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1. Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1420]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 147
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem.
- Description:
- Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled., Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored., Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
2. Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris, etc.
- Creator:
- Bernard Silvestris, fl. 1136
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1070
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Bernard Silvestris, Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris. 2) Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum. 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta. 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemonics for remembering the names of saints, calendar tables, lists and other notes. 5) Office for the feast of St. Mary, Jubilus, hymn, prayers and other short readings from the Bible and the Apocrypha.
- Description:
- 4 blank leaves. and Gatherings of 7, 7, 12, 6, 2, 2, and 2 leaves respectively as found.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris, etc.
3. Joannes Cassianus; Ambrosius Autpertus
- Creator:
- Autpertus, Ambrosius, d. 784
Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435 - Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 24
- Image Count:
- 194
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (endpieces, holes, speckled on hair side) of 1) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis libri XII. 2) Joannes Cassianus, Conlationes XXIV. 3) Miscellaneous notes. 4) Ambrosius Autpertus, Oratio contra septem vitia. 5) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from Conlationes XXIV.
- Description:
- Binding: Twelfth century, Italy. Original sewing on two tawed pigskin slit straps. The sewing supports and endband cores are laced through a tawed skin spine lining (from a palimpsest?) which extends about 50 mm. on either side and is turned in at head and tail. There is a fragment of finely woven cloth caught up by the lower sewing support and kettle stitch. Chevron endbands on tawed skin straps, one of which extends across the lower side under the lower turn-in. The lower side is reinforced with two irregular pieces of vellum. A flush, tawed skin cover with overlapping corners and irregular turn- ins, wide at the fore edge. Stubs of fastenings which are extensions of the supports. Contemporary title in ink on upper cover: "liber intitulatur de habitu monachorum". Decorative panel containing a drawing of an unidentified animal smeared blue and/or green within a border of brown circles, on lower side., One decorated 5-line initial (rubbed) on f. 1r, constructed of interlacing bands in parchment, outlined in brown ink against an irregular red ground. Plain red initials, some of which are drawn vertically rather than upright, and often with small red pearl designs, appear to be executed by many different hands. Instructions to rubricator in upper margin of f. 1r. Guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written by multiple scribes of varying degrees of accomplishment in late caroline minuscule and early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Vice
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joannes Cassianus; Ambrosius Autpertus
4. Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses
- Published / Created:
- 1471
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 762
- Image Count:
- 904
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions and institutions of the Roman empire. 6) Note on the structure of Roman personal names. 7) Headings of the chapters of Books 1-9 of Facta et dicta memorabilia. 8) Giunta de Sancto Giminiano (14th century), alphabetical table to Facta et dicta memorabilia, from A to T, with ample blank spaces between each letter of the alphabet. 9) Mentions of Valerius Maximus and Livy in works of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyre. 10) Valerius Maximus (1st century), Facta et dicta memorabilia, including the pseudepigraphic Book 10, De interpretacionibus nominum.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding in brown leather, the cardboard covers covered with marbled brown paper. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and brown title label with gold-tooled inscription: “VALERIUS MAXIMUS / MANUSCRIPTUM”. Red sprinkled edges., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the text very large, the glosses small., The pages damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Underlining, paragraph marks, headings, stroking of majuscules and plain initials (with guide letters), all in red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome (Italy)--Description and travel and Rome (Italy)--History
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses
5. Opera varia, etc.
- Creator:
- Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 87
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Albertano da Brescia, 1) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi. 2) Liber consolationis et consilii. 3) De amore et dilectione Dei. 4-8) Sermones. 9) De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum. 10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages. 14) Ps.-Seneca, Proverbia. 15) Seneca, De beneficiis (extracts).
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in tan paper with semi-limp paper sides. Written, in ink, on spine: "De Scientia/ Loquendi/ Tacendi/ Manos" and "Albertani/ Pergomena". On parchment leaves at front and rear: rust stains from five bosses and 2 fore-edge fastenings of an earlier binding., Initials for major text divisions in red with designs on parchment ground, 18- to 4-line, and some (e.g., f. 28r) with modest penwork designs in red and/or black. Small plain initials, 3- to 1-line, rubrics, and paragraph marks, in red., Purchased in 1954 from B. Rosenthal by Thomas E. Martson., and Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal gothic bookhand, below top line.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, Sermons--Early works to 1800, and Theology--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia, etc.
6. Proprietates rerum moralizate
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 886
- Image Count:
- 98
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment of Proprietates rerum moralizatae. Moral encyclopaedic treatise (not related to the work of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum), arranged alphabetically from "Advocatus" to "Viridarium".
- Description:
- Binding: Twentieth century, by P. Dusel (1993). Dark blue morocco over cardboard, the edges of the boards decorated with a gold-tooled fillet ending on small lilies. On the flat spine the gold-tooled title "PROPRIETATES RERUM"., Collation is difficult due to the tight binding and the fact that the fold of ff. 2-5 has been repaired by means of strips of paper. There is a horizontal catchword at right on f. 24v. Parchment ff. 15 and 34 are both singletons with a stub (visible between ff. 14 and 15 and 33 and 34 respectively), through which the sewing cord passes. Probable extent of the quires: I (ff. 1-5), II (ff. 6-24), III (ff. 25-42)., Red stroking of the majuscules and red paragraph marks; red headings, in Hybrida in artt. 1 and 3, in Textualis in art. 2. Red plain 2-3-line initials., Script: Artt. 1 and 3 are copied by one hand, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria. Art. 2 is by another hand writing a larger and more coarse Gothica Semihybrida Libraria., and There is a modern foliation at the bottom of the pages and another, incorrect one in the upper corners. The former is followed here.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Natural history--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Proprietates rerum moralizate
7. Seneca; Claudian, etc.
- Creator:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Seneca; Claudian, etc.
8. [Valerij maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem liber primus incipit. j. de religione]
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^in [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 221
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
- Description:
- Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Valerij maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem liber primus incipit. j. de religione]