Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Breviloquium. 2) Bonaventura, Lignum vitae. 3) Four short texts, the last one by a different hand.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary parchment. On the flat spine and partly on the covers, a label with the handwritten 18th century inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur **** / pr**** / Lo*****.", Headings, paragraph marks and heightening of the majuscules in red. Numerous 2-line (rarely 3-line) flourished initials in red with black penwork; in art. 4 the seven parts of the text in principle open with a similar initial with diagonal penwork spreads in the margin: ff. 23v (II), 49r (IV), 64v (V), 81v (VI), 103v (VII). The two principal texts open with a littera duplex in red and blue, with black penwork and marginal extension: ff. 4r (art. 2), 5 lines, and 120r (art. 5), 3 lines with diagonal penwork spreads., Running headlines in artt. 2-4 only: up to f.29r they consist of an indication of the page's content and, at right on the recto pages, also in the upper margin, the number of the part dealt with ("I", "II"); thereafter the number only is given., and Script: Copied by two hands: the main part (artt. 2-5) is by hand A (the Celestine monk Jean Gerson, colophon on f. 119v) , who writes a small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the evolution of which during the copying of the present book and especially its second section (art. 5) has been studied by Ouy ("Le Célestin", pp. 287-288); hand B, who uses a small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria (rarely adopting Textualis "a"), copied art. 1, the note on f. 119v (see below), most of the headings in art. 5, and the final texts on ff. 140v-141v (artt 6-7); he also made a few corrections in the text copied by hand A. The very last text (art. 7.4) has been added by a third hand in tiny Gothica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentary on the Latin translation of Porphyrius (233-c. 301), Isagoge. 2) Commentary on Aristoteles (384-322 B.C.), Praedicamenta. 3) Commentary on Gislebertus Porretanus (Gilbert de la Porrée, c. 1076-1154), Liber de sex principiis, redaction A. 4) Commentary on Aristoteles, Ars vetus (final form, 1337).
Description:
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks, with long vertical extensions when at the beginning of a line; alternately red and blue flourished initials (2- or 3-line) at the opening of the chapters; larger flourished initials with more developed penwork in the same colours, of course execution, on ff.1r (9 lines), 15r (7 lines), 60r (6 lines), 73r (6 lines), 99r (5 lines), 113r (5 lines). There are carefully executed logical diagrams in the text on ff. 100r-v, 115v,116v-117v (their inscriptions partly in Northern Gothica Textualis); diagrams are sketched in the margins of ff. 19r and 59r., Binding: Original, thin wooden boards sewn on three thongs; the leather cover missing, replaced with mottled orange paper; rebacked with brown leather. Remnants of two red leather clasps attached to the front cover, with brass catches on the rear cover. The front endleaves are cut from large sheets of paper ruled with ink for two columns, mounted transversally (width of the leaf: 290 mm.; of the ruling 175 mm., intercol. space 30 mm.)., Script: Copied by a single hand writing a small highly abbreviated Gothica Hybrida Libraria; exceptions are a few folios by other hands using the same type of script (ff. 1, 11-13, etc.), and the replacement leaves 28 and 35 written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Currens. Lemmata in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., and Watermarks: spiked wheel, var. Briquet 13268; ox head, var. Briquet 14306. The upper outer corners damaged by moist in the second half of the codex.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Porphyry,--ca. 234-ca. 305
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Imperfect: Water damaged with some loss of text. Mutilated at head. and Preliminary leaves (modern binder's blanks) not digitized.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--John, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation.
Description:
Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges., First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text., Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1., and Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line.
Subject (Name):
Halgrin, John
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Derivationes.
Description:
Part II written in Italy in the middle of the 13th century; Part I added in the 14th century when the two parts may have been bound together.
Subject (Name):
Uguccione,--da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara,--d. 1210
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language--Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of Gottofredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium. With medicinal recipes and a list of Roman emperors.
Description:
5 fine illuminated initials, 30- to 7-line, in blue or pink with white filigree on blue and red grounds framed in blue or red accentuated at the corners by gold dots. Infilled with intertwining or angular vines, some with biting head terminals, mauve or blue with white highlights and gold dots. Ascenders and descenders, red, mauve and blue terminating in spiralling serifs with biting animal heads or grotesques against cusped grounds. Two initials with vines issuing from upper and left corners, blue with white highlights ending in grotesques. 3- and 2-line calligraphic initials, red and blue with blue and red penwork. Plain initials alternating in red and blue. Headings in red; running titles (chapter numbers) alternating red and blue. Instructions to rubricator in lower margins., Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Early sewing on five supports with 19th-century boards covered in parchment. Title on spine: "Gofredo de Trano/ Manuscrit"., and Script: Written in a rounded gothic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations and finding aids by a contemporary hand in less formal script.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality), composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Thomas Aquinas, Super Metaphysicam. Part II: Thomas Aquinas, Super de causis.
Description:
Binding: 14th-15th centuries, Spain. Original sewing on five tawed skin, double supports laced into beech boards. Plain, wound natural color endbands. Single parchment leaf (front) and bifolium (rear), from what appear to be two different Hebrew Bible manuscripts, serve as pastedowns and spine-lining; they have been cut out around the sewing supports. Yellow edges. Covered in what was originally blue tawed skin (now faded) with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails. Traces of title (?) scratched onto skin of upper board., Part I: One illuminated initial, rubbed, f. 1r: blue with white highlights on dark red ground with white highlights; terminals of ground extend up and down as modest border in blue, dark red and gold. Flourished initials of various sizes, styles and quality: blue with red penwork designs, red with blue, red with purple (ff. 75r-119r) and red and blue divided with penwork in purple (e.g., f. 88v); some flourished initials with border extensions (e.g., f. 110v). Running headlines in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Traces of guide letters for decorator. Part II: Spaces for decorative initials remain unfilled., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Written by a single scribe in small gothic book hand. Part II (ff. 121-132): Written in a less accomplished gothic script than that in Part I.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Ancient, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Quaestiones de quolibet. 2) A series of Quaestiones on the soul. 3) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura generis. 4) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De principio individuationis. 5) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De natura accidentis. 6) Thomas Aquinas (doubtful), De quattuor oppositis. 7) Treatise on the immortality of the soul, being a shortened version of the beginning of Guillelmus de Alvernia (Guillaume d'Auvergne, c. 1180-1249), De immortalitate animae. 8) Thomas de Sutton (d. in or after 1300), De productione formarum substantialium. 9) Thomas Aquinas, De iudiciis astrorum. 10) Thomas Aquinas, De mixtione elementorum. 11) Thomas Aquinas, De aeternitate mundi. 12) Thomas Aquinas(doubtful), De instantibus. 13) Thomas Aquinas, De occultis operationibus naturae. 14) Thomas Aquinas, De principiis naturae. 15) Thomas Aquinas, De natura materiae et dimensionibus interminatis. 16) Thomas Aquinas, De motu cordis. 17) Anonymous (Ps.-Thomas Aquinas), De universalibus. 18) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), De intellectu et intelligibili. 19) Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome, c. 1244-1316), Theoremata de ente et essentia. 20) Anonymous commentary on Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Quomodo substantiae in eo, quod sint, bonae sint (De hebdomadibus, CPL 892). 21) Albertus Magnus, De intellectu et intelligibili. 22) Albertus Magnus, De natura et origine animae. 23) Heymericus de Campo (Heymeric van de Velde, c. 1390-1460), Problemata inter Albertum Magnum et sanctum Thomam, written 1423-1426, printed Cologne, Iohannes Landensis, 1496 (GKW 12405) and 1517. 24) Franciscus de Mayronis OFM (François de Meyronnes, d. c. 1328), attrib., Vinculum de esse essentiae. 25) Anonymous (Ps.-Albertus Magnus), Quaestiones de esse et essentia. 26) 27. Fragments preserved as sewing guards from a printed indulgence issued by Marinus de Fregeno (d. 1486), who sold indulgences for an expedition against the Turks in the years 1473-1480.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary unbevelled wooden boards covered with dark brown pigskin, simply decorated with fillets. Spine with four raised bands. Five cylindrical brass bosses and corner and side-pieces on each cover. Remnants of two engraved brass clasps attached to the rear cover, the catches with the inscription “Maria”. Yellow edges., Red stroking of majuscules. Red headings only in art. 23. Red plain or slightly decorated initials, 2-9 lines, sometimes taking the shape of a littera duplex or a flourished initial (f. 49v); no initials in artt. 2-3. At the top of the left-hand column of f. 1r there is a blank space (for a small miniature?)., Script: Probably six scribes, all writing highly abbreviated Gothic scripts., and Watermarks: var. Briquet 14871-14872 and 14549?.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Nicolaus de Byard (ca. 1250), Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, often improperly titled Summa de abstinentia (themes treated in alphabetical order). 2) Readings for the liturgical year, referring to the chapters of Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus, arranged as follows: the Vespers on Saturdays; Temporale and the feast of the Dedication of the church; Sanctorale ("De sanctis"), at the same time Common of the Saints.
Description:
Binding: Spine with four raised bands. On the spine and partly on the covers, an 18th century paper title label with handwritten inscription "Ancien / Manuscrit / sur / Velin / Complet / et ********" (cfr. MSS 940 and 941)., Headings and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line half inset flourished initials, respectively with penwork at the opening of the chapters, with guide letters. 6-line littera duplex with penwork in the same colours on f. 1v (opening of art. 2). Red heigthening of the majuscules in artt. 1 and 3., and Script: Probably copied by one hand, writing a small, rapid Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions and Nicolas,--de Byard
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism