Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (hairside yellow and speckled) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. With Extract from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III.8.8: Epistula Fabricii et Aemilii consulum ad Pyrrhum regem. The text was copied ca. 1400 and the border decoration added between ca. 1415 and 1431.
Description:
14 elegant illuminated initials and partial borders at the beginning of each of the 16 books (the opening pages of Books XII and XV have been excised). Initials, 5- to 3-line, blue with white filigree or red with gold filigree on cusped grounds of gold. Most of the illuminated initials filled with bust-length portraits, presumably of Cicero's correspondents, on red, blue or diapered ground. Some initials filled with vine scrolls with trilobe leaves in red with white highlights against gold ground. Partial borders, scrolling vine with trilobe leaves or acanthus in blue, pink, red and gold with white highlights and green, red and blue with gold highlights. Small figures of angels, dressed in green with gold wings in borders or margins, some playing musical instruments, one holding an open book, one holding the cloth of Veronica. Other marginal figures include the "Agnus Dei" and a pelican piercing its breast. The figures are all characterized by white faces, small angled black eyes, and a preference for green and gold, the green with contour lines in gold. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Rubrics throughout., Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Red velvet case with a dark green gold-tooled label: "M. T. Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Familiares MS. in Membranis". Gilt edges., Imperfect: incomplete, some leaves wanting with loss of text., and Script: Written in a neat fere-humanistic hand by a single scribe, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
The offset on f. 53v of an elaborately decorated border for the opening leaf of the office of St. Felicitas suggests that the codex was originally produced for an institution associated with this saint.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Caesarius, of Arles, Saint, 470?-542 Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3 Pseudo-Augustinus
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 851
Image Count:
54
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Hugo de Folieto, Aviarium. 2) Bestiarium (Bestiary). 3) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 46 (De ebrietate vitanda). 4) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de vanitate. 5) St. Augustine, Informatio regularis (Regula ad servos Dei).
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Reddish leather over cardboard; the covers blind-tooled with a double decorative frame, the inner one chequered, with circular dots on the intersections; small quadrangular decorative bosses in gilt (?) brass in the four corners and in the center of each cover. Spine with four raised bands. Two brass clasps attached to the rear cover, with catches on the front cover., Headings in red. 2-line (on f. 18v 3-line) initials were provided but were not executed; guide letters in the inner and outer margins. In art. 1, square spaces or roundels traced in ink have been provided in the text for illustrations, but the latter have only exceptionally been executed. No illustrations were provided in chapters 28-30 and 36-37. On f. 1v the text of chapters 31-35 is arranged in such a way, that a roundel containing a fully coloured female saint is placed in the center, and in the right-hand column a large space has been provided for a picture of the Cedar, the text being written around its stem. On f. 2r there is a drawing in crayon of a Pelican (very light, ch. 38), on f. 2v an ink drawing of a Raven (ch. 40), on f. 6r a crayon sketch of a Stork (ch. 47). In art. 2, similar spaces and roundels as in art. 1 were provided or traced within the text, all of them empty, except on f. 11v where there are crayon sketches of the Caladrius and the Pelican., Parchment soiled and in bad condition. Holes and irregular and damaged lower edges, the latter often repaired by means of strips of parchment; the final pages badly damaged, with loss of text., and Script: Copied by two hands writing a small Gothica Textualis Libraria, both having a tendency towards lengthening and making loops to the ascenders at the top line; A copied ff. 1r-7v and 17r-19v and is marked by conspicuous vertical decorative strokes at the top of r and long strokes on i; B copied ff. 8r-16v. Running headlines in red in artt. 3-5 in Gothica Textualis Libraria. In the margins of artt. 1 and 3-5 a contemporary hand has written numerous corrections and variant readings and has rewritten numerous words for which hand A apparently had used unusual or unclear abbreviations.
Subject (Name):
Hugh,--of Fouilloy,--d. 1172 or 3
Subject (Topic):
Animals--Classification, Birds--Classification, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of letters, attributed to Hippocrates (ff. 1r-50v). Also includes a series of epitaphs (ff. 51r-53v); incipit: Caesari sacrum Ennius Montanus fecit auxit. Concludes with a collection of pseudo-classical letters of unknown Renaissance authorship (ff. 54r-72v): correspondence between Marius Appius and Latianus (2 letters, 54r-55r), letters by and to Curtius Rufus (22 letters, ff. 56r-73v), and a letter by Genutius to the Roman senate (1 letter, ff. 73r-74r). Leaves 50, 73-77 are blank
Alternative Title:
[Epistolae : translated into Latin by Alamanno Rinuccini].
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: historiated gold initial showing king seated on a throne (Ataxerxes?), with sword and orb in hand, and full border decoration including animals, puti, and human figures (f. 1r); five-line gold initial on blue frame (f. 25r); 2-line gold initials on purple and blue frames; gold capital letters. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of 15 lines., Binding: old burgundy velvet over parchment., and Foliation added in modern pencil.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
Illuminated manuscript, in several unidentified hands, on parchment, containing a collection of works ascribed to Yūḥannā Ibn Māsawayh or Johannes Mesue. Contains: Canones universales (ff. 1r-58r), Medicum particularium (ff. 58v-207r), and Grabadin or Antidotarium (Inc.: Scripsimus in libris explanationum; ff. 209r-262r). Also includes Nicolaus Praepositus' Antidotarium (ff. 265r-290v). Various 15th-century medical recipes added in other hands (ff. 207v-208v, ff. 262v-264v, and f. 290v).
Alternative Title:
Opera
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: ten historiated initials in gold and colors: "P" with man wearing red cap (f. 24r); "S" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 58v); initial wanting, cut (f. 78v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 87r); leaf with initial wanting (f. 100); "F" with man teaching wearing red cap (f. 105v); "S" with bearded man teaching (f. 112r); "P" with man teaching, bare head (f. 177v); "E" with bearded man (f. 265r). Alternating red and blue initials with pen flourishes throughout. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 30 lines (ff. 1-102 and ff. 163-207), 26 lines (ff. 103-162), 31 lines (ff. 209-262)., Binding: 18th-century Italian three-quarter green goat over marbled paper. Decorative gold-tooling on spine. Red spine label: Mesue Opera / MS. Membranaceum / Anni 1448., and Colophon on f. 207r: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 8 Aprilis 1448. Second colophon on f. 290v: Deo gratias. Amen. n.d.t.s.h.o. die 3⁰ Jullii 1448.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, and Manuscripts
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1550]
Call Number:
Manuscript 55 vault
Image Count:
16
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Illuminated manuscript fragments of medical interest, on parchment, of a collection of Orationes in Ludolf von Sachsen's Vita Christi. F. 1: inveniri. Fac ut voluntatem ... resurgat a peccatis. (I. 40-42); f. 2: Domine deus om[n]ipotens ... verbo dei ac mee [et] (I. 71-72); f. 3: Presta misericors deus ... stent portitores occasiones pec (I. 42-44); f. 4: aliorum saluti. Amen ... preterit a peccata (I. 73-74); f. 5: tionum flatibus et motibus ... crucis ascendisti in (I. 46-48).
Alternative Title:
Vita Christi
Description:
In Latin., Formerly known as "The Book of Hours." Leaves identified by Peter Kidd, 2017, as part of the Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony. Additional leaves discovered in the Harry Ransom, HRC Leaf 18, and Detroit Art Institute, reference number 69.277., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist minuscule., Decoration: text in yellow frame. Two-line initials in white, blue, and gold with floral motifs. Titles in blue ink. Red, blue, and gold line fillers., Ten miniatures in ink, tempera, and gold, framed by columns: Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, heals man with leprosy (f. 1r); Jesus, accompanied by two apostles, stands beside centurion and bed-ridden servant (f. 1v); Jesus stands in field of wheat, accompanied by three apostles (f. 2r); Jesus, accompanied by apostle, heals man with withered hand--two men (Pharisees) stand behind him (f. 2v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 3v); Jesus raises child from grave--mother looks on (f. 3v); Jesus frees possessed man from red demon (f. 4r); Jesus in front of city, talks to crowd (f. 4v); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, frees two possessed men from black and gold demons (f. 5r); Jesus, accompanied by unidentified person, heals bed-ridden paralyzed man (f. 5v)., Layout: written in 1 column of 21 lines., Binding: modern cloth binding over pasteboard signed by binder: Bound by J. Desmonts / J. Macdonald Co. / Norwalk. Conn., and Foliation of original sequence(?) in modern pencil on recto: 38, 55, 39, 72, 72.y52; and foliation of order of fragments (i.e., 1-5) in modern pencil on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Healing, Biblical teaching, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval