Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Job, containing portions of chapters 28 and 29.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in caroline minuscule., Decoration: initials and rubrics in red; some interlinear corrections; horizontal catchwords visible on back cover., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4153 (Leonardo de Utino, Quadragesimale aureum), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
History, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Versions, Latin
Manuscript on paper of commentaries on the Sunday Epistles and other theological and moral texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., The manuscript contains: 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities., and Binding: 19th century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Christianity, Science, Medieval, Theology, and History
Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of 15 membranes, of a Chronicle of biblical world history and the genealogy of the kings of England
Description:
In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat rough textura., The genealogical diagrams, which are fitted into the empty spaces between the columns of text, begin with a roundel formed of concentric bands of blue, gold and red with a miniature of Adam with Eve, who is being handed an apple by the serpent. From the roundel of Adam and Eve to the Ascension of Christ the successive Biblical names, framed in orange or green squares, are linked by a continuous band in blue, red and gold. The names of the ancestors of the Kings of England, starting with Brutus, appear in red or blue circles, surmounted by gold crowns. Other names are in plain red circles. Linking lines in the genealogies are in red or green. At the appropriate places in the text are inserted schematized diagrams in red and green ink of Noah's Ark, a plan of the Israelite camp in the desert and a plan of the city of Jerusalem., One large illuminated initial for the prologue, 8-line, mauve and blue with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. The initial is filled with a large flower, red, yellow and green, and curling acanthus, orange and green extending into the margin and continued as black inkspray with large leaves, heart-shaped or acanthus, blue, pink, orange, white and green with white filigree, a large orange and gold flower, smaller leaves in gold with blue and pink, gold dots and small green leaves, extending into the upper and left margin to form a partial border. Smaller illuminated initial for the beginning of the main chronicle, 5-line, gold on blue and mauve ground with white filigree. Numerous small initials, 2-line, alternate in gold with blue penwork and blue with red. Paragraph marks alternate in red and blue., and Binding: Unbound.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, Manuscripts, Medieval, World history, and History
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum; 2) The Venerable Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum, and Nomina regionum atque locorum de Actibus apostolorum; with table of contents, and corrections and notes
Description:
Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-54v; B) copied ff. 55r-97r22, and probably art. 1; C) copied ff. 97r22-101r., Decoration: Headings in red Capitalis/Uncialis or in Gothica Textualis; 2- or 3-line plain or decorated initials, half inserted, in red and/or green; and large red decorated initials with interior spaces., Binding: 19th-century brown leather over cardboard; both covers gold-tooled with a border of fillets and arabesques; gold-tooled spine with gold-tooled inscription. Brown paper endleaves., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Manuscript on paper of texts on the Psalms and Canticles, and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: apparently four hands: A writing a bold Gothica Hybrida Libraria copied ff. 1r-186r and 201r; B writing Gothica Cursiva Currens copied ff. 189r-199va15; C writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens copied ff. 199va16-200v; D writing Gothica Semihybrida Currens copied ff. 203r-299v; the document on f. 226v is probably in the same handwriting. Scribe D is the unrecorded Hinricus Landesberch in Wernigerode., Red underlining, paragraph marks, heightening of majuscules and plain initials, generally 2 lines, at the head of various texts larger. Pointing hands., The manuscript contains: 1) Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun, c. 1090- c.1150), Expositio in psalmos CI-CL et in cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 2) Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202), Glosatura super cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 3) Notes on the Book of Psalms, its subdivisions, significance, on Ps. 1 and Ps. 150, etc. 4) Extracts on the Psalms from a florilegium of the works by or attributed to St. Augustine, called Summula Florigeri sancti Augustini. 5) Treatise on the virtues and vices arranged according to the course of the sun through the signs of the Zodiac; the names of the months and of the zodiacal signs are given in Latin and in German, with examples from the Bible and legend. 6) Miracles and legends. 7) Copy of a notarial document. 8) Isidorus Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville, d. 636), Quaestiones in vetus testamentum. 9) Vision of the horrors of Hell shown to St. Paul of Thebe (Paulus Eremita, 228-341). 10) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353). 11) Two sermons on the Immaculate Conception, quoting many exempla. 12) Incomplete legend of St. Catharine of Alexandria. 13) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De essentia divinitatis: an excerpt from Eucherius Lugdunensis (Eucherius bishop of Lyons, d. c. 450), Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, chapter 1., and Binding: original undecorated white deerskin over bevelled heavy wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs; spine with plaited headbands; in its upper compartment a paper label with a 17th-century indication of the content; in the second compartment a paper label with the number "VIII". On each cover five small brass bosses on indented square plates; marks of two leather straps attached to the rear cover, the holes of the pins visible in the front cover. At the top of the front cover a contemporary Table of Contents is written in ink in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, now badly legible; at the bottom of the same cover, in a large Gothica Hybrida Formata: "Tractatus Honorii pape" [sic]. The rear pastedown (half detached) consists of a large fragment and scraps on paper from a 15th-century Latin register of personal interdicts attached to persons with German names; the handwriting is Gothica Cursiva Currens.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alanus, de Insulis, -1202., Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint., Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156., Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636., Paul, the Hermit, Saint, -approximately 341., Pseudo-Augustinus., and Samuel, Marochitanus.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
