- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 932
- Image Count:
- 488
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Binding: Seventeenth Century (?). Brown leather over pasteboard, the front and rear cover decorated with gold-tooled frames., Pale red headings; pale red numbering of the letters in artt.1-111. 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in ... at the opening of the various texts (3-line initial at the opening of art. 112). On f. 1r 8-line historiated white vinestem initial D (Jerome writing in his study), incorporated in a three-margins left border in the same style, featuring birds, a putto, a theatre mask and in the lower horizontal section a coat of arms (altered?) held by two putti., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis with elements of Southern Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in rapid Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva on ff. ...... . The scribe Dominicus (or Donatus?) de Attavantis (see f. 238v) is not recorded., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letters and treatises
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- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 788
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, 347-420), 1) Epistula 79 (Ad Salvinam). 2) Epistula 123 (Ad Geruchiam).
- Description:
- Art. 1 opens with a 4-line Gothic flourished initial in blue with red penwork extending in the inner margin; art. 2 opens with a 4-line Gothic plain initial in red., Binding: Twentieth century (?). Half binding was removed and the codex restored and rebound in 2000 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The new binding is grey cloth over heavy pasteboard. On the spine a new black leather title label with gold-tooled inscription “SANCTI JERONIMI EPISTOLAE MS 788”. Among the flyleaves, the two following f. 50 are earlier than the others, which are yellowish machine-made paper belonging to the discarded binding. A modern hand wrote on the last front flyleaf r the title “Sancti Ieronimi epistolae ad Salvinam et Ageruchiam”., Foliated 43-50. Modern binding and binder's blanks not digitized., and Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Textualis Libraria.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two letters