Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Two diagrams with accompanying text. 2) Note on vows. 3) Petrus Cantor (d. 1197), De tropis loquendi. 4) Table of the subdivisions of anima. 5) Theological note. 6) Note on merit. 7) Theological treatise in four books. 8) Notes in plummet. 9) Treatise on vision and gifts ("dotes").
Description:
Binding: Original (?) binding in ... over wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs. Remnants of four pairs of leather ties, two at the front and one at the top and at the tail., Script: Copied by various small hands, writing highly abbreviated Gothica Textualis Currens or Libraria. In some sections documentary cursive influence is visible (especially in looped d)., and The decoration is unevenly spread. Red paragraph marks, underlining and headings; some plain red initials; alternating red and blue flourished initials with penwork in the contrasting colour in art. 7; initials missing in art. 9.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper of Summulae naturalium, composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429).
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373". Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges., Brittle. Acidic ink damage with some loss of text., Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, filled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, below top line; inital words of each section in gothic bookhand., Watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfinger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder., and Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, Augustinians, and Venetus, Paulus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Physics--Early works to 1800, and Scholia