Manuscript on paper, copied from an exemplar with the final part in disorder
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand writing an imperfect Humanistica Textualis with a relatively large number of abbreviations, incomplete word separations, hesitations, errors and corrections making reading sometimes difficult in spite of the formal character of the writing., Spaces and guide-letters for initials (3-line on ff.1r and 2r, the others 2-line); the initials are not executed., and Binding: Of undetermined age. Half light brown leather over original (?) unbevelled wooden boards, the leather decorated with fillets in a geometrical checkered pattern. Spine with four raised bands. Modern parchment pastedowns covering the inner half of the boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Marrasio, Giovanni.
Subject (Topic):
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an Italian lectionary, containing readings from Luke 7.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Italian gothic bookhand., Decoration: rubricated. Capitals in alternating red and blue ink., and Top of leaf trimmed, with margin and text loss.
Manuscript on paper of Francesco Zabarella, Lectura super Clementinis
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified mountain and unidentified animal obscured by text., Script: Written by a single scribe in small neat fere-humanistic script. Marginal notes by several writers (15th-16th centuries), one of whom added running titles in upper right-hand corner (recto)., A large empty space on f. 1r indicates that a miniature of ca. 27 lines was planned for the opening of the text. One 7-line initial, f. 1r, shaded pink and orange, with red, green, and blue acanthus leaves on dark blue, with white filigree, against a gold ground edged thickly in black. In the border, a red, blue, and gold flower, with spiraling vines above and below, green, light blue, red, brown, the spirals filled with dark blue or gold, with white filigree. Large gold dots with four black spikes. 2- and 1-line paragraph marks in red or blue throughout. Instructions to the rubricator in margins., and Binding: Twentieth century. Brown goatskin with gold-tooled title. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (London, 1901 to the present).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Zabarella, Francesco, 1360-1417.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Greek and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387 and Harlfinger Chapeau 12., Script: Written by three scribes: Scribe 1 wrote the Greek words in precise minuscule, using dark ink. Scribe 2 supplied the Latin equivalents for ff. 1r-56r in a delicate humanistic cursive; Scribe 3 supplied them for ff. 57r-323v in a more flamboyant calligraphic style of writing., Intricate but faded headpiece (f. 1r) in red, with intertwining foliage left uncolored, accompanied by a 4-line initial with floral motifs. Small initials, in red, throughout text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf spine, gold-tooled with decorated paper sides.
Manuscript on parchment (thick; most leaves palimpsest: religious text of the 10th century, in a small, regular Greek minuscule is faintly visible) of Miscellaneous prayers. Includes Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (the many peculiarities of the text suggest that it was copied by a scribe unfamiliar with Greek, perhaps from dictation); Gospel of John, 1.1-14. The lower text of palimpsest leaves appears to contain the Life of an unidentified saint named Ioannes
Description:
In Greek and Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in clumsily formed Greek minuscule: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-5v, 41r-42v (he signs himself brother Jacobus on f. 42r); Scribe 2, ff. 6r-39r (an unusually large and thick script). Latin added on ff. 39v-41r in gothic cursive of 15th or 16th century. Marginal notes in Greek by various later hands., Initials very crudely done, in various styles and several shades of red. Rubrics throughout. Some scribblings in the margins, including a cow on f. 25v., Folios 1, 2, 3, 41, and 42 are all torn, so that significant portions of the text are missing., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case; handwritten on spine: "Codex Memb Graec"; on front cover, "no. 2".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Liturgies, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prayers
Manuscript on paper of 1) Preface. 2) Paulus Pergulensis (Venetian scholar, d. 1451), Compendium logicae. 3) Logical texts. 4) Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus syllogismorum. 6) Marinus de Castignano, Tractatus de inventione medii
Description:
In Latin., Script: Artt. 1-5 written by a single hand in a small and highly abbreviated Humanistica Cursiva Currens. Art. 6 is added in red ink on unruled pages by another contemporary hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens close to Humanistica Textualis., The decoration is uneven (parts are undecorated) and consists of chapter headings, plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Heightening in red of some capitals. Logical diagrams on ff. 7v, 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v. Titles are missing on ff. 2r, 59r (?), 65v (?), 69r (?)., and Binding: Twentieth century. Marbled paper over cardboard. In the Rosenthal typewritten description the binding was still described as "old boards".
Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1495]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 380
Image Count:
583
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts (De prudentia, De fortitudine, De continentia, De iustitia) from Martin of Braga, Formula honestae vitae, a work often attributed incorrectly to Seneca. 2) Salomonis dicta; excerpts concerning wisdom, including quotes from Seneca, Book of Wisdom, etc. 3) Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum. 4) Excerpts from Petrarch, De remediis utriusque fortunae. 5) Isidore, Chronicon
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Huchet 7693., Script: Written by a single scribe in various styles of italic script; heavy annotations by the scribe and later hands., Several crude initials: f. 1r, 4-line gold initial on blue ground, infilled red, and 3-line red initial on gold ground; on f. 2r, 5-line red initial on blue ground; f. 72v, 4-line red initial on green ground with some flourishes and gold dots, infilled blue. Initials (2- and 1-line), names of authors (added in margins), paragraph marks and headings in pale red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound in brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled title on spine: "Miscellanea di Seneca, Petrarcha e d'altri". Orange, leather-grained paper sides. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thomas, of Ireland, approximately 1265-approximately 1329.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy
Manuscript on parchment of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by Ieronimo Sandei in fere-humanistica for the introduction and rubrics, and in humanistic cursive for the text., Historiated initial on f. 3r, 9-line, St. George and the dragon, curling foliage, mauve, red, and green, with gold and white and yellow highlights, on gold ground, edged in black, in a loose and painterly style. 3- and 2-line initials, blue or red with elaborate red or light purple penwork respectively. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Covered in brown leather, blind-tooled with concentric borders. Four clasp-and-catch fastenings. Modern paper pastedowns and flyleaves, the former covering an unidentified printed text in German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Horses, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (watermarks: unidentified, in gutter; outer and inner bifolios reinforced with parchment strips) of Giordano Ruffo, Marescalcia equorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by one person in round gothic bookhand; additions by a later hand., Small plain initials, in red, mark beginning of each section; headings, paragraph marks, some strokes on initials in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on two tawed, slit straps laid in a channel and nailed in square, flush wooden boards. The spine is square. Covered in reddish brown leather with corner turn-in tongues. Decorated with a blind-tooled panel of interlaced rope work and green dots in circles inside concentric borders. A catch on the lower board and a cloth strap (velvet?) attached to the upper with star-headed nails. Strap wanting, otherwise intact.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ruffo, Giordano.
Subject (Topic):
Animal culture, Horses, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval