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1. Commentaries on Aristotle, Ars vetus
- Creator:
- Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 913
- Image Count:
- 251
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentary on the Latin translation of Porphyrius (233-c. 301), Isagoge. 2) Commentary on Aristoteles (384-322 B.C.), Praedicamenta. 3) Commentary on Gislebertus Porretanus (Gilbert de la Porrée, c. 1076-1154), Liber de sex principiis, redaction A. 4) Commentary on Aristoteles, Ars vetus (final form, 1337).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand writing a small highly abbreviated Gothica Hybrida Libraria; exceptions are a few folios by other hands using the same type of script (ff. 1, 11-13, etc.), and the replacement leaves 28 and 35 written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Currens. Lemmata in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Watermarks: spiked wheel, var. Briquet 13268; ox head, var. Briquet 14306. The upper outer corners damaged by moist in the second half of the codex., Alternately red and blue paragraph marks, with long vertical extensions when at the beginning of a line; alternately red and blue flourished initials (2- or 3-line) at the opening of the chapters; larger flourished initials with more developed penwork in the same colours, of course execution, on ff.1r (9 lines), 15r (7 lines), 60r (6 lines), 73r (6 lines), 99r (5 lines), 113r (5 lines). There are carefully executed logical diagrams in the text on ff. 100r-v, 115v,116v-117v (their inscriptions partly in Northern Gothica Textualis); diagrams are sketched in the margins of ff. 19r and 59r., and Binding: Original, thin wooden boards sewn on three thongs; the leather cover missing, replaced with mottled orange paper; rebacked with brown leather. Remnants of two red leather clasps attached to the front cover, with brass catches on the rear cover. The front endleaves are cut from large sheets of paper ruled with ink for two columns, mounted transversally (width of the leaf: 290 mm.; of the ruling 175 mm., intercol. space 30 mm.).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle., Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?, and Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on Aristotle, Ars vetus
2. Commentarius in librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
- Creator:
- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 175
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Bonaventure's Commentary on Book IV of the Sentences of Peter Lombard
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in small gothic bookhand., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, beige with foliage serif, red, against blue ground with white filigree, containing an apothecary (unguentarius) mixing ingredients in a mortar with two pestles. Numerous flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate in red with blue, and vice versa, or often plain initials in red or blue. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks, alternating red and blue, appear sporadically (ff. 1r-36v)., and Binding: Eighteenth century, Germany. Cream colored pigskin, blind-tooled. Gilt edges. Green and cream endbands. Title on spine: "De septem/ Sacrament. Tract. Mst.".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
3. Commentary on a theological poem
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 538
- Image Count:
- 222
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Iohannes Sarracenus (?). 2) Commentary by Albertus Magnus (here ascribed to Thomas Aquinas) on art. 1. 3) Commentary on a poem on Book I of the Sentences of Peter the Lombard. 4) Commentary on a poem on Book II, Distinctiones 1-6 of the Sentences of Peter the Lombard
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Art. 1-2 written by a single scribe in two variants of Humanistic script: art. 1 (the text) in Humanistica Textualis, art. 2 (the commentary) after some hesitation in a very similar form of Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 3-4 written by a single scribe in Gothica Hybrida Libraria under Humanistic influence, of greasy appearance; a larger size is used for the poetical parts., The majuscules in art. 1-2 are heightened in dark yellow. Headings in red. Red calligraphic initials throughout the manuscript by the same hand (3 lines in artt. 1-2, 2 lines in artt. 3-4). At the opening of art. 1 a 9-line blue Renaissance initial with white vinestem decoration without background. At the opening of art. 3 a red (?) 3-line initial with some flourishing., The book is excessively trimmed; especially in artt. 3-4 the lower margins are extremely narrow. The paper is badly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Limp vellum. At the top of the front cover: "M.S." in ink. Spine with three raised bands. In the second compartment the title in ink "S. Dionis. Epistol@".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on a theological poem
4. Communiloquium
- Creator:
- John, of Wales, -approximately 1285
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 509
- Image Count:
- 318
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Communiloquium
5. De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae, etc
- Creator:
- Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 285
- Image Count:
- 176
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of five distinct parts. Part I: 1) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae. 2) Petrus Comestor, Carmen in laudem beatae Virginis. 3) Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu gestis Iohannis evangeliste. 4) Pictures of St. Barbara and Thomas Aquinas, and a medieval illuminated initial S (England [?], 15th century) pasted to blank pages. Part II: 5) Stephanus Parisiensis (?), unidentified text supporting the theology of Thomas Aquinas. 6) Augustine, De divinatione daemonum. Part III (paper): 7) Albertus Magnus, De sensu communi. 8) Albertus Magnus, De quinque potentiis anime interioribus. Part IV: 9) Fragment of an account of the Passion of Christ. Part V: Index
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-44): Written by a single scribe in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 45-58): Written by two scribes, the one for art. 5, the other for art. 6, in small, tight gothic cursive scripts. Part III (ff. 59-64): Written by a single scribe in a small gothic text hand. Part IV (ff. 65-66): Written in round gothic bookhand. Part V (ff. 67-80): Written in a neat gothic bookhand., Part I: Blue initial, 6-line, with parchment designs and red penwork harping patterns on f. 1r. Plain initials, 4- to 3-line alternate red and blue. Headings, underlining, paragraph marks and chapter numbers, some initial strokes, in red. Guide letters for decorator in margins. Parts II and III: Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled. Part IV: One initial, 2-line, on f. 65v and remains of another on conjugate stub: red with crudely drawn penwork designs in black and red. Headings, paragraph marks and initial strokes in orange-tinged red. Part V: On ff. 68r-69r every other entry begins with a 1-line plain blue initial; second letter of each entry washed with yellow; citations of Arabic numerals in red. Guide letters for decorator., Folios 65-66, perhaps removed from a binding, are not conjugate: f. 66 is glued to the conjugate stub of f. 65., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Semi-limp vellum case with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Pierson. On spine: "Miscellanea Theologica. Stephanus Parisiensis. S. Augustinus. Albertus Magnus etc. Mss XIVe S".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ, John, the Apostle, Saint., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274., and Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.
- Subject (Topic):
- Passion, Devotion to., Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae, etc
6. Derivationes
- Creator:
- Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 40
- Image Count:
- 350
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Derivationes
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-28v): Written by a single scribe in round gothic bookhand, below top line. Part II (ff. 29r-169r): Written in small gothic bookhand, above top line. Many sections traced over in darker ink., Part I: Divided initial, blue, 8-line, with intricate red pen flourishes extending down inner margin, f. 1r. Plain red initials, 2-line, to mark new letter of the alphabet; first letter of each word in table stroked with red; more important words preceded by paragraph mark. Part II: Blue or red initials (some divided), 20- to 7-line, with pen flourishes in red and/or blue, for prologue (art. 5) and each letter of the alphabet. On ff. 29r, 43v, 60r: a single dragon-like grotesque, in red and blue, extends up or down the margin. Initials, 2-line, alternate red and blue with plain pen flourishing in opposite color., Text has faded and flaked throughout., and Binding: Fourteenth century (?), Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on outside of beech boards and nailed. A beaded, natural color endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with an X within a rectangular frame drawn on it. Traces of five round bosses on each side and four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board; the upper board cut in for the straps. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Uguccione, da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara, d. 1210.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Derivationes
7. Moralitates de avibus, etc
- Creator:
- Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 13
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Hugo de Folieto, Moralitates de avibus; Moralitates de piscibus; Moralitates de lapidibus. This work is often attributed to Hugh of St. Victor in manuscripts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in gothic bookhand; many abbreviations., Painted initial at beginning of prologue in blue, brown, pale yellow, green, and orange; smaller initials in red or blue with penwork designs. Paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrics throughout., and Binding: Twentieth century. Quarter paper case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hugh, of Fouilloy, d. 1172 or 3.
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegory, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moralitates de avibus, etc
8. Summa Theologiae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1240 and 1260].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.112
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a section of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in two different small, highly abbreviated gothic scripts; the first hand, on the first seven lines of the recto, is a littera textualis; the second is littera textualis currens with occasional use of cursive "d", frequent abbreviations, and wide word spacing., and Decoration: there are spaces for 2-line initials and for paragraph marks, but they have not been added; 1-line initials within text are brown; punctuated with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa Theologiae (fragment).
9. Summa de abstinentia
- Creator:
- Nicolas, de Byard
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 860
- Image Count:
- 563
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Byard, Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in rounded Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with southern features, except ff. 154v-158v16, which are copied in an angular and bold Gothica Textualis Libraria., Red headings and paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules., and Binding: S. XIX (?) plain parchment binding over cardboard. On the flat spine the handwritten erroneous title “JOHANNES / DE / TURRECREMATA / FLOS THEOLOGIE”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicolas, de Byard.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa de abstinentia
