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- Creator:
- Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415
Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1441]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 140
- Image Count:
- 273
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- -269): Latin-German vocabulary.
- Description:
- Binding: Ca. 1500 (?), Austria. Parchment stays from early manuscripts in center of quires. Original (?) sewing on three tawed skin, double, twisted sewing supports laced into grooves in flush wooden boards and fastened with square pegs. The grooves are filled in with glue. The spine is rounded and backed (naturally?) and back bevelled. A plain, wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core and also laced and pegged. The spine is lined with coarse cloth in the center and vellum at the ends, extending on the outside. Covered in plain, kermes pink, tawed skin (sheep?) possibly a later addition. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the upper board. There may have been a chain attachment at the head of the lower board. The insides of the boards have been varnished; off-set impressions of pastedowns from early manuscripts on both boards., Part I: KL in calendar in blue; other charts and diagrams in shades of red and black. Small plain initials, headings, initial strokes and underlining in red. Parts II and III: Red or blue initials, 4- to 3-line, some with simple designs. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining in red. Guide letters for decorator. Part IV: Plain initials, and initial strokes, in red, for ff. 174r-176r., Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written by a single hand in hybrida script., and Watermarks: unidentified mountain in gutter.
- Subject (Name):
- Council of Constance--(1414-1418), Council of Florence--(1438-1445), and Jacobus,--de Voragine,--ca. 1229-1298
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language--Dictionaries--German
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legenda aurea, etc.
- Creator:
- Alcinous, fl. 2nd cent
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Marsuppini, Carlo, 1398-1453 - Published / Created:
- 1460; [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 72
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Platonis, translated into Latin by Pietro Balbi
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 86, 212, 181, 182, with the first three probably by the same binder. Title, in ink, on tail edge: "C. DE. FI. BO. ET MA"., Part I: 5 illuminated initials, 6- to 4-line, yellow and ochre on blue, green and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins to form partial borders. Headings in red majuscules written by Scribe 2. Part II: 4 illuminated initials, 6-line, dark yellow on irregular grounds of blue, green and pink with white vine-stem ornament, shaded with grey; white dots on blue, pale yellow on green and blue on pink. Headings in red., Script: Part I (ff. 1-90): Copied by two scribes. Scribe 1, ff. 1r-38v, writes in a well formed round humanistic script, below top line and sometimes not using the final line ruled for text. Scribe 2, ff. 38r-90r, is Stefano Guarnieri, who writes in a smaller and less calligraphic humanistic script with cursive features, below top line. Part II (ff. 91-157): Copied by Scribe 2 of Part I: arts. 2-6 in italic, above top line; art. 7 added later, disregards bounding lines of written space., and Watermarks: Briquet Ciseaux 3668.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De finibus bonorum et malorum, Foscari, Francesco,--1373-1457, and Guarnieri, Stefano --Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin essays
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De finibus, etc.
4.
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1467
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 805
- Image Count:
- 58
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Cato Maior de senectute, with a List of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
- Description:
- Binding: original Italian, repaired: brown leather over thin wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled and decorated with numerous small gold dots. Marks of two clasps; on the spine, now detached and kept separately, a gold-tooled reddish brown title label (17th century?) with the inscription “STR // DE // SEN”. Gilded edges., Pink headings. The names of the interlocutors and the colophon on f. 48r are written in pink Capitals. The first line of the various sections following the dentelle initial is written in alternately pink and black Capitals, except on f. 2r, where it is written in gold Capitals. The illuminated opening folio before f. 1 has been cut out. The smaller sections open with a pink Capital placed between the double bounding lines. 2-line Renaissance dentelle initials in gold on a divided and indented red and blue background, decorated with silvery penwork, at the beginning of the major subdivisions of the text., R.G. Babcock, T.N. Thomas, D.M. Kibbey, E.P. Archibald, A Book of Her Own. An Exhibition of Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Yale University Library that were Owned by Women before 1700 (New Haven, 2005), p. 66., Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez., Script: copied by Giovanmarco Cinico from Parma in Humanistica Textualis Formata. This famous scribe was active in Naples from ca. 1458 to ca. 1498., and Written for the young Beatrice of Aragon (1457-1508), daughter of Ferrand of Aragon, King of Naples and future Queen of Hungary. Purchased 1994 from Bernard Quaritch (?) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Subject (Topic):
- Dialogues, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De senectute
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent.
Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 406
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- ) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin
- Description:
- Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc.
- Creator:
- Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 779
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Flavius Blondus (Flavio Biondo, 1396-1463), Roma instaurata.
- Description:
- Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Brown goatskin over wooden boards, both covers blind-tooled with frame and centre-piece, the latter in the shape of a cross composed of small rhomboid stamps showing some remnants of gold. Remnants of one clasp attached to the front cover, with a brass catch fixed with three nails to the rear cover., Rather carelessly written headings in purplish red ink, added posteriously at the beginning of the Prologue and of each Book, not corresponding to the instructions for the rubricator written in the margins by the scribe (no such instruction is visible on f. 3r). White vinestem initial (5 lines) and border in the same style in the upper and inner margins at the head of the Prologue (f. 3r). The Books open with 2-3-line plain initials (Capitalis) in blue; a similar 2-line initial was planned (and executed) at the beginning of what would be chapter 3 (“Ambitum”, f. 4v), but this practice was afterwards abandoned. Guide letters for the initials in the margin., Script: Copied by a single hand writing a rapid Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The first line of the Prologue and the first word or second letter of the three Books are written in Capitalis., and Sold by Alberto Govi, Modena to Fred K. Schreiber, New York. Purchased from Schreiber on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Roma instaurata.
- Creator:
- Gellius, Aulus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1430, 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 83
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (abridged).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of the wooden boards. Yellow edges. The plain wound endbands may have been resewn. The spine is lined with cloth. Covered in brown, originally tan, sheepskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with two rope interlace stars in a central panel bordered with concentric frames. Spine: bands outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond fastenings, the catches on the lower board (one wanting), the upper board cut in for straps attached with star-headed nails., Folio 1r with partial border in inner and lower margin (rubbed). Inner margin has scrolling vine, yellow, on parchment ground with red dots, with stylized foliage, flowers and fruit in green, red, purple and dove grey. Illuminated initial, 3-line, purple on dark green ground, is incorporated into border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion (unidentified mutilated arms: per pale, or and sable?) on pink ground, supported by two heraldic dragons, parchment colored (unfinished) against red ground. All of this decoration appears to be a later addition. Plain initials and headings in red., and Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Gellius, Aulus
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Noctes Atticae
- Creator:
- Boethius
- Published / Created:
- 1430
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 61
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae.
- Description:
- Binding: Date? Original sewing on two thick, slit leather straps, the endbands sewn on leather cores. Flush beech boards with straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels slanted up to the outer face. The ends of the straps therefore protrude well above the face. Straps nailed and endband cores laid in V shaped grooves and nailed. The spine and about one quarter of the boards covered by brown calf with a nailed parchment strip at the edge, fragments only remaining. No adhesive on the spine. Channels for straps cut in the upper board. Holes for pins in the lower, but no marks of pin plates. This binding could be contemporary or 19th-20th century. It is interesting to note that the manuscript was bought because of the binding and not because of the text., Historiated initial with partial border contains the portrait of Boethius (f. 14r); four illuminated initials of similar design and colors (dark red, red-orange, green, blue, gold) on ff. 6r, 12v, 22r, 29v (beginning of Books II-V). Small initials and paragraph marks in red throughout., and Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by one scribe.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dialogues, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae
- Creator:
- Vincent, of Beauvais, d. 1264
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 23
- Image Count:
- 127
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais. and Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and cream, blue-green, and red paste-paper sides. Red and olive green paste-paper pastedowns in a chevron pattern. Red edges. and Script: Written in a small neat got
- Subject (Name):
- Vincent,--of Beauvais,--d. 1264
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collectanea drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
- Creator:
- Herolt, Johann
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 196
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Johannes Herolt, Sermones de tempore.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Sewn on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covers lined with parchment documents; text side pasted down and illegible. Covered in white tawed skin with two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. Remains of label with title on spine; traces of inscription on upper board. Rebacked., Only selected leaves scanned., Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line. Paragraph marks, initial strokes and underlining in red; rubrics added sporadically., Purchased in 1956 from Bernard Quaritch of London by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in hybrida script, perhaps by a single scribe., The bookplate of Hilprand Brandenberg (hand-colored woodcut of an angel holding a shield representing his arms: an ox passant with a ring in its nose) is pasted below the ownership inscription, to which the shelf-mark "CXXXI" was added by a later hand., and Watermarks: several bull's heads including Piccard Ochsenkopf V.636 and similar in design to V.305-13.
- Subject (Name):
- Brandenburg, Hilprand, 1442-1514, bookplate, Catholic Church --Sermons, Herolt, Johann, and Marston, Thomas E., bookplate
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones de tempore