Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of old statutes related to the Carthusian order
Description:
In Latin., Script: written by two scribes in gothic script, one writing littera hybrida script (fols. 1-2) and the other writing littera textualis (fols. 3-4)., and Decoration: there are spaces for 2-line initials and rubrics, but they have not been added; 1-line capitals within text are in black; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of the Statutes of Queens College Cambridge. With an Epistle from Queen Elizabeth I dated 1570; the Academic Statutes of the University of Cambridge; and Interpretations of these statutes
Description:
In Latin and English., Script: Written by a certain Langwith according to a note on f. i recto; a fine calligraphic italic hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Written upside down in a brown calf, blind-tooled, ready-made blank book. Split along spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. and Queens' College (University of Cambridge)
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Statuta capituli generalis, with the years 1158 and 1180-1190 mentioned in red. 2) Liber usuum. 3) Super instituta generalis capituli apud Cistercium. 4) Liber usuum conuersorum. 5) Carta caritatis
Description:
Probably produced at the abbey of Fontaine-Jean in Northern France, to which it belonged in the late 16th century. The Cistercian abbey of Fontaine-Jean, near Montargis, between Sens and Orleans, was a daughter house of Pontigny founded in 1124., In Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in large, even bookhand. Additions by various hands, 13th-17th centuries; some lost due to trimming., Four large initials, ff. 1v, 38r, 86r, and 93r (12-, 29-, 8-, and 9-line), light brown with crude running pattern of clover-leaf-like forms in brown ink, filled with brown, green and red spiral foliage with flowers and dragon-head terminals, on blue and red grounds decorated with triplets of white dots. One elaborate, but crude, calligraphic initial, f. 118v, 9-line, divided red and green, accompanied by red and green foliate motifs, framed in green. Numerous initials throughout, 7- to 2-line, red or blue, and occasionally green, with blue, red or green foliate penwork, some extensive. 1-line initials, red or blue, alternating. Rubrics throughout, some in text, others in margins. Wavy red line-fillers., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled, with mottled, mauve paper sides. On spine: "Constitutions du monastre de Fontaine-Jehan".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment of the Statutes of the Confraternity of Corpus Christi, Our Lady of Peace and St. Ildefons at Toledo, under the patronage of the King of Castile and the Archbishop of Toledo, renewed during the reign of Henry IV, King of Castile (1454-1474), with an addition dated 11 July 1461. The latest date in the earlier statutes is 24 January 1417
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Written by one hand in bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish features; the addition on f. 17rb-va is by another hand in the same script., In art. 2 red paragraph marks. In art. 3 fine 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions, alternately in red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork. Large littera duplex of the same type and in the same colours on f. 6r. Art. 4 is not decorated. On f. 1v, full-page miniature depicting the King of Castile and four noble members of the Confraternity in adoration of the Resurrection. On f. 2r, full-page miniature showing the Archbishop of Toledo and five clerics in adoration of the Virgin, who hands the chasuble to St. Ildefons Archbishop of Toledo. Both miniatures are set in a courtyard and are framed at the outer and lower side with a border of large acanths in gold and colours. The slight smudge in the middle of the paintings is probably caused by the noble and clerical members swearing an oath of fidelity to the Confraternity and touching the appropriate page., and Binding: ca. 1600. Blind-tooled light brown leather over pasteboard made from waste paper. The covers are decorated with fillets making a double lozenge in a rectangular frame, decorated with impressions of a star-shaped tool. Traces of two leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Spain
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Confraternities, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Spurious and doubtful works
Call Number:
Osborn fa46
Image Count:
190
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
The manuscript contains a Middle English version of the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Stimulus amoris (The Prickynge of Love), attributed in the MS to Walter Hilton, as well as the anonymous work The Chastising of God's Children (also attributed to Hilton in the MS). Written on parchment in Anglicana formata script in the South-East Midlands region during the first half of the fifteenth century
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Colophon on f. 74v: "Thus endith the tretis yclepid the pricke of love the wheche was made of a hye clerke & a devout doctor of divinite yclepid Boneaventure of the ordre of freris menoris, & after ward he was a cardinal of Rome & yclepid dominus Albanensus, and sithin the same tretis was translat out of latyn in to englyshe by the travaile & diligence of a religious persone maister Walter Hilton chanoun & governor of the house of Thurgarton.", Incipit on f. 75r: "Here bigynnyth the kalender of this book now folwing the wheche book was made of a discrete & a reverent clerke & a chanoun ycleipd maister Walter Hilton governour of the hous of Thurgarton biside Newerk in the diosise of Yoorke and he sente the same book unto a religious woman lyvyng solitarie clepying the same book chastising of goddis childrin.", Inscription on f. 53r: Henry Richardson., Inscription on f. 136v: Thomas Shorte., Binding: Modern quarter binding on wooden boards., and Schøyen MS 1701.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of Stimulus amoris, translated into English by Walter Hilton from a Latin devotional text often attributed to Bonaventure. Followed by an anonymous devotional treatise
Description:
In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in bold, upright gothic textura; commentary added in an inelegant cursive (16th century)., One 4-line initial (f. 2v) gold, edged in black, against a blue and red cusped ground with white filigree, attached to a bar border in outer margin, gold, blue, and pink, with white highlights and leafy sprouts at divisions and terminals, orange, blue, red, and gold; the leaves with black hair-spray vines, both straight and in spirals, with small gold leaves and touches of green, filling upper, outer, and lower margins. Six initial I's (ff. 7v, 31v, 36v, 38v, 61v, 83v), 11- to 7-line, gold against blue and red grounds with white filigree and straight hair-spray vines, as above. 2-line gold initials, against blue and/or pink grounds, with white filigree and hair-spray, as above. Gold or blue paragraph marks with blue or red penwork and flourishes. Gold and blue line-fillers, straight, zig-zag, and wavy, some up to 3/4 of a line long. Headings, occasional underlining, and crossing out, in red., Trimming has affected some marginal commentary; f. 108 badly mutilated with loss of text. Leaves at beginning and end of codex stained and repaired., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red edges. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, Mediolanensis, active 13th century.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a section of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two different small, highly abbreviated gothic scripts; the first hand, on the first seven lines of the recto, is a littera textualis; the second is littera textualis currens with occasional use of cursive "d", frequent abbreviations, and wide word spacing., and Decoration: there are spaces for 2-line initials and for paragraph marks, but they have not been added; 1-line initials within text are brown; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript on paper of John of Freiburg (Iohannes Lector Friburgensis OP, d. 1314), Summa confessorum, German adaptation by Berthold of Freiburg (Bertholdus Friburgensis OP, 14th century).
Description:
In German., Watermarks: var. Piccard, v. 15, VIII.1547?; var. Piccard, v. 110, III.1667?., Script: Copied by Johannes Geratwol in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with some Bastarda characteristics., Headings, heightening of the majuscules and mostly 1-line plain initials in red or green. The initial on f. 1r has green penwork. The first lines of all titles in art. 1 are underlined in red., and Binding: Original pigskin, blind-tooled with lozenges traced in double fillets over bevelled oak boards. Spine with three raised bands, a label with handwritten title (worn) and a small label with the shelfmark "634"; the same number is written on the front cover. Traces of one strap attached to the rear cover and clutching over a pin (lacking) on the front cover.The binding stays and the lining inside the spine are said to come from a 12th-century Antiphonary from Tyrol, with text from the office for Epiphany. One strip of the spine lining would be from an unidentified 14th-century manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314. and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, ending abruptly
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Red and blue split initial, 10-line, at beginning of text (p. 11) with fine penwork flourishes within body and length of inner margin, in red, blue, and purple. Similar initials, 6- to 3-line, without penwork extensions, on pp. 68, 130, 284. Small initials, 5- to 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red, throughout. Headings in red; running titles in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on five double, tawed thongs laced into flush oak boards through tunnels in the edge and pegged with rectangular pegs. The back board is cracked and mended. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin. Plain, wound endbands sewn on twisted, tawed skin cores laced into the boards. Added embroidery is sewn through the cover and shows on the spine and the edge, with whip-stitching around the entire endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with corner tongues. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Five foliate bosses on each board. A pin, straps and two bosses wanting. Original front pastedown: incomplete alphabetical index, 14th century, of subjects from amor through uita (no entries for x). Original back pastedown, also contemporary with main text: fragment of a theological text on the biblical prophets, on recto; unfinished diagram of the books of the Bible, divided into categories in mandata diuisio, in exempla diuisio, in ammonitiones diuisio, in reuelationes diuisio (with material from Old Testament only), on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Dominicans.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Theology