- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 205
- Image Count:
- 143
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- use in a Dominican house of nuns
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Script: Written by a single scribe in well formed gothic textura. Articles 1 and 6 have 4-line staves, in red, and black square notes., Uninspired blue initial, 2-stave, on f. 1r, infilled and surrounded by red penwork flourishes with blue accents. Similar plain initials, 2-line, alternate in blue, red, and black with red throughout. Running titles and headings in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn, using original sewing holes, on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into back-cornered and indented oak boards. Endbands embroidered on a strip of vellum and adhered, the vellum extending onto the outside of the boards. The spine is square and lined all along with manuscript fragments extending to the inside of the boards. Covered in vellum blind-tooled with concentric borders containing heads in oval frames among foliage in the outer, and busts of saints in the inner. Two brass fastenings, the catch on the upper board, straps attached to the lower with a metal plate. Straps wanting and a slight crack in one joint.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Dominican sisters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Processional, Dominican use
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- Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Published / Created:
- [between 1385 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 428
- Image Count:
- 177
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dante Alighieri, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata. 2) Bosone de' Raffaelli da Gubbio, "Capitolo" on the Divine Comedy, in 64 terzine. 3) Iacopo Alighieri, "Divisione" of the Divine Comedy in 50 terzine (thus of the B group).
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written in round gothic script., Very fine initials and borders. Three historiated initials, each with a personification with attributes. Each initial with a full border of fleshy acanthus, blue, orange, olive green, pink, grey and gold, with tooling; birds in lower margin of ff. 1r and 54r; on f. 1r a coat-of-arms, in lower margin: azure, a chevron or, between two roses in chief argent, a mount of 6 in base argent, probably of the Bini family, Florence. 3-line initials, red or blue, with mauve or red penwork with long intricate flourishes often extending the length of the page. Opening text of Inferno adjacent to the initial of f. 1r in display capitals with penwork panels in brown ink. Capitals on the beginning of each stanza stroked in yellow. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on five double supports attached to wooden boards. The spine is square with well defined bands and red and green endbands. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled in mudejar style in two sets of concentric frames; DO.IOAN.DE gold-tooled in the center of one, BORGA in the other. Trace of two fastenings. Gilt edges. Restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Divina commedia
- Creator:
- Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314
- Published / Created:
- 1462.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 654
- Image Count:
- 175
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of John of Freiburg (Iohannes Lector Friburgensis OP, d. 1314), Summa confessorum, German adaptation by Berthold of Freiburg (Bertholdus Friburgensis OP, 14th century).
- Description:
- In German., Watermarks: var. Piccard, v. 15, VIII.1547?; var. Piccard, v. 110, III.1667?., Script: Copied by Johannes Geratwol in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with some Bastarda characteristics., Headings, heightening of the majuscules and mostly 1-line plain initials in red or green. The initial on f. 1r has green penwork. The first lines of all titles in art. 1 are underlined in red., and Binding: Original pigskin, blind-tooled with lozenges traced in double fillets over bevelled oak boards. Spine with three raised bands, a label with handwritten title (worn) and a small label with the shelfmark "634"; the same number is written on the front cover. Traces of one strap attached to the rear cover and clutching over a pin (lacking) on the front cover.The binding stays and the lining inside the spine are said to come from a 12th-century Antiphonary from Tyrol, with text from the office for Epiphany. One strip of the spine lining would be from an unidentified 14th-century manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa confessorum
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 38
- Image Count:
- 130
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- another member of the Dominican order
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in batarde by a single scribe., Two intricate penwork initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r and 2r in red and blue; less detailed penwork initials, 3-line, in same colors throughout text; first letter of each verse stroked in red., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Brown spattered calf, with peculiarly striped turn-ins. Title, in gold, on spine: BOECE EN VER FRANC.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Consolation, French poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae