fine 6-line initial (f. 1r), gold, with white-vine ornament, on blue, pink, and green ground decorated with white, gold, and blue dots extending into side and upper margins, the vines inhabited by birds, insects, and putto; gold dots and brown hairsprays. A coat of arms in lower margin (effaced and blotted out) supported by a winged putto, set in ornament similar to above. Large blue capitals, 5- to 4-line, in blue, throughout. Headings and Roman numerals for books (in upper margin of recto), in red, for ff. 1r-35r., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Citron goatskin, gold-tooled, by C. Lewis; his note regarding binding, in Latin, on f. ii recto.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Justinus, Marcus Junianus. and Trogus, Pompeius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval