128r: Signature of Jannette Brongnart, Binding: Modern limp vellum with two pairs of white leather ties. The preceding 19th-century binding is preserved: dark brown leather over cardboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled title: HEURES DE SENLIS; gilt edges., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Hours, Undetermined Use, with French Calendar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment. Written by a single scribe in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) in two sizes. The ascenders on the top line often have calligraphic extensions., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. All initials (1- or 2-lines) are on a rectangular background and are executed in paint and liquid gold. At the opening of the various Hours there are 4-line initials of the same type, always accompanied by full acanthus borders and an arch-topped miniature. The borders are framed in gold and may also contain leaves, flowers, fruit, birds., and Senlis use according to the inscription on the binding, but this use is not documented. The saints in the Calendar and in the Litany point to Northern France and Hainault.
Manuscript on parchment, composed of two parts. Part I (ff. 1-44): Ovid, Heroides I-XIV; XVI-XXI (line 12). Part II (ff. 46-82): Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, I.1-IV.16. For the first eight letters, a brief introductory paragraph, written by the same scribe as the text, appears in outer margin.
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Binding: Fifteenth-century. Caught up sewing on four double, tawed supports. Covers wanting., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Ovid, Heroides. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Decorative initials, 4-line, body split red and blue, with neat penwork flourishes, in red (ff. 1r, 46r); plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each letter throughout text; first letter of each verse placed on middle ruling of three vertical bounding lines., Early modern provenance unknown. Belonged to Martin Bodmer, from whom it was acquired by H. P. Kraus. Purchased from Kraus in 1970 with the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Manuscript on parchment composed of two parts of similar agenda format that were bound together by the 15th century when notes were added to the parchment pastedowns, now the flyleaves. Part I written in Rheims in 1303 (see colophon, art. 1); Part II was written by the same scribe in a contemporary period. Part I: ff. 1-44, 39 lines of verse. 1) Ovid, Heroides I-XIV; XVI-XXI (line 12). Part II: ff. 46-82, 45 lines of verse. 2) Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, I.1-IV.16. Letter 2 of Book I divided into two sections at lines 68-69. For the first eight letters, a brief introductory paragraph, written by the same scribe as the text, appears in outer margin. Stains in upper margin result in some loss of text. Written by one scribe whose hand is characterized by an unusually tall double compartment a.
2-line plain initials (Capitalis) in red, with guide-letters. A few flourishes in black at the end of articles., Binding: Sixteenth-century. Italian brown leather over pasteboards, both covers blind-tooled: fillet frames and a border of floral tools, in the centre a fleuron. Marks of two ties. Yellow edges., Cite as: Moral Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., In Italian and Latin., and Manuscript on parchment of 1) Treatise on Christian love. Several later corrections on f. 10v. 2) On the contemplation of death, final judgment and hellish punishment. 3) Six prescriptions for Christian life given by St. Bonaventure (Bonaventura, 1221-1274) to a young friar. Translated into Italian. 4) The qualities of a perfect monk. Copied by one hand in large calligraphic Humanistica Textualis Formata; line-fillers in the form of crossed i.
Compiled by Johannes Baptista F----- probably a Genoese connected with the Franciscan Order., Front pastedown: [This page and the recto of the facing front flyleaf are covered with small ink drawings of alchemical apparatus, mostly flasks and other glasswork on the left page, similar equipment, as well as a ""Bain-Marie"" and a large furnace on the facing right page, each drawing labeled. Verso of the front flyleaf is blank.], and Paper codex in Latin, Italian, and Spanish
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In case with original, badly wormed, binding and endpapers. and Written throughout by one, perhaps two, hands in mid-sixteenth-century italic.
Manuscript on parchment (thick) of 1) List of relics in an unidentified church of St. James, probably in Spain. 2) Indulgences for various prayers, masses, etc. when visiting the church of St. James. 3) Unidentified Middle English devotional text. 4) Unidentified prayer, probably a form of absolution related to indulgences in art. 2. 5) Ps.-Augustine, Ps.-Bernard, etc., and wrongly attributed to Richard Rolle, Speculum peccatoris, ending imperfectly. 6) Richard Rolle, De emendatione vitae. 7) Richard Rolle, Oleum effusum (final four sections of the Comment on the Canticles). 8) John of Peckham, extract from Constitutiones. 9) The Five Wiles of the Pharaoh in Middle English.
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Binding: Fifteenth century, England. Original, caught up sewing with very heavy thread on four tawed skin, slit straps laced from out to inside beech boards and pegged in channels which are filled with gesso (?). Green and gold, beaded endbands are sewn on cord cores laid in grooves in the outside of the boards. Spine lined with tawed skin. Covered in tawed skin, originally pink, with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for brown leather straps. Spine covering disintegrating, thus exposing sewing. Covers much worm eaten., Flourished initials of good quality, 4- to 2-line, blue with red penwork designs incorporating leaf motifs and marginal extensions. Headings in red. Paragraph marks in blue., and Script: Articles 5-7 written by a single scribe in anglicana bookhand. Other texts by contemporary scribes in less careful bookhands, with article 4 in a less formal hand.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, worn, repaired) of a Homiliary with sermons by various authors, spanning the liturgical year.
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Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides and red edges. There are three blackish green, gold-tooled labels on the spine: "Homeliae Usq./ Ad Domi. Post Natale/ Manuscr. Saecul. IX". Bound by the binder of Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 153, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance., Headings in majuscules, some in red rustic capitals (e.g., f. 11r); many omitted. A modern hand has often added names of authors. Plain 2-line initials in red or black., Imperfect: incomplete, mutilated with loss of text., and Script: Written by several scribes in well formed early caroline minuscule.
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Catholic Church--Liturgy and Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?
Manuscript on parchment of gospel and liturgical texts with musical notation for the Vigil of Christmas and the Holy Week. Includes a variety of feriae.
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Decoration: headings in red; yellow heightening of majuscules and cadel; numerous elaborately decorated cadels; neumatic chant notation on four-line staff. and Script copied by two hands in a rather angular southern gothica textualis formata (rotunda).