Manuscript on paper (sturdy; staggered thumb holes at bottom of leaves) of Antiphons for suffrages. With liturgies and offices for various occasions. Written during the 16th century presumably for Franciscan use and supplemented during the 17th century; the second portion may have been added for use of the Reform Congregation of the Spanish Discalceates of which Peter of Alcantara was the founder
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in a large round gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1r-43v (16th century); 2) ff. 44r-50r (17th century). Scribe 2 attempts to replicate the work of Scribe 1, but uses 5-line staves rather than 4-line., Decoration for ff. 1r-43v: initials, with foliage designs, in rectangular frame, often with ground uncolored; colors range from vibrant blue, yellow, and orange to olive green and dark purple. Initials for ff. 44r-50r, of similar design, with more subdued shades, and no frames., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Vellum stays, contemporary paper flyleaves and pastedowns. Original sewing on five supports attached to very thick, square wooden boards. Beaded and colored endbands. Red edges. Covered in brown calf (cow?) reinforced at spine with additional leather and straps nailed to the boards. Traces of a strap and pin fastening. Vellum label with notation "Antiphonar. Com. sanctorum" nailed to lower board. The badly warped upper board is reinforced with two strips of wood placed vertically on the upper surface.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Iacobus de Blanchis de Alexandria OFM (Giacomo Bianchi, 1300-1350), Commentum in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis. 2) Table of contents of art. 1. 3) Gonsalvus de Vallebona OFM (Gonsalvus Hispanus, c. 1255-1313), Conclusiones Metaphysicae Aristotelis. 4) Table of Contents of Aristoteles, Metaphysica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied in a small, highly abbreviated Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with southern features., Uneven lower edges. First and last page dampstained, with loss of some text., Numerous alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials with penwork in the opposite colours; there are 3-line initials of the same type at the beginning of each book in art. 1 and at the opening of art. 4 (in the latter case a red letter with mauve penwork). A 4-line flourished initial in the same colours with develped penwork at the opening of art. 1, and space for a similar one has been reserved at the opening of art. 3. There is space and there are instructions for the rubricator in view of the adding of headings in art. 2, but these have not been executed. The headings of artt. 1 and 3 have been deleted or rubbed off., and Binding: ca. 1900. "Bound by Birdsall, Northampton" (blind-stamped inscription on the inside front cover): blond-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, spine with four raised bands. Gold-tooled title on spine in Gothic script: "Jacobus / Alexan/driae / Com-/pilatio / Metrice [sic] / distincta / Capitu-/lorum / MS. / xiv Cent."
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of John Waleys (John of Wales, Iohannes Gallensis), Communiloquium sive summa collationum ad omne genus hominum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria which, however, differs from Rotunda by the absence of Textus Praescissus features. A few rubrics are added in Gothica Cursiva, e.g. ff. 63v and 64v. Instructions for the rubricator are written in thin Gothica Cursiva Currens in the lower margins, mostly lost due to trimming., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. The decoration consists of (1) alternately red and blue flourished initials, 2 lines; (2) flourished litterae duplices, 3-5 lines, at the opening of the Distinctiones; they have marginal extensions ("J-staves") in pen and ink over the full height of the text area; (3) on f. 4r a damaged foliate initial on a gold, red and blue background, containing a hybrid, with floral extensions featuring a hybrid head and a hybrid. On f. 37r there is a coarse pen and ink drawing of a sword in the margin, probably related to a Hermogenes quotation in the text about murder., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Sprinkled brown leather over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with blind fillets. Spine with five raised bands and two gold-tooled red leather title-labels with the inscriptions "MS. VALLENS. COMMUNILOQ." and "TRACT. DE RE PUBLICA." Red edges. The spine was reinforced by means of two strips of parchment from an English archival document (ca. 1500) in which the names William Holborn, Robert Ball "nuper de Letheringham" and others appear.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, of Wales, -approximately 1285. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Preaching, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (de Mediolano, d. c. 1496), OFM, Confessionale. 2) Ps.-Anselmus Cantuariensis (Pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury), Interrogationes faciendae infirmo morienti
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand writing a small and rather uneven Humanistica Textualis Libraria, highly abbreviated, especially in the quotations of authorities., Headings in purplish red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 1- and 2-line plain initials with guide letters. Decorated initials: f. 1r (Prologue), 7-line white vinestem initial followed by text line in fancy Capitalis; f. 2r (Part 1), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 12r (Part 2), 4-line white vinestem initial; f. 18v (Part 3), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 127v (Part 4), idem. Running headlines in Capitalis in purplish red., and Binding: original brown leather over bevelled beech boards, both covers blind-tooled with fillets and small tools in ropework design. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Spine damaged. Remnants of three clasps, one at the top, one at the bottom and one at the side edge of the covers, each attached with three engraved nails to the front cover; quadrangular decorated brass catches on the rear cover, engraved with the initial “S” and each fixed with four nails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bartholomaeus, de Chaimis. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Confession, Catholic Church, Extreme unction, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of a Franciscan calendar. The computisical data include the length of the solar and lunar months and other astronomical information. However, there is no Roman calendar. The most significant feasts are marked in red
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens., Decoration: Red rubrics; red versals; red KL-monograms., Binding: The cover is a parchment bifolium from a 15th century (Southern German) manuscript containing a Latin calendar in black and red; “Calendarium antiquum” is written on the spine in a 17th century(?) hand., and In Latin.
Manuscript on paper and parchment, composed in seven parts, of a collection of papal documents relating to the Franciscan Order, the Poor Clares, and the Tertiaries of St. Francis. With Rule for Poor Clares; and Rule of the Tertiaries of St. Francis. Includes texts by Popes Urban IV and John XXII; incunabulum; and additional texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 2-104): Written by several scribes in small gothic text hands. Part II (ff. 105-132): Written in small upright gothic script; words being defined written in larger more formal style of script. Part III (ff. 133-175): Written in a style of script similar to that in Part II. Part IV (ff. 176-211: Incunabulum. Part V (ff. 212-247): Written in a small round gothic text hand with humanistic features. Part VI (ff. 248-253): Written in cramped and hastily written gothic script. Part VII (ff. 254-265): Written in small gothic text hand., Part I: Two illuminated initials, 9- to 5-line, formed of stylized foliage, pink and green with white highlights on gold gound, filled with blue ground with white filigree. Terminals extending into the margins to form partial floral borders, stylized foliage, blue, green and pink, with gold balls with hair-line extensions. Pen-and-ink initials, alternating in blue and red with red and light green penwork. Plain initials in red or blue. Part II: Red and blue divided initial, 4-line, f. 105r, smaller initials in red or blue. Underlining and paragraph marks in red. Letters and words stroked with yellow. Part III: Crude red initial with simple penwork designs, 8- to 2-line. Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Part V: Red initial, 11-line, with simple designs, f. 212r; 2-line initials, headings, underlining, marginal notes, paragraph marks in red. Majuscules touched with yellow and stroked with red. Part VII: Paragraph marks and underlining in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491. Spine: tying up marks are head, tail, and around the supports.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John XXII, Pope, -1334., Urban IV, Pope, ca. 1200-1264., Franciscans., and Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Papal documents, and Third orders
Manuscript on paper of 1) Jacopone da Todi (c. 1236-1306), Laude. 2) Poem in quatrains, each beginning with the name "Yhesu" (attributed to Jacopone da Todi). 3) Jacopone da Todi (attributed), Tractatus utilissimus. 4) On the five steps of spiritual illumination. 5) Hymn on the name of Jesus attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Bernardus Claraevallensis, 1090-1153). 6) Bonaventura (1221-1274), Rhythmus de operationibus Iesu Christi, an addition to his Lignum vitae. 7) On the name of Jesus. 8) Lauda on the love of Jesus, attributed to Bianco da Siena (ca. 1350, d. between 1400 and 1450). 9) Lauda on the Virgin, attributed to Gianotto Sachetti
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In Italian and Latin., Script: In spite of the very uneven script, probably copied by one hand hesitating between Southern Gothica Textualis and Semitextualis Libraria/Formata., Headings in red, often missing. Initials with guide-letters: 1-line plain initials alternately red and blue; 2-line flourished initials in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork; those on the first pages are 3- or 4-line. On f. 1r 11-line historiated initial on gold background containing a profile portrait of Jacopone da Todi with nimbus and holding medallion with the "Jesus"-monogram; the initial has floral extensions in the inner margin. In the lower margin a coat of arms (made illegible by means of black paint) in a wreath., and Binding: Ancient limp parchment. At the top of the spine in 17th-century handwriting: "Imni di F. Jacopone. M.S. D.27" ; at the bottom the shelfmark "T 1 15".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious poetry, Italian
Manuscript on parchment of Manual for Franciscan inquisitors in the Roman province, including letters from Popes Clement IV (d. -1268) and Alexander IV (d. -1261); various consilia; and other prescriptions and instructions from bishops and inquisitors
Description:
Script: Copied by two hands: A) writing in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria (ff. Ir-40r6); B) writing in Gothica Textualis Formata (ff. 40r8-47v). Marginal annotations in small Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: Red headings, paragraph marks, chapter numbering, and stroking of majuscules. Red running headlines (up to f. 16v). Red plain or flourished initials. But on ff. 39v-47v, there are generally no headings, paragraph marks or stroking of majuscules., Binding: Unbound., and In Latin.
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 of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation
Description:
In French., Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Binding: early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas IV, Pope, 1227-1292. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
