Gregorii Papae Noni gesta quaedam insignia : nunc primum studio atque industria R.D. Gerardi Vossii
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Engraved papal arms on t.p., Inscription at foot of t.p., and Presentation inscription from the editor to Jacobus Butius. "Ex bibli[othe]ca Altemps.na" (Giovanni Angelo Altemps?)
Subject (Name):
Dominic, Saint, 1170-1221, Elizabeth, of Hungary, Saint, 1207-1231, Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226, and Gregory IX, Pope, ca 1170-1241 Correspondence
Subject (Topic):
Holy Spirit --Procession --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
Romae [Rome] : Typis Bartholomaei Bonfadini, MDLXXXVII [1587]
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 256
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary. 2) Litanies of the Virgin, of Christ on Ascension Day, of St. Jerome on his feast day. 3) An account of the visions of St. Magnus, and the story of St. Magnus's burial and subsequent translation to the church of San Geremia in Venice. 4) Legend of the three monks in Paradise. 5) Exhortation to suffer illness patiently citing three exempla from St. Gregory's Dialogues. 6) Lists of the 7 works of spiritual mercy, the 7 works of corporal mercy, the 7 sacraments, the 7 virtues, the 7 mortal sins, the 5 senses, the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. 7) Unidentified sermon. 8) Anselm of Canterbury, Commendatio animae. 9) Short unidentified text attributed to Gregory I.
Alternative Title:
Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary, etc.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and pegged twice. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine is lined with leather between supports. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a central rectangle in concentric frames. Two fastenings; holes from pins on the lower board, the upper one cut in for straps which are fastened with star-headed nails. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; an X of triple fillets in the panels which are bordered with double fillets on the sides., Crudely executed initials red with blue and/or red penwork designs and vice versa; initials on ff. 7v-8v have green added. Blue headings accompany red initials and red accompany blue. Initial letters stroked with red throughout. Line filler in red, blue and yellow on f. 6r., and Script: Written in small round gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Magnus,--of Anagni, Saint,--d. 254, and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
anno Domi[ni] 1400 octuagesimo t[er]cio, 18 die me[n]sis Augusti [1483]
Call Number:
2000 1552
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Vocabularius praedicantium
Description:
Contemporary ms. notes. Presentation inscription on inside of back cover to Abbot Johannes (probably Johannes Scherzwadel, abbot of Lambach from 1474-1504): Reuerendo hono[rabili]b[i] ac religiosis in [Christo] pri[ori]bus [et] fr[atr]ibus d[omi]no Johannj Abbati Andree priori totiq[ue] Couentuj Monasterii in Lambaco nob[is] semp[er] colendj., Imperfect: wormed, with slight loss of text. Leaves e1 and x10 repaired, with missing text supplied in facsimile., Imprint from colophon, supplied in facsimile in CtY-BR copy., Initials in red; rubricated throughout., Manuscript waste used in binding, including a vellum flyleaf with 92 lines of hexameter verse., Text begins on leaf a2: Si te materne remoratur inercia lingue, quo minus ad populu[m] funde[m] uerba queas ..., and Title and author from Goff.
Publisher:
Per Petrum Currificem ciue[m] Nurenbergensem,
Subject (Name):
Benedictines Austria Lambach Ownership., Klosterkirche Lambach Ownership., Scherzwadel, Johannes--Presentation inscription., and Wagner, Peter, fl. 1483-1500.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library., Latin language--Dictionaries--German--Early works to 1800., and Monasteries--Austria--Lambach--Ownership.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified text.
Description:
Decoration: alternating red and blue initials., Script: written in a late pregothic script., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 6058 (Francesco Filelfo, Vita di S. Giovanni Battista), in which the fragments are used as front and back end papers and pastedowns.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.