Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae.
Description:
Binding: Middle Hill boards., Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Carolingian miniscule (Turonian script)., and Several leaves damaged with substantial loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,---419 or 420. and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts--France--Tours., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of excerpts from works of Greek and Roman history and philosophy (Greek works translated into Latin); religious tracts; and Italian strambotti.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum case; paper label with title on spine: "Excerpta De Vetustioribus script. Latinis et Grecis, Saecul. XV"., Headings and initials often highlighted in red or ochre; some paragraph marks in same colors., Imperfect: Some worming at end of volume with slight loss of text., In Latin, with Greek headings and Italian poems., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic script with many cursive elements; later additions by several hands., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified hunting horn, crossbow, animal (?); in outer margin, trimmed: unidentified mountain in a circle surmounted by cross.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Strambotto
Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Unidentified Greek-Latin lexicon. 2) Anonymous treatise on breathing marks in Greek. 3) De formationibus temporum uerborum graecorum. 4) De praepositionum significatione et constructione. 4) De numeris.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 3384). Purchased in 1956 from L. C. Witten by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Gilt edges. The secondary, beaded endband is cream and green. Covered in reddish brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a floral border and fleurons in a central panel. Name of owner is gold-tooled on side in Roman letters that have been modified to form Greek letters. Spine: triple fillets at head and tail; single fillet diapering in the panels. Gold tooling added later. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board; the upper board heavily cut in for clasps. Modern title on spine: "Guarini Lexicon Ineditum. MS. in membranis"., and The decoration consists of an illuminated title page, with full border, thin white vine-stem ornament with stylized foliage in red, pink, blue against blue, green and pink ground with white dots and gold balls. In outer border two vases, blue with white highlights, and three roundels framed in red, green or pink with Roman profile heads wearing fillets against blue or gold ground. In inner border foliage curling around a thin gold bar. The upper border consists of a garland, green with gold highlights, tied with red ribbons against a blue and gold ground with two masks, one spouting water. Unidentified arms (palm? tree on red ground) in center of lower border. Large illuminated initial, 12-line, gold against a predominately blue ground with some green, pink, red and gold, and sprouting vine-stem ornament, white with pale brown shading and stylized foliage in red, pink and light brown. 25 illuminated initials for letters of Greek alphabet, 6- to 5-line, gold, against blue, green and dark pink grounds with stylized white vine-stem ornament or white stylized foliage. 2 small illuminated initials (ff. 205v and 206r), 3-line, gold against blue, red and green ground with pale yellow and white dots and white filigree. Heading on f. 1r in blue; others in red. Plain initials in red.
Subject (Topic):
Greek language--Dictionaries--Latin--Early works to 1800, Greek language--Grammar, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of a Lexicon Latino-Grecum. With an epigram of Hubertinus Clericus (Hubertinus de Crescentino), Professor of Rhetoric at Pavia and Milan.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy (Italo-Greek?). Own endleaves. Unusual sewing through three spine linings, the central one paper. An endband of two joined lines of chain stitching is sewn on a largely exposed leather core. The flush paste boards are held on by the cloth spine linings which extend on either side of them and are glued to them. Covered in brown goatskin with rope interlace crosses and random small tools. Traces of four ribbon ties., First initial for each letter of the Roman alphabet: plain red or blue majuscules, 4- to 2-line. On recto, all Latin words begin with bright blue 1-line initials, on verso all begin with bright red; color scheme reverses on f. 7v to end. Art. 2, f. 1r, in pale red., Purchased from B. Rosenthal in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin words written in humanistic bookhand; Greek words in a neat Greek minuscule., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar in general design to Briquet Couronne 4659; two unidentified serpents.
Greek language--Dictionaries--Latin--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
calendis Septembris, anno M.D.XXIIII [1 Sept. 1524]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 969
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
De ueris narrationibus commentarij duo festiuissimi, De veris narrationibus commentarij duo festivissimi, Luciani Samosatensis oratoris clarissimi, De veris narrationibus commentarij duo festivissimi, Lvciani Samosatensis oratoris clarissimi, De ueris narrationibus commentarij duo festiuissimi, and Vera historia. Latin & Greek
Description:
Latin and Greek on opposite pages., Ms. notes in a contemporary hand. With: Lucian, of Samosata.[Dialogi. Selections] Luciani Samosatensis Dialogi aliquot Graeci. Basileae : Apud Valentinum Curionem, mense Febr. an. 1522 -- Ms. of Lucian, of Samosata. Loukianou rhētorōn didaskalos., Second of three works bound together., and Signatures: a-h⁴ i⁶.
Manuscript on paper (thick) of Macrobius, Saturnalia.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same style as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181, 182 for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi), with the first three probably by the same binder. Written in ink on tail edge: "MACROB". Two front parchment endleaves, presumably reused from the early binding given the patterns of rust stains and wormholes, consist of undated ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Cesena., Headings and some plain initials in red., Ink has corroded through many leaves; minor loss of text., Script: Copied in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified mountain; a dragon perhaps similar in design to those produced in Ferrara in 1440s-50s, cf. Piccard Drache II.538-72.
Subject (Name):
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library