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2.
- Creator:
- Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888
- Published / Created:
- 1836-1837.
- Call Number:
- Za AL18 836c
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Record of conversations on the Gospels.
- Description:
- "Errata" slip tipped in before t.p. of v. 1., v. 2 is author's presentation copy. and Each volume has added t.p.: Record of conversations on the Gospels, held in Mr. Alcott's school; unfolding the doctrine and discipline of human culture ... Boston, 1836.
- Publisher:
- J. Monroe and company,
- Subject (Topic):
- Education and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Conversations with children on the Gospels / conducted and edited by A. Bronson Alcott. Volume I[-II].
3.
- Creator:
- Covel, John, 1638-1722
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b140
- Image Count:
- 103
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing memoranda, historical notes, curiosities, and opinions on various subjects. Many of the entries are concerned with various religions, including describing their rites and customs, such as "sacrifices," "strange idols," and "temples"; and "notions about the Greek Church." Other items in the volume include the evolution of music, illustrated with diagrams, and an account of an experiment conducted by Sir Richard Munden (1640-89) off Cape St. Vincent in 1678 to test the properties of oil of aniseed, cork, and wood.
- Description:
- Binding: full parchment. and Blank pages not digitized. Text written upside down in latter half of volume; photographed right-side up.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century and Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Colvill, John, Covel, John,--1638-1722, and Orthodox Eastern Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Christianity and other religions, Judaism, Music--History and criticism, Music--Manuscripts, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book]
4.
- Creator:
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1610]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 260
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De caelesti hierarchia, etc
5.
- Creator:
- Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 238
- Image Count:
- 355
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (polished, except for ff. 129-136) of Passages on Asceticism by various authors, including John Chrysostom, Basil, Isidore, Theodoretus, Maximus, Nilus. With other theological texts, especially concerning monasticism
- Description:
- In Greek., Unidentified watermarks: anchor in circle., Script: Written by a single scribe who signed himself "Callistus the holy deacon"., Simple headpieces on ff. 1r, 34r, 58r, 60v, 74r. Initials and headings, in red, for each new passage. Crudely drawn angel hovers over top of initial, f. 34r; birds perch on others. Folios 129-136 are not rubricated., and Binding: Date? Pastedowns sewn with bookblock. Three chain-stitched supports. Endbands attached to the square-edged, flush wooden boards. Loops of thread around the edges of the quires at head and tail. The spine is square and lined all along with vellum extending onto the inside of the boards and there seem to be lining strips extending on the outside of the boards also. Two pin holes with stubs of iron pins in them in the edges of the upper board and two holes for each strap on the lower. Rebacked. Covered with 13th-century Greek manuscript fragment containing musical notation, with front flyleaf from the same manuscript, and back flyleaf from a 12th century Greek liturgical text (all badly rubbed).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700.
- Subject (Topic):
- Asceticism, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monastic and religious life, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Passages on asceticism
6.
- Creator:
- Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572
- Published / Created:
- 1576
- Call Number:
- 1984 7
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- [Commentariorum de religione Christiana libri quatuor]
- Description:
- 15 cm.
- Publisher:
- Apud Andream Wechelum
- Subject (Topic):
- Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Petri Rami Veromandui, philosophiae et eloquentiae regii professoris celeberrimi, Commentariorum de religione Christiana, libri quatuor : eiusdem vita a Theophilo Banosio descripta
7.
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 377
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, etc
8.
- Creator:
- Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
- Published / Created:
- [about 1499].
- Image Count:
- 92
- Alternative Title:
- De miseria humanae conditionis
- Description:
- Full page woodcut on title page, which reads: Liber de vilitate conditionis humane., Final leaf entitled: De proprietatibus romanorum., and Signatures: a8-d8, e4.
- Publisher:
- Pierre Le Dru, for Jean Petit
- Subject (Topic):
- Theology and Early works to 1500
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Liber de contemptu mundi : sive De miseria humanae conditionis
9.
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Augustinus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 826
- Image Count:
- 138
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pseudo-Augustine, texts relating to the Pelagian controversy, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica hesitating between Semitextualis Currens and Cursiva Currens. A, the main scribe, copied ff. 1r-60v; B, an inexperienced hand, marked by the use of d with ascender curving to the right, i longa and round s in all positions, added the prayers on ff. 61r-63r., Headings in purplish red. Spaces for 1- or 2-line initials have been reserved throughout the codex, but these have not been executed, except in artt. 8-10, where they have been clumsily written in black ink in the left margin. At the opening of art. 1, 3-line half inset Humanistic dentelle initial on a square background in green and blue decorated with silver and gold penwork. It has floral extensions with gold balls in the upper and inner margin. In the lower margin of the same f. 1r, between three similar floral decorations, a circular medallion containing the coat of arms of the Ugolini family of Florence (parti per bend, or on azure, with two lions passant counter changed, surmounting)., The manuscript contains: 1) Ps.-Cyprianus Carthaginensis (Pseudo-Cyprian of Carthage or Pseudo-Augustine), De singularitate clericorum. 2) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), De incarnatione Verbi ad Ianuarium. 3) Pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis. 4) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Carthage, A.D. 416, to pope Innocentius I. 5) Letter of pope Innocentius I to the bishops at the council of Carthage A.D. 416. 6) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416 to pope Innocent I. 7) Innocentius I, letter to the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416. 8) Prayer to be said before the image of Corpus Christi. 9) Prayer to Jesus Christ. 10) Prayer to Jesus Christ ascribed to Thomas Aquinas., and Binding: original Italian reddish brown leather over pasteboard with a flap at the rear cover closing over the front cover with leather ties. Covers and flap are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of quadruple fillets, decorated with small circular tools either single or in clusters, and a full border consisting of a scroll motif. At the top of the front cover, in black ink, Capitalis ca. 1500: “Aur. (?) Augustini opus”. Parchment flyleaves. On the front flyleaf verso a Table of Content written in red by hand A, recording artt. 1-7 only, under the title “Que in hoc libello inserte sunt”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Augustinus. and Council of Carthage
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Pelagianism, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pseudo-Augustine; Texts relating to the Pelagian controversy
10.
- Creator:
- Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 819
- Image Count:
- 132
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Petrus Blesensis (Peter of Blois, c. 1135-c. 1204), 1) De amicitia Christiana. 2) De caritate Dei et proximi. 3) Devotional texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermark: Horn, var. Briquet 7965?., Script: copied by one hand writing a peculiar Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under Humanistic influence., Headings and stroking of the majuscules in red (but some headings are missing). Spaces left blank for inset initials (2-5 lines); guide letters are sometimes visible. A few pointing hands., The top of the leaves badly water-stained, and the edges of the front flyleaves and quire I very defective, with loss of text., The devotional texts include: (a) On the value of attending Mass, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine ("Agustinus"), St. Paul, Luke, Matthew ("Mactheus"), Bede, Gregory the Great, etc. (b) 9 selected Psalm verses. (c) On the value of Confession. (d) On Christian hope., and Binding: original quarter binding: undecorated white leather fixed with a strip of leather and engraved iron nails onto square-edged heavy oak boards; sewing on two split leather thongs. Folio 60 used as pastedown. Remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with a hole of the pin in the front board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peter of Blois
