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46. Philosophical and theological treatises
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 981
- Image Count:
- 316
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Two diagrams with accompanying text. 2) Note on vows. 3) Petrus Cantor (d. 1197), De tropis loquendi. 4) Table of the subdivisions of anima. 5) Theological note. 6) Note on merit. 7) Theological treatise in four books. 8) Notes in plummet. 9) Treatise on vision and gifts ("dotes").
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various small hands, writing highly abbreviated Gothica Textualis Currens or Libraria. In some sections documentary cursive influence is visible (especially in looped d)., The decoration is unevenly spread. Red paragraph marks, underlining and headings; some plain red initials., and Binding: original (?) binding over wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs. Remnants of four pairs of leather ties, two at the front and one at the top and at the tail.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Philosophical and theological treatises
47. In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, etc
- Creator:
- Innocent V, Pope, approximately 1224-1276
- Published / Created:
- [between 1265 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 270
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus de Tarentasia (Pope Innocent V), In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias. With Distinctiones on the scholastic and monastic life, entered in a later highly abbreviated script; and Anonymous commentary on the Psalms
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand; arts. 2 and 4 in less formal scripts., Two historiated initials, 7- and 4-line. Folio 1r: mauve initial with white filigree on blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing a man drawing water from a well, against gold ground, illustrating the Biblical passage "Haurietis aquas...." Serifs, ending in heart-shaped red leaves, on blue and red cusped grounds, with gold balls, extending along the inner margin to form a partial bar border. Perched on the top of the initial is a small bird, grey with red wings. Folio 1v: blue initial with white shading against dark red ground with white filigree. Ascender blue against dark red ground, extending along text column to form a partial bar border. The initial shows the good Samaritan riding on a donkey, against gold ground. Numerous flourished initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator visible beneath initials., and Binding: Sixteenth century, Germany or Italy (?). Resewn (early) on three tawed skin slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged; channels filled with glue. A pink, green and white, five core endband is sewn through a leather lining on a tawed skin core laced into the boards and pegged. Covered in brick red sheepskin with corner tongues; blind-tooled with an X and sparse use of oak-leaf edging tool. Two truncated diamond catches on lower board, the upper board cut in for the red fabric clasp straps which were attached with star-headed nails. Corner fittings and six-petalled central medallion. Traces of title, in ink, on spine. Spine of the bookblock partially eaten by rodents.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Innocent V, Pope, approximately 1224-1276. and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, etc
48. Super metaphysicam, Super De causis
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 265
- Image Count:
- 270
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality), composed of two distinct parts. Part I: Thomas Aquinas, Super Metaphysicam. Part II: Thomas Aquinas, Super de causis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-120): Written by a single scribe in small gothic book hand. Part II (ff. 121-132): Written in a less accomplished gothic script than that in Part I., Part I: One illuminated initial, rubbed, f. 1r: blue with white highlights on dark red ground with white highlights; terminals of ground extend up and down as modest border in blue, dark red and gold. Flourished initials of various sizes, styles and quality: blue with red penwork designs, red with blue, red with purple (ff. 75r-119r) and red and blue divided with penwork in purple (e.g., f. 88v); some flourished initials with border extensions (e.g., f. 110v). Running headlines in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Traces of guide letters for decorator. Part II: Spaces for decorative initials remain unfilled., and Binding: 14th-15th centuries, Spain. Original sewing on five tawed skin, double supports laced into beech boards. Plain, wound natural color endbands. Single parchment leaf (front) and bifolium (rear), from what appear to be two different Hebrew Bible manuscripts, serve as pastedowns and spine-lining; they have been cut out around the sewing supports. Yellow edges. Covered in what was originally blue tawed skin (now faded) with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails. Traces of title (?) scratched onto skin of upper board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle. and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Ancient, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Super metaphysicam, Super De causis
49. Sermones de epistolis, etc
- Creator:
- Perault, Guillaume
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 473
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Guillaume Perault, Sermones de Epistolis. With Glosses that note teaching distinctions; and short extracts from Clement, Fulgentius, Seneca, Job
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand with many abbreviations. Marginal notations, some lost due to trimming, by several hands., Plain initials, headings, paragraph marks, in red, but not throughout., and Binding: Twentieth century. Rigid vellum case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Perault, Guillaume.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, Scholia, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones de epistolis, etc
50. Sententiarum libri IV.
- Creator:
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 222
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV. With a Commentary on Eccles. 38.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line; annotations added in less formal, later hands., Red and blue divided initials, 4- to 3-line, for prologue and beginning of books, with penwork designs in the same colors. For other text divisions, 3- to 2-line initials in red or blue with flourishes in opposite color. Distinctio numbers and running headlines in red and blue; rubrics in red. Initial letters of each entry in chapter lists alternate red and blue., and Binding: 1837, England. Bound by Gough in London. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a light brown gold-tooled label with title "Liber Sententiarum".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sententiarum libri IV.
51. In tertium librum sententiarum Petri Lombardi
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1270]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 207
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, In tertium librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from an exemplar vended by Guglielmus Senonensis, stationer on the rue St. Jacques
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic textura by a single scribe secundum pecias (notations along bottom of leaves, mostly trimmed)., Small decorative initials in red and/or blue with penwork designs of either or both colors; notes for illuminator in margins. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue throughout; running headings in red and blue., Some folios mended with chartreuse thread., and Binding: 1899. Quarter leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled label and brass clasps. Bound by Douglas Cockerell (stamp with date inside back cover).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160. and Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Pecia, Scholia, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > In tertium librum sententiarum Petri Lombardi
52. Bellum civile, with scholia
- Creator:
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1225]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 332
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Lucan, Bellum civile, with scholia. Preceded by Epitaphium Lucani, 4 lines only
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Main text written above and below top line in a small early gothic bookhand by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-37r; Scribe 2) ff. 37v-91v. First letter of each verse written to left of text between double rulings or on middle of three rulings; right-hand margin justified. Scholia, primarily at beginning of codex, written in a contemporary hand., Decorative initials, red or blue, 12- to 4-line, with simple designs in opposite color, for each book. Rubrics added sporadically. Plan of Brindisi appears in the margin of f. 15v (II.610) to illustrate Caesar's siege of the city; on f. 47v is a schematic circular drawing of Paulus in the center, surrounded by Pelion, Ossa, Otrix, Pindus and Olympus., Rubbing, staining, trimming of leaves, and worm holes result in some loss of text and scholia., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light brown pigskin, blind-tooled, with brass fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Subject (Topic):
- Historical poetry, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum civile, with scholia
53. Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 870
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (badly damaged by moist; repaired using brownish paper) of 1) Boethius (c. 480-c. 524), Commentaria in Ciceronis Topica. 2-3) Chalcidius (400-410), Commentum in Platonis Timaeum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by two hands in Praegothica: A copied art. 1, B copied artt. 2-3., A 5-line plain Romanesque initial in green at the beginning of art. 1 and a 2-line plain initial in blue on f. 1rb, both with a guide-letter in the margin. Space reserved for a 3- or 4-line initial on f. 3vb at the opening of chapter 49 (see art. 2). Two musical diagrams in pen and ink (see art. 2)., Ff. 2r-3v: due to the severe damage to the inner lower part of the leaves, four large sections of text are missing, including part of the triangular diagram of musical proportions on f. 2v. On f. 4, losses of text due to the defective state of the inner margin and several holes in the parchment., and With the fragments are kept the modern paper flyleaves, one cardboard board and some minor fragments of a binding of considerable dimensions (flyleaves 340 x 215 mm.). On one of the flyleaves the following pencil notes: "Fragment Boetius de musica"; "Phillipps sale May 1913" and "Ms. Ph(illipps) 20690".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boethius, -524., Calcidius., Cicero, Marcus Tullius., and Plato.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on Cicero's Topica and Plato's Timaeus
54. Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
- Creator:
- Victorinus, Marius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 86
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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., Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands., Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
