Manuscript on parchment of 1) St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), Enarrationes in Psalmos 134-150. 2) First half of Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus, Sermo de martyribus. 3) Antiphons for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin (8 Dec.), with neumatic notation
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands., Headings in red. Art. 1 has plain initials (Capitalis, ca. 4 lines) in red, followed by a word in Capitalis/Uncialis. The book opens with an 8-line Romanesque decorated initial in red and black. Art. 2 opens with a black capital followed by two words in Capitalis. Art. 3 is decorated with 1-line initials in black with heightening in red and opens with a 4-line red plain initial., Holes, original repairs and sometimes irregular lower edges., and Binding: Early (probably original) binding in pigskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. The covers are blind-tooled with fillets. On the front cover the fillets make a St. Andrews cross, at a later time decorated with trees in Lederschnitt, countless small circular stamps and a few stars (?); the rear cover, with fillets in lozenge pattern, has only the circular stamps and the stars. Spine with three raised bands. On each cover marks of five brass and iron bosses. Two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover an original paper library label with the title (partly rewritten) "Expositio beati Augustini super Psalmo CXXXIIII et deinceps usque ad finem". The binding is strengthened by means of parchment strips placed around the first quire and taken from a 13th-century Latin manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):
Antiphons (Music), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 15
Image Count:
230
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar)., Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic):
Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of classical Orations, Lives, and Exempla, followed by Excerpts from Valerius Maximus, Excerpts from Xenophon (translated into Latin by Francesco Filelfo), Seneca's Tragedies, Comedies by Terence and Plautus, and other miscellaneous works
Description:
In Latin., Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include hat, ladder, crossed arrows, cross bow., Script: Written by two scribes: Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-152v) wrote in a careful humanistic script for text and modified capitals for headings; Scribe 2 (ff. 153r-167v) retained the overall format but used a less elegant style of writing., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Plain sheepskin case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Classical literature, Latin drama (Comedy), Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc, and Latin drama (Tragedy)
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Ps.-Raymundus Lullus, Figurae instrumentales Testamenti: Diagrams and tables related to the Testamentum, a treatise of the Lullian alchemical corpus. 2) Recipes for obtaining the philosophical stone and the magisterium
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1 is written by one scribe in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, with cursive x and cursive final s. Art. 2 was added by two scribes writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., The tables and diagrams are traced in brown or red ink. Except in the tables there is no ruling for the text. The text is written in brown and red ink., and The parchment is stained and worn due to folding and manipulation.
Manuscript, on vellum, containing the text of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, including Baruch, with prologues and commentary. The extensive gloss surrounds the centered Biblical text
Description:
In Latin., Layout: Biblical text centered, single column, variable length; surrounding gloss written in double columns of 65-75 lines., Script: gothic script. Letters in Biblical text larger than in glosses., Decoration: 18 small historiated initials and approximately 30 other illuminated initials; numerous blue and red penwork initials with red or lilac penwork decoration; rubricated., and Binding: modern blind-stamped red morocco gilt, by Riviere.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, containing the complete text of Richard Rolle's De emendatione vitae. This is followed by a complitation of extracts from texts mainly by Rolle, including portions of the Incendium amoris and the Melum and a passage from the Speculum peccatoris of Pseudo-Augustine. Followed by Thomas Fishlake's Latin translation of both books of Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection. William Jordaen's Latin translation of Willem Ruusbroec's van den blinckenden Steen appears between Books 1 and 2 of the Hilton
Alternative Title:
De Emendatione vitae and other works
Description:
In Latin., With: multiple entries on front and back flyleaves in Latin and English containing notes on the family history of various members of the Heneage family, 1528-1820 and undated. Also 6 pages of similar notes, laid in., With: two horoscopes on back flyleaves for Michael Heneage, 1532 March 28., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: anglicana., Decoration: two full-page borders accompanied by three-line foliate initials on a gold ground (ff.1, 40); three three-sided borders (ff.32, 35, 92v), four- and five-line initials in gold on a ground of blue and red with white ornament and leafy sprays extending into the margin (ff.20v, 90v, 92v), one three-line foliate initial on a gold ground with extensions forming a two-sided border (f.81), two-line and three-line initials alternately in gold with blue penwork, or blue with red penwork, usually forming reserved leafy designs within the body of the initial and extending up and down the left margin, one- to six-line paraphs in the text and margins alternately gold with blue penwork or blue with red penwork,, and Binding: contemporary white doeskin over cushioned boards, sewn on six double bands; remains of two clasps including nails. Lower edge of leaves inscribed "hylton" in a contemporary hand. Center of upper board inscribed with a capital E and W-B in a nineteenth century hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Heneage family. and Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Translations into Latin, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Translations from English (Middle)., Manuscripts, Medieval, Mysticism, Catholic Church, and Spiritual life
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Description:
In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Subject (Topic):
Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, illuminated, in several proto-Gothic bookhands, of the Historia Scholastica, probably produced in the scriptorium of the monastery of Sutton-at-Hone. The text is complete but does not contain Comestor's later "additions" to the original chapters
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Text is heavily glossed in several hands., Illuminated initials; rubricated., Ownership: Benedict, Vicar of Sutton; Cathedral Priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, Kent; Philip Mainwaring, Esq. of Over Peover; Sir Henry Mainwaring. Also Royal Archaeological Institute and Warrington Public Library., and Binding: 19th century full paneled calf.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
Subject (Topic):
History Bibles and Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with Calendar (rather empty) and headings in French
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in formal batarde script; ff. 238r-241v in a different hand than the preceding folios, but probably almost contemporary., Thirteen undistinguished historiated initials (6-, 4-, and 3-line), ca. 1460-70, blue or pink with white highlights on brown grounds with gold highlights. Six other initials (ff. 13r, 17r, 27r, 107r, 155r, and 195r) enclose carefully studied flowers. Scatter and compartmentalized borders of average quality added later, ca. 1480-1500, for the most part to pages with historiated or flower initials, similar to borders in manuscripts of the "Ghent Associates"; the majority with acanthus branches, flowers, and birds, or flowers alone scattered on backgrounds of pink, bright blue, slate blue, gold and/or black, or flowers set within a lattice of twigs, the diamonds so formed alternately pink and blue (f. 123r) or green, pink and blue (f. 238r). Three borders (ff. 27v, 69v, and 136v) with thistles, brown and blue or brown and green, touched with gold, arranged in a wallpaper-like pattern over grounds of slate-blue or red cross-hatched with lines in a darker shade of the same color. In the border on f. 107r, a grotesque with the torso of a man and the hind legs of a large cat; on f. 185r the same, holding a bow., 2-line initials in gold on pink and blue with white highlights, except on ff. 238r-241v, gold on blue and brown with white highlights. 1-line initials in blue with red penwork, or gold with black penwork, or black with a red stroke; a few spaces for such initials have not been filled. In the text, headings and marks for antiphons in red; in the calendar, headings for months, dates, and important feasts also in red. Line-fillers: two oblique lines, blue or gold, with dots attached., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf. Paste-decorated edges. Rebacked. Spine stamped with gold leaves and the words "GETEY BOEK".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval