Manuscript on paper of three treatises by Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl: 1) De vitiis et virtutibus, 2) De tribus partibus poenitentiae, 3) De septem peccatis mortalibus; and one treatise by Johannes von Marienwerder, also attributed to Nicolaus de Dinkelsbühl: Expositio Symboli apostolorum. Includes moral quotations and contemporary notes
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several hands in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens, sometimes difficult to decipher, especially in the marginal notes and additions and on the inserted leaflets., Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and underlining of biblical references in red. 2- or 3-line plain initials in red, mostly missing. Large flourished initials in red with brown penwork: ff. 2r, 37v, 42v, 61r, 67r, 82r, 109r, 118v, 120v, 144r. Numerous pointing fingers., and Binding: original quarter binding: red leather over bevelled wooden boards sewn on four double thongs, spine lost; the wood covered with white leather; remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with hole for the pin on the front board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dinkelsbuhl, Nicolaus von, approximately 1360-1433 and Marienwerder, Joannes, 1343-1417
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Vices, and Virtues
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Libellus de quinque floribus huius mundi contemnendis, a short moralistic treatise dealing with the five flowers of the world which need to be despised: (1) bona dispositio corporis, scilicet sanitas, fortitudo et pulcritudo; (2) nobilitas generis; (3) habundantia rerum temporalium; (4) sapiencia cum discreta eloquentia; (5) potestas sive dignitas temporalis. The treatise is illustrated with quotations from the Bible, Church Fathers and other authors, and exempla
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens. A later hand has transcribed in the margins in Humanistica Cursiva the words or passages which were found difficult to read., Headings, paragraph marks, underlining, heightening of majuscules and plain initials (3 lines) in red., Worm holes throughout the manuscript; the edges of the last folio are torn., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Half brown leather over pasteboard, the boards covered with greyish marbled paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Conduct of life, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., and Binding: Twentieth century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript on vellum and paper of 1) Treatise on the Koran. 2) Ricoldus de Monte Crucis O.P. (Ricoldo da Montecroce, d. 1320), Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum (Confutatio Alcorani). 3) Anonymous treatise against the Koran in the form of letters exchanged between two friends, a Muslim and a Christian. 4) Bonacursius de Bononia O.P. (s. XIII2), De erroribus Graecorum. 5) A short history of the ecumenical councils
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by one hand, who starts writing Humanistica Textualis but gradually changes into a rapid Gothico-Humanistica., and Binding: original binding. Blind-tooled calfskin over bevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Brass? bosses.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Apologetics, 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, in a single cursive gothic bookhand, of this popular Latin devotional work on the life of Christ. Long attributed to St. Bonaventure, the work is now considered to be by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus. This version, copied in England, contains the three "Canticle chapters" often omitted in later copies
Description:
In Latin., Annotations: numerous corrections and additions in a contemporary or near-contemporary hand, apparently the records of a collation of this copy of the text against another version., Layout: laid out in double columns, ruled in plummet., Script: written in a single cursive gothic bookhand., Decoration: numerous two-line initials in blue and red., and Binding: modern brown calf over contemporary wooden boards (leaving original lacing paths visible).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ, Johannes, de Caulibus, 14th cent., and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsests of ecclesiastical documents, many leaves pieced and patched) of Bernard of Clairvaux, Collection of sermons, treatises, and letters. With works by Ogerius de Lucedio, David of Augsburg, O. F. M., Arnulfus de Boeriis, and Honorius Augustodunensis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in a small rounded gothic bookhand, below top line., Folios 1-50 have flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternating blue with red penwork designs and red with purple; two initials of better quality, divided red and blue, with red and purple flourishes (ff. 42r, 43v); many initials have harping designs. For remainder of manuscript uninspired red initials, either plain or with harping designs in brown ink. Rubrics, underlining and initial strokes, in red, throughout. Running headlines, in red, on ff. 1r-83r. Notes to rubricator in margins. Paragraph marks, red or blue., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Greenish brown goatskin gold-tooled. Gold-tooled panels and dark red gold-tooled label (damaged) on spine. Red edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of a miscellany. The manuscript seems to be a compilation organized, corrected and expanded by a single person specialized in pharmacology and medicine and interested in natural history, encyclopedical knowledge and history
Description:
In Latin with some Czech (?), German, and Hebrew., Watermarks: crown (var. Briquet 4616?), circles (var. Briquet 3194?), bull's head (?)., Script: Copied by various scribes, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria or Currens in various sizes, often very small; ff. 127r-143r, 7 are in a markedly different, larger form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria., The decoration is unevenly spread: heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red. On ff. 162-170 alternance of red and green initials, on f. 162r flourished initial in the same colours. Artt. 21 and 22 are not illustrated, although the text mentions figurae., At many places the paper is deteriorated by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment. A bifolium from a German manuscript in Gothica Cursiva, worn and stained, lined with a German document on parchment in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior/Recentior. Leather spine stiffener with ornamental stitching.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, Medieval, Natural history, and Pharmacology
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 24
Image Count:
412
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of St. Birgitta, Revelationes. With the Life of St. Birgitta and several prayers, one of which is in German. Written by the abbot of the monastery of Maria Forst (near Cologne).
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre P 8619 and 8625., Script: Written in a well formed running hand by a single scribe who has been identified as Freiherr von Greifenclav. Divisions for indexing carefully noted in margins., Large penwork initials of mediocre quality, in red and blue; foliage designs in center of letters and penwork borders, in red, are sometimes accompanied by vulgar green dots. Many simple initials, 7- to 1-line, in red or blue; running titles in red. Rubricated throughout., and Binding: Between 1850 and 1900. Mottled, brown calf case, gold-tooled with monogram of comte Paul Riant on spine. Detached from bookblock.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Cologne (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Prayers, and Women mystics
