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. Also contains: 9) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum; 10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages; 14) Ps.-Seneca, Proverbia; 15) Seneca, De beneficiis (extracts).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal gothic bookhand, below top line., 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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent., Damian, Peter., and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Consolation, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, Sermons, Latin, and Theology
