Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153 Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156
Published / Created:
[ca. 1300]
Call Number:
Marston MS 122
Image Count:
542
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsests of ecclesiastical documents, many leaves pieced and patched) of Bernard of Clairvaux, Collection of sermons, treatises, and letters. With works by Ogerius de Lucedio, David of Augsburg, O. F. M., Arnulfus de Boeriis, and Honorius Augustodunensis.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Greenish brown goatskin gold-tooled. Gold-tooled panels and dark red gold-tooled label (damaged) on spine. Red edges., Folios 1-50 have flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternating blue with red penwork designs and red with purple; two initials of better quality, divided red and blue, with red and purple flourishes (ff. 42r, 43v); many initials have harping designs. For remainder of manuscript uninspired red initials, either plain or with harping designs in brown ink. Rubrics, underlining and initial strokes, in red, throughout. Running headlines, in red, on ff. 1r-83r. Notes to rubricator in margins. Paragraph marks, red or blue., Imperfect: some pages badly rubbed making text illegible., and Script: Written by multiple scribes in a small rounded gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153 Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Published / Created:
[ca. 1150]
Call Number:
Marston MS 135
Image Count:
192
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, holes, end pieces), in two volumes, of a collection of sermons by various writers, including Bernard of Clairvaux, Geoffroi Babion, Jacobus Berengarius, Ivo of Chartres, and Hugh of St. Victor. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged. The manuscript may originally have been a single volume. and Written in the middle of the 12th century, perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged.
Description:
Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires of both volumes cut in at sewing stations. Sewn on three cords. Paper lining between supports on spine. Red edges. Both volumes half bound in brown mottled calf with bright pink paper sides and two red gold-tooled labels on each volume: "Manuscr. Homiliae Caes. Max. Cod. I [and II]" and "Saecul. XIII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 151, 153, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance., Folios 1r and 158v stained with loss of text., Half bound in brown mottled calf with bright pink paper sides and two red gold-tooled labels on each volume: "Manuscr. Homiliae Caes. Max. Cod. I" The manuscript may have been a single volume before rebinding., Plain red initials, 4- to 2-line, some with small pearls added to the body of the letter. Spaces for rubrics remain unfilled., and Script: Written in late caroline minuscule by several scribes, above top line.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--France and Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800