Manuscript on parchment of Vegetius, Epitome rei militaris.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century, England or France. Bound in olive green goatskin gold-tooled with a "broken cable" border and decorated edges. Probably bound by Richard Wier (active in London and Toulouse to ca. 1792). Decorated edges. Title on spine: "Vegetius De Viris Il"., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand by a single scribe., and Three illuminated initials, 3-line, at the beginning of the Prologue (f. 1v), Bk. 3 (f. 29v), Bk. 4 (f. 58r), blue or mauve with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. Initials filled with stylized leaves, blue and mauve with white filigree. Black inkspray with spiky gold leaves and small blossoms in pink or blue extend into the margins to form partial borders. Numerous small initials, 2-line, gold, on mauve and blue ground with white filigree. Running headlines in red and blue; headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Initials stroked with pale yellow.
Subject (Name):
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Military art and science--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment of Aristoteles, Ethica ad Nicomachum, in the Latin translation attributed to Robert Grosseteste.
Description:
Binding: Modern European parchment-covered boards, backstrip calligraphically lettered in gothic script with the author's name and title., Headlines throughout in alternating red and blue capitals, chapter numbers in margins also in alternating colors, and large capitals at beginnings of books and chapters of the text in red or blue, with extensive filiform decoration bordering the left margin in the contrasting color on leaves with such capitals, all the work of a rubricator, performed separately from the writing of the text. Book and chapter headings in red by the scribes throughout., Mellon MS 143, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven, 1957. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., and Script: Written by two scribes employing differing forms of Gothica textualis, the first having written the first quire, the second the remainder of the codex.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle and Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Ancient, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274 Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141 Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 123
Image Count:
450
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Epistolae of Isidore, Braulio and Sisibutus. 2) Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae. 3) Richardus de Wedinghausen (Richardus Praemonstratensis), Expositio missae. 4) Bonaventure, Sermo VI de assumptione Beatae Virginis Mariae. 5) Extract from Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion IV.14. 6) List of forbidden magical arts.
Description:
2[?] preliminary leaves excised., Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Bohemia. Stays from 15th-century parchment manuscript. Original sewing on three double supports attached to flush, sharply bevelled wooden boards. Spine leather originally sewn around endbands. Covered in cream colored suede-like skin with very faint traces of a blind-tooled X in an outer frame. Spine: double fillets at head and tail; a neat, sewn mend near the head. Pink paper place marks on the fore edge. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board and stubs of kermes pink straps attached to lower one with flower-shaped plates. Trace of a chain attachment near head of lower board; title (mostly effaced) in gothic bookhand near head of upper board., MS waste used in binding., Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in running hybrida script., Unattractive initials in red (or red and black divided) with penwork designs, dots, knobs and/or heart-shaped appendages, all in red and black. Numerous plain red initials of similar design. Headings, running headlines, chapter numbers and initial strokes in red. T-O map of the world on f. 131v in red., and Watermarks for both end papers and text: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.685, Nuremberg 1430.
Subject (Name):
Isidore,--of Seville, Saint,--d. 636
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language--Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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
Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam. With Acts of the synod of Piacenza, March 1095 (Urban II), chs. 1-14.
Description:
Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides that have been covered with tan paper; edges spattered blue-green. Two gold-tooled labels on spine, the first left blank and the lower one reading "Saecul XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 159, and 197, also from the Cisterican abbey of Hautecombe. and Numerous pen and ink initials of good quality, 8- to 3-line, drawn in red. The initials are constructed of thick vine stems, divided in half and swelling at the ends, issuing sprouts of intertwining stylized foliage. On f. 10v the letter E is formed from a bird and its extended wing; on ff. 75r and 103r the initials terminate in animal heads. The most important initials, ff. 1v, 13r, 36v, 62r, 75r, 114r, 115v and 119v, are touched with patches of ochre and summary modelling in the same color. On f. 1v the continuation capitals are filled in with red and ochre. Plain initials and headings in red. Remains of instructions to the rubricator along outer edge perpendicular to text (e.g., ff. 119v, 120v).
Subject (Name):
Urban--II,--Pope,--ca. 1042-1099
Subject (Topic):
Bible. N.T. Luke --Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Papal documents
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Expositio in canticum canticorum, containing points 7, 9, and 14.
Description:
Contained in Zi +7157 2 (Ovid, Opera) as a pastedown extending over the interior surface of both the front and back boards., Decoration: rubrics and initials in red., and Script: written in caroline minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--approximately 540-604
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Song of Solomon--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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
Manuscript on paper of 1) Johannes Weitmann, Expositio Passionis. 2) Augustine, Meditationes.
Subject (Name):
Weitmann, Johannes
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735 Remigius, of Auxerre, ca. 841-908
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (sturdy but of uneven weight; no watermarks, wavering chain-lines ca. 53 mm. apart) of a collection of excerpts from Biblical commentaries and sermons by patristic writers. Mainly drawn from Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio super Matthaeum; and Bede, Expositio super Lucam. Also includes texts by Leo, Gregory, Gualterus Anglicus, Augustine, Anselm, Ambrose, and Boethius. Sermons written for feast days and about the Passion of Christ.
Description:
Binding: Date? Square, flush boards. Trimmed out turn-ins suggest a late date. Covered in vellum with contents and a compass-drawn circle on lower cover., Initials (3-line), paragraph marks, underlining and strokes on 1-line capitals in red., and Script: Written mostly by one scribe, perhaps over a period of time, in a small gothic book hand with many abbreviations. Additions by slightly later hands in more or less formal script, e.g. ff. 1v, 3r-5v, 87v-105v.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ--Passion and Remigius,--of Auxerre,--ca. 841-908
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Luke, Bible.--N.T.--Matthew, Catenae, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Bible.--N.T.--Revelation, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library