Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main b...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Victorinus, Marius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment of Origen, Commentarius in ad Romanos, translated into Latin by Rufinus. Probably written at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, 1) De paradiso. 2) De Cain et Abel. 3) Exhortatio virginitatis. 4) De institutione virginis. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Celibacy, Christianity, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
Manuscript on parchment (one bifolium, one fragment) of 1) Hermannus Contractus, De utilitatibus astrolabii, text of bifolium not continuous. 2) Hermannus Contractus, Liber de mensura astrolabii, Book 1, portions of chs. 5-6. Annotated by several cont...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus, Contractus, 1013-1054.
Subject (Topic):
Astrolabes, Astronomy, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidenti...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Manuscript fragment on parchment (damaged). The one side has fine drawings of a king and queen (with falcon) in elaborate robes. Beside them is a foot soldier in armor; below a warrior on horseback, in armor, pursued by an archer, without armor. Above...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4)...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856., Solomon, King of Israel., and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
