Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
[ca. 1300]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 14
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
368
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of this widely popular theological work dealing with the creation, the fall of man, the Incarnation, grace, the sacraments, and the Four Last Things
Description:
In Latin., Work formerly attributed to Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280); now attributed to Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (Hugo Argentinensis) and dated to 1268., Ownership inscription on rear flyleaf: "Mastre Roger Walle off Lychfeld Chanone.", Layout: double columns of 30 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink with penwork decoration. F1r decorated with a small historiated initial in gold containing drawing of a man's face., and Binding: early limp tawed leather wrapper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270., Walle, Roger, of Lichfield., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Doctrines, Eschatology, Fall of man, Grace (Theology), Incarnation, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sacraments, Catholic Church, and Theology
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
Published / Created:
[ca. 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 118
Image Count:
250
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality) of Hugo Ripelin, Compendium theologicae veritatis. This text has been sometimes erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, Bonaventure or Thomas Aquinas
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Marginal notes in anglicana scripts., Flourished initials, 14- to 5-line, primarily blue with red and/or parchment designs (including circles), mark beginning of each book. Many blue initials with modest red penwork designs, 5- to 2-line. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, England. Brown, diced calf, gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a nearly contemporary copy of an extract from a Coram Rege Roll, involving Iohannes de Burgh, his wife Sibilla, and Nicholas de Burgh; concerns property dispute in West Bagborough (Somerset).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in English secretary script., and Badly mutilated with loss of text; stains along left margin suggest it formerly served as a flyleaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, New Haven., and Somerset (England)
Subject (Topic):
Common law, Legal documents, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of an anonymous catena of Eucharistic proof texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes, perhaps at different times, in early gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red or green (spaces left for others), followed by rustic capitals. Heading, in red, on f. 1r. Simple schematic drawings to explicate the text of art. 20 (ff. 21r, 22r)., Some loss of text due to trimming on f. 23v., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Eusebius Gallicanus.
Subject (Topic):
Catenae, Fathers of the church, Lord's Supper, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troiae historia, in the Latin translation ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, followed by the lists of those killed by the heroes on both sides. 2) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae. 3) De origine Normannorum, a short history of Normandy up to Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy (d. 1135). The main part of this text derives from Hugh of Saint-Victor (Hugo de Sancto Victore, d. 1141), Excerptiones allegoricae, X, 10 (PL 177.284) and is followed by a short list of Dukes of Normandy. 4) Three unidentified poems on the miracles of St. Benedict, followed by rhymed liturgical prayers to be said in the presence of the relics of the saint, and another poem on St. Benedict. This manuscript, which from the beginning contained all four texts described above, was copied in a Benedictine abbey
Description:
In Latin., Script: Carefully copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Headings and running titles in red, many now poorly legible. Heightening of majuscules in red. Large decorated Romanesque initials, red or green, at the head of artt. 1 and 2; 2- or 3-line plain initials alternately in red and blue and 1-line initials in the same colours in the middle of the text in art. 2; on f. 91r, at the beginning of Book XI, there is a 3-line flourished initial in blue with red penwork, which may be added later. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 3. 2-line initials in art. 4, of the same kind as in artt. 1-2., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Sprinkled calf over cardboard; the covers have gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, Normandy (France), and Troy (Extinct city)
Subject (Name):
Dares, Phrygius. and Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of portions of Saint Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, copied probably in Canterbury or Worcester. With glosses in Anglo-Saxon added between 950 and 1000, which may be of Kentish origin
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Written by two scribes, Scribe 1, ff. 1r-9v: a vigorous and well spaced Anglo-Saxon minuscule; preference for minuscule d; strokes of letters often extend well into margin at end of line. Scribe 2, ff. 10r-26v: slightly cramped hand; preference for uncial d. Anglo-Saxon glosses added by several hands either in small upward-leaning Caroline minuscule or in a somewhat larger script that uses insular letter-forms., Decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in black surrounded by red dots; smaller initials, 2- to 1-line, in red, often with traces of yellow. Letters, stroked with red, many now oxidized; occasional punctuation in red., Folios 8, 9, and 22 have been used as wrappers; mutilated with loss of text. Significant water damage on ff. 19r-20v, 26r; rewritten by later scribe., and Binding: ca. 1850. Olive paper case with "Middle Hill boards," bound by George Bretherton of Gloucester who worked for Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1848-51.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium. Conjugate leaves originally from the same manuscript as Beinecke MS 401. Stitching holes in center of bifolium; outer margins trimmed with some loss of text
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., For the script see MS 401; MS 401A was written by Scribe 2., and Decorative T on f. 2r, black initial surrounded by red dots.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script., Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines., and Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology
Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval