Manuscript on paper of Monastic school book, including canon law, and Cicero's De amicitia and De senectute.
Subject (Geographic):
Wiblingen (Ulm, Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Christian education--History, Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Ps.-Ambrosius Mediolanensis (Pseudo-Ambrose), De dignitate sacerdotali, without the opening section. 2) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, c. 470-542), Sermo 41 (De indigna familiaritate extranearum mulierum et de martyrio). 3) Fastidius (s. V, attrib.; Ps.-Augustinus), De vita christiana. 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Speculum peccatoris. 5) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux) or Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Planctus de passione Domini. 6) Richardus de Sancto Victore (Richard of Saint Victor, d. 1173) or Egbertus Schonaugiensis (Egbert von Schönau, d. 1184), Soliloquia. 7) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom, c. 345-407), Quod nemo laeditur nisi a seipso, Latin version. 8) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom), De compunctione, Latin version. 9) Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus (Pseudo-John Chrysostom), De paenitentia, Latin version. 10) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom), De reparatione lapsi, Latin translation ascribed to Anianus Celedensis (5th century). 11) Fulgentius Ruspensis (Ps.-Augustinus, c. 468-533), De fide ad Petrum. 12) Ps.-Augustinus (Pseudo-Augustine), De contemptu mundi. 13) Caesarius Arelatensis (Ps.-Augustinus), Sermo 7 (Admonitio per quam ostenditur quantum boni sit lectionem divinam legere, et quantum mali sit ab illa vel inquisitione desistere). 14) Ps.-Hieronymus Stridonensis (Pseudo-Jerome), Epistula ad Paulinum. 15) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De quattuor beneficiis. 16) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, c. 348-420), Epistula 52 (Ad Nepotianum). 17) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 109 (Ad Riparium). 18) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Contra Vigilantium. 19) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 22 (Ad Eustochium). 20) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 125 (Ad Rusticum de vita monastica). 21) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, c. 470-542), Sermo 44 (De castitate). 22) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 43 (De castitate coniugali). 23) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 157 (De lectione evangelica). 24) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 33 (De reddendis decimis). 25) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii. 26) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii.
Description:
Binding: Original undecorated white parchment (spine repaired) over wooden boards; spine with three raised bands. Remnants (rectangular brass plates fixed with four nails) of two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover the damaged early inscription in ink: “*******o*ale” (pastorale?)., On many pages the reading is impaired by the acid ink., Script: Copied by one hand in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria. The running headlines and the marginal notes are written in small Gothica Cursiva Currens of often scant legibility. The pastedowns are copied by a contemporary hand writing a very bold and angular Gothica Hybrida Libraria (Fractura)., The headings are written or underlined in red; red heightening of the majuscules and red plain initials. There is no red heightening and the initials are not executed on ff. 133-156., and The modern pencil foliation, in the lower corners, skips a leaf after f. 217 (= f. 217 bis).
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600, and Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Manuscript on paper of Priapea. With an Introductory note on Priapus and the Priapea. The author quoted at the end is the German Catholic polemic and classical philologist Gaspar Scioppius (Schoppe, 1576-1649). Followed by Ps.-Apuleius. Anthologia Latina, 114 and De Philomela (poem on the sounds of animals).
Description:
Binding: Modern. The covers are two 13th-century parchment manuscript fragments over pasteboard, the spine consisting of a modern blank strip of parchment with the inscription in handwriting imitating early Roman type: “1778. Liber Priapeorum”. The fragments are complete leaves from one manuscript, written in small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Littera Parisiensis); they contain a scholastic treatise in Latin on virtues. The decoration consists of paragraph marks and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue., Script: Three hands, all three writing Humanistica Cursiva: in the main part (artt. 2-3) the script (hand A) is vertical; the numbering and the headings of the various texts are in a large and calligraphic form of the same script; in art. 1 (hand B) the execution is sloping and more cursive, and in art. 4 (hand C, resembling hand B) it is even more cursive., and There is no decoration.
Subject (Name):
Schoppe, Kaspar,--1576-1649
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Priapea
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Life of St. Renatus, bishop of Angers, afterwards of Sorrento (5th century). 2) Three sermons on the miracles of Sts. Renatus and Valerius. 3) Life of St. Antoninus, abbot of Sorrento (d. c. 830). 4) Life, translation and miracles of St. Baculus, bishop of Sorrento (c. 660). 5) Life of St. Severus, bishop of Naples (d. c. 409). 6) Miracles of St. Agrippinus, bishop of Naples (200-210), introduction and chapters 1-7. 7) Invitatory and nine Responsories of the Office of St. Baculus. 8) Office of St. Renatus. 9) Peter, Subdeacon at Naples, Miracles of St. Agnellus abbot in the neighbourhood of Naples (d. 596). 10) Miracles of St. Euphebius bishop of Naples (3rd century). 11) Passion and Translation of St. Januarius bishop of Benevento (ca. 300) and of his companions Sosius, Festus, Proculus, Desiderius, Eutyches and Acutius. 12) Miracles of St. Januarius. 13) Last words and death of St. Eligius bishop of Noyon (d. 659). Shortened version of Vita sancti Eligii (BHL 2474-2476), Book II, chapters 34-36. 14) Passion of St. Restituta venerated in Naples (ca. 300). 15) Life and Translation of St. Athanasius bishop of Naples (d. 872). 16) Beginning of the first Lesson of the office of St. Aspren bishop of Naples (ca. 100) (not by Albericus). In the outer and lower margins, by later hand, the Office of St. Aspren.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary, now in bad condition. Limp parchment, part of a notarial document in Latin in handwriting close to the main hand of the manuscript., Pale red headings. The decoration proper does not extend beyond f. 26v: red heightening of the majuscules and red plain initials (2-3 lines), occasionally with guide letter. On f. 1r large flourished initial I in red and black, with penwork extension in the inner margin., and Script: Copied in Gothica-Humanistica (Gothica Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence,visible in some majuscules and the occasional use of the ampersand), probably by one hand lacking consistency.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin