Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Iohannes Sarracenus (?). 2) Commentary by Albertus Magnus (here ascribed to Thomas Aquinas) on art. 1. 3) Commentary on a poem on Book I of the Sentences of Peter the Lombard. 4) Commentary on a poem on Book II, Distinctiones 1-6 of the Sentences of Peter the Lombard
Description:
In Latin., Script: Art. 1-2 written by a single scribe in two variants of Humanistic script: art. 1 (the text) in Humanistica Textualis, art. 2 (the commentary) after some hesitation in a very similar form of Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 3-4 written by a single scribe in Gothica Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence, of greasy appearance; a larger size is used for the poetical parts., The majuscules in art. 1-2 are heightened in dark yellow. Headings in red. Red calligraphic initials throughout the manuscript by the same hand (3 lines in artt. 1-2, 2 lines in artt. 3-4). At the opening of art. 1 a 9-line blue Renaissance initial with white vinestem decoration without background. At the opening of art. 3 a red (?) 3-line initial with some flourishing., The book is excessively trimmed; especially in artt. 3-4 the lower margins are extremely narrow. The paper is badly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Limp vellum. At the top of the front cover: "M.S." in ink. Spine with three raised bands. In the second compartment the title in ink "S. Dionis. Epistol@".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper of Commentary on the Epistles of St Paul. Includes a note attributing authorship to Gregorius Ariminensis O.E.S.A. (Gregory of Rimini, d. 1358).
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in a script resembling Humanistica Cursiva. Running headlines in Capitalis., Decoration: The quotations from St Paul are underlined. The manuscript was originally undecorated, although space was provided for headings and initials with guide-letters. The uneven and fanciful decoration visible in the manuscript was added in the second half of the sixteenth century: painted intials, pictures of figures, including paintings of Christ and Paul, all completed in the same "byzantizing" style. Art. 1 contains a full-pace decoration showing a small triptych with three figures., Binding: 16th century dark brown leather over wooden boards. Four raised bands are on the spine. Both covers are blind-tooled with fillets and multiple rows or groups of stamps. Some brass bosses preserved on each cover. Two clasps attahced to the front cover., and In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory, of Rimini, -1358.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian and Manuscripts, Medieval
Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444
Published / Created:
15th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 953
Image Count:
262
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Cyril of Alexandria's Glaphyra in Genesim, Books I-IV (first part of Glaphyra in Pentateuchum).
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Textualis. Pale red headings, mostly not executed. Space for initials is provided, with guide letters, but initials are mostly not executed. On f. 1r a 6-line white vinestem initial with extensions in the upper and left margins; white vinestem decoration in the lower margin around a wreath, containing now a blank escutcheon. On ff. 37v (4 lines), 42r (6 lines) and 60r (4 lines) white vinestem initials of lower quality and in a different style., Cyril of Alexandria's Glaphyra in Genesim, Books I-IV (first part of Glaphyra in Pentateuchum). Latin translation ascribed to Iosephus. Due to the loss of two leaves a part of the text preceding the final sentences is missing. A few 17th century annotations., and Binding: 19th or 20th century: brown morocco, both covers gold-tooled with a floral stamp, four times crosswise applied in the center. Spine with three raised bands, to which the gold-tooled leather of the 17th century binding has been pasted, with the inscription: "CIRILI / ALEXAND / OPUS / MS". Marbled paper pastedowns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444.
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (de Mediolano, d. c. 1496), OFM, Confessionale. 2) Ps.-Anselmus Cantuariensis (Pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury), Interrogationes faciendae infirmo morienti
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand writing a small and rather uneven Humanistica Textualis Libraria, highly abbreviated, especially in the quotations of authorities., Headings in purplish red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 1- and 2-line plain initials with guide letters. Decorated initials: f. 1r (Prologue), 7-line white vinestem initial followed by text line in fancy Capitalis; f. 2r (Part 1), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 12r (Part 2), 4-line white vinestem initial; f. 18v (Part 3), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 127v (Part 4), idem. Running headlines in Capitalis in purplish red., and Binding: original brown leather over bevelled beech boards, both covers blind-tooled with fillets and small tools in ropework design. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Spine damaged. Remnants of three clasps, one at the top, one at the bottom and one at the side edge of the covers, each attached with three engraved nails to the front cover; quadrangular decorated brass catches on the rear cover, engraved with the initial “S” and each fixed with four nails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bartholomaeus, de Chaimis. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Confession, Catholic Church, Extreme unction, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 786
Image Count:
331
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of St. Antoninus, Confessionale. With several other texts, including papal bulls and confessional manuals
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: copied by multiple hands in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, Currens, or Humanistica Semitextualis., and Binding: original binding (only back cover preserved) of blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard, consisting of parchment leaves pasted together.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459.
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Confession, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459
Published / Created:
[between 1490 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 4
Image Count:
127
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of St. Antoninus, Confessionale
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head., Script: Text written by one person in humanistic script; numerous marginal and interlinear notes in a slightly later hand., Many ornamental capitals of various sizes, 9- to 3-line, in red and blue with purple penwork, mark each section of text; some with pale shades of yellow, peach, and purple as background. Rubrics (except toward end); red, blue, and yellow paragraph marks., and Binding: between 1490 and 1500. Original sewing on three tawed, slit straps, kermes pink, laced through tunnels in the thickness of wooden boards into rectangular channels on their outer face. Twisted, tawed cores of plain, wound endbands laid in grooves. All supports pegged and gypsum (?) used to fill in around them. Spine lined with brown calf, wanting except under endband tie-downs. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with a rope interlace panel border. Corner turn-in tongues. Two catches on lower board, stubs of straps on upper. Boards worm-eaten and detached and most of the cover wanting. Minor repairs to endleaves and headband made ca. 1976.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459.
Subject (Topic):
Confession, Catholic Church, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Lorenzo Valla, Confutationes. 1) Antidotum in Poggium, Books I-III. 2) Antidotum in Poggium, Book IV. 3) Dialogus in Poggium, Book I. 4) Confutatio prior in Benedictum Morandum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a round humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated page (f. 1r) with partial border in outer and lower margins, white vine-stem ornament on predominately green and red ground, with some blue and white dots, framed by thin gold bars. In lower border, unidentified mutilated coat of arms, against blue ground. Seven illuminated initials, 4- to 2-line, gold, against blue, green and red grounds with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. Headings and marginal annotations in pale red., and Binding: ca. 1900, England. Red goatskin case with gold-tooled title "Valla In Poggium MS" and turn-ins. Gilt edges. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of C. Iulius Caesar (100-44 B.C.), De bello Gallico; De bello civili; De bello Alexandrino; De bello Africo; De bello Hispaniensi
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one scribe writing a small Gothico-Humanistica with features close to Gothica Semitextualis Libraria., Pale red headings in Humanistica Textualis, sometimes missing, especially towards the end of the codex. Running headlines in the same colour and by the same hand, “L” in the middle of the verso page, the number in the middle and the title at right on the recto page. Gothic initials at the head of the subdivisions of the text as sketched above (including f. 69r): (1) foliate initials in Lombard style in red and green, filled with blue heightened with white penwork, on a square gold background, up to f. 51r; the opening one (f. 1r) is 9 lines high and has penwork extensions ending in leaves in the left and upper margin (the latter interfering with the heading); the others are 4-5 lines high and have similar sprays in the left margin only; (2) Starting f. 68v (art. 2) blue flourished initials (4-6 lines) with red penwork, the latter extending in the margin., and Binding: ca. 1700 (repaired in 1993 by P. Dusel). Brown sprinkled calf over cardboard, gold-tooled: the covers decorated with a double fillet frame, the spine, with seven raised bands, richly decorated. In the second compartment a red title label with gold-tooled inscription “CESARIS / COMMENT/ARII .Ms.” Red edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History, Military
Manuscript on paper of a Paraphrase of the Creed, by Antonio Beccari, known as Credo di Dante, as well as rules for the Confraternita della Morte on how to accompany and comfort the condemned to death; Laudi to comfort those condemned to death, and moral and biblical quotations related to death
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: copied by three scribes: A, writing Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, copied ff. 1r-28r, line 5; 30r-79v; B, writing Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria/Formata, copied ff. 28r, line 6 -29v and 80r-87r; C, writing Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria, copied ff. 88r-91r. Headings in red. Paragraph marks and 2-line plain initials alternately blue and red. In the texts copied by hand B decorated 2-line initials and red stroking of the majuscules. On f. 1r 7-line initial on square gold background with marginal extensions, and in the lower margin three painted wreaths, in the two outer ones the initials A and L, in the larger central one the emblem of the Fraternity of Death: a black skull surmounted by a cross; in the upper right corner a label has been pasted containing a now erased coat of arms. On f. 2r a 4-line gold initial on square blue background., Antonio da Ferrara (Antonio Beccari, 1315- c. 1373), paraphrase in verse of the Creed, dealing also with the sacraments, the Ten Commandments, the mortal sins, the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary, known as Credo di Dante, and often attributed to Dante Alighieri. The manuscript also contains rules for the members of the Confraternita della Morte in the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Morte in Bologna, on how to accompany and comfort the condemned to death, as well as Laudi to comfort those condemned to death, moral quotations related to death, and quotations from the Bible and the Church Fathers, in Latin on the verso pages, in Italian translation on the facing rectos., and Binding: 19th century, blind-tooled brown leather over pasteboard. Spine with three raised bands. The parchment flyleaves are palimpsest fragments from a Latin biblical manuscript (Italy, s. XII) written in two columns; a few parts of Daniel 10:16-17 are still legible On the rear pastedown printed label of the "Legatoria L. Muratori, Bologna" (active 1932-1968), probably added at the occasion of a repair.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Beccari, Antonio, 1315-approximately 1371.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Consolation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
