Manuscript fragments on parchment of an Antiphonary by Petrus Ferdinandez of Leon
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish features. Nota quadrata music notation. Additions of text and music by later hands., Paragraph marks and rubrics in red. Yellow heightening of majuscules. Large plain initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line). Cadels of the same size., and Text and musical notation on a five-line staff. Large initials in red, brown, and blue. Rubrics and liturgical instructions in red. Additional antiphons with musical notation added in margins in a hand of the 17th-18th century.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ferdinandez, Petrus., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
9 manuscript charters, on parchment, all with seals. 1) Grant by Richard Aberbas to William de Ingelfeld [Englefield] of a meadow in the village of Berehefeld [Burghfield] in Berkshire, for an annual rent of 4d., ca. 1190. 2) Grant by William de Middelwod, vicar of Altarnum, to John of Exeter, Canon of St. Peter's Cathedral in Exeter, of a tenement extending from the main street of Exeter to the barbican of the Exeter Castle. Witnessed by 9 citizens of Exeter, including the mayor, John de Fenton, and the bailiff, William de Okemtom [Okehamton], 1279-1280. 3) Quitclaim from Robert Patrick de Malo [de Malpas] to William Maillard of Sutton, granting relief from all customary services formerly performed by Maillard for three caructates of land at Kagworth in Sutton, including plowing, reaping, and haymaking, in return for one horseshoe. Witnessed by several residents of Sutton, ca. 1200. 4) Indenture grant by John of Exeter, Master of St. John's Hospital, to Philip de Zelebregg of a heritable tenement in Smezenestrete in Exeter. Witnessed by several citizens of Exeter, including John de Godessalve, bailiff, 1284 Oct. 18. 5) Grant by Aymeric de St. Maur, Master of the Knights of the Temple in England, to Henry de Wethelesburghe of all the lands in Wethelesburghe (Wellesbourne in Warwickshire) held by the English Chapter of the Knights, for the rent of 5 marks of silver per year and one third of Henry's chattel at his death. Witnessed by 9 members of the English Chapter, ca. 1200. 6) Royal license by Edward I for John de Methelwold, permitting him to grant a messuage in Methwold in Norfolk to Bromehill Priory. Issued at Westminster, 1293 Jun 14. 7) Confirmatory charter by Roger de Mowbray of a gift of lands to the Cistercians of Fountains Abbey. De Mowbray confirms the original gift of the lands in Nutwith (Yorkshire) by their holder in service, Richard de Hedon, as a grant in free alms in perpetuity and quitclaims the annual rent of a pound of pepper. Witnessed by several residents of Kirkby Malzeard, ca. 1181. 8) Confirmatory charter by Ranulf de Blundevill, Earl of Chester, of several gifts of land to the Premonstratensian canons of Newhouse (Lincolnshire). The Earl confirms gifts of land made by several of his men in fee and offers his formal protection to the canons and their house. Witnessed at Maidenwell, ca. 1199. 9) Confirmatory charter by Pope Honorius IV to the Prior and Priory of St. Swithun's in Winchester concerning an agreement about a pension of 40s. awarded to the Rector of Little Hinton in Wiltshire, originally made before Robert of Bingham, Bishop of Salisbury, with the consent of William of Raleigh, Bishop of Winchester. Issued at St. Sabina, Rome, 1286 May 6.
Description:
Finding aid available. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650., De Mowbray, Roger., Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Honorius IV, Pope, d. 1287., Ranulf, de Blundevill, Earl of Chester, ca. 1172-1232., Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)., Exeter Cathedral., Fountains Abbey (West Riding of Yorkshire)., and Priory of St. Swithun.
Subject (Topic):
Cistercians, Knights of Malta, Premonstratensians, Templars, Monasticism and religious orders, Monasteries and state, Administration of estates, Church lands, and Land tenure
In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Pigskin over cardboard (previously over wooden boards), blind-tooled with rolls, rebacked. Red edges. On the front flyleaf there is a modern note: "The 16th century German binding has evidently been taken from another volume".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment containing Cistercian statutes and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: the original text is probably copied by a single hand (A) writing a small Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria. The additional texts are copied in 16th century hands: artt. 1 and 6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria by hand B, who wrote also the majority of the marginal notes and additions; art. 7 by hand C, who used a bold Humanistica Cursiva., The manuscript contains: 1) Benedictus XII Papa (1334-1342), Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), c. 1, first part. 2) Benedictus XII papa, Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), cc. 1 (second part) - 42. 3) Statutes of the General Chapter of Cîteaux of 1335. 4) Benedictus XII Papa, Bulla "Regularem vitam professis", 4 July 1335. 5) Benedictus XII Papa, Bulla "Pastor bonus diligens", 17 June 1335. 6) Statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 24. 7) Part of the statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 23. 8) Carta caritatis, a later version of the original constitution of the Cistercian Order. 9) Statutes of the General Chapter of 1317, incomplete at the end: cc. 1-13., The additional texts are not decorated. The original parts have red headings, red paragraph marks, and red 2- or 3-line plain initials. Art. 2 opens f. 2r with a 7-line littera duplex with extensive penwork and extension in the inner margin in red and blue; art. 8 opens f. 42v with a 3-line flourished initial (Prologue) and a 4-line littera duplex with penwork, as in art. 2 (text). All initials are half inset and have guide letters in the margin., and Binding: blind-tooled white parchment over wooden boards, decorated with fillets in a frame and lozenges pattern. Spine with two raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment. Possibly produced at the Cistercian abbey of Fitero (between Pamplona and Tudela).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands in Iberian Praegothica., The original sections (articles 1, 2, 7 and 8) have red headings and red decorative line-fillers; 1-line plain initials and numerous 2-line (sometimes 3- or 4-line) plain or flourished initials or litterae duplices intermingled. Many round initials such as C, D, O, Q are filled with a human face ("face initials"); in art. 7 some initials I are zoomorphic and take the shape of a fish (ff. 127r, 134r). Red and purple initials normally alternate. Art. 4 has red initials. The remaining articles are undecorated., Lower edge of many leaves damaged, with loss of text. The final pages worn and smudged., and Binding: ca. 1800. Limp parchment with remains of two leather ties. On the spine the hand-written title "Charta charitatis, liber usuum et institut. Ordinis S. Bernardi. M.S." At the bottom of the spine a label with the handwritten modern number "1280".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux (Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), 1) De interiori homine (Mediationes). 2) De illis qui ingrediuntur religionem ut abundent bonis. 3) De interiori domo. Due to the loss of a quire 20 pages are missing, foliated 49-58. Due to the loss of f. 83 the final paragraphs of this text are lost. 4) A compilation on virtues and vices, followed by quotations of a theological and moral nature. The beginning of this text was on the lost f. 83.
Description:
In Latin., Script: With the exception of f. 1r apparently copied by one hand, writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; f. 1r, in the same type of script, is by another more rapid hand and is perhaps palimpsest., Headings in red added afterwards, with instructions for the rubricator in Gothica Cursiva in the margins (the headings are missing from f. 91r onwards). Red plain initials, 2-3 lines, sometimes with simple flourishing. A few pointing hands and Nota-marks., and Binding: Original deerskin over bevelled wooden boards. On each cover four small brass bosses. Four similar bosses at the four corners of the spine and at the attachment of a white leather strap attached to the front cover and clutching with a decorated brass piece over a pin in the rear cover. The front paste-down is a fragment of a 14th-century Latin grammatical treatise in two columns.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment of Epistle readings for the temporale from Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in large round gothic bookhand with red and black accent marks for recitation., The fourteen full-page miniatures constitute the most extensive extant cycle by the "Spanish Forger". All pages with miniatures have full borders of scrolling acanthus in red, blue, green and purple with hair-spray and gold balls. 3- and 2-line initials, red or blue, with purple or red penwork (6-line on f. 134r). Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Date? Worn red velvet with a silver-gilt crucifix (a fairly recent addition?) on the upper board. Brass clasp engraved with "S. Maria/ ora pro nobis." Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Epistolaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Statuta capituli generalis, with the years 1158 and 1180-1190 mentioned in red. 2) Liber usuum. 3) Super instituta generalis capituli apud Cistercium. 4) Liber usuum conuersorum. 5) Carta caritatis
Description:
Probably produced at the abbey of Fontaine-Jean in Northern France, to which it belonged in the late 16th century. The Cistercian abbey of Fontaine-Jean, near Montargis, between Sens and Orleans, was a daughter house of Pontigny founded in 1124., In Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in large, even bookhand. Additions by various hands, 13th-17th centuries; some lost due to trimming., Four large initials, ff. 1v, 38r, 86r, and 93r (12-, 29-, 8-, and 9-line), light brown with crude running pattern of clover-leaf-like forms in brown ink, filled with brown, green and red spiral foliage with flowers and dragon-head terminals, on blue and red grounds decorated with triplets of white dots. One elaborate, but crude, calligraphic initial, f. 118v, 9-line, divided red and green, accompanied by red and green foliate motifs, framed in green. Numerous initials throughout, 7- to 2-line, red or blue, and occasionally green, with blue, red or green foliate penwork, some extensive. 1-line initials, red or blue, alternating. Rubrics throughout, some in text, others in margins. Wavy red line-fillers., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled, with mottled, mauve paper sides. On spine: "Constitutions du monastre de Fontaine-Jehan".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
