Manuscript on paper (thick) of Macrobius, Saturnalia.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same style as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181, 182 for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi), with the first three probably by the same binder. Written in ink on tail edge: "MACROB". Two front parchment endleaves, presumably reused from the early binding given the patterns of rust stains and wormholes, consist of undated ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Cesena., Headings and some plain initials in red., Ink has corroded through many leaves; minor loss of text., Script: Copied in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified mountain; a dragon perhaps similar in design to those produced in Ferrara in 1440s-50s, cf. Piccard Drache II.538-72.
Subject (Name):
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
Subject (Topic):
Dialogues, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Classical education, Greek language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Education, Medieval, Latin language--Composition and exercises, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and School notebooks
Education, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Medieval, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and School notebooks
Manuscript on paper of works by or attributed to Lucianus Samosatenus (c. 120-c. 180) in an anonymous Latin translation.
Description:
At several places the ink on one side comes through at the other side and hampers the reading there; that will be the reason why the scribe left most of f. 54v and the whole of ff. 61v and 141v blank and continued the transcription on the next pages., Binding: Sixteenth century. Badly rubbed and summarily repaired: reddish brown leather over light cardboard, blind-tooled with frames of strapwork and a large flower stamp; with a blind-tooled flap; the clasp on the latter and the catch in the middle of the front cover are missing. On the spine, in red: ‰ÛÏ77 [?]‰Û., MS 94 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (CA). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: Copied by three hands: A, the main hand, uses a rather bold Humanistica Cursiva Libraria; B, writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens, copied ff. 212r-213r and the greater part of f. 213v, where hand A takes over 7 lines from the bottom; C, writing a thin Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, copied ff. 1-2, clearly a replacement of two leaves copied by hand A., There is no decoration., and Watermark: anchor in a circle, topped by a star.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Claudianus, Claudius Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20 Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80 Publilius, Syrus, 1st cent. B.C Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Published / Created:
[between 1150 and 1175]
Call Number:
Marston MS 45
Image Count:
236
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (good quality) of 2) Jerome, Prologus beati Ieronimi presbyteri. 3) Ps.-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae, Neronis imperatoris magistri, ad Paulum apostolum et Pauli apostoli ad Senecam. 4) Complete 6-line text of Anthologia latina 667. 5) Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales. 6) Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii. 7) Seneca, De clementia libri ii. 8) Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. 9) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum liber. 10) 19 sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus and Seneca. 11) Claudian, Excerpta. 12) William of Saint-Thierry, De tribus dicendi generibus. Written in the Cistercian abbey at Igny near Rheims.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Bound in light brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and red label: "Opera Senecae MS". Red edges. Mended at tail. Discoloration from bosses (?) of earlier binding on first and last leaves., Carefully drawn monochrome initials with modest penwork designs, 12- to 2-line, in red, green and blue. Headings in red., and Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand; arts. 11-12 in less expert hands.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Ethics, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation.
Alternative Title:
Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., and Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Women--Religious life
Manuscript on parchment of Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV. With a Commentary on Eccles. 38.
Description:
Binding: 1837, England. Bound by Gough in London. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a light brown gold-tooled label with title "Liber Sententiarum"., Purchased in 1957 from Quaritch, London, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Red and blue divided initials, 4- to 3-line, for prologue and beginning of books, with penwork designs in the same colors. For other text divisions, 3- to 2-line initials in red or blue with flourishes in opposite color. Distinctio numbers and running headlines in red and blue; rubrics in red. Initial letters of each entry in chapter lists alternate red and blue., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line; annotations added in less formal, later hands.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Scholasticism, Scholia, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment of John Chrysostom, Sermo de dignitate humanae originis, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari. The text is preceded by a dedicatory letter, here directed to Rene d'Anjou (King of Sicily and Naples, 1435-42).
Description:
3 large initials of modest quality, 8- to 7-line, gold on blue or blue and red grounds with white dots and white vine-stem ornament. 1 smaller initial, 3-line, gold on red and blue ground with white dots. Plain initials in blue and red, one in gold, some with penwork flourishes in red. Rubrics throughout. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide letters for initials., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beige and white chevron endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with green tawed skin between supports. Covered in brown, originally tan, calf with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a border of rope interlace. Spine: sewing bands defined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond catches with a flower in a circle on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps attached with star-headed nails., Purchased from Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script, below top line.
Subject (Name):
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 and Traversari, Ambrogio, 1386-1439
Subject (Topic):
Catechetical sermons, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons--Early works to 1800