- Creator:
- Bernard Silvestris, fl. 1136
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1070
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Bernard Silvestris, Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris. 2) Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum. 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta. 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemonics for remembering the names of saints, calendar tables, lists and other notes. 5) Office for the feast of St. Mary, Jubilus, hymn, prayers and other short readings from the Bible and the Apocrypha.
- Description:
- 4 blank leaves. and Gatherings of 7, 7, 12, 6, 2, 2, and 2 leaves respectively as found.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris, etc.
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- Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 995
- Image Count:
- 504
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin drama (Tragedy)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tragedies
- Creator:
- Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 150
- Image Count:
- 522
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Nicolas Trevet, Commentarius in tragoedias Senecae.
- Description:
- Binding: Date? The backs of the quires are cut in, some in a W shape. Resewn on two tawed skin, slit straps. Endband sewn on a tawed skin core laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and nailed. The back oak board was previously covered with leather; front board is of unidentified wood. This seems to be a patched together binding using boards from different, possibly 15th-century, books. Presently quarter bound with brown sheepskin, blind-tooled, with radiant IHS in circles. Spine: supports defined with triple (?) fillets; an X with a central cross bar in the panels. Two fastenings, with the catches on the lower board. The upper board cut in for straps fastened with star-headed nails. Remains of title, in ink, on tail edge., Many leaves stained and crumbling along edges; no loss of text., Red and/or deep aquamarine blue initials, 10- to 5-line, with penwork flourished in same color(s), mark beginning of each play. On f. 1r head of bearded man peeps out from behind foliage in interior of letter; on other initials penwork designs extend into margins to form borders (e. g., 170r). Plain initials, 5- to 2-line, paragraph marks, headings, in red., Script: Written in semi-gothic cursive script by a single scribe, above top line; headings in gothic bookhand., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14330, 14338, Piccard Ochsenkopf I.701, Briquet Main 11092.
- Subject (Name):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D and Trivet, Nicholas,--1258?-1328
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin drama (Tragedy)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in tragoedias Senecae
- Creator:
- Claudianus, Claudius
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80
Publilius, Syrus, 1st cent. B.C
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148? - Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 45
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (good quality) of 2) Jerome, Prologus beati Ieronimi presbyteri. 3) Ps.-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae, Neronis imperatoris magistri, ad Paulum apostolum et Pauli apostoli ad Senecam. 4) Complete 6-line text of Anthologia latina 667. 5) Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales. 6) Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii. 7) Seneca, De clementia libri ii. 8) Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. 9) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum liber. 10) 19 sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus and Seneca. 11) Claudian, Excerpta. 12) William of Saint-Thierry, De tribus dicendi generibus. Written in the Cistercian abbey at Igny near Rheims.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Bound in light brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and red label: "Opera Senecae MS". Red edges. Mended at tail. Discoloration from bosses (?) of earlier binding on first and last leaves., Carefully drawn monochrome initials with modest penwork designs, 12- to 2-line, in red, green and blue. Headings in red., and Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand; arts. 11-12 in less expert hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Cistercians and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Seneca; Claudian, etc.
- Creator:
- Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 168
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (polished) of Gasparino Barzizza, Commentary on Epistolae morales ad Lucilium, 65-124 only.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays are adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of beech boards. The endbands, which are wanting, were sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed or held in place by the bosses; they were tied down through a tawed skin spine lining. Covered in sheepskin, originally brick red, with the surface now badly rubbed and shedding. Corner tongues. Blind-tooled with an X in concentric frames. Four leaf-shaped catches with three flowers on each on the lower board, one wanting; the upper board cut in for two kermes pink straps attached with star-headed nails. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board and the trace of a chain attachment at the tail of the lower one., Illuminated initial, f. 1r, 8-line, blue with white highlights and burnished gold on gold ground with stylized foliage in green and dark red with yellow highlights. Terminals ending in foliage serifs, red, green with yellow highlights, and gold balls with hairline extensions. Numerous pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate red and bright blue with penwork designs of the other color extending along margin., Purchased from Enzo Ferrajoli through Nicolas Rauch of Geneva in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in gothic cursive with humanistic features by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tour 15909 and Piccard Turm II.617.
- Subject (Name):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarii in epistolas Senecae