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37. Expositio libri regum, etc.
- Creator:
- Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1040
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato. and With apocryphal letters containing a debate between Alexander the Great and Didymus, King of the Brahmins, and a sermon on the story of Abraham and Isaac.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth Century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription ... Red mottled edges., Collection of J.R. Ritman, bought from H.P. Kraus in 1988 (bookplate, MS BPH 92). Albert H. Childe Memorial Collection at Yale University Library (armorial bookplate)., Script: The original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional artt. 4 and 5 are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., and The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials.
- Subject (Name):
- Rabanus Maurus,--Archbishop of Mainz,--784?-856, Solomon,--King of Israel, and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Kings, Bible--Commentaries, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio libri regum, etc.
38. Ps.-Phalaris, Ps.-Brutus, Ps.-Crates, Epistulae
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Phalaris
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 792
- Image Count:
- 134
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment (goatskin) of 1) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistulae, tr. Franciscus Aretinus (Francesco Griffolini, 1420-after 1465). 2) Ps.-Brutus, Epistulae, tr. Rinucius Aretinus (Rinuccio d'Arezzo, c. 1395-after 1450). 3) Prologue (7 verses) to art. 4. 4) Ps.-Crates, Epistulae, tr. Athanasius Constantinopolitanus.
- Description:
- Watermark: letter P, similar to Briquet 8658 (1471-1480)?.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Phalaris
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ps.-Phalaris, Ps.-Brutus, Ps.-Crates, Epistulae
39. Grammatica minor
- Creator:
- Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530
- Published / Created:
- [between 1175 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 67
- Image Count:
- 137
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (end pieces, worn, repaired) of Priscian, Grammatica minor.
- Description:
- 8-line initial (later addition?), f. 1r, red with crude penwork designs in red and black; biting the letter is a grotesque stretched across upper margin, outlined in black with details in red. Small initials in red and/or black: ff. 17v, 31r, 35v, etc. Paragraph marks, initial strokes, and lines drawn through text passages written in Greek, all in red., Binding: Thirteenth century (?), France. Original sewing (except for the first few gatherings) on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to the outside of quarter sawn (?) oak boards, almost flush, and fastened with rectangular, angled wedges. Blue/green and natural color chevron endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores. There is a strip of tawed skin extending a short distance on the outside of the boards and turned in at head and tail. The boards are edged with white, tawed skin and an outer cover is whip stitched to this edging. There is no adhesive on the spine and the cover is held in place by the endbands. The outer cover probably extended and has been cut off flush. Needle holes along the inner edge of the back board fore-edge turn-in. There are traces of two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Hole bored on the tail and fore edge of the front board does not seem to serve any purpose., Script: Written by a single scribe in early gothic bookhand, above top line., and Some marginalia lost due to trimming and rubbing.
- Subject (Name):
- Priscian,--fl. ca. 500-530
- Subject (Topic):
- Education, Medieval, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grammatica minor
40. Institutio de arte grammatica
- Creator:
- Priscian, active approximately 500-530
- Published / Created:
- [125-]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1117
- Collection Title:
- Grammatical texts
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 10
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Also in folder: Bibliographic notes from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc.
- Subject (Name):
- Priscian, active approximately 500-530. Institutio de arte grammatica
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
- Collection Created:
- Various locations
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Institutio de arte grammatica
41. Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc.
- Creator:
- Plato
- Published / Created:
- 1464
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 920
- Image Count:
- 124
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts from Plato (427-347 B.C.), De legibus, in Latin translation. 2) Excerpts from Plinius Maior (23-79), Naturalis historia, C. Mayhoff, ed. (Teubner, 1906 ff.), Books 27-37. With an additional text: Italian remedy for healing ringworm.
- Description:
- Artt. 1-3: a few red or pale red headings; Paragraph marks, capitals and stroking of the majuscules in the same colour. The running headlines indicate the number of the Dialogue or Book excerpted on the page below; they are in black in art. 1, in red (e.g. "Li.// 28") in artt. 2-3. Artt. 4-5 are undecorated., Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Mottled beige paper over pasteboard., Script: Artt. 1-3 are copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with relatively many abbreviations. The numerous marginal lemmata, headings or Nota-marks are, apart from a few later additions, by the same hand. Artt. 4-5 are by two different 16th century Italian hands., and Watermark: a horn (var. Briquet 7686). An unknown number of bifolios is missing between ff. 28 and 29.
- Subject (Name):
- Plato and Pliny,--the Elder
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc.
42. Gesta Mathie Apostoli
- Creator:
- Périon, Joachim, 1499?-1559
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1071
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Subject (Name):
- Matthew,--the Apostle, Saint and Périon, Joachim,--1499?-1559
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gesta Mathie Apostoli
43. Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus
- Creator:
- Petrus, Cantor, ca. 1130-1197
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 895
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Petrus Cantor (c. 1130-1197), Commentum in libros Proverbiorum, Ecclesiastes, Sapientiae et Ecclesiastici.
- Description:
- Binding: Unbound., Many leaves are badly soiled., Red underlining of biblical passages. 2-line flourished initials with extensions in the margin or in the intercolumnar space; they are in red and blue on ff. in quire I, in red only in quires II-III (two flourished initials on f. 1v are also executed only in red); two initials of that type are missing, ff. 11r and 16r. Larger initials at the beginning of the commentary of new Bible books: 4-line littera duplex "B(eatus)" on f. 4r, Prologue to Ecclesiastes; 3-line "Q(uecumque)" on f. 8v, Prologue to Wisdom; 11-line "S(ummi)" and 6-line "O(mnis)", both red on beige background, on f. 15r, Prologue and text of Ecclesiasticus., and Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in flourished majuscules alternately red and blue; they stop after f. 6.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus,--Cantor,--ca. 1130-1197
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Bible.--O.T.--Proverbs, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus
44. Aurora
- Creator:
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 987
- Image Count:
- 738
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Abbaye de Cîteaux and Peter Riga,--ca. 1140-1209
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible--Paraphrases, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aurora
45. Libri sententiarum
- Creator:
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 893
- Image Count:
- 754
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Petrus Lombardus (c. 1095-1160), Libri sententiarum. With Capitula.
- Description:
- Binding: Original, red-dyed pigskin over non-bevelled heavy wooden boards; the covers are blind-tooled with frames of thick and thin fillets and floral tools; on both covers the binder's name "Gassner" is stamped in a scroll. Five small brass bosses on each cover. Remnants of two brass clasps, attached to the rear cover, with engraved catches on the front cover. Spine with four raised bands. Yellow edges., Collation impossible due to the tight binding. Most quires appear to contain twelve leaves. Horizontal catchwords at right, mostly lost at the trimming of the codex (see e.g. ff. 130v and 142v)., Copied by three hands: A copied ff. IIr-IIIv (the first section of art. 1) and ff. 1r-184v (Books 1 and 2 of art. 2) in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria; B copied f. IVr-v (the second section of art. 1) in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; C copied ff. 185r-355v (Books 3 and 4 of art. 2) in a narrower and more rapid Semihybrida Libraria with Bastarda features., MS 116 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and There is no decoration in art. 1 (a 3-line initial was provided on f. IIr). In art. 2 red headings, underlining of authorities and stroking of majuscules; 2-line plain initials, sometimes with long marginal extensions, in red or green in; similar 3-line plain initials at the beginning of each Distinctio in Books 3 and 4 (scribe C); The Prologue (f. 1r) and Book 2 open with a flourished littera duplex in the same colours (c. 6 lines). Books 1 and 3 open with a plain initial, respectively 3 and 5 lines; the opening of Book 4 has no special initial. The decoration is missing in some series of pages, such as ff. 162v-166v and 174v-177v.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libri sententiarum