Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
Description:
Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support., Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., and Script: written in an unidentified script.
Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names.
Description:
Binding: 19th century: calf over cardboard; both covers and spine, in six compartments, gold-tooled. Purple silk doublures., Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome; interpretations of the Hebrew names: Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, with additions in the margins and at the end; an alphabetical list of words with explanations and/or ethymologies; a table of Epistles, Gospels and other readings for the ecclesiastical year: Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of the Saints; and a list, in two columns, of the kings of Juda and Israel., and Script: probably copied by one hand in extremely small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Perlschrift). Article 3 is by a contemporary hand. Numerous historiated initials of various sizes with long vertical extensions.
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397 Peter, of Poitiers, ca. 1130-1205 Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1210; 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 220
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I (13th century): 1) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 2) Petrus Pictaviensis, Historia actuum apostolorum. 3) Unidentified text about Titus and Vespasian. Part II (14th century): 4) Augustinus Hibernicus, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, in the long recension. 5) Extracts from Ambrose, Exameron.
Description:
Binding: 18th-19th centuries, England. Brown calf, gold-tooled. Striped turn-ins., From the estate of Wilfred M. Voynich. Purchased in 1959 from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston., Part I: Two illuminated initials in parallel positions on f. 1r, beginning mid-page and extending almost to the bottom of the leaf. The first initial composed of a gold trellis edged in black with heads of a grotesque devouring the trellis at top and bottom, and foliage designs in green and white scrolling around the body of the initial against pink interior with white highlight and gold balls. The whole on a rectangular ground tapering to a point at bottom, with white designs. The second initial, somewhat narrower and less ambitious in design, gold edged in black with blue interior and thin white design in center and two rosettes, one at top, the other at bottom, and a third stylized floral motif in center, all on a pink ground in the same shape as the first initial. Also on f. 1r, 7-line initial divided red and blue with interior foliage designs in green and white on parchment ground, and red and blue penwork designs around exterior of letter. For major text divisions, fine medium blue and/or red initials, 9- to 6-line, with intricate penwork flourishes in red and blue, each accompanied by several lines of oversize letters for the first few words of text, with letters either in one color with designs in the other or alternating red and blue. Small penwork initials, red or blue with modest design in the opposite color, throughout. Headings, running headlines and vertical lines within text columns, in red. Remains of instructions to rubricator (some perpendicular to text in gutter) and guide letters for decorator., Part II: One gold initial, 4-line, with purple penwork designs on f. 194r. Blue initials with red penwork, 9- to 2-line, throughout. Headings and initial strokes added, in brown and red, unsophisticated drawings of birds, animals, leaves and grotesques in upper and lower margins., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-173): Written in neat gothic bookhand, above top line; glosses added by a variety of hands, some exhibiting anglicana features. Part II (ff. 174-197): Written in gothic bookhand with some marginalia by contemporary and later hands.
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of St. Nicholas (Beauvais).
Description:
Collation: 59 l. + 2 l. paper + 3 l. original parchment endleaves., Decoration: miniature of the Crucifixion on gold ground, with protective cloth stitched to leaf (6v.), Decoration: rubricated. The two-line initials are in gold on pink and blue grounds. Large historiated initial "PP (5v)., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: Gothic bookhand, large and angular.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy
Manuscript on parchment of Durand of Huesca (ca. 1160-1224?), Biblical Distinctiones, an early 13th-century revision of Peter of Capua's (d. 1214) Alphabetum in artem sermocinandi. Marston MS 266 is apparently the only known witness to Durand's revision. With Rhymed life of Peter of Capua , in quatrains, composed by Durand of Huesca.
Description:
Beginning and end of codex worm and rodent damaged., Binding: Date? Fragmentary binding. Resewn with a chain stitch and the spine lined with coarse cloth. Plain, wound endbands and paste boards (composed of paper and parchment fragments of manuscripts), that once were covered with brick red tawed skin. Traces of two ties. Outline of rectangular label, now missing, on upper cover., Nice penwork initials, 7- to 3-line, for each letter of the alphabet, blue with red or vice versa. Smaller initials, 2-line, in similar but less intricate designs for chapter divisions. Chapter numbers, some initials, plain line fillers, and text divisions in red. Ornamental border, in red, encloses common ending for verses on f. 1r-v. Spaces for rubrics left unfilled. Majuscules in text stroked with pale yellow., and Script: Written in a fine early gothic bookhand by several scribes, above top line.
Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through the early fourteenth centuries.
Description:
Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog. d'alia Obituarium..., Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork, geometric knotwork and animal masks., Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Rubricated.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877