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2.
- Creator:
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1610]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 260
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De caelesti hierarchia, etc
3.
- Creator:
- William of Tournai
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 376
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. Text supplied on f. 10v in the second half of the 15th century. With excerpts from St. Bernard (?) on the Virgin Mary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in compact gothic script with numerous corrections and notes in contemporary and later hands, 13th-15th centuries., Decorative initials, divided red and blue, 3-line, with extensive penwork designs and cascades also in red and blue, for the beginning of each book of art. 5 and for art. 6. Simple initials, red or blue, 2-line, with penwork designs of the opposite color throughout the codex. Running titles (e.g., FLO. B. I) in red and blue; headings, chapter numbers, and underlining, in red., Outer column of f. 140 cut off; no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case with two ties and two black, gold-tooled labels: "Flores ex operibus B. Bernardi" and "M. S. XIII-XIV C." Wound, caught-up sewing, wound endbands, and vellum lining on the spine between sewing supports. On front and back flyleaves: Deed, in Latin, dated 26 March 1450, issued by Antonius Longobardus [several letters or words lost in binding] neapolis Reginalis ad contractus Iudex. The document was cut in half and trimmed to serve originally as pastedowns; considerable loss of text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. and William of Tournai.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Flores Bernardi
4.
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Published / Created:
- 1423.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 393
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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:
- In Latin., 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., 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., 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., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Prague (Czech Republic)
- Subject (Topic):
- Beguines, Church year sermons, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugh of Strasbourg extracts, etc
5.
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 406
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun
- Description:
- In Latin and French., Script: Composed of two distinct parts. Written by multiple scribes in cursive, with or without loops., Part I (ff. 1r-92v): illustrated with 79 column miniatures; two others on ff. 83v and 85r have been cut out. The miniatures are simple pen drawings, tinted pink, red, tan, purple, and blue, in pen-ruled frames, tinted in yellow; on ff. 18r and 22r with ivy leaves on hair-line stems at corners and centers. On f. 16v an unframed drawing of the carpenter's pax. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with black or red penwork. First letter of each verse stroked in yellow. Proper names in red., Part II (ff. 93r-129r, 129v-141v) has two distinct formats. Between ff. 93r and 135r (art. 5), two 2-line initials, red, with simple brown penwork. Some capitals stroked in red or yellow. Between ff. 135v and 141r (art. 6), three crude tinted drawings, red, green and brown, in initials, either divided red and brown with red flourishes and dots, or red, with a scroll and a fish incorporated. Three drawings cut out from ff. 135v, 136v and 137r. Space left for one drawing on f. 139r and for two on f. 140v. 2-line initials in red, some with red penwork., Folio 1r-v damaged, with loss of text and parts of miniatures., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label. Edges spattered red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century. and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Cosmography, Devotional literature, Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc
6.
- Creator:
- Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572
- Published / Created:
- 1576
- Call Number:
- 1984 7
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- [Commentariorum de religione Christiana libri quatuor]
- Description:
- 15 cm.
- Publisher:
- Apud Andream Wechelum
- Subject (Topic):
- Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Petri Rami Veromandui, philosophiae et eloquentiae regii professoris celeberrimi, Commentariorum de religione Christiana, libri quatuor : eiusdem vita a Theophilo Banosio descripta
