Manuscript on parchment, composed of five distinct parts. Part I: 1) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae. 2) Petrus Comestor, Carmen in laudem beatae Virginis. 3) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu gestis Iohannis evangeliste. 4) Pictures of St. Barbara and Thomas Aquinas, and a medieval illuminated initial S (England [?], 15th century) pasted to blank pages. Part II: 5) Stephanus Parisiensis (?), unidentified text supporting the theology of Thomas Aquinas. 6) Augustine, De divinatione daemonum. Part III (paper): 7) Albertus Magnus, De sensu communi. 8) Albertus Magnus, De quinque potentiis anime interioribus. Part IV: 9) Fragment of an account of the Passion of Christ. Part V: Index.
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Semi-limp vellum case with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Pierson. On spine: "Miscellanea Theologica. Stephanus Parisiensis. S. Augustinus. Albertus Magnus etc. Mss XIVe S"., Date and place of purchase by Thomas E. Marston unknown., Folios 65-66, perhaps removed from a binding, are not conjugate: f. 66 is glued to the conjugate stub of f. 65., Part I: Blue initial, 6-line, with parchment designs and red penwork harping patterns on f. 1r. Plain initials, 4- to 3-line alternate red and blue. Headings, underlining, paragraph marks and chapter numbers, some initial strokes, in red. Guide letters for decorator in margins. Parts II and III: Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled. Part IV: One initial, 2-line, on f. 65v and remains of another on conjugate stub: red with crudely drawn penwork designs in black and red. Headings, paragraph marks and initial strokes in orange-tinged red. Part V: On ff. 68r-69r every other entry begins with a 1-line plain blue initial; second letter of each entry washed with yellow; citations of Arabic numerals in red. Guide letters for decorator., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-44): Written by a single scribe in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 45-58): Written by two scribes, the one for art. 5, the other for art. 6, in small, tight gothic cursive scripts. Part III (ff. 59-64): Written by a single scribe in a small gothic text hand. Part IV (ff. 65-66): Written in round gothic bookhand. Part V (ff. 67-80): Written in a neat gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430., Jesus Christ--Passion., John,--the Apostle, Saint., Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to., Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent., Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274., and Vincent,--of Beauvais,---1264.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Scholasticism.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Novella 8 and Novella 9 of the Second Day of Boccaccio's Decameron.
Description:
Layout: double columns of 43 lines., Leaves were originally a conjoint bifolium, but were separated for later use in a binding, with some resultant staining and damage., and Script: early Italian humanist script.
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni,--1313-1375.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, of an illuminated and decorated gradual made for use in the choir of the Olivetan monks of the monastery of Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan.
Description:
Binding: full deerskin over wooden boards; extensive metalwork on binding., Decoration: five miniatures; eleven large ornamental initials on gold grounds; many decorated initials with penwork., Gift of Susan Weil, 2014., Miniatures have been attributed to the Olivetan Master and the Master of the Lodi Choir Books., and Script: written in liturgical bookhand. Music in square musical notation on five four-line red staves.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy., Master of the Lodi Choir Books,--active 15th century., Olivetan Master,--active 1429-1439., and Olivetans.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Illuminated manuscript, on vellum, of the Sextus liber decretalium, with the commentary of a Johannes Andreae.
Description:
Bifolium formerly used as an archival wrapper., Binding: modern boards., Decoration: two historiated initials against burnished gold., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., L1r contains a pecia copyist's notation: "F xviii.", Layout: Principal text in double columns of up to 30 lines; surrounding commentary in 89 lines., and Script: rounded gothic (two sizes).
Subject (Name):
Boniface--VIII,--Pope,---1303.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.