Manuscript on paper of Leonardus de Datis Florentinus OP (Leonardo Dati, c. 1365-1425), Sermones quadragesimales de flagellis peccatorum. Moral sermons for Lent addressed to a Florentine audience, each dealing with a particular vice.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary quarter brown leather and square-edged wooden boards, the leather secured by means of a strip of parchment (largely lost) fixed with iron nails with floral engraved head. Spine repaired in parchment, three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover; one engraved brass catch preserved on the rear cover. Handwritten title in ink at the top of the rear board, very faded: “Sermones Quadragesimales” (16th century?)., Red headings and 3-line (4-line f. 1r) plain initials at the beginning of each sermon in the same colour., Script: Copied by one hand in small and even Gothica Hybrida Libraria with very few abbreviations. The Biblical themes with which the sermons open are by the same hand writing a large Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus) of mediocre quality., Watermarks: mountain, var. Briquet 11663 or 11652?., and Waterstains in the upper and in a lesser degree in the lower margins, but especially in the fold, where the text in the first part and towards the end of the codex is badly affected.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Leonardo,--1408-1472
Subject (Topic):
Lenten sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Vices
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of anonymous sermons, mostly drawn from the Italian Homiliary.
Description:
Attractive pen-and-ink drawings throughout the manuscript, in red, though much of manuscript now stained. Folio 1r with a partial border formed of fantastic beasts, dragons and grotesques. Other drawings in margins include a fantastic bird, f. 9r; a dragon with a human head issuing forth stylized scrolls, f. 40v; a scroll inhabited by a fantastic bird, f. 49r; a lizard-like creature, its tail forming a partial border, f. 53r; a grotesque, f. 73v. Several drawings in the lower margin have been trimmed. Plain initials in red, some with penwork scrolls or simple flourishing. Headings and underlining of Biblical passages in red., Binding: Nineteenth century (?), Italy (?). Brown leather case with title, in ink, on spine: "Homil. in Evangel". Fragment of an unidentified 13th-century Latin document (monastic register?) bound in as second front flyleaf., and Script: Written in a nice large early gothic script, above top line.
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on paper containing 119 numbered sermons. and Manuscript on paper of Conrad de Brundelsheim, 119 numbered sermons.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with loss of text., Leaf excised between ff. 272-273., Water damaged at top with some loss of text., and With iron chain attached.
Subject (Name):
Brundelsheim, Conrad de
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
Manuscript of sermons, introductory addresses and preambles for the Church year; sermons and introductory addresses for the dedication of a church.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Church dedication sermons, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), 1) Sermones de diversis, nos. 1-32 and 40-42. 2) In psalmum XC sermones XVII. 3) Super “Missus est” homiliae (In laudibus Virginis matris).
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs; plaited leather headbands; spine missing. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of triple fillets and the following stamps: a lare and a small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis; a large and a small rozette; a circular Pascal Lamb; a rectangular stamp with inscription “MARIA”. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the front board., Most pages slightly damaged by the acid ink. Water stains at the bottom of the outer margins of the leaves in the final quires., Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Red stroking of majuscules. Red plain initials (2-3 lines; 4 lines f. 3r, 7 lines f. 73r); red flourished initials with black penwork (9 lines, f. 72r, 7 lines and of a less careful execution f. 116v). All initials have guide letters in the margin., and Script: Two hands writing careful Gothic scripts: A (ff. 3r-71v) Cursiva Libraria; B (ff. 72r-136r) Hybrida Libraria.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of a collection of sermons. The author is nowhere mentioned; the sermons are all in the learned style of Caracciolo (Robertus Caracciolus, Robertus de Licio OFM, 1425-1495), but only a few of them can be identified, so the authorship of most is not certified. With a list of impediments to Communion. The margins, inserted leaves and leaflets are covered with abundant additional material and notes in the same and in other contemporary hands, generally in Latin, some in Italian. In the text, the additions, and the notes a very large number of classical, patristic and medieval authors are quoted.
Description:
f. 2 missing, ff. 71-94 (two quires) are missing. The upper edges of the final leaves are damaged by moist.There are many inserted leaflets., and Watermarks: Bird, Briquet 12202; Human head, Briquet 15705; Hunting horn, var. Briquet 7698; Standing human figure, var. Briquet 7537; unidentified watermark.
Manuscript on paper, composed of two independant sections. Part I (ff. 1r-121v): Sermons, excerpts and treatises. With works by Thomas de Hibernia and Albertus de Padua. Part II (ff.122r-180v): Works by St. John Chrysostom; with a treatise on temptations and special Mass prayers.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary Northern French or Flemish binding, which no doubt was made for Part II and rebacked when Part I was added: blind-tooled brown calfskin over bevelled wooden boards; the decoration consists of frames and a lozenge pattern traced in triple fillets, the lozenges filled with three tools: a rose, an acorn motif and a standing figure (?). Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover, with engraved brass catches on the front cover. On the 19th-century (?) spine the gold-tooled inscriptions “SERMONES” / and “IOANNES / CHRYSOSTOMUS”., Part I: Underlining and plain initials. Headings underlined or framed or written in red. Framed running headlines on the pages where a new article begins. Part II: Headings, heightening of the majuscules, and red 2-line plain initials in art. 41. The heightening is continued up to f. 137v, but the initials have not been executed from art. 42 onwards. Guide letters for all initials., Script: Part I: Copied by one hand in small Gothica Hybrida Currens. Some additions in a larger and more formal handwriting. Marginal captions. The scribe is Iohannes de Lovanio (John of Louvain), called (de) Dynen, lector in the convent of the Hermits of St. Augustine in Venice. Part II: Copied by the priest Jean Frassent in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda), which is less carefully executed on the final pages. Calligraphic extensions at the ascenders on the top line., and There is a contemporary foliation in red ink in arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margins of the recto pages, which coincides with the modern foliation up to f. 86; ff. “87”-“88” of the contemporary foliation are missing; the latter continues from “89” (= f. 87) to “113” (= f. 111). There are traces of a still earlier foliation, also in the center of the upper margins, which has been erased and appears to run from “70” (= f.1) to “159” (= f. 90, “156” and “157” being the missing leaves).
Subject (Name):
John Chrysostom,--Saint,--d. 407 and Thomas,--of Ireland,--ca. 1265-ca. 1329
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 B.C.), Stichus, in an Italian adaptation in verse.
Description:
Binding: Loose grey paper cover., No decoration. There are numerous pointing hands with exaggeratedly long forefingers, generally accompanied by the name of a character., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva., and Written in campo aperto in one narrow column of mostly seven 6-line strophes on the page.
Subject (Name):
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2- or 3-line (sometimes 4- or 5-line) flourished initials, half inset, with penwork in the opposite colours extending in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space. On f. 1r at the beginning of the text a 9-line littera duplex with penwork, badly rubbed. Guide letters., Binding: Undecorated cardboard cover, sewn on three leather thongs., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Booksellers, Berkeley, CA (MS 192). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., and The leaves are badly soiled and rubbed, making reading often difficult or impossible (especially f. 1, which is waterstained and misses the lower corner).
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library