- Creator:
- Nicolas of Amiens
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 306
- Image Count:
- 79
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper composed in three parts. Part I: Nicolas of Amiens, De articulis fidei catholicae. Part II: Johannes de Rupescissa, Prophecy. Part III: Various unidentified religious texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Parts I and II: unidentified crossed arrows, in gutter. Part III: unidentified balance, in gutter., Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Written by one scribe in large gothic cursive. Part II (ff. 25-27): Gothic cursive script by one person. Part III (ff. 28-75): Gothic cursive by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 28r-64r, and Scribe 2) ff. 64v-72r., Part I: 2-line initials, paragraph marks and underlining in red. Part III: Headings, strokes on 1-line capitals, underlining and chapter numbers in margin all in red. On f. 30r, a crude 3-line initial in red with brown penwork, including a bear's head (?) above and a man's head at side; on ff. 33v, 44v, 46v a grotesque in profile., Stains on ff. 1r and 24, ff. 25r and 27v, and ff. 28r and 75v suggest that each part was once a separate booklet., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Black cloth spine with olive green decorated paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicolas of Amiens.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Prophecy, Christianity, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De articulis fidei catholicae, etc
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- Published / Created:
- 1494.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 702
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Libellus de quinque floribus huius mundi contemnendis, a short moralistic treatise dealing with the five flowers of the world which need to be despised: (1) bona dispositio corporis, scilicet sanitas, fortitudo et pulcritudo; (2) nobilitas generis; (3) habundantia rerum temporalium; (4) sapiencia cum discreta eloquentia; (5) potestas sive dignitas temporalis. The treatise is illustrated with quotations from the Bible, Church Fathers and other authors, and exempla
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens. A later hand has transcribed in the margins in Humanistica Cursiva the words or passages which were found difficult to read., Headings, paragraph marks, underlining, heightening of majuscules and plain initials (3 lines) in red., Worm holes throughout the manuscript; the edges of the last folio are torn., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with greyish marbled paper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Conduct of life, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De quinque floribus huius mundi