Manuscript on paper containing 1) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Manuale (preface and chapters 1-24). 2) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum, large final part of chapter 2. 3) Arnulphus de Boeriis (ca. 1200 (?), Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), Speculum monachorum. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo de vita et passione Domini. 5) Vita S. Iohannis Calybitae or Vita S. Iohannis monachi. 6) Flores ex operibus S. Bernardi de dignitate et excellentia beatae virginis Mariae. 7) Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), Epistola 111, written in the name of the monk Elias to the latter's parents. 8) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Contemplationes de passione Domini secundum septem horas canonicas. 9) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Formula honestae vitae. 10) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae. 11) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Varia et brevia documenta pie seu religiose vivendi. 12) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Regula novitiorum, 3. 13) Bonaventura, Regula novitiorum, 4.1-3. 14) Matthaeus de Cracovia (c. 1335-1410; Ps.-Thomas de Aquino, Ps.-Bonaventura; here ascribed to Iohannes de Capistrano OFM, 1386-1456), De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientiae (Speculum munditiae). 15) F. Carboni, Incipitario della lirica italiana dei secoli XIII e XIV, v. 1, Studi e Testi, v. 277 (Vatican City, 1977), 863. 16) Carboni 212. 17) Carboni 96. 18) Religious poems in Venetian dialect. 19) Lamentatio Virginis Mariae ad Crucem, attributed to Philippus de Grevia (Philippus Cancellarius, Philippe de Grève, d. 1236). 20) Zeno Veronensis (d. before 380), Tractatus, 1.1.7.20-21. 21) Moral sentences and quotations by or ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 22) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo 12.
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Binding: the two covers and the spine are covered with a fragment from a large Italian choirbook in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata; parts of two 4-line red staves with notation in Nota Quadrata and two lines of text are preserved., Red headings and paragraph marks. 2-line red and blue plain initials, with guide letters., Script: Copied by two similar hands: A, writing a rapid Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria, copied ff. 2r-56v and 69r-104v; B, writing a more formal version of the same script, under slight Humanistic influence, copied ff. 57r-68v. The Latin of both scribes is very defective., and Second preliminary leaf included in foliation.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
Subject (Topic):
Asceticism, Christian hagiography, Christian poetry, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century
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.
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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”., Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis Libraria., and 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”.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and Sylvester--I,--Pope,--d. 335
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Life of St. Renatus, bishop of Angers, afterwards of Sorrento (5th century). 2) Three sermons on the miracles of Sts. Renatus and Valerius. 3) Life of St. Antoninus, abbot of Sorrento (d. c. 830). 4) Life, translation and miracles of St. Baculus, bishop of Sorrento (c. 660). 5) Life of St. Severus, bishop of Naples (d. c. 409). 6) Miracles of St. Agrippinus, bishop of Naples (200-210), introduction and chapters 1-7. 7) Invitatory and nine Responsories of the Office of St. Baculus. 8) Office of St. Renatus. 9) Peter, Subdeacon at Naples, Miracles of St. Agnellus abbot in the neighbourhood of Naples (d. 596). 10) Miracles of St. Euphebius bishop of Naples (3rd century). 11) Passion and Translation of St. Januarius bishop of Benevento (ca. 300) and of his companions Sosius, Festus, Proculus, Desiderius, Eutyches and Acutius. 12) Miracles of St. Januarius. 13) Last words and death of St. Eligius bishop of Noyon (d. 659). Shortened version of Vita sancti Eligii (BHL 2474-2476), Book II, chapters 34-36. 14) Passion of St. Restituta venerated in Naples (ca. 300). 15) Life and Translation of St. Athanasius bishop of Naples (d. 872). 16) Beginning of the first Lesson of the office of St. Aspren bishop of Naples (ca. 100) (not by Albericus). In the outer and lower margins, by later hand, the Office of St. Aspren.
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Binding: Contemporary, now in bad condition. Limp parchment, part of a notarial document in Latin in handwriting close to the main hand of the manuscript., Pale red headings. The decoration proper does not extend beyond f. 26v: red heightening of the majuscules and red plain initials (2-3 lines), occasionally with guide letter. On f. 1r large flourished initial I in red and black, with penwork extension in the inner margin., and Script: Copied in Gothica-Humanistica (Gothica Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence,visible in some majuscules and the occasional use of the ampersand), probably by one hand lacking consistency.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper and parchment containing 1) Ownership inscription and note on the scribe, followed by a variant form of a Biblical quotation (Lamentations 3:27-28). 2) Legend of St. Jerome in Italian, with special attention for miraculous events, as an introduction to artt. 4-6. Quotes Iohannes Belet (12th century), St. Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, Sulpicius Severus. 3) Ps.-Eusebius, Epistula de morte Hieronymi (BHL 3866), Italian translation. 4) Ps. -Augustinus Hipponensis, Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi (BHL 3867), Italian translation. 5) Ps.-Cyrillus, Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi (BHL 3868), in Italian translation. 6) History of abbot Daniel living in Thebais and his disobedient servant, to whom he tells the life of a virtuous man they have met, called Eulogius, who eventually became patricius and praefectus praetorio in Constantinople at the time of emperor Justinus I (518-527); due to the loss of one or more quires the major part of the text, containing the intervention of the Virgin, is missing.
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Binding: Quarter binding of bevelled wooden boards (worm-eaten) and brown leather; spine with three raised bands and paper title label with handwritten 17th-century inscription: “Vita / di S. / Girola.” On the boards marks of one clasp attached to the front board and on the front board the ca. 1800 inscription “JO.” written in black ink. Possibly the binding once belonged to another manuscript., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal (MS 38). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Description follow modern foliation which includes two preliminary leaves.., Headings in pale red, often difficult to read. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. Initials, with guide letters written in the space reserved for the initial: (1) flourished initials (3-4 lines) in red with pale red (or brown) penwork or in blue with red penwork, sometimes with marginal penwork extensions; (2) at the beginning of each text a larger initial; the letters following this type of initial are majuscules. F. 3r: 12-line blue initial of the littera duplex type with extensive penwork in red and some blue, with decorative border in the same colours in the inner and lower margin and tendrils in the other margins containing flowers and acorns; the border of the lower margin terminates in a medallion containing a coat of arms; ff. 8r, 41r: 9-line initial of the same type and in the same colours; f. 47v: 6-line, idem; f. 77v: 7-line black initial., Script: Copied by one hand in a peculiar form of Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence as visible in the total lack of compression; special features are: the sloping hairline at the top of the second stroke of e, parallelled by the sloping stroke on i; h with exceptionally long curved extension under the baseline; the forked lower ending of f and straight s on or under the baseline and the forked descender of p; and the very fancy majuscules., and The lower margin of f. 62 torn off.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library