Horae

4600 Bd Ms 272

[Book of Hours (Horae) Usage of Paris]

France, ca. 1400.

Jewish and Islamic Codices

4661 Bd. Ms. 14-16 ++

Siddur (Yemen)

[Sidur, Temani].

1511-1650.

Subject(s): Mishnah. Avot.--Judaism--Yemen--Liturgy--Texts. Maccabees. Jewish calendar. Hebrew poetry. Manuscripts, Hebrew--New York (State)--Ithaca.

Rabinowitz, Isaac, 1909-1988.

Yemenite script.

In addition to daily, Sabbath, and festival prayers, the ms. contains Pirqe Avot, Scroll of the Hasmoneans (in Aramaic), blessing-formulae, a calendrical work and calendrical tables, a legal document formulary, poems and hymns (by Ibn Gabirol, Yehudah Halevi, A. Ibn Ezra, etc.).

The ms. is dated 1511 for some parts; 1649-1650 for others.

Gift of the Tudor Foundation. Provenance: Isaac Rabinowitz.

 

4600 Bd Ms 252

 ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Jāmī, d. AH 898/1492 CE (?)

[History of the Prophet]

[Egypt (?) 18th or 19th cent.]

Typical binding for codices from the Islamic world. Gift of Willard Fiske.

Al-Jāmī was a philosopher and author, inter alia, of al-Durrah al-Fākhirah.

Sefer rakh ve-tov, by Shelomoh ben Yedidyah Aharon, ha-Ṭroḳi, (ca. 1670-1745)

Manuscript on paper, copied ca. 1800. In one hand, on hand-lined paper; with Sefer Kelalim, by Mordekhai ben Nisan (17th/18th centuries).

Two hitherto unpublished Karaite studies of Hebrew grammar.

Varieties of Christian Religious Texts

4600 Bd. Ms. 576+

Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul. Latin. Vulgate

Epistles of St. Paul, with commentary [ca. 1100-1135]

--Exemplar of interlinear glosses and marginalia.

“In Latin. Italian Caroline miniscule. 60 vellum leaves … 15-17 lines of text per page … Rubricated. Glossed. Five large decorative initials … The text is written in a narrow column on the page providing space for copious marginal glosses. These are written in the same hand as the interlinear glosses and may be slightly later than the text. The glosses apparently are not the fully developed text of commentary which gained rapid acceptance in the twelfth century; they may be representative of a phase of development just before the formulation of the standard version….”—Calkins.

 

4600 Bd. Ms. 616 ++

Latin Bible, with prologues attributed to St. Jerome and the interpretation of Hebrew names.

[England, between ca. 1250 and ca. 1300]

This Latin Bible embodies several characteristics of the standard Vulgate text developed in the schools of Paris during the thirteenth century, in particular the order of the books, the division into chapters established by Stephen Langon and still used, the interpretation of Hebrew names copied at the end, and several of the prologues that became standard.

Ms. codex. Some lacunae due to the loss of leaves; missing Genesis 1:1-22:13 after f. 3, II Chronicles 34:18-Tobit 4:9 after f. 139, Jeremiah 25:4-41:10 after f. 237. Occasional marginal glosses in a later cursive hand (15th century), often trimmed. Layout: Written in double columns of 46 lines. Script: Gothic textual. Decoration: Red and blue Lombard initials of 3 to 5 lines

in height with red and blue pen-flourishing often extending the height of the page (introducing each book and most prologues); red or blue Lombards of 2 lines in height with contrasting pen-flourishing; 1-line red or blue Lombards as chapter initials and versal initials in the Psalms; headlines and chapter numbers in alternating red and blue Lombards; some capitals touched in yellow or red; some rubrics in red, most rubrics not executed. Binding: 19th cent., brown morocco, edges gilt. Spine: "Biblia Latina / Ms. Saec. XIV". Accompanying materials: Copy of a detailed printed description (1 page), no. 94 from an unidentified source, in an envelope.

Origin: Written in England in the latter half of the 13th century.

Text in Latin.

Provenance: Possibly at Lanthony Priory near Gloucester  (although it is not listed in the 13th-century catalogue of the Lanthony library). Matthew Hale of Alderley, Gloucestershire, 1686. Edward Sherwood Hale (sale, Christie's, 17 June 1946, lot 45). Brian Douglas Stilwell (bookplate). An unidentified owner has pencilled a note on the flyleaf, dated 1 Feb. 1960, with illegible signature.

 

4600 Bd Ms 615+

Lives of the Saints (Vitae Sanctorum)

Vita beati Francisci [...et al.]

[Belgium, between ca. 1275 and ca. 1300]

180 leaves ; parchment ; 248 x 175 (172-180 x 110-115) mm. bound to 260 x 190 mm.

Subject(s): Franciscans. Hagiography.

Ms. codex; text in Latin. In gray cloth box with original binding included.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 29 or 23 lines; frame-ruled in ink. The manuscript was composed in two separate albeit contemporary stages, corresponding to ff. 1-87 (29 lines per column) and ff. 88-180 (23 lines per column). Script: Gothic textual quadrata (ff. 1-87); Gothic textual semi-rotunda (ff. 88-179vb); Gothic chancery (ff. 179vb-180vb).

Origin: Probably written in Belgium, in the last quarter of the 13th century.

Provenance: Emily May Thornton, 1893 (?). Obtained from Bruce Ferrini, 1995.

Contents: 1. ff. 1ra-63vb: Vita beati Francisci -- 2. ff. 63vb-87vb: Quedam de miraculis ipsius post mortem ostensis et primo de virtutibus sacrorum stigmatum -- 3. ff. 88ra-88vb: Vita beati Antonii (beginning of the "Assidua" or shorter version; incomplete) -- 4. ff. 89ra-120rb: Vita beati Antonii (the "Benignitas" or longer version, begins imperfectly; fol. 88 was apparently inserted to help remedy the loss) –- (Continued) 5. ff. 120va-125rb: Privilegium sancte Clare -- 6. ff. 125rb-148ra: Vita et legenda sanctissime virginis Clare ordinis pauperum dominarum sancti Damiani aput Assysyum -- 7. ff. 148ra-173vb: Legenda sancte Katherine virginis [Passio beate Katharine] -- 8. ff. 173vb-179vb: Legenda sancte Margarete virginis et martiris -- 9. ff. 179vb-180vb: De stigmatibus sancti Francisci (ends imperfectly).

 

4648 Bd Ms 31 +

Selections. Latin. 1450

Secretum.

Manuscript, in Latin, written by three hands in a hybrid gothic script in Northern France.

Contains Petrarch's De contemptu mundi [Secretum] (ff. 1-43v), his Epistola de patientia (ff. 44-47), Alphonsus de Aragon's De morte non timenda (ff. 47v-48), Petrarch's De otio religiosorum (ff. 49-92v), and De vita solitaria (ff. 93-141).

4600 Bd. Ms. 38

Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604.

Dialogi / Gregory the Great.

[Italy (Padua?), between ca. 1450 and ca. 1500]

Subject(s): Miracles--Early works to 1800. Saints--Biography. Immortality--Early works to 1800.

Layout: Written in 22-25 long lines, above top line; frame-ruled. Script: Humanistic round.

Decoration: Historiated initial containing miniature of Gregory the Great (f. 1r), 5 smaller illuminated initials (ff. 4r, 41v, 54v, 86r, 146r). Binding: Modern, white calf. Origin: Written in Italy, second half of the 15th century. Former shelfmark: MSS Bd. Rare BX G82 D5. Related shelfmark: MS B.1 (De Ricci)

 

4600 Bd Ms 41 misc

Meditatione de la Passione

[Italy, between ca. 1475 and ca. 1500]

The text is an Italian translation of the Meditationes supra passionem Jesu Christi, sometimes ascribed to Jean de Gerson (1363-1429), a French mystic theologian who was instrumental in the succession of Church Councils that ended the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) with rival papal institutions at Rome and Avignon.

 

4600 Bd Ms 272

[Book of Hours (Horae) Usage of Paris]

France, ca. 1400.

Manuscript on vellum, 13 lines on a page. Rubricated and richly illuminated, with several full-page illustrations. In Latin except for leaves 1a-12b and 121a-132b, which are in French. The text on the first leaf begins: Janiver / m la circoncision. Text on the last leaf ends: Amen. / Benedicamus domino. / Deo gratias. The volume is bound in brown morocco, tooled in black.