Manuscript on paper (with parchment conjugate leaves at beginning and end of quires; calendar on parchment) of a Carmelite breviary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in an informal, but careful, gothic script. Numerous additions by contemporary and later writers., Plain initials and KL monograms, 6- to 1-line, in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks, underlining, and initial strokes in red. The verso of the final folio bears the partially erased image of a large decorative initial, in green, over which the later text was written., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Head and fore-edge gilt, with tawed, pink markers on the fore-edge. Bound by William Matthews, a leading American binder (second half of the 19th century) in a dark brown goatskin Jansenist binding (plain outside with gold-tooled doublures).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carmelites. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on Paper of Breviary: Sanctorale and Common of the Saints from Erfurt, Southern Germany. Artt. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are the original texts in this volume
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria. The original arts. 1, 2, and 5 are written in one hand. Art. 6 is in a different hand. The other texts are written by various hands in small script., Decoration: In the original parts, there are countless red rubrics, 1-line versals, red underlinings, red stroking of majuscules and red running headlines. Some articles open with a larger red plain initial. In art. 3 there is red underlining and red stroking of majuscules. Art. 4 is undecorated. In artt. 7-9 there is red stroking of majuscules and extensive parts of the text are in red underline., and Binding: Original quarter binding sewn on three double cords: white pigskin over wooden boards, now covered by fragments of a 14th century liturgical music manuscript on parchment, with text in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata and “Hufnagel” notation on 4-line black staves. Handwritten title on spine (18th century). Paper(?) flyleaves.
Manuscript on paper, with parchment bifolios at beginning and end of each gathering, of Albertus Magnus, De animalibus
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre P 8606 and 8625., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat running script for the text and a more formal style for rubrics., First initial on f. 1r, 10-line, painted blue, on red and green ground, yellow highlights. Many small plain initials in red and/or blue. Major headings lacking; minor rubrics and red initial strokes throughout., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Sewn and wound on five slit, tawed straps laced into oak boards and pegged or nailed. Kermes pink, braided endbands attached to primary ones sewn on hempen (?) cores laced into boards. Covered in brown calf, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern filled in with roses, fleurs-de-lis, eagles, and lions (?). Traces of five round bosses on each board and of three nails to attach a chain at the head of the lower board. Tongue-turn-ins. Two clasps on the upper board and stubs of pink, tawed straps held to the lower with metal plates. Remains of a title on parchment on the upper board. Numerous place markers, some vermilion leather, some very small Turk's head knots of leather or tawed skin. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on paper composed in three parts. Part I: Nicolas of Amiens, De articulis fidei catholicae. Part II: Johannes de Rupescissa, Prophecy. Part III: Various unidentified religious texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Parts I and II: unidentified crossed arrows, in gutter. Part III: unidentified balance, in gutter., Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Written by one scribe in large gothic cursive. Part II (ff. 25-27): Gothic cursive script by one person. Part III (ff. 28-75): Gothic cursive by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 28r-64r, and Scribe 2) ff. 64v-72r., Part I: 2-line initials, paragraph marks and underlining in red. Part III: Headings, strokes on 1-line capitals, underlining and chapter numbers in margin all in red. On f. 30r, a crude 3-line initial in red with brown penwork, including a bear's head (?) above and a man's head at side; on ff. 33v, 44v, 46v a grotesque in profile., Stains on ff. 1r and 24, ff. 25r and 27v, and ff. 28r and 75v suggest that each part was once a separate booklet., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Black cloth spine with olive green decorated paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicolas of Amiens.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Prophecy, Christianity, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper (mutilated) of Ps.-Aristoteles, Tractatus de pomo sive de morte. Latin translation attributed to Manfred, son of Emperor Frederick II (1232-1266). Incomplete; originally part of a larger manuscript
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: crowned fleur-de-lys over initials "J.b.", var. Briquet 7252?., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda)., Red paragraph-marks and underlining. Heightening of majuscules in red. Red plain initials at the beginning of the prologue (5 lines) and at the beginning of the text (2 lines); small guide-letters., and Binding: Twentieth century. Half parchment with corner pieces over pasteboard, the boards covered with grey paper. On the front cover a blank paper label. On the spine the handwritten title in red in modern Gothica Textualis Formata: "De Pomo et Morte".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, pseud. and Manfred, King of Naples and Sicily, ca. 1232-1266.
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Libellus de quinque floribus huius mundi contemnendis, a short moralistic treatise dealing with the five flowers of the world which need to be despised: (1) bona dispositio corporis, scilicet sanitas, fortitudo et pulcritudo; (2) nobilitas generis; (3) habundantia rerum temporalium; (4) sapiencia cum discreta eloquentia; (5) potestas sive dignitas temporalis. The treatise is illustrated with quotations from the Bible, Church Fathers and other authors, and exempla
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens. A later hand has transcribed in the margins in Humanistica Cursiva the words or passages which were found difficult to read., Headings, paragraph marks, underlining, heightening of majuscules and plain initials (3 lines) in red., Worm holes throughout the manuscript; the edges of the last folio are torn., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with greyish marbled paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Conduct of life, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal containing a variety of hymns, some unidentified, including Thomas Aquinas (Corpus Christi).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2- to 12-line initials at the beginning of hymns are in red; only those that begin with the letter "I" are set apart from the text; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses are in red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a hymnal containing portions of five hymns on: St. Martin (11 November); St. Elizabeth (19 Novembers); St. Catharine of Alexandria (25 November); St. Andrew (30 November); and St. Nicholas (6 December).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: 2-line initials at the beginning of hymns alternate red and blue; first letter following these initials is a brown capital highlighted with red; 1-line initials at the beginning of verses alternate red and blue; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.