Manuscript, on vellum, containing the text of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, including Baruch, with prologues and commentary. The extensive gloss surrounds the centered Biblical text
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Collection of 65 legal documents, on parchment, from the region around Bordeaux in the Duchy of Aquitaine. Dating from between 1254 and 1469, most of the items are in Old Provençal (Occitan) and document various land transactions, including sales, leases, donations, and other transfers of lands, usually vineyards or other agricultural properties. There are also a few wills and letters, and one undated tithe map. The documents are from the Bordeaux region; fifteen concern properties in or near the town of St. Machaire
Description:
documents in Latin; two in Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Aquitaine., and Aquitaine (France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Administration of estates, Church lands, Land tenure, and Economic conditions
Manuscript fragment on parchment of St. Augustine, In Iohannis Evangelium (Tractus cxxiv), wherein the numbers given to the tractates are one less than those given in the edition (which is perhaps the result of scribal error or perhaps reflective of alternative content within this manuscript).
In Italian., Script: Text written in a well formed humanistic bookhand by a single scribe; the rubrics, in majuscules, by another scribe who used excessive punctuation., The decoration is by Gioacchino de' Gigantibus. A gold initial, 5-line, on f. 1r embedded in white vine ornament, extending into sides, top, and lower margin, filled in with green, red, and blue, with small section at regular intervals filled with gold; a green bird near the initial; in lower margin, an empty laurel wreath supported by putti filled later with a coat of arms (unidentified) in pen, now effaced; a few gold dots with hair-spray in brown ink. Other initials, gold, 5- to 4-line, on ff. 7r, 93v, 106v, 126r, 161v, in same manner, but with gold infilling., Significant stains in margins of first few leaves., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges gilt. Green calf with tan, gold-tooled label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Philosophy, Ancient