Manuscript on paper (sturdy; staggered thumb holes at bottom of leaves) of Antiphons for suffrages. With liturgies and offices for various occasions. Written during the 16th century presumably for Franciscan use and supplemented during the 17th century; the second portion may have been added for use of the Reform Congregation of the Spanish Discalceates of which Peter of Alcantara was the founder
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in a large round gothic bookhand. 1) ff. 1r-43v (16th century); 2) ff. 44r-50r (17th century). Scribe 2 attempts to replicate the work of Scribe 1, but uses 5-line staves rather than 4-line., Decoration for ff. 1r-43v: initials, with foliage designs, in rectangular frame, often with ground uncolored; colors range from vibrant blue, yellow, and orange to olive green and dark purple. Initials for ff. 44r-50r, of similar design, with more subdued shades, and no frames., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Vellum stays, contemporary paper flyleaves and pastedowns. Original sewing on five supports attached to very thick, square wooden boards. Beaded and colored endbands. Red edges. Covered in brown calf (cow?) reinforced at spine with additional leather and straps nailed to the boards. Traces of a strap and pin fastening. Vellum label with notation "Antiphonar. Com. sanctorum" nailed to lower board. The badly warped upper board is reinforced with two strips of wood placed vertically on the upper surface.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of prayers, liturgical regulations, and offices
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., Ornate initials in red, blue, and violet., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged brown leather over pasteboards, recovered in paper. Red leather gilt label on spine reading: "Breviarum Manuscriptum".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of John Waleys (John of Wales, Iohannes Gallensis), Communiloquium sive summa collationum ad omne genus hominum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria which, however, differs from Rotunda by the absence of Textus Praescissus features. A few rubrics are added in Gothica Cursiva, e.g. ff. 63v and 64v. Instructions for the rubricator are written in thin Gothica Cursiva Currens in the lower margins, mostly lost due to trimming., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. The decoration consists of (1) alternately red and blue flourished initials, 2 lines; (2) flourished litterae duplices, 3-5 lines, at the opening of the Distinctiones; they have marginal extensions ("J-staves") in pen and ink over the full height of the text area; (3) on f. 4r a damaged foliate initial on a gold, red and blue background, containing a hybrid, with floral extensions featuring a hybrid head and a hybrid. On f. 37r there is a coarse pen and ink drawing of a sword in the margin, probably related to a Hermogenes quotation in the text about murder., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Sprinkled brown leather over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with blind fillets. Spine with five raised bands and two gold-tooled red leather title-labels with the inscriptions "MS. VALLENS. COMMUNILOQ." and "TRACT. DE RE PUBLICA." Red edges. The spine was reinforced by means of two strips of parchment from an English archival document (ca. 1500) in which the names William Holborn, Robert Ball "nuper de Letheringham" and others appear.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, of Wales, -approximately 1285. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Preaching, and Scholasticism
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Ps.-Dionysius Areopagita, De caelesti hierarchia, translated into Latin by Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), with his commentary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria in two sizes. The large script used for the text itself is written every two lines. The cursive r-abbreviation could point to England, the z standing on the line and the occasional use of j instead of i reminds us of Spain, the "horn" at the head of r is especially typical of German scribes., and The decoration consists of plain late Romanesque initials in red (2 lines).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Astronomy, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper and parchment, composed in seven parts, of a collection of papal documents relating to the Franciscan Order, the Poor Clares, and the Tertiaries of St. Francis. With Rule for Poor Clares; and Rule of the Tertiaries of St. Francis. Includes texts by Popes Urban IV and John XXII; incunabulum; and additional texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 2-104): Written by several scribes in small gothic text hands. Part II (ff. 105-132): Written in small upright gothic script; words being defined written in larger more formal style of script. Part III (ff. 133-175): Written in a style of script similar to that in Part II. Part IV (ff. 176-211: Incunabulum. Part V (ff. 212-247): Written in a small round gothic text hand with humanistic features. Part VI (ff. 248-253): Written in cramped and hastily written gothic script. Part VII (ff. 254-265): Written in small gothic text hand., Part I: Two illuminated initials, 9- to 5-line, formed of stylized foliage, pink and green with white highlights on gold gound, filled with blue ground with white filigree. Terminals extending into the margins to form partial floral borders, stylized foliage, blue, green and pink, with gold balls with hair-line extensions. Pen-and-ink initials, alternating in blue and red with red and light green penwork. Plain initials in red or blue. Part II: Red and blue divided initial, 4-line, f. 105r, smaller initials in red or blue. Underlining and paragraph marks in red. Letters and words stroked with yellow. Part III: Crude red initial with simple penwork designs, 8- to 2-line. Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Part V: Red initial, 11-line, with simple designs, f. 212r; 2-line initials, headings, underlining, marginal notes, paragraph marks in red. Majuscules touched with yellow and stroked with red. Part VII: Paragraph marks and underlining in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491. Spine: tying up marks are head, tail, and around the supports.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John XXII, Pope, -1334., Urban IV, Pope, ca. 1200-1264., Franciscans., and Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Papal documents, and Third orders
Manuscript on paper of 1) Jacopone da Todi (c. 1236-1306), Laude. 2) Poem in quatrains, each beginning with the name "Yhesu" (attributed to Jacopone da Todi). 3) Jacopone da Todi (attributed), Tractatus utilissimus. 4) On the five steps of spiritual illumination. 5) Hymn on the name of Jesus attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Bernardus Claraevallensis, 1090-1153). 6) Bonaventura (1221-1274), Rhythmus de operationibus Iesu Christi, an addition to his Lignum vitae. 7) On the name of Jesus. 8) Lauda on the love of Jesus, attributed to Bianco da Siena (ca. 1350, d. between 1400 and 1450). 9) Lauda on the Virgin, attributed to Gianotto Sachetti
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Script: In spite of the very uneven script, probably copied by one hand hesitating between Southern Gothica Textualis and Semitextualis Libraria/Formata., Headings in red, often missing. Initials with guide-letters: 1-line plain initials alternately red and blue; 2-line flourished initials in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork; those on the first pages are 3- or 4-line. On f. 1r 11-line historiated initial on gold background containing a profile portrait of Jacopone da Todi with nimbus and holding medallion with the "Jesus"-monogram; the initial has floral extensions in the inner margin. In the lower margin a coat of arms (made illegible by means of black paint) in a wreath., and Binding: Ancient limp parchment. At the top of the spine in 17th-century handwriting: "Imni di F. Jacopone. M.S. D.27" ; at the bottom the shelfmark "T 1 15".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacopone, da Todi, 1230-1306. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious poetry, Italian
Minorica elucidativa racionabilis separationis fratrum minoru[m] de observantia ab aliis fratribus eiusdem ordinis
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BEIN Marston MS 277: Bound with manuscripts relating to the Franciscan Order., BEIN Marston MS 277: Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on verso F6: Mors tua mors [Christi] trans mu[n]di gaudia celi et dolor inferm. sint meditenda tibi. Armorial Bookplate of Marston. Gift of the Library Associates., BEIN Marston MS 277: Binding: sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491., Authorship also attributed to Alexander de Ariostis., and Signature: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁶ E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank).
Manuscript on paper (thick with heavy chain lines) of Sermons by Graeculus O.F.M. (early 14th century) and Conradus de Waldhausen Can. Reg. (d. 1369). With additional sermons
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands all writing Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens. Scribes in quires I-V often make remarkable extensions to majuscules or ascenders on the first line, decorated with foliage or grotesque heads., Headings, heightening of majuscules and plain initials in red applied very irregularly and totally missing on ff. 26v-29v, 30v-118v, 119v-130v and 135v-138v. Some 2- or 3-line initials of coarse execution, with or without guide-letters; most initials are not executed., and Binding: Damaged original limp parchment with flap, made from several pieces of parchment sewn together by means of parchment strips. The sewing runs through the spine and is gathered in decorative patterns over two strips of heavy leather.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of William of Nassington's poem. The Speculum vitae is followed by several other devotional texts in prose and verse, including Walter Hilton's prose commentary on Qui habitat and Bonum est; and poems on Purgatory, the evils of covetousness, a prayer to Jesus, and two dialogues, one between Christ and Man, and the second between Christ and a sinner
Description:
In Middle English, with rubrics in Latin., Ownership inscription for the Francisan convent at Lichfield?, dated 1486., Layout: double columns of 50-58 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: original wooden boards, rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
William, of Nassington, -1354. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Purgatory
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Nicolaus de Osimo (Auximo) OFM (d. after 1453), Supplementum Summae Pisanellae, an alphabetically arranged supplement to the Summa de casibus conscientiae of Bartholomew of Pisa (Bartholomaeus de Sancto Concordio, d. 1347). Produced at the Franciscan convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Milan
Description:
In Latin., Script: Apparently 8 scribes, all writing Southern Gothica., Decoration: The decoration of artt. 1-4 consists of heightening of the majuscules in yellow; blue or red paragraph marks. In art. 3 the chapters normally open with a 2-line (rarely 3-line) flourished initial with penwork extensions in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space, alternately red with purple or blue penwork and blue with red penwork; the first lemma of each letter opens with a 3- or 4-line flourished initial filled with foliage and with more developed marginal extensions. The text opens on f. 5v with a 5-line dentelle initial with green and blue background heightened with gold and white, followed by 5 lines of text mostly in majuscules. The decoration of art. 7 is similar to that of art. 3 but less carefully executed., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). White parchment over pasteboard, with two modern brass clasps fixed to the front cover. On the spine green leather label with gold-tooled title "SUMA MAGISTRA". On the bottom edge the title "Summa Pisa****" is written.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas, of Osimo, -1453. and Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Canon law, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of St. Bernardine of Siena, Tractatus de restitutionibus. The sermons are part of the De christiana religione of St. Bernardine, O.F.M., often copied as a separate work
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script., Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red., and Binding: ca. 1900. Vellum case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Catechetical sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, of this treatise on the administrative questions of communal ownership and inheritance raised by the Franciscan vow of poverty
Description:
Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), also known as Bartolus de Saxoferrato, was a prominent Italian legal scholar who taught in severa northern Italian universities and wrote many influential treatises, including several pertaining to the administrative and judicial problems raised by the rule of poverty of the Franciscan order., In Latin., Layout: single column of 43 lines., Script: gothica cursiva., Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards., and Guards from fragments of unidentified Hebrew manuscript on parchment.
