Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a portion of Seneca, De Beneficiis, Book 4, Chapter 7.
Description:
Decoration: initial E in red ink with green tendrils., From the collection of A. G. and M. Hammond, MS 29 (2). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 27 lines., Page is trimmed slightly at one edge, affecting the text., and Script: copied by one hand in Praegothica.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Decamerone, 7.8, 30-50 and Decamerone, 7.9, 1-5.
Description:
Binding: The leaf has been used as a cover for an archival register (?), the upper part of f. 1r being the front cover. It carries the inscriptions "A", "Gioan Giacomo Saba***". and Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Boccaccio, Giovanni,--1313-1375.
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--To 1400., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae.
Description:
Binding: Middle Hill boards., Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Carolingian miniscule (Turonian script)., and Several leaves damaged with substantial loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,---419 or 420. and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts--France--Tours., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published / Created:
[circa 1470]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 84
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, from this work by the younger Seneca.
Description:
Decoration: Illuminated initial, gilt; title in red ink., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 28 lines., and Script: humanist.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Bernardo of Parma's gloss on the Decretals of Gregory IX, including sections over liber III.
Description:
Decoration: running heads, initials, and rubrics in red; some contemporary marginal commentary., Script: written in a heavily abbreviated gothic script., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +156 (Bernhard von Breydenbach, Prefatio in opus transmarine...), in which the fragments are used as front and back endpapers.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law--Commentaries., Decretals., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified grammatical treatise.
Description:
Contained in Zi +9499 (Jaime Perez de Valencia, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum Salomonis), in which the fragment is used as a spine support in both the front and back of the book. and Decoration: rubrics in red; chapter marks have an extended top stroke and are black within the text; initials heightened in yellow; capitals decorated with red and yellow.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaf, parchment, in a single hand, containing text from the Homiliae in Evangelia of Gregory the Great.
Description:
Ex libris Santa Maria della Colonna di Piacenza. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column, varying length., Leaf also contains the ownership inscription of the Cistercian of Santa Maria della Columba, followed by an anathema against theft., and Script: proto-gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Piacenza (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--approximately 540-604., Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy), and Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy) Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Incomplete manuscript bifolium, recovered from a binding, containing text from a sermon based on Galatians 5.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: late Carolingian script.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of a portion of the text of Bede's Homily on the Ascension.
Description:
Decoration: capitals touched with red ink., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 28 lines., Script: copied by a single hand in Carolingian miniscule., and Text corresponds to Patrologia Latina (PL) 94: 180/81.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a fragment of an antiphon from a liturgical book, possibly an antiphonary.
Description:
Decoration: heightened neumes; initials in red., Script: written in late pregothic script., and This fragment is contained in Zi 145.5 (Utrisque juris canonum...), in which the fragment is used as a front endpaper.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.