Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 15
Image Count:
230
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar)., Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic):
Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper (watermarks: trimmed and buried in gutter) of Juvenal, Satirae I-IV, in the English translation of Jo Billinge and Sir Thomas Hewitt. The text of the translation is accompanied by Latin footnotes, some drawn from the scholia uetustiora
Description:
In English., Written by a single scribe in a neat running hand., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled calf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
Published / Created:
[between 1250 and 1275]
Call Number:
Marston MS 222
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV. With a Commentary on Eccles. 38.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line; annotations added in less formal, later hands., Red and blue divided initials, 4- to 3-line, for prologue and beginning of books, with penwork designs in the same colors. For other text divisions, 3- to 2-line initials in red or blue with flourishes in opposite color. Distinctio numbers and running headlines in red and blue; rubrics in red. Initial letters of each entry in chapter lists alternate red and blue., and Binding: 1837, England. Bound by Gough in London. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a light brown gold-tooled label with title "Liber Sententiarum".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
