Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dedication to Ferdinand of Aragon and to his son Alphonse, Duke of Calabria. 2) Dialogue between Lazarelli and his Muse. 3) Books 1-3 on methods of counting time, moveable feasts, the ages of the world, the Jewish patriarchs, popes (the latest, Paul II, 1464-71), etc. 4) Calendar of moveable feasts in 1476 and November-June of 1477. 5) Books 4-16, March through February, and final book entitled Iudicium. 6) Calendar, March through February, with two series per month, the first with Christian feasts, the second with agricultural, zodiacal and historical (Roman and Jewish) information. 7) Thirteen poems by others in honor of Lazarelli. Eleven poets are represented; most of those identified are associated with the Accademia Pomponiana in Rome in the 1480's.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in well formed humanistic script below the top line., Eighteen miniatures, the final six sketched in but unfinished, by an accomplished artist whose identity remains uncertain. The miniatures are usually framed in a pink or mauve egg-and-dart molding and a thin gold band. Dedicatory inscription in gold Roman letters on a marble-patterned panel appears on f. 7r. One historiated initial, below inscription, 10-line, of the author at work: gold, edged in black, against a purple and pink quartered ground with pink and purple filigree; all framed in green. In lower margin, supported by putti, is the coat-of-arms of Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Naples., Four initials all'antica, ff. 1r, 70r, 102r, 222v, 14- to 7-line, gold, black, purple, pink, orange and green with flowers and acanthus. Ten white-vine initials, ff. 45r, 58r, 88v, 115r, 137v, 155v, 170v, 182r, 200r and 213v, 10- to 8-line, colors as above. Numerous 4- to 2-line initials, gold, darkly edged in black, on orange-, pink-, and blue-flecked grounds, with guide-letters; some with faces drawn in interior. 2- and 1-line initials, gold, red, and blue with acanthus serifs. 1-line paragraph marks red or blue. Running titles in yellow, red, and blue. Rubrics in margins in red, blue, and purple. KL monograms, 3-line, yellow, red, and blue., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Worn red velvet case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lazarelli, Ludovico.
Subject (Topic):
Calendars, Chronology, Church calendar, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fasts and feasts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Angela of Foligno, Memoriale and Instructiones
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with uneven speed. Headings and the opening words of sections are generally written in Capitalis., and Binding: early quarter binding: leather boards, the leather fixed with a strip of brass to the front and rear board. Remnants of two clasps, attached to the rear board by means of small quadrangular brass plates, and clutching on the front board in two brass catches in the shape of large decorated rosettes. The hinges are strengthened by means of strips cut from a s. XIV manuscript in Southern Textualis Libraria.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Angela, of Foligno, Saint, 1248?-1309.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
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 paper containing 1) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Planctus beatae Mariae. 2) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Contemplationes de passione Domini secundum septem horas canonicas. 3) Excerpts about the Virgin Mary. 4) Extracts from Isaac Syrus, De contemptu mundi. 5) Extracts from various sermons by Ephraem Syrus (d. 373) in Latin translation. 6) Extracts from Bernardus Claraevallensis, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 7) Excerpts from Caesarius, followed by other moral excerpts from the Bible, Aristoteles, Iohannes Chrysostomus, Cicero, Gregorius Magnus, Origenes, Hieronymus, Augustinus, Bernardus Claraevallensis, Basilius, Ambrosius, Hugo de Sancto Victore, Benedictus, Beda, Isaac Syrus, Seneca, Ps.-Boethius, Cassiodorus, Cassianus, etc. 8) Extracts from Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459), Summa, part 3, tit. 13, chapter 5. 9) Martinus Bracarensis (fl. 556-572; Ps.-Seneca), Formula vitae honestae, without the Prologue and ending incomplete in chapter 4. 10) Iohannes Gallensis (Waleys, John of Wales, d. 1285), Breviloquium de virtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum. 11) Moral extracts from Boethius, Isidorus Hispalensis, Galfredus de Vino Salvo, Augustinus, Gregorius Magnus. 12) Excerpts from Hugo de Folieto (d. c. 1174; Ps.-Hugo de Sancto Victore), De claustro animae. 13) Moral excerpts from Hieronymus, Bernardus Claraevallensis, Speculum conscientiae, Leo Magnus, Remigius Autissiodorensis, and the Bible
Description:
In Latin., Script: Apparently copied by four different hands, mostly very unstable and looking different depending on the period during which they entered the various sections. A (ff. 1r-54v and ff. 107v-108v) writes peculiar forms of Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. B (ff. 55r-66v) writes Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. C (ff. 67r-98v) writes a small sloping Gothico-Antiqua Currens. D (ff. 99r-105r) writes a Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Leaves are missing, and many texts are consequently incomplete. Many pages spoilt by the acidity of the ink., The decoration is uneven and differs from section to section. Headings in red ink, red (sometimes yellow) heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red plain initials of various sizes. Sometimes guide-letters without initials. Running headlines (author names) in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata in some sections., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Damaged half linen, the pasteboard covers covered with red paper impressed with a spiky lozenge pattern in black. Removed and rebound in purple paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., John, of Wales, 13th cent., and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Contemplation in literature, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i., 2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
