- Creator:
- Bianchi, Giacomo
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 919
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Iacobus de Blanchis de Alexandria OFM (Giacomo Bianchi, 1300-1350), Commentum in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis. 2) Table of contents of art. 1. 3) Gonsalvus de Vallebona OFM (Gonsalvus Hispanus, c. 1255-1313), Conclusiones Metaphysicae Aristotelis. 4) Table of Contents of Aristoteles, Metaphysica.
- Description:
- Binding: ca. 1900. "Bound by Birdsall, Northampton" (blind-stamped inscription on the inside front cover): blond-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, spine with four raised bands. Gold-tooled title on spine in Gothic script: "Jacobus / Alexan/driae / Com-/pilatio / Metrice [sic] / distincta / Capitu-/lorum / MS. / xiv Cent.", MS 217 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Numerous alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials with penwork in the opposite colours; there are 3-line initials of the same type at the beginning of each book in art. 1 and at the opening of art. 4 (in the latter case a red letter with mauve penwork). A 4-line flourished initial in the same colours with develped penwork at the opening of art. 1, and space for a similar one has been reserved at the opening of art. 3. There is space and there are instructions for the rubricator in view of the adding of headings in art. 2, but these have not been executed. The headings of artt. 1 and 3 have been deleted or rubbed off., Script: Copied in a small, highly abbreviated Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with southern features., and Uneven lower edges. First and last page dampstained, with loss of some text.
- Subject (Name):
- Bianchi, Giacomo and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on the metaphysics
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1073
- Image Count:
- 35
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Description:
- 12 binder's blanks at end not digitized. and Cover is bifolium from an earlier MS.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Franciscan calendar with additional texts...
- Creator:
- Johannes, de Caulibus, 14th cent
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1162
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single cursive gothic bookhand, of this popular Latin devotional work on the life of Christ. Long attributed to St. Bonaventure, the work is now considered to be by the fourteenth-century Franciscan Johannes de Caulibus. This version, copied in England, contains the three "Canticle chapters" often omitted in later copies.
- Description:
- Annotations: numerous corrections and additions in a contemporary or near-contemporary hand, apparently the records of a collation of this copy of the text against another version., Binding: modern brown calf over contemporary wooden boards (leaving original lacing paths visible)., Decoration: numerous two-line initials in blue and red., Former owners include: John Enderby; Cuthbert Dale; Francis Dale; Rev. Matthew Snow; John Paget; Sir John Paget; Joseph Pope. Bergandal Collection of Medieval Manuscripts (Bergandal 27). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Sotheby's sale 2011 July 5, lot 88) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2012., Layout: laid out in double columns, ruled in plummet., and Script: written in a single cursive gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans, Jesus Christ--Biography--Meditations, Jesus Christ--Biography--Meditations--Early works to 1800, and Johannes,--de Caulibus,--14th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Meditationes vitae Christi
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 818
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation.
- Description:
- Binding: Early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans and Nicholas--IV,--Pope,--1227-1292
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis