Manuscript on paper and parchment of a collection of saints' lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Libraria., Headings and stroking of the majuscules in red. 3-line red plain initials. On f. 1r 6-line blue initial with interior reserved shapes and developed purple penwork in the shape of a rose; purple penwork extensions in the left margin., and Binding: original binding: brown calf over wooden boards, sewn on three double cords; both covers blind-tooled with frames of double fillets and a St Andrew's cross, and a few lozenge-shaped tools. Remnants of one brass clasp, attached to the rear board. On the front board a damaged parchment title label with the inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata beginning with a red majuscule: “Vita sanct** Barlaam *********”. On the rear board four brass bosses and, in the center in black ink, the letter D (part of a shelfmark, s. XVII/XVIII?).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, of Damascus, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Christian legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, composed of five distinct parts. Part I: 1) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae. 2) Petrus Comestor, Carmen in laudem beatae Virginis. 3) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu gestis Iohannis evangeliste. 4) Pictures of St. Barbara and Thomas Aquinas, and a medieval illuminated initial S (England [?], 15th century) pasted to blank pages. Part II: 5) Stephanus Parisiensis (?), unidentified text supporting the theology of Thomas Aquinas. 6) Augustine, De divinatione daemonum. Part III (paper): 7) Albertus Magnus, De sensu communi. 8) Albertus Magnus, De quinque potentiis anime interioribus. Part IV: 9) Fragment of an account of the Passion of Christ. Part V: Index
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-44): Written by a single scribe in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 45-58): Written by two scribes, the one for art. 5, the other for art. 6, in small, tight gothic cursive scripts. Part III (ff. 59-64): Written by a single scribe in a small gothic text hand. Part IV (ff. 65-66): Written in round gothic bookhand. Part V (ff. 67-80): Written in a neat gothic bookhand., Part I: Blue initial, 6-line, with parchment designs and red penwork harping patterns on f. 1r. Plain initials, 4- to 3-line alternate red and blue. Headings, underlining, paragraph marks and chapter numbers, some initial strokes, in red. Guide letters for decorator in margins. Parts II and III: Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled. Part IV: One initial, 2-line, on f. 65v and remains of another on conjugate stub: red with crudely drawn penwork designs in black and red. Headings, paragraph marks and initial strokes in orange-tinged red. Part V: On ff. 68r-69r every other entry begins with a 1-line plain blue initial; second letter of each entry washed with yellow; citations of Arabic numerals in red. Guide letters for decorator., Folios 65-66, perhaps removed from a binding, are not conjugate: f. 66 is glued to the conjugate stub of f. 65., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Semi-limp vellum case with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Pierson. On spine: "Miscellanea Theologica. Stephanus Parisiensis. S. Augustinus. Albertus Magnus etc. Mss XIVe S".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ, John, the Apostle, Saint., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274., and Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.
Subject (Topic):
Passion, Devotion to., Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Gesta Silvestri papae (d. 335). 2) Excerpts from Liber Quare (11th century?) containing notes on the liturgy and church year. 3) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Sermo. 4) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), Epistula 54. With Anonymous sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis Libraria., Space for headings not used. A red line-filler on f. 21v. Plain initials of 1-3 lines in red, located partially in the text, partially in the margin, at the beginning of all artt. (except artt. 4, 6 and 12); in art. 1 also at the beginning of the text itself. The words after an initial generally in majuscules; other words often in majuscules are “Maria”, “rex Salomon”, “Amen”., and Binding: ca. 1900. Pasteboard covered with large sections of two parchment leaves from a 15th-century antiphonary (?) from Germany, with Hufnagel notation on 4-line staves traced in black, brown and red. The handwriting is Gothica Textualis Formata. The leaf on the rear cover has the folio number “208”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Sylvester I, Pope, d. 335. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of 1) Servius Honoratus (390-400), De finalibus. 2) Life of Boethius (c. 485-524). 3) Aelius Donatus (350), Ars grammatica, 1.5.
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands, both writing a rapid Humanistica Cursiva. Hand A copied art. 1, Hand B artt. 2-3., Leaves are in succession and constitute the central part of a quire, f. 1 being now a singleton and ff. 2-5 a binio., and Lower section of the leaves is damaged by mold, badly impairing the legibility, and parts of the leaves are lost.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Servius, active 4th century.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, and Christian hagiography
Manuscript on paper of Life of the patriarch Joseph son of Jacob, attributed to Ephraem Syrus (ca. 300-373). The text differs significantly from the known Sermo sancti Efrem in Ioseph. Manuscript also includes Conversion of St. Paul, Passion of St. Paul the Apostle, and Praise of St. Paul
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens., Decoration: Orange-red headings in Humanistica Textualis; 3- to 4-line plain initials in the same colour on ff. 2r, 24r and 26r., Binding: Original limp parchment binding, sewn on two leather thongs. Inscriptions on the spine and the front cover, both in ink., and In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373., Joseph, Saint., and Paul, the Apostle, Saint.
Manuscript on parchment of Jacobus de Voragine (c. 1228-1298), Legenda aurea, in French translation according to Jean de Vignay (c. 1285-1350).
Description:
In Middle French., Script: Copied by various similar hands, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Formata (Bastarda)., Decoration: Red headings and underlinings; alternately red and blue paragraph marks; yellow heightening of majuscules; 2-line dentelle initials in gold, blue, and red, with white penwork; 3-line initials of the same type and with the same decoration; and on f. 1r, 6-line foliate initial and two-column-wide oblong miniature showing the translator presenting his work to queen Jeanne, ascribed to the Master of the Cité des dames., and Binding: Eighteenth century brown calfskin over cardboard, with undecorated covers but five raised bands and an inscription on the spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts with different formats, of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. With several Saints' Vitae by various authors. Part I was written in (probably Northern) Italy at the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. Part II may have been written in Hainaut and added during the 15th century
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe who made neat corrections, often on lines ruled in the margins. Part II written in well formed gothic textura., Part I: Border decorations: long stems, inner and top margins or between text columns, in blue, pink, and grey segments divided by small balls, sprouting curling foliage (blue, light blue, and orange), concentrated at corners, with large spiky leaves at terminals and large spiral angular returns filled with mauve or gold in the lower margins; large gold dots tucked under leaves and trailing from the tips of leaves on thin brown pen lines. Initials, 4- to 3-line, attached to stems, pink and grey with white highlights; foliage serifs, as above; letters filled with blue and gold, with some vine work (green and grey), against gold grounds with thick black edging. 2-line initials, set into text columns, blue or red, with very elaborate, minute penwork, blue, red, and occasionally green, built up of small spirals, roundels, and long "caterpillar"-like segments, often extending the full length of text columns; with curling flourishes in margin. 1-line initials in Table of Contents red or blue, with thin vertical strokes in the opposite color; chapter numbers in red. Headings and paragraph marks in blue or red; rubrics throughout., Part II: Plain initials, 5- to 3-line, alternating red and blue, with large serifs; one on f. 300v in red and blue. Headings and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Pinkish brown calf case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval