- Creator:
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1100]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 158
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500, 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 277
- Image Count:
- 468
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment, composed in seven parts, of a collection of papal documents relating to the Franciscan Order, the Poor Clares, and the Tertiaries of St. Francis. With Rule for Poor Clares; and Rule of the Tertiaries of St. Francis. Includes texts by Popes Urban IV and John XXII; incunabulum; and additional texts.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491. Spine: tying up marks are head, tail, and around the supports., Modern pencil foliation employed. ff. 166 omitted from foliation., Part I: Two illuminated initials, 9- to 5-line, formed of stylized foliage, pink and green with white highlights on gold gound, filled with blue ground with white filigree. Terminals extending into the margins to form partial floral borders, stylized foliage, blue, green and pink, with gold balls with hair-line extensions. Pen-and-ink initials, alternating in blue and red with red and light green penwork. Plain initials in red or blue. Part II: Red and blue divided initial, 4-line, f. 105r, smaller initials in red or blue. Underlining and paragraph marks in red. Letters and words stroked with yellow. Part III: Crude red initial with simple penwork designs, 8- to 2-line. Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Part V: Red initial, 11-line, with simple designs, f. 212r; 2-line initials, headings, underlining, marginal notes, paragraph marks in red. Majuscules touched with yellow and stroked with red. Part VII: Paragraph marks and underlining in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 2-104): Written by several scribes in small gothic text hands. Part II (ff. 105-132): Written in small upright gothic script; words being defined written in larger more formal style of script. Part III (ff. 133-175): Written in a style of script similar to that in Part II. Part IV (ff. 176-211: Incunabulum. Part V (ff. 212-247): Written in a small round gothic text hand with humanistic features. Part VI (ff. 248-253): Written in cramped and hastily written gothic script. Part VII (ff. 254-265): Written in small gothic text hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans, John--XXII,--Pope,--d. 1334, Poor Clares, and Urban--IV,--Pope,--ca. 1200-1264
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, Papal documents, and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Franciscan archive
- Creator:
- Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1325]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 155
- Image Count:
- 245
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Boniface VIII, Sextus liber decretalium. 2) Commentary of Joannes Andreae on art. 1. 3) Clemens V, Constitutiones, with preface of John XXII. 4) John XXII, "Quia nonnunquam".
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century (?), Italy. Limp vellum case, restored., ff. 22 loose., Final leaf (now foliated 96) misbound between ff. 93-94., Script: Folios 1-96 written in littera bononiensis; ff. 1-22 written in a less formal Gothic bookhand. Numerous annotations in the margins by contemporary and later hands., and Two miniatures, f. 1r, an enthroned pope holding an open book and symmetrically flanked by ecclesiastical and secular parties, and f. 96r, a Franciscan monk presenting a book to an enthroned pope with clerical and lay attendants. Full border for text on f. 1r, constructed of solid panels, gold and red with white filigree, filled with two karyatid figures, a cleric, and a man in a blue robe. Partial border in lower margin, 3 medallions in blue, pink and red, with a papal portrait in half length, an angel, and a third subject now effaced. The medallions are connected by lozenges, green, blue and red with scrolling vines in blue, red, and green with white filigree and gold dots. 32 marginal figures in various costumes, among them several clerics, knights and an angel, often in animated poses. Numerous illuminated initials, 6- to 3-line in pink, blue or grey on blue, red, pink and gold grounds with white filigree. Foliage serifs in pink, red, grey and blue with white highlights. 39 initials with bust-length figures. Remaining initials in pink and red with white filigree. Calligraphic initials, alternating in red and blue with blue and red penwork scrolls. Plain initials and paragraph marks alternate in red and blue.
- Subject (Name):
- Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303, Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303|Clement V, Pope, ca. 1260-1314|Giovanni d’Andrea, ca. 1270-1348|John XXII, Pope, d. 1334, Clement V, Pope, ca. 1260-1314, and Giovanni d’Andrea, ca. 1270-1348
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sextus Liber Decretalium, etc.