- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Terence - Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 185
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Terence. 2) Terence, Andria. 3) Terence, Eunuchus. 4) Terence, Heautontimoroumenos. Artt. 5-24: Cicero, Epistolae. 25) Commentary, partly in Italian, on the first letter of Cicero to Lentulus Spinther (some loss due to trimming).
- Description:
- Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp vellum case with title lettered in ink down the spine., Crude initials mark beginning of each section; rubrics throughout; many letters stroked in red., Script: Written by multiple scribes in various styles of round humanistic and gothic scripts. One hand supplied most of the glosses on Terence and Cicero and the texts on ff. 143r-145v in italic., and Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include horn, mermaid in a circle; two distinct birds in circles similar to Briquet Oiseau 12203 and 12220.
- Subject (Name):
- Terence
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin drama (Comedy)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Terence; Cicero
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 182
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes.
- Alternative Title:
- Orator; Orationes
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible., Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., On paper, Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81., and Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed copying the text
- Subject (Name):
- Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 93
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orationes. With works by Pseudo-Cicero and Pseudo-Sallust.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century. Narrow brown calf spine with brown spattered-paper sides, small vellum corners. Bound for the Convent of San Marco, Florence; rebacked in Yale Library Conservation Studio., Delicately executed gold initials, 7- to 5-line, filled with white-vine ornament (highlights in pale orange) on blue, pale green, and pale orange ground with brown dots, mark the beginning of each oration. Rubrics (modified square capitals) throughout., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a beautiful humanistic script.
- Subject (Topic):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, etc.
- Creator:
- Aquila, Romanus
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Martianus Capella
Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530
Rutilius Lupus, Publius - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425-30]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 278
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of two distinct parts. Part I: 1) Cicero, Partitiones oratoriae. 2) Cicero, Topica. Part II: 3) P. Rutilius Lupus, De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis. 4) Aquila Romanus, De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis. 5) Martianus Capella, De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis, extracts. 6) Priscian, De figuris numerorum (quos antiquissimi habent codices), sections 1-10 only and omitting portions of the long Greek quotations.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Bound in red goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled, by L. Guetant. Gilt edges., Part I: Illumination in the early style of Bartolomeo di Antonio Varnucci (1410-79). Two large illuminated initials (ff. 1r and 37v), 5-line, gold on blue, green and peach ground with white vine-stem ornament, touched with green and white dots. On f. 1r a partial border incorporating a butterfly, grasshopper, moth, and a flying putto with bow and arrow who appears to be propelled by lozenge-shaped blue clouds. 25 small initials, 2-line, gold on blue, green and peach ground with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. Headings in pale red, the first on f. 1r partially obscured by the decoration. Part II: Display headings and key grammar words in majuscules; no decoration or rubrication., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-64): Written in a well formed round humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line. Part II (ff. 65-114): Scribe 1 wrote arts. 3-4 in a neat round humanistic script, above top line. Scribe 2 added arts. 5-6 in an upright humanistic script bordering on cursive; he also added the Greek words in the margins for arts. 3-4.
- Subject (Topic):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Partitiones oratoriae; Topica, etc.
- Creator:
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 160
- Image Count:
- 112
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- , translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. The
- Description:
- 3 large initials of modest quality, 8- to 7-line, gold on blue or blue and red grounds with white dots and white vine-stem ornament. 1 smaller initial, 3-line, gold on red and blue ground with white dots. Plain initials in blue and red, one in gold, some with penwork flourishes in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide letters for initials., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beige and white chevron endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with green tawed skin between supports. Covered in brown, originally tan, calf with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a border of rope interlace. Spine: sewing bands defined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond catches with a flower in a circle on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps attached with star-headed nails., Purchased from Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 and Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechetical sermons, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermo de dignitate humanae originis
- Creator:
- Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1263
Martinus, Polonus, d. 1279 - Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350] and s. XIV 1 [first half of the 14th century]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 156
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick) of 1) Ps.-John Chrysostom, Opus imperfectum in Mathaeum (collection of sermons). 2) Hugo de Sancto Caro, De doctrina cordis. 3) Unidentified articuli fidei. 4) Martinus Strepus, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum, concluding with "Ludovicus rex francie" in 1270.
- Description:
- Binding: Twentieth century, U.S.A. Half-bound in red goatskin with gold-tooled title on spine ("Martinus Polonus/ Chronicon/ MS c. 1300") and marbled paper sides. By the same binder as Marston MS 152., Purchased from E. P. Goldschmidt of London in 1957 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Red and blue divided initials, f. 1r (10-line) and f. 86v (9-line), with floral and linear motifs in parchment. Running titles, headings in red. Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue. Red and blue 1-line initials alternate in table of contents. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Remains of notes for rubricator., and Script: Written in good quality gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Martinus,--Polonus,--d. 1279
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ps.-John Chrysostom; Martinus Strepus. etc.
- Published / Created:
- s. XII^^med [mid 12th century]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 210
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased.
- Description:
- Modern pagination. and Only selected leaves scanned.
- Subject (Name):
- Bible. N.T. Matthew--Manuscripts, Latin
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, with glossa ordinaria (fragment)
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
- Published / Created:
- 1423
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 393
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse) composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-84): 1) Long extracts from Hugh of Strasbourg. 2) Speculum humane saluacionis. 3) Statutes of Prague. 4) Commentary of Joannes Andreae on the second Clementine decree Ad nostrum qui desideranter promulgated against Beghards and Beguines in November 1311. 5) Theological notes. 6) Albert of Diessen, Speculum vel lavacrum sacerdotum. Part II (ff. 85-234): 7) Conrad of Brundelsheim, Sermones de sanctis.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on tawed slit straps laced through a tunnel in edge to outside channels in flush wooden boards, pegged with rectangular pegs and the channels filled in. Plain, wound endbands sewn through the spine lining onto tawed cores laced into the back cornering of the boards. The spine is rounded with a parchment lining (unidentified liturgical text: Germany, 12th century) that extends on the inside of the boards between sewing supports; parchment reinforcement strips from same manuscript and from others. Remains of parchment bifolios of a liturgical manuscript (Germany, 13th century) glued inside both covers. Length of page and written space: 121 (88) mm.; 6 mm. between rulings for text. Covered in cream colored, tawed skin. Five hat-shaped bosses and two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board. The lower board is cut in to accomodate the straps. Parchment label glued to upper board: "de sacramentis Speculum humanae saluationis/ Questiones bone Sermones de sanctis;" added below in another hand: "de Sacra questione [?] bo. S. de. S." Lettering on tail: "de sacra question: bo. S. de." Straps wanting., Part I: Plain initials, 6- to 2-line, in red; headings in red or black in gothic textura, those in black often enclosed by red rectangles; initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for rubricator in margins. Part II: Plain initials, 5- to 2-line, in red; headings and final colophon enclosed in red rectangles; initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for rubricator., Pattern of stains on ff. 84v-85r suggests parts were originally separate books., Script: Part I: Written by three scribes in a running hybrida script: 1 (ff. 1r-75r; arts. 1-3); 2 (ff. 75r-79v, 84v; arts. 4, 5); 3 (ff. 80r-84r; art. 6). Part II: Written by several scribes, all in various styles of running hybrida; ff. 133r-145v, 234r-v is the same hand as Scribe 2 of Part I., and Watermarks: Part I similar to Piccard Kreuz III.805; unidentified mountain and unidentified bull's head. Part II has two similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 15229 and to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.288; unidentified horn and elongated bell.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugh of Strasbourg extracts, etc.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 92
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. Marginal and interlinear notes accompany the text of each letter (except for that to P. Vatinius appearing on ff. 26v-27v which was copied twice, apparently in error). Written probably for use as a school text (vocabulary lists on ff. 4 and 9).
- Description:
- Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum case; spine fragile and splitting., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic cursive, with a smaller script for glosses., Simple initials in red at the beginning of each letter; titles preceded by paragraph marks, and underlined, in red., and Watermarks: unidentified letter P in gutter.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae ad familiares
10.
- Creator:
- Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
Juvenal
Persius - Published / Created:
- 1468, 1469.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 67
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI (with XVI preceding XV). With the argumenta of Guarino of Verona added at the beginning of each satire. 2) Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-VI. 3) Notes on the moon in the twelve signs of the zodiac.
- Description:
- Argumenta of Guarino of Verona in red rustic capitals preceding each title; spaces for decorative initials never filled., Binding: Sixteenth century (?). Vellum stays. Original sewing on three slit, tawed straps. Primary, plain and secondary, beaded endbands on twisted, tawed cores, laid in grooves and pegged or nailed. Spine lined with tawed skin, mostly lacking. Straps laced and pegged or nailed into beech boards covered in (originally) brick-red leather, blind-tooled with an inscription in a border around an inner panel of overlapping circles interspersed with dots. Four flower-shaped bosses on each board and two catches on the lower one. Two bosses and clasp straps wanting., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre R.8941 and Harlfinger Fleche 12., and Written in humanistic script by three scribes. The principal scribe, Franciscus Seroddi Centinomius Phylaretus, wrote ff. 1r-72v and 79r-84v; he signed the manuscript on ff. 72v and 84v. Scribe 2 wrote ff. 74r-78v and Scribe 3 the notes on ff. 85r-87v. Marginal and interlinear glosses in several contemporary hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Juvenal
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Satirae