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1. Isagoge, etc
- Creator:
- Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 256
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (heavy, dark and poor quality) of 1) Porphyry, Isagoge. 2) Ammonius Hermeiou, In Porphyrii Isagogen. 3) Aristotle, Categoriae. 4) Aristotle, De Interpretatione. 5) Ammonius Hermeiou, In Aristotelis Categorias Commentarius. 6) Michael Psellus, In Aristotelis De Interpretatione Commentarius
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: Written by a single scribe in minuscule which varies considerably in size and angle. Many marginal notes by later hands., Some crude diagrams by original scribe within text (e.g., f. 33r: diagram illustrating the division of sounds); others added later in margins. Headpiece on f. 1r is a plaited design set in an elaborate rectangle. An elaborate initial O follows headpiece; simpler initials elsewhere. Brown ink used for decoration throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan calf case of molded leather, blind-tooled with gold-tooled lettering on spine. Similar to bindings of MSS 255 and 258 and probably by the same binder. Possibly by Whitaker (we thank A. R. A. Hobson for this information).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charts, diagrams, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Isagoge, etc
2. Opera, with glosses
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 700
- Image Count:
- 179
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 2) Bucolica. 3) Georgica. 4) Aeneis. With commentaries, pseudo-Virgilian tracts, and a miscellany of treatises, many anonymous. Ff. 1-31 are from the first half of the thirteenth century; the rest of the manuscript and the decoration were added half a century later
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Two scribes: A copied ff. 1-31 in Southern Praegothica close to late Carolingian script; B copied the rest, starting with the text of Book 5 of Aeneis, in more rapid early Southern Textualis/Semitextualis; his spelling is marked by italianisms., The headings in red are not executed; some added later in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca); instructions for the rubricator are seen ff. 70v-75r. Numerous paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, sometimes black. Plain and flourished initials of various sizes in red and blue (other colours are also used in quires I-IV). Seventeen painted initials decorated with gold balls. From f. 70v onwards there are guide-letters, but all initials and other decoration are missing. A rectangular space of the width of one column was reserved for a miniature on f. 1ra, which was not executed., Ff. 1-31 appear to be palimpsest, with very irregular edges, sometimes repaired by sewing strips of parchment onto them, which are now lost., and Binding: Seventeenth century. White parchment over pasteboard. On the spine with five slightly raised bands red leather label with gold-tooled inscription "VIRGI-/LIUS / M.S." (this title has been completed in black ink with "P(ublius)" , "Eneidos etc." and "membr"); below the label the handwritten date "saec. XIV". Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera, with glosses
3. Sermones de epistolis, etc
- Creator:
- Perault, Guillaume
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 473
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Guillaume Perault, Sermones de Epistolis. With Glosses that note teaching distinctions; and short extracts from Clement, Fulgentius, Seneca, Job
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand with many abbreviations. Marginal notations, some lost due to trimming, by several hands., Plain initials, headings, paragraph marks, in red, but not throughout., and Binding: Twentieth century. Rigid vellum case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Perault, Guillaume.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, Scholia, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones de epistolis, etc