Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, and De modo orandi. 2) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 3) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae. 4) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss.
Description:
Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-18v in Gothica Textualis Formata; Hand B copied ff. 19r-38v in Gothica Hybrida Formata/Libraria; Hand C copied ff. 39r-47r in bold Hybrida Libraria; Hand D copied ff. 48r-50r and 54r-57r in Semihybrida Libraria; Hand E, which is perhaps identical with Hand D, copied ff. 50v-53v in Hybrida Libraria; Hand F copied f. 57v in Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 58r-116r in Hybrida Libraria (in two sizes for text and gloss of art. 21). Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and (in articles 10-19) underlining in red. All initials in the same colour: 1-line versals; 2- and 3-line plain initials; a 4-line plain initial with interior reserved shapes on f. 1r; a 3-line plain initial containing a human face on f. 48r. Article 20 stands apart by the form of its initials, its decorative paragraph marks and the absence of headings (instructions for the rubricator are written alongside the lower edge; chapter numbers have been added by a later hand). In article 21, elongated decorated initials at the top line.
Manuscript on paper of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), Laudum inter papam Clementem et illustrissimum Ducem ferrariae, the arbitration of the conflict between Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici, 1523-1534) and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1505-1534), Ghent, 1531 April 21.
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva., Contemporary copy of the charter, granted by Charles V, Roman Emperor (1500-1558), by which he arbitrated in the conflict between Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici, 1523-1534) and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1505-1534), Ghent, 1531 April 21., and Binding: the leaves are part of a volume formerly in the possession of Thomas Phillipps, containing mostly copies of documents related to the affairs of the Medici dukes of Tuscany Alessandro (1531-1537), Cosimo I (1537-1574) and Ferdinand I (1587-1609).
"Corrigenda"--p. [10] at end., "En Ceretae desideratam hactenus effigiem, nuper Brixiae repertam"--Half title., Includes index., and Signatures: [chi]² [cross]⁸ A-P⁸.
Borcht, Pieter van der, 1545-1608 Gambara, Lorenzo, ca. 1495-1585 Pactus, Jacobus Passeri, Bernardino, ca. 1540-1596 Plantin, Christophe, ca. 1520-1589, printer Wierix, Jan, 16th cent
Published / Created:
1577
Call Number:
2003 300
Image Count:
103
Alternative Title:
Rerum sacrarum liber and Rervm sacrarvm liber
Description:
Imperfect: trimmed, some loss of illustration on p. 191., The copper-engravings were made in Italy, after the designs of the Roman painter Bernardino Passeri, with the exception of that on p. 88, which is signed "PB" [i.e. Pieter van der Borcht] as designer and "IHW" [i.e. Jan Wierix], which belonged to the Plantin stock., and Title within ornamental border signed "Bernardinus Passarus", with coat of arms of Pope Gregory XIII and two cardinals.
Publisher:
Ex officina Christophori Plantini ...,
Subject (Topic):
Christian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600 and Religious poetry, Latin
Manuscript on parchment of the earliest known redaction of the Constituta legis et usus of Pisa, issued ca. 1146-56.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in well formed bookhands. Scribe 1: ff. 1v (1r erased)-20r; Scribe 2: ff. 20r-38v; Scribe 3: ff. 39r-62v., Decorative initial, 7-line, f. 1r, in red and black with simple foliage designs in interior; red initial, 4-line, at beginning of art. 3, f. 18v; rubrics throughout, some perpendicular to text in margins. Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and paragraph marks, in red; on f. 15v only, two initials, 1-line, and paragraph mark in blue. Guide-letters for rubricator in gutter or margins., Folio 1r almost entirely erased and illegible., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound with reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards. Paper label, with title "Statuta Civitatis Pisanae An. 1186" written in ink on spine.
Manuscript fragments on paper of loose leaves of a judicial register. The lawsuit before the court of the Parliament of Dauphiné (“curia Dalphinalis parlamenti,” founded 1453) is about land, meadows (“prata”), a barn (“grangia”), and a house.
Description:
Badly deteriorated by glue, worm holes and the fading of the ink on many pages., Detached from a binding. With the fragments a strip of parchment (goatskin), obviously coming from the same binding, is preserved. It is a fragment (c. 12 lines on both sides) of a Latin manuscript containing an unidentified text of Roman law (Italy, 14th century), written in two columns with a column of gloss at both sides of the text. The handwriting is Southern Textualis Libraria/Formata (Rotunda)., Foliated by cataloger in order suggested by worming. This may not reflect original organization., Script: Copied by various scribes all writing a rapid documentary script (Gothica Cursiva Currens)., and Watermark: letter P?.
Subject (Geographic):
Dauphiné (France)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent. Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
Published / Created:
ca. 1400
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 406
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
Description:
Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Manuscript volume, in the hand of an unidentified nun at the monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa, containing copies of Italian translations from the Revelationes, Sermo Angelicus, and other texts from the Liber Caelestis of Saint Bridget. On the colophon, the scribe identifies herself as a professed nun of the Order of Saint Bridget, and states that the work was completed on July 26, 1626. The manuscript also includes circa 27 contemporary devotional engravings placed throughout the text, many with identifiable artists and publishers from Italy, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. The engravings depict Christian figures, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, the archangel Michael, and various saints; and scenes from the New Testament, including from the lives of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ
Description:
Bridget of Sweden (approximately 1303-1373) was a mystic and saint. She experienced visions beginning in childhood, the records of which were gathered and translated into Latin. They are collectively known as the Revelationes and Liber Caelestis., The Birgittine convent known as Scala Coeli was founded in Genoa, Italy, circa 1406. Nuns at the convent translated the writings of Saint Bridget into Italian., In Italian; colophon in Latin., Title from first leaf., Includes table of contents on six leaves at end., Colophon, leaf 317r., and Binding: Contemporary red leather over wooden boards; front and back covers have blind tooled rules and rolls, with a central figure of a female saint and the letters "M S B G" tooled in gold; spine with raised bands and a blind tooled flower in each compartment; front edge originally had two leather straps with brass clasps, and is now lacking one strap and clasp. Later (19th century?) paper spine label with manuscript inscription: "[illegible] S. Brigid. Cavate dei libri delle sue rivela[tion]. Opera di una monaca della ordine stisso[?] per comodite delle Sorelle 1626".
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Sweden
Subject (Name):
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373., Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373, Jesus Christ, John, the Baptist, Saint, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Michael (Archangel)
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to, Devotion, Nuns, Saints, and Religious life and customs