Manuscript on paper of Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.), Commentarii de bello Gallico; with flyleaf notarial documents
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand (scribe named John for unknown commissioner), writing Gothica Hybrida Libraria and using some Capitalis majuscules (especially "a"); while the flyleaves are written in documentary Gothica Semihybrida.
Manuscript on paper of Adolfus von Wein, Doligamus. The text, a series of fables concerning the deceitful conduct of women, is heavily annotated with interlinear glosses and lengthy explanatory prose passages inserted both between segments of the text...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Adolfus, von Wien, 14th cent. and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper, composed in 3 parts, of unidentified sermons. The three sections appear to have the same origin and to have been united soon after their making. The scribe and owner was a lay brother in the convent of Augustinian Canons St. Dorot...
Description:
In German and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Augustinian Canons. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, German
Manuscript on paper, composed of four parts. Part I (ff. 1-13): Calendar, etc. Part II (ff. 14-138): Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. Part III (ff. 139-173): Anonymous letter to John Huss written after the Council of Constance; 35 articles of erron...
Description:
In Latin and German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298., Council of Constance, and Council of Florence
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Latin language, German, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing: St. Chrysogonus (24 November); St. Catharine of Alexandria (25 November); St. Virgil, Bishop of Salzburg (27 November); Common of an Apostle; and Common of Martyrs
