- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 85
- Image Count:
- 432
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. With Excerpts from the commentary of Nicolas Trevet (in margins) on Boethius, Book I.1.1 - II.5.34.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in an ornate and elegant gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1v-154v; 2) ff. 155r-210v. The marginal commentary is in a neat informal batarde (ink paler than that used for text)., Plain initial, 3-line, in blue at beginning of text; other initials, 2-line, in red throughout text to mark the beginning of poetry and prose sections. Title page (f. 1v): alternating lines of blue and gold., Grease stain in margins at end of codex; bottom of f. 81 trimmed., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled. Repaired.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524. and Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Dialogues, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
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- Creator:
- Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 15
- Image Count:
- 230
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar)., Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
- Subject (Topic):
- Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc
- Published / Created:
- 1580.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 269
- Image Count:
- 366
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Oppian. 2) Summary of the poem in art. 1. 3) Scholia on Oppian, Halieutica, attributed to Tzetzes. 4) Paraphrasis of Oppian, Cynegetica, attributed to Tzetzes
- Description:
- In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Croix latine 5683 and Main 11292., Script: Written by Andreas Darmarius in Salamanca and dated 17 November 1580., Headings and simple initials in red. A few diagrams to illustrate text, mainly geometrical figures showing the elements of the cosmos (ff. 31r-32v), but also one stemmatic diagram illustrating the divisions of fishing (f. 72v)., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Limp vellum case; remains of tawed skin ties. Lettering in ink on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Oppian, active 2nd century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Greek poetry, Hellenistic, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of Oppian, etc
- Creator:
- Perault, Guillaume
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 473
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Guillaume Perault, Sermones de Epistolis. With Glosses that note teaching distinctions; and short extracts from Clement, Fulgentius, Seneca, Job
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand with many abbreviations. Marginal notations, some lost due to trimming, by several hands., Plain initials, headings, paragraph marks, in red, but not throughout., and Binding: Twentieth century. Rigid vellum case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Perault, Guillaume.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, Scholia, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones de epistolis, etc