Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Andrea Vendramin, Doge of Venice (1476-1478), Commission (dogale) to Girolamo Michiel as governor of Asolo, near Treviso.
Description:
On f. 1r white vinestem initial (6 lines) with long extensions in the upper and left margins; in the lower margin partial border in white vinestem, containing three medallions: the two outer ones feature the initials “I” and “M” in gold on a blue background; the larger, central one contains the coat of arms of Girolamo Michiel on a purplish red background in a green wreath., Script: Art. 1 is copied by one hand in a narrow Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, art. 2 by a hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens., and Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Asolo (Italy) and Venice (Italy)--Politics and government
Subject (Name):
Vendramin, Andrea,--1392-1478
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Manuscript on paper of epistolary forms extracted from an unidentified Aurea gemma de arte dictandi.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Semi-limp vellum case made from French document, with only dorse visible., Crude initials, 3- to 2- line, headings, underlining, paragraph marks, in red., Leaves of the text have been misbound, with ff. 5, 6, 7 now at conclusion., Script: Written in hasty batarde script by a single scribe., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified bull's head.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Humanistic, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Manuale (preface and chapters 1-24). 2) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum, large final part of chapter 2. 3) Arnulphus de Boeriis (ca. 1200 (?), Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), Speculum monachorum. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo de vita et passione Domini. 5) Vita S. Iohannis Calybitae or Vita S. Iohannis monachi. 6) Flores ex operibus S. Bernardi de dignitate et excellentia beatae virginis Mariae. 7) Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), Epistola 111, written in the name of the monk Elias to the latter's parents. 8) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Contemplationes de passione Domini secundum septem horas canonicas. 9) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Formula honestae vitae. 10) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae. 11) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Varia et brevia documenta pie seu religiose vivendi. 12) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Regula novitiorum, 3. 13) Bonaventura, Regula novitiorum, 4.1-3. 14) Matthaeus de Cracovia (c. 1335-1410; Ps.-Thomas de Aquino, Ps.-Bonaventura; here ascribed to Iohannes de Capistrano OFM, 1386-1456), De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientiae (Speculum munditiae). 15) F. Carboni, Incipitario della lirica italiana dei secoli XIII e XIV, v. 1, Studi e Testi, v. 277 (Vatican City, 1977), 863. 16) Carboni 212. 17) Carboni 96. 18) Religious poems in Venetian dialect. 19) Lamentatio Virginis Mariae ad Crucem, attributed to Philippus de Grevia (Philippus Cancellarius, Philippe de Grève, d. 1236). 20) Zeno Veronensis (d. before 380), Tractatus, 1.1.7.20-21. 21) Moral sentences and quotations by or ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 22) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo 12.
Description:
Binding: the two covers and the spine are covered with a fragment from a large Italian choirbook in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata; parts of two 4-line red staves with notation in Nota Quadrata and two lines of text are preserved., Red headings and paragraph marks. 2-line red and blue plain initials, with guide letters., Script: Copied by two similar hands: A, writing a rapid Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria, copied ff. 2r-56v and 69r-104v; B, writing a more formal version of the same script, under slight Humanistic influence, copied ff. 57r-68v. The Latin of both scribes is very defective., and Second preliminary leaf included in foliation.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
Subject (Topic):
Asceticism, Christian hagiography, Christian poetry, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century
Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of 1) Petrus de Alliaco (Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420), Meditationes super septem Psalmos paenitentiales. 2) Table of Contents. 3) Lotharius Count of Segni (1160-1216, 1198-1216 pope as Innocentius III), De miseria humanae conditionis. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De interiori homine (Meditationes). 5) Iacobus de Gruytrode (c. 1400-1475), Speculum aureum animae peccatricis, also attributed to Iacobus de Iuterbog (1381-1465), Dionysius Carthusianus (Dionysius de Ryckel, 1402/1403-1471) and Gerardus de Schiedam (d. 1442).
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in small Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda), with a tendency towards lengthening and making loops to the ascenders on the top line.
"... correcto[rum] impresso[rum][que] engolisme die .xvii. mensis maii. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxi."--Colophon., Description based on GW 2777., and Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 24 leaves from quires b, c, e and g. These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens (Paris, ca. 1530), from the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand.