Contains 12 illuminated historiated initial miniatures, 3 additional miniatures, and 833 large and small ornamental initials and marginal decorations., From the Belle Skinner Collection., Gradual for the use of the monks of the Congregation of St. Justina, of the Order of St. Benedict, at the monastery of St. Peter of Saviliano., Ms., in red and black., and On last leaf: Istud Graduale est monachorum congregationis Sancte Iustine ordinis Sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatum monasterio Sancti Petri de Sauiliano.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines--Italy--Savigliano., San Pietro (Monastery : Savigliano, Italy), and Skinner, Belle--Provenance.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for use by a Dominican nuns' convent. Includes processionals for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter among others.
Description:
Binding: original binding; reddish brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (often missing); 2-line red plain initials for the prayers; black cadels of the same height, stroked in red., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1949 from C.A. Stonehill., and Script: written in somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included.
Description:
Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1933 from J. Rosenthal., and Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Germany--Early works to 1800.
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived by cataloger from text on verso and presence of umlauts., Date derived from style of print., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and 2x2.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Apostle, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Poisoning, Miracles, Snakes, Saints, Chalices, and Dead persons
Manuscript on parchment of theological and moral treatises.
Alternative Title:
[Trattato di teologia morale in quattro libri:] ms., on parchment, in Italian. With Viridarium consolationis, and Tractatus scale: ms., on parchment, in Italian
Description:
Binding: 19th century (?). Quarter binding, parchment (from a music manuscript with 4-line red staves?) and paper printed in a rose and white decorative pattern over cardboard. On the front cover, in s. XIX handwriting: "Trattato di morale e teologia"; on the spine, in 19th century handwriting: "M.S. / 1421". Blue sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 2- and 3-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue with very developed penwork in the contrasting colours in the left margin or in the intercolumnar space; at both ends the penwork terminates in conspicuous corkscrew ornament. 3- and 4-line litterae duplices with a yet more elaborate execution of the same type of penwork on ff. 2r (beginning of art. 2), 35v (2, beginning of art. 3), 52v (beginning of art. 4). The additional artt. 5-9 are undecorated., Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: main text is copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Formata. The additional artt. 5-9 and the notes are written in extremely small Gothica Cursiva Libraria, all probably by Dominicus de Seraphinis., The first page is badly soiled., and The manuscript contains: 1) Gerardus de Prato OFM, Breviloquium in sententias. 2) Iacobus de Benevento OP (s. XIII2 , Ps.-Bonaventura), Viridarium consolationis. 3) Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella OP (1250-1300), Scala fidei, second recension. 4) Note on the ten virtues. 5) Quodlibet questions with answers based on Raymundus de Pennaforti (d. 1275). 6) Note on the real existence of Purgatory. 7) A legal note on the conditions on which toll must not be paid for the transportation of goods, quoting Henricus de Segusio (Hostiensis, d. 1271). 8) A note about the four senses of Scripture.
Subject (Topic):
Christian ethics., Christian literature, Latin., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.