Colophon: [?] Adest ... opusculi fiuts ... Impressii London, per wynandum de wrode commoratem in vico nucupato (the fletestrete) sub intersignio Solis. Anno incarngtionis Dominice. M.CCCCC. XI. die vero XII. Augusti., Signatures: A-Y8-4, Z8, (I4, i8, AA-FF4-8, GG5., Gothic type, with tripartite device on t.p. (McKerrow's no. 19), Printed also under title: Hortus vocabulorum., and Latin-English dictionary, in double-columns, based largely on the ma Medulla grammatice; both ascribed by Bale to Galfridus Grammaticus (or Anglicus)--cf. also Dict. of nat. biog., and Encyc. brit. (under Dictionaries).
Publisher:
ac in uibe in parrochis sacte brigide (in the fletestrete) ad signu solis moia trahetem
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Latin language, Medieval and modern, English, English language, and Latin
Manuscript on paper of Henricus de Ratisbona, Vocabularius Dictus Lucianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe in small Gothica Cursiva Currens; the opening lines in low quality Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Stroking of majuscules, underlining and plain initials in red; this decoration stops after f. 34v (quire III), although space had been provided for the initials. Very large flourished initials or litterae duplices with elaborate penwork in red and green on multiple folios., and Binding: contemporary German binding: yellowish parchment over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. The upper of the two leather closing straps is preserved, attached to the rear board and closing over a pin in the front board; the lower one is replaced with a “wrap-around” leather strap. On each cover 5 brass bosses. The paper pastedowns are blank leaves with ink frame-ruling for two columns. Numerous white leather tabs. In the upper compartment of the spine a brownish parchment label with the handwritten inscription s. XIX (?) “Vocabularius / MS 1415”; it replaces a similar but earlier label with the same inscription, in the second compartment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Henricus de Ratisbona.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on trimmed paper of Henricus de Ratisbona's Vocabularius Lucianus. Includes other texts, including sermons by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing, sermons by Konrad Batt, and a partial transcription of Alain de Lille's Liber poenitentialis
Description:
In Latin., Script: The first sections are copied by one or more hands writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens. The Alain de Lille is copied by a hand writing the same script with Bastarda features. The quality of the transcription is mostly low. In the first sections, stroking of majuscules and underlining of biblical quotations and sources in red. 2/3-line red plain initials with little uniformity, sometimes with long extensions; they are missing ff. 55r -62v, 127r-145v., Vocabularius Lucianus, an alphabetical lexicon attributed to Henricus de Ratisbona. Two collections of sermons, the first, Sermones super Evangelia, by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing (c. 1363-c. 1430), from the first Sunday of Advent to the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. The second, Sermones rurales (Equipollarius), by Konrad Batt (Bart, Vatt, s. XIV). The manuscript also contains a transcription of Liber poenitentialis, Prologue and Book 1, chapters 1-11, by Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202)., and Binding: original binding: brown leather over unbevelled wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled with a frame traced with fillets and numerous impressions of a small quatrefoil stamp. On each cover five small many-lobed brass bosses. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alanus, Altissiodorensis, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., Ratisbona, Henricus de., Lille, Alain de, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., and Lucian, of Samosata.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Gasparinus Barzizius (Gasparino Barzizza, 1360-1431), Vocabularium breve
Description:
In Latin., Beinecke MS 897 and MS 898 are parts of the same manuscript., Script: the original text is copied by one hand, writing a small Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria. The additions are in more rapid executions of the same script; the headings in a more calligraphic form, which may comprise Textualis elements., Watermark: a Trefoil. Parchment stays at the outer and at the inner sides of the quires, made from scraps of various manuscripts. Foliation in ink 17th century (?)., Red headings. Red stroking of majuscules and red paragraph marks on f. 1r only. The text opens with a 5-line red plain initial on f. 1r., and Binding: circa 2000. White limp parchment. Two pairs of white leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
BEIN: Beinecke copy with: A short introduction of grammar. London : R. Norton, 1679. (1984 131), Explains the section "De figuris" in Lily's Brevissima institutio, seu, Ratio grammatices cognoscendae., Signatures: A-B⁸(-A1)C⁶., and Title within ornamental border.
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. Alternately red and blue 2- or 3-line (sometimes 4- or 5-line) flourished initials, half inset, with penwork in the opposite colours extending in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space. On f. 1r at the beginning of the text a 9-line littera duplex with penwork, badly rubbed. Guide letters., The leaves are badly soiled and rubbed, making reading often difficult or impossible (especially f. 1, which is waterstained and missing the lower corner)., and Binding: undecorated cardboard cover, sewn on three leather thongs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment and paper of Adriano Castellesi, Sermone Latino et Modis Latine Loquendi, a Latin grammar, with other texts
Description:
In Latin, Hebrew and Greek., Script: copied by one hand in two sizes, using for both Gothico-Humanistica Cursiva. Greek handwriting occurs here and there; Hebrew in Hrabanus Maurus, In Hieremiae Lamentationes and for the Hebrew alphabet; the Hebrew samples on ff. 113v-114r are in large angular calligraphic script., Black plain initials, 2-3 lines. Written in campo aperto in one or two columns., and Binding: original limp parchment binding with flap and engraved brass clasp; sewn on three split leather thongs. Red leather tabs.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Castellesi, Adriano, approximately 1461-
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of a Latin-Italian school book
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Short Italian texts of a paedagogical and moral nature for young students, with their Latin translations, incomplete at the end., Script: copied by two hands writing variants of Humanistica Cursiva, the Italian examples in a small, very rapid handwriting and the Latin translations in a large, bold and more calligraphic form of the same script., and Binding: 20th century cardboard binding, with printed title lable on front cover: “SCHOOL EXERCISE-BOOK: / LATIN / ITALY, FIFTEENTH CENTURY”.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Medieval, Latin language, Composition and exercises, Manuscripts, Medieval, and School notebooks
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Rudimenta grammatices (Grammatica latina secundum Donatum). 2) Disticha Catonis
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Historiated initial, f. 1r, 11-line, pink against blue ground with a half-length portrait in profile of the author, dressed in red and green robes and a red hat against parchment ground with brown penwork. Foliage serifs, green, blue and red extending into inner and upper margin to form partial border. In center of lower margin, blank shield for coat of arms, flanked by stylized foliage, blue and red. In outer margin, small patch of green with boy or man sitting under a tree (visible under ultra-violet light). One illuminated initial on f. 11r, 8-line, pink against blue ground filled with stylized foliage, blue, green and red. Plain initials in red. Small initials touched with yellow., The entire manuscript is well worn, affecting the text; f. 1r is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Twentieth century, England (?). Quarter bound in brown, blind-tooled calf over wooden boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Donatus, Aelius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Stoics
