Manuscript on paper (sturdy, brown; no identifiable watermarks) of a collection of religious texts including: Anastasius of Sinai, Quaestiones; St. John Chrysostom, Homiliae in Matthaeum 1-15; St. Basil, Ascetica. With other religious tracts, sermons, philosophical notes, and a commentary on the Gospel of John, mostly unidentified
Description:
In Greek., Script: This codex is composed of three distinct sections. Part I (ff. 1-133): Written by two scribes. Scribe 1 copied ff. 1r-133v in a neat scholarly hand characterized by extensive abbreviations; Scribe 2 added notes on f. 4 in a more cramped minuscule. Part II (ff. 134-223): Completed by a single scribe in minuscule. Part III (ff. 224-228): Written by a single scribe in tiny minuscule similar to that of Scribe 1. Signature added later., Part I: Small initials and chapter headings, in red. Part II: Some rubrication., The codex is stained throughout; mending tape and worm holes frequently render the text illegible., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Four chain-stitched supports link the quires and are laced into square-edged, flush, wooden boards with grooved edges. Colored, beaded endbands are sewn on fine cords attached to the boards. There are two twisted thread placemarks attached to the headband. The edges are bright yellow; the spine round and smooth with a spine lining extending across about one third of the outside of the wooden boards. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with an x surrounded with diamond-shaped tools stamped at random, within an outer border. One board is mended and both have small lumps in corners and center where bosses would normally be, underneath the present cover. There are traces of plaster where the leather is worn through over the lumps. There are two pins in the edge of the upper board, three corresponding holes going through both board and pastedown in the lower. Straps wanting. Flyleaf of the 11th century from a Latin liturgical manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Subject (Topic):
Asceticism, Catenae, Christian philosophy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Religious literature, Greek (Hellenistic), and Sermons
Manuscript on paper (with parchment of poor quality for inner and outer bifolios of each gathering) of a collection of sermons and materials for the construction of sermons
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified crown in gutter., Script: Written by two scribes in Secretary script: Scribe 1 (pp. 1-141) uses a looped d; Scribe 2 (pp. 142-502) uses an unlooped d., Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, red with blue designs and vice versa throughout manuscript. Brackets, initial strokes and underlining, in red, throughout. Opening words or line of each sermon in a careful text hand., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled title ("Sermones") on spine; dark blue cloth sides. Impression of oval label in upper register of spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Conrad, of Saxony.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
Manuscript on paper (sturdy, polished). Pages 99-170 contain Sermons and Lives of Saints for December 20 to February 2. Notations within the codex concerning the appropriate time for reading each item (e.g., "at the table") suggest that the collection was intended to be read aloud in a monastery
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks consisting of a hat surmounted by six-pointed star, with countermark of cloverleaf plus the letter P and unidentified letter., Script: Written by a single scribe in a bold and carefully executed minuscule., Large initials, 7- to 5-line, skillfully drawn in red with many floral appendages, occur at the beginning of each sermon. Long rubricated incipits and small initials throughout the codex., Most pages are water- and wax-stained; some leaves have been repaired, others remain torn., and Binding: Twentieth century. Brick-red goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled by the same binder as MS 241.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Sermons
Manuscript on paper (sturdy). Pages 9-1315 contain Sermons and Lives of Saints for March 25 through August 29. The manuscript is composed of three parts; the second two serve to complete a text that was either unfinished or damaged
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: anchor within a circle and surmounted by a six-pointed star, all three parts with assorted countermarks., Script: Part I (pp. 1-1315, skips 399): Executed by a single scribe in large bold minuscule. The scribe of Part II notes on p. 1315 that this portion was completed by Cyrillus in 1585 at the monastery of St. Simon Petras, with the subvention of Constantinus. Cyrillus' own signature occurs on p. 1323. Part II (pp. 1315-323): Written by a single scribe in a smaller, more calligraphic minuscule than Part I. Part III (pp. 1324-1334): Executed by a single scribe who signed and dated the section on p. 1334: Ioasaph, 15 January 1651., Part I: Intricate headpiece of vine-tendrils within rectangular blocks, outlined in black and filled with red, yellow, and pale gold (p. 9). Large initials, 10- to 8- line, of similar design and colors, appear for each new text together with narrow headpieces. Some instructions for the rubricator remain along upper and lower edges. Part II: Simple headpiece in black and red (p. 1316); one ornamental initial, 5-line, sprouting floral motifs on same page, in red. 2-line initials in gold. Part III: Headpiece of plaited design, in red and burnt orange (p. 1324); single decorative initial, 9-line, at beginning of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in purple calfskin with watered cloth sides. "Lectionary. Greek MS. Mt. Athos 1555" on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Athos (Greece)
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Sermons
Manuscript on paper of 1) Table of Contents. 2) Praefatio in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes, translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia (Rufinus Aquileiensis, c. 345-411). 3) Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregorius Nazianzenus, d. c. 390), Apologeticus, Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia. 4) Gregory of Nazianzus, De epiphaniis sive de natali Domini. 5) Gregory of Nazianzus, De luminibus, quod est de secundis epiphaniis. 6) Gregory of Nazianzus, In semetipsum de agro regressum. 7) Gregory of Nazianzus, Ad cives Nazianzenos gravi timore perculsos et praefectum irascentem. 8) Gregory of Nazianzus, De Pentecoste et de Spiritu Sancto. 9) Gregory of Nazianzus, De reconciliatione et unitate monachorum. 10) Gregory of Nazianzus, De grandinis vastatione. Ends incomplete. 11) Gregory of Elvira (Gregorius Illiberitanus, d. after 392), De fide orthodoxa. Missing beginning. Often ascribed to Gregory of Nazianzus and erroneously considered a Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: var. Briquet 2482., Script: Copied by one hand in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Pale red headings. Plain initials (Capitals) in pale red ink, 2-3 lines., The paper is at places slightly damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. English brown polished calf over pasteboard, both covers and turn-ins framed with gold-tooled fillets. Back repaired. Gold-tooled title on spine "GREGORI NAZIANZENIS OPUSCULA LATINA INTERPRETE RUFFINO. M.S. CART 1494". Grey paper endleaves.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Doctors of the Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology
Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio, approximately 1456-1524?
Published / Created:
28 January 1495.
Call Number:
Mellon MS 22
Image Count:
80
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript (holograph?) on parchment of nineteen poems, dedicated to Niccolo Franco, Bishop of Treviso (d. 1499), and other members of the literary circle in Treviso with whom Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (ca. 1440-1524) was actively connected as a famous private teacher and distinguished poet from 1491 until his death. Only the seventeenth poem of MS 22 is directly related to alchemy, but it is above all a literary exercise
Description:
In Latin and Greek., Script: Written by a single scribe in a good humanistic cursive., Large capital letters, mostly plain, at the beginning (written in the left margins) and dedication of each poem in pale red. On f. 1v (blank on the recto) is a drawing in delicate wash of a tree, lower left, against the base of which leans a small book in a red cover; extending upward from the treetop to the sun, at extreme top right, is the inscription in red capitals: "VTCVNQ[VE] TIBI." On f. 2r, opposite the dedicatory drawing just described, there is further decoration in the same delicate wash colors: a leaf in the margin beside the dedication to Niccolo Franco, Bishop of Treviso; light tracery ornament surrounding the capital "F" in the left margin at the beginning of the first poem; and Franco's arms, surmounted by the Bishop's mitre and surrounded by green twigs tied with red ribbons, in the lower margin. At the end of the manuscript, beneath the colophon, there is a further drawing and inscription in green wash, referable to the final poem: a small Roman sarcophagus with a little book in red binding lying atop it, and the inscription "POSTERITATI SACRUM" below., and Binding: Apparently original. Blind-stamped red goatskin (now darkened), repaired, sides paneled with blind fillets, two rows of differing knotwork tools, four clasps and catches now lacking, two asterisk-headed brass nails for each clasp remaining on upper cover, plain edges, modern leather label on backstrip with three faintly raised original bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Treviso (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Augurelli, Giovanni Aurelio, approximately 1456-1524?
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript, on vellum, of the Sextus liber decretalium, with the commentary of a Johannes Andreae
Description:
In Latin., L1r contains a pecia copyist's notation: "F xviii.", Bifolium formerly used as an archival wrapper., Layout: Principal text in double columns of up to 30 lines; surrounding commentary in 89 lines., Script: rounded gothic (two sizes)., Decoration: two historiated initials against burnished gold., and Binding: modern boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Renaissance
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them., Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text., and Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment in two volumes. Vol. 1: Gospels of Matthew and Mark. Begins in the middle of Matthew 5.17. Volume 2: Gospels of Luke and John. Both volumes exhibit the same physical format and were clearly bound together at an earlier date
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written by a single copyist in minuscule script, with headings and tables of chapters in uncials; writing runs through guide-lines rather than sitting on them., Full page portraits of Mark, Luke, and John; all are depicted on gold. Mark holds a codex in his left hand and touches his chin with the right. Luke (f. 3v, Vol. 2) writes in an open codex he is holding in his lap, while John (f. 87v, Vol. 2) holds a scroll bearing the opening phrases of his gospel. Illuminated headpieces and ornamental initials in gold with stylized foliage, before each book (except Mark); red initials at beginning of first, tenth, and twentieth lines of text., and Bindings: Volume 1, ca. 1904. Vellum case, gold-tooled. Volume 2, 1961. Orange goatskin gold-tooled, bound by Sidney Cockerell.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval