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1. Vita et fabulae
- Creator:
- Aesop
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 611
- Image Count:
- 107
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Artt. 1-6: Aesop (Aesopus, 6th cent. before C.), Vita et fabulae, Latin translation by Rinuccio da Castiglione (Rinucius Aretinus, ca. 1395-after 1456). Artt. 7-8: Aesop, Fabulae, Latin translation by Ognibene Leoniceno (Omnibonus Leonicenus, 1412-1481).
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Briquet 2472 (?); var. Briquet 7918 (?); other (scissors and scale)., Script: Copied by two hands: Section I in unusual Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with the features of Humanistica Semitextualis; Section II in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Pale red headings in Section II only (the headings in Section I are in black ink). Pale red paragraph marks. 2- or 3-line pale red plain or slightly decorated initials, with guide-letters in the left margin., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Half leather over cardboard, the paper covers decorated with a lozenged pattern of black and red dots. Gold-tooled spine with brown leather title-label with gold-tooled inscription "ESOPI FABBUL. ***7".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aesop.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita et fabulae
2. Sermons
- Creator:
- Agostino della Scarperia
- Published / Created:
- [1400-1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 948
- Image Count:
- 52
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a selection of sermons by Agostino della Scarperia
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: copied by a single hand in Italian Hybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca); the final lines, on the singleton f. 25, are in a more rapid hand. There is space for 3-line initials (a 4-line initial on f. 1r) at the opening of the sermons, but these have not been executed. The headings open with a decorative majuscule S(ermone). Otherwise the manuscript is undecorated., Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Sermones ad fratres in heremo, Italian translation of a small selection of the sermons by Agostino da Scarperia (c. 1320-end of the 14th century). Our manuscript contains the first eight sermons only., and Binding: sewn on, no covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Agostino della Scarperia.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Sermons, Italian
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons
3. Opera varia, etc
- Creator:
- Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 87
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Albertano da Brescia, 1) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi. 2) Liber consolationis et consilii. 3) De amore et dilectione Dei. 4-8) Sermones. 9) De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum. 10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages. 14) Ps.-Seneca, Proverbia. 15) Seneca, De beneficiis (extracts).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal gothic bookhand, below top line., Initials for major text divisions in red with designs on parchment ground, 18- to 4-line, and some (e.g., f. 28r) with modest penwork designs in red and/or black. Small plain initials, 3- to 1-line, rubrics, and paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in tan paper with semi-limp paper sides. Written, in ink, on spine: "De Scientia/ Loquendi/ Tacendi/ Manos" and "Albertani/ Pergomena". On parchment leaves at front and rear: rust stains from five bosses and 2 fore-edge fastenings of an earlier binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, Sermons, Latin, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia, etc
4. Liber consolationis et consilii. (fragment).
- Creator:
- Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450-approximately 1499.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.84
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments, on paper, of text from this work by Albertano da Brescia. The fragments are incomplete and nonconsecutive
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: italian cursive bookhand., and Layout: single columns of 32 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertano, da Brescia, active 13th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber consolationis et consilii. (fragment).
5. Doctrinale
- Creator:
- Alexander, de Villa Dei
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 64
- Image Count:
- 125
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, pink, red, and green with white filigree on gold ground thinly edged in black, with a half-length portrait of a teacher in red robes and a red cap holding a book, against a blue ground with white filigree. In the lower margin arms of the Pesaro family of Venice (per pale indented or and azure), framed by scrolling acanthus, green, red, blue, and pink. Plain initials and paragraph marks both alternate blue and red. Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Light brown leather, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Rebacked. Title on spine: "Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale. MS: In Memb". Bound for Henry Drury by C. Lewis in 1820.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, de Villa Dei.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctrinale
6. Doctrinale
- Creator:
- Alexander, de Villa Dei
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1460]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1147
- Image Count:
- 182
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper
- Description:
- In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, de Villa Dei.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Doctrinale
7. Opera varia
- Creator:
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1455-65]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 124
- Image Count:
- 452
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, 1) De virginibus. 2) De virginitate. 3) (Incorrectly attributed) De lapsu virginis consecratae. 4) De viduis. 5) De institutione virginis. 6) De Helia et ieiunio. 7) De penitentia
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in bold humansitic cursive script that slopes toward the right by a single scribe, above top line., Illuminated title page, severely rubbed and stained, with full border, white vine-stem ornament on red, blue, green and gold ground with white dots, in inner border with ribbon interlace. In lower border wreathed medallion within narrow gold bands, supported by two haloed angels, one dressed in green, the other in red; central shield of medallion blank. Included in border are a standing and a seated putto. Historiated initial, 6-line, gold, with a portrait of St. Ambrose seated at a lectern and reading, against a blue sky. 8 illuminated initials, 5-line, in gold against blue, green and red grounds with white dots and white vine-stem ornament extending into the margins to form partial borders. Headings, running titles and foliation (Roman numerals), in red., Many pages stained with some loss of text; f. 220r-v mostly illegible., and Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Brown goatskin with the arms of comte Chandon de Briailles gold-tooled on both sides. Edges, headcaps, and doublures also gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
- Subject (Topic):
- Celibacy, Christianity, Christian literature, Latin, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia
8. Epistola a un amico, etc
- Creator:
- Andrea da Pistoia
- Published / Created:
- 14th or 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 949
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a number of ascetical treatises and prayers, including: 1) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Octo versus. 2) Andrea da Pistoia, Epistola a un amico. 3) Aegidius O.S.B. (frate Gillio), Liber virtutum
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: the main section is copied by a single hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the headings in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. The Prayer to the Virgin is in Semitextualis under Hybrida influence; the two final Latin quotations in a large decorative impure Textualis Formata. The Pseudo-Bernard is in small rapid Italian Hybrida, the Latin Psalm verses in a larger and more formal form of the same script, with large opening majuscules. In the main section headings and stroking of majuscules in red; 1- and 2-line plain red initials half inserted, with large guide letters in the margin; a 3-line similar initial on f. 2r. The text opens with an outline initial in black., Manuscript on paper of a number of ascetical treatises and prayers, including: 1) Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Octo versus. 2) Aegidius O.S.B. (frate Gillio), De aedificatione animae, or Liber virtutum, translated from Latin into Venetian and from Venetian into Tuscan. 3) Andrea da Pistoia O.P., Epistola a un amico. (Perhaps the author is to be identified with Andreas Franchi de Pistorio (1335-1401)). 4) Prayers ascribed to St. Augustine. 5) The Apostles' Creed as supposed to be jointly composed by the twelve Apostles; the Seven Sacraments; the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit; the Seven Virtues; the Seven Mortal Sins; the Ten Commandments; the Works of Charity; the Ten Impediments of Penance; the Fifteen Signs announcing the Last Judgment. 6) Prayer to the Virgin., and Binding: unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Andrea da Pistoia.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Virtue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistola a un amico, etc
9. Liber visionum et instructionum
- Creator:
- Angela, of Foligno, Saint, 1248?-1309
- Published / Created:
- 1492 February 17
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 993
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Angela of Foligno, Memoriale and Instructiones
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with uneven speed. Headings and the opening words of sections are generally written in Capitalis., and Binding: early quarter binding: leather boards, the leather fixed with a strip of brass to the front and rear board. Remnants of two clasps, attached to the rear board by means of small quadrangular brass plates, and clutching on the front board in two brass catches in the shape of large decorated rosettes. The hinges are strengthened by means of strips cut from a s. XIV manuscript in Southern Textualis Libraria.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Angela, of Foligno, Saint, 1248?-1309.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber visionum et instructionum
