Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orationes. With works by Pseudo-Cicero and Pseudo-Sallust.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Narrow brown calf spine with brown spattered-paper sides, small vellum corners. Bound for the Convent of San Marco, Florence; rebacked in Yale Library Conservation Studio., Delicately executed gold initials, 7- to 5-line, filled with white-vine ornament (highlights in pale orange) on blue, pale green, and pale orange ground with brown dots, mark the beginning of each oration. Rubrics (modified square capitals) throughout., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a beautiful humanistic script.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Manuscript on paper of Petrus Blesensis (Peter of Blois, c. 1135-c. 1204), 1) De amicitia Christiana. 2) De caritate Dei et proximi. 3) Devotional texts apparently by the same hand. (a) On the value of attending Mass, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine ("Agustinus"), St. Paul, Luke, Matthew ("Mactheus"), Bede, Gregory the Great, etc. (b) 9 selected Psalm verses. (c) On the value of Confession. (d) On Christian hope.
Description:
Binding: Original quarter binding: undecorated white leather fixed with a strip of leather and engraved iron nails onto square-edged heavy oak boards; sewing on two split leather thongs. F. 60 used as pastedown. Remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with a hole of the pin in the front board., Headings and stroking of the majuscules in red (but some headings are missing). Spaces left blank for inset initials (2-5 lines); guide letters are sometimes visible. A few pointing hands., Script: Copied by one hand writing a peculiar Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under Humanistic influence., The top of the leaves badly water-stained, and the edges of the front flyleaves and quire I very defective, with loss of text., and Watermark: Horn, var. Briquet 7965?.
Subject (Name):
Peter,--of Blois,--ca. 1135-ca. 1212
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes.
Description:
Foliated 11-22.
Subject (Topic):
Art--15th century, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Priapea. With an Introductory note on Priapus and the Priapea. The author quoted at the end is the German Catholic polemic and classical philologist Gaspar Scioppius (Schoppe, 1576-1649). Followed by Ps.-Apuleius. Anthologia Latina, 114 and De Philomela (poem on the sounds of animals).
Description:
Binding: Modern. The covers are two 13th-century parchment manuscript fragments over pasteboard, the spine consisting of a modern blank strip of parchment with the inscription in handwriting imitating early Roman type: “1778. Liber Priapeorum”. The fragments are complete leaves from one manuscript, written in small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Littera Parisiensis); they contain a scholastic treatise in Latin on virtues. The decoration consists of paragraph marks and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue., Script: Three hands, all three writing Humanistica Cursiva: in the main part (artt. 2-3) the script (hand A) is vertical; the numbering and the headings of the various texts are in a large and calligraphic form of the same script; in art. 1 (hand B) the execution is sloping and more cursive, and in art. 4 (hand C, resembling hand B) it is even more cursive., and There is no decoration.
Subject (Name):
Schoppe, Kaspar,--1576-1649
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Priapea
Manuscript on paper of 1) Ps.-Cyprianus Carthaginensis (Pseudo-Cyprian of Carthage or Pseudo-Augustine), De singularitate clericorum. 2) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), De incarnatione Verbi ad Ianuarium. 3) Pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis. 4) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Carthage, A.D. 416, to pope Innocentius I. 5) Letter of pope Innocentius I to the bishops at the council of Carthage A.D. 416. 6) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416 to pope Innocent I. 7) Innocentius I, letter to the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416. 8) Prayer to be said before the image of Corpus Christi. 9) Prayer to Jesus Christ. 10) Prayer to Jesus Christ ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
Description:
Binding: Original Italian reddish brown leather over pasteboard with a flap at the rear cover closing over the front cover with leather ties. Covers and flap are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of quadruple fillets, decorated with small circular tools either single or in clusters, and a full border consisting of a scroll motif. At the top of the front cover, in black ink, Capitalis ca. 1500: “Aur. (?) Augustini opus”. Parchment flyleaves. On the front flyleaf verso a Table of Content written in red by hand A, recording artt. 1-7 only, under the title “Que in hoc libello inserte sunt”., Headings in purplish red. Spaces for 1- or 2-line initials have been reserved throughout the codex (in artt. 1-3 with guide letters), but these have not been executed, except in artt. 8-10, where they have been clumsily written in black ink in the left margin. At the opening of art. 1, 3-line half inset Humanistic dentelle initial on a square background in green and blue decorated with silver and gold penwork. It has floral extensions with gold balls in the upper and inner margin. In the lower margin of the same f. 1r, between three similar floral decorations, a circular medallion containing the coat of arms of the Ugolini family of Florence (parti per bend, or on azure, with two lions passant counter changed, surmounting)., and Script: Two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica hesitating between Semitextualis Currens and Cursiva Currens. A, the main scribe, copied ff. 1r-60v; B, an inexperienced hand, marked by the use of d with ascender curving to the right, i longa and round s in all positions, added the prayers on ff. 61r-63r.
Subject (Name):
Council of Carthage--(411) and Pseudo-Augustinus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pelagianism, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Manuscript on paper of Gaspare da Verona, Regulae de constructione.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays adhered inside each quire. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. A natural color endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on a tawed skin core which is laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. Tied down through brown leather. Quarter bound in mottled brown tawed skin cut out around the head and tail supports. Two fastenings, the leaf-shaped catches (wanting) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps. The letter R written in ink on head edge., ff. 53v-60r blank, not digitized., Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Guide letters for initials in margin., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, buried in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6647-49, Briquet Croix grecque 5576 and Piccard Kreuz II.607, Piccard Einhorn III.1648.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare,--da Verona,--ca. 1400-1474
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library