Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum). 2) Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand.
Description:
According to a note in library files, the manuscript was purchased from B. M. Rosenthal via L. C. Witten in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. On spine: "Liber Bellial" and "Codex Ms. Saec. XV"., Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r. Plain initials, 10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) in red throughout., and Script: Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Palladinus, Jacobus
Subject (Topic):
Athanasian Creed, Christian literature, Latin, Consolation--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
Description:
Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least seven hands, containing the text of the wills of Jankyn (or John) Smyth and his wife, Margaret Odeham, detailing their bequests to the Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds, as well as to other religious foundations, and the funeral expenses for Smyth. Also included are the grant of probate for Smyth's second will, dated 1481; and lists of lands donated by the couple, by name and location.
Description:
Binding: contemporary binding of tawed white leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four leather thongs. Remains of clasp; brass pin and mount on lower cover., Decoration: Rubricated. Large blue initial with red penwork (f. 8)., Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns, mostly of 32 lines., Numerous marginal annotations in both contemporary and later hands., and Script: manuscript is in at least seven hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Bury St. Edmunds (England)--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Finance--Early works to 1800., Odeham, Margaret,--1492., Smyth, Jankyn,--1481., and Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Charitable bequests--Early works to 1800., Endowments--Catholic Church., Legacies--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of 1) Proverbs. 2) Ecclesiastes. 3) Canticles. 4) Wisdom of Solomon. 5) Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach. 6) Laurentius Valla (Lorenzo della Valle, 1407-1457), Encomium sancti Thomae Aquinatis. Oration pronounced 8 March 1457. 7) Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspare da Verona, c. 1400-1474), Oration held in the church of St. Eustachius, see of the Studio Romano, in October 1459 or 1469, dealing with rhetoric, Latin literature and the various sciences. 8) Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspare da Verona), Rhetorical models consisting of the opening sections of nine orations.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary binding without leather covers or spine: bevelled beach boards (too small for the codex), worm-eaten, sewn onto three double leather thongs; remains of one clasp attached to the front board, with brass catch on the rear board. Front endleaves: large fragment of a Latin document on parchment that mentions church officials, written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, dated 1431-1443. The rear endleaves are a fragment of a pattern sheet on parchment, probably from the papal chancery, containing short and longer quotations from papal bulls and other documents, some of doubtful authenticity, in various types of calligraphic script., ff. 66-69 blank and uncut., Script: Copied by two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria: A (ff. 1r-65r) and B (ff. 70r-78v)., and There is little consistency in the decoration. Headings, partly in Capitalis, in red or black (often missing). Opening words or lines in Capitalis. On f. 22v-26r the majuscules are stroked in red; plain red initials somewhat imitating Romanesque models ff. 22v-25r. All other initials (2-3 lines) have guide letters in the margin but were not executed. Curious pointing hands with sleeves in the margins of the Biblical texts.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare,--da Verona,--ca. 1400-1474 and Valla, Lorenzo,--1407-1457
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Rhetoric, Ancient, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern), and Wisdom literature
Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line., and Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt--History--To 640 A.D
Subject (Name):
Diodorus,--Siculus
Subject (Topic):
History, Ancient, Literature, Medieval--Translations, 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.
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Breviloquium. 2) Bonaventura, Lignum vitae. 3) Four short texts, the last one by a different hand.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary parchment. On the flat spine and partly on the covers, a label with the handwritten 18th century inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur **** / pr**** / Lo*****.", Headings, paragraph marks and heightening of the majuscules in red. Numerous 2-line (rarely 3-line) flourished initials in red with black penwork; in art. 4 the seven parts of the text in principle open with a similar initial with diagonal penwork spreads in the margin: ff. 23v (II), 49r (IV), 64v (V), 81v (VI), 103v (VII). The two principal texts open with a littera duplex in red and blue, with black penwork and marginal extension: ff. 4r (art. 2), 5 lines, and 120r (art. 5), 3 lines with diagonal penwork spreads., Running headlines in artt. 2-4 only: up to f.29r they consist of an indication of the page's content and, at right on the recto pages, also in the upper margin, the number of the part dealt with ("I", "II"); thereafter the number only is given., and Script: Copied by two hands: the main part (artt. 2-5) is by hand A (the Celestine monk Jean Gerson, colophon on f. 119v) , who writes a small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the evolution of which during the copying of the present book and especially its second section (art. 5) has been studied by Ouy ("Le Célestin", pp. 287-288); hand B, who uses a small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria (rarely adopting Textualis "a"), copied art. 1, the note on f. 119v (see below), most of the headings in art. 5, and the final texts on ff. 140v-141v (artt 6-7); he also made a few corrections in the text copied by hand A. The very last text (art. 7.4) has been added by a third hand in tiny Gothica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The decoration consists of 1- or 2-line initials in paint and liquid gold and a three-margin-outer border on f. 1r. On the same page two rectangular pictures (10 lines high, framed in gold and black ink placed in the text area, representing (1) St. Anthony holding a book and (2) St. Claude as a bishop, blessing.
Description:
Presented by James M. Osborn in memory of William R. Coats.