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1. Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, with scholia
- Creator:
- Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 358
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Unidentified preface. 2) Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. 3) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. Although the commentary of Beinecke MS 358 belongs to the medieval school tradition rather than to the Renaissance tradition, neither the text of this article or of art. 5 below resembles closely any medieval texts currently known. 4) Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum. 5) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in batarde, with scholia in a smaller version of the same hand., One miniature, 12-line, f. 74v, a T-O mappa mundi, in a red and gold frame, slightly waterstained at the edges. One 4-line initial, f. 3r (pink), and one 3-line initial, f. 57r (blue), both with white highlights, filled with red and blue ivy on gold against a gold ground. Twenty 2-line initials, gold, filled with pink and blue against pink and/or blue grounds, square or irregular, with white filigree. Capitals stroked in yellow, red or blue between ff. 1r and 26v; in yellow for the remainder of the text. Borders were perhaps added later (between 1425 and 1450) on folios with initials only; between ff. 1r and 57r, flowering vines, gold, green and blue with gold dots in lines above, below or in written space; blue and gold acanthus mixed with flowering vines, red, pink, blue, and green with gold ivy in line above written space and in inner margin within rulings for scholia; on a few folios, outer vertical bounding line reinforced in red with small acanthus terminals. Between ff. 57v and 162v pink, blue and/or green acanthus, with flowering vines, pink, blue and green, with gold ivy and dots, disposed as above; on f. 85v vertical bounding line repainted as a green stem with lopped off stalks. Lemmata underlined in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case with title in ink. Rodent damage.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C. and Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C., Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, with scholia
2. Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Victorinus, Marius - Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 86
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212., Contemporary accounts on f. 49v refer to one Jordanus de Walchelina, and to Rotbertus, Liulfus and Leofric. Partially effaced inscription on f. 49v indicates that Stefano Guarnieri (d. 1495) bought the manuscript in Rome in 1465 (see U. Nicolini, "Stefano Guarnieri da Osimo cancielliere a Perugia dal 1466 al 1488," L'umanesimo umbro: atti del XI convegno di studi umbri-Gubiio 22-23 settembre 1974 [Perugia, 1977] pp. 307-23)., On parchment., Purchased from Lathrop Harper in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands., Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins., and Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Victorinus, Marius and Victorinus, Marius. Explanationes in Ciceronis rhetoricam
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
3. De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 85
- Image Count:
- 432
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. With Excerpts from the commentary of Nicolas Trevet (in margins) on Boethius, Book I.1.1 - II.5.34.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in an ornate and elegant gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1v-154v; 2) ff. 155r-210v. The marginal commentary is in a neat informal batarde (ink paler than that used for text)., Plain initial, 3-line, in blue at beginning of text; other initials, 2-line, in red throughout text to mark the beginning of poetry and prose sections. Title page (f. 1v): alternating lines of blue and gold., Grease stain in margins at end of codex; bottom of f. 81 trimmed., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled. Repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524. and Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae