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Epistles of Paul ; Missal bifolium fragment : [manuscript]

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Description: f. 1-155v. [Paul. Epistles]. Incipit: Paulus servus ihesu christi vocatus apostolus segregatus in evangelium dei. Explicit: Salutant vos de italia fratres. Gracia dei cum omnibus vobis. Amen. Latin. Pauline epistles in the order of the Vulgate, including the Epistle to the Hebrews. Variants within the text match those of Paris, B. N. lat. 104 as listed by S. Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (Paris 1893) 143. On this Paris manuscript and the"Italian group," see H. Quentin, Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate (Rome-Paris 1922) 361-84. The text is divided by a pre-Langton system of capitulation, and has prologues. On f. 1, the gloss is headed"ex commentario anbrosii [sic] super epistolas"; however, the gloss is the one generally attributed to Anselm of Laon,"Pro altercatione.". front f. iii recto-verso; back f.i recto-verso. [Missal bifolium fragment]. Rubric: frnt f. iii recto-verso; bck f.i recto-verso. Latin. Contains the offices for Wednesday and Thursday of Holy Week. Music: Neumes in campo aperto. Assigned Date: s. XI.
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Date: [between 1140 and 1160] ; [between 1000 and 1099]
Call number: mssHM 56
Provenance: On f. iv verso, erased inscription, s. XV: iste liber est conventus lucce __?___; below that, s. XVI: Emi ego frater M__?___ aliis libris venderent. On ff. 1 and 70, the stamp "Di casa Minutoli-Tegrimi." Reproductions of the stamp as it occurs in J.A. 3216 on pl. XXII and p. 53 of Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts...of Major J. R. Abbey ; a list of other Minutoli-Tegrimi manuscripts in England on p. 55, n. 2. The collection of Conte Eugenio Minutoli-Tegrimi of Lucca was sold in 1871; this manuscript in the catalogue, p. 31, n. 164. On the front pastedown, ff. 1 and 155v, the stamped armorial ex libris of the Swiss-born artist Friedrich De Schennis (1852-1918); it may have been De Schennis who added copious notes in German on f. i recto and verso regarding historical aspects of Paul's life and his theology; sold to the Leipzig bookdealer, Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann; alien sequestrated property sale by Anderson, New York, 17 February 1919, n. 35 to G. D. Smith.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Associated people: Schennis, Friedrich von, (1852-1918,)
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Lectern Bible leaf from Ezekiel 47:19-48:7 : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

f. 1 verso. Bible. Ezekiel. Fragment. Latin. The recto not visible as the leaf is currently framed. On the verso: Ezekiel 47:19-48:7:"//[Tha]mar usque ad aquas ... ad plagam maris iuda una //".

mssHM 70391

Brut Chronicle, in English : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-166v. [Brut Chronicle]. Incipit: //þat þey wold al make amendis And so þey departid oute from hir fadiris chambir. Explicit: & wan him there grete worship & gre of þe feld// [catchword:] And in þe next. English. F. W. D. Brie, ed., The Brut or the Chronicles of England. EETS os 131 and 136 (London 1906-08) 3-5, 12-33, 49-297, 299-357, 365-369 ; HM 113 is listed among the defective and therefore not classifiable manuscripts by Brie, Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik, The Brute of England oder The Chronicles of England (Marburg 1905) 85. For a list of the manuscripts, see L. M. Matheson, "The Middle English Prose Brut: A Location List of the Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions," AEB 3 (1979) 254-66, including HM 113. Status of text: Defective initially, internally and finally. f. ii recto-verso. [Missal, fragment]. Latin. Contains the canon of the mass as in the Sarum missal, ed. F. H. Dickinson (London 1861-63) cols. 620-25. Layout: 2 columns. Other Decoration: 2-line gold initial on white-patterned particolored ground. Survived as pastedown in the present volume; now lifted. Assigned Date: s. XIV/XV. f. iv recto and verso. [Jacobus de Voragine]. Legenda aurea, fragment. Incipit: //hominibus innatam uxorem viro subici. Explicit: sed iuxta paschalem terminum variatur//. Latin. Contains the end of Nereus and Achilleus, all of Pancratius and all of De festivitatibus quae occurrunt infra tempus peregrinationis, as in Th. Graesse, ed. (Bratislava 1890) 338-41. Layout: 2 columns of 38 lines ruled (frame only?) in a pinkish ink. Other Decoration: Plain decorative initials, 1-line, in the ink of the text; rubric in red. Assigned Date: s. XV.

mssHM 113

Works by Ephraem and othe church fathers : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

f. i verso. [Eusebius Cremonensis] [De morte Hieronymi ad Damasum]. Incipit: Lex dei semper sit in corde tuo. Noli timere opprobrium hominum. Explicit: odit hanc vitam qui se bene agere cernit. Rubric: Eusebius in epistulis ad damasum portuensem episcopum Et theodomum [sic] senatorem Romanum capitulo xxiii ubi consolatur et hortatur eusebium ad bonum. Latin. PL 22:266. f. ii; f. ii verso blank. [Innocent III] [De Miseria Humane Conditionis]. Incipit: Semper enim mundane letitie tristicia Repentina succedit. Explicit: quia quanto plus vita procedit tanto magis ad finem accedit. Rubric: Innocencius papa In libro de miseria condicionis humane capitulo xxiii de Inopinato [sic] dolore. Latin. Excerpt. M. Maccarrone, ed., Lotharii Cardinalis (Innocentii III) De Miseria Humane Conditionis. Thesaurus Mundi (Lugano 1955) 29-30; see also R. E. Lewis, ed., Lotario dei Segni (Pope Innocent III), De Miseria Condicionis Humane (Athens, Georgia, 1978) with list of manuscripts, including HM 1068. ff. 1-61. [Ephraem] [De compunctione cordis]. Incipit: Dolor me compellit dicere sed iniquitas mea comminatur mihi ut sileam. Explicit: ut omnis anima que hoc meditatur trahatur ad vitam eternam. Ipsi gloria et Imperium in secula seculorum. Rubric: Incipit liber primus sancti effrem dyaconi de Compunctione cordis. Latin. Libri Sancti Effrem de Compunctione cordis (Freiburg im Breisgau or Basle, not after 1491); Hain 6598. The 6 chapters of the manuscript generally correspond to the 6 treatises of the printed book, except for the end of the first (f. 22 of the manuscript), where the manuscript presents a shorter version, and ends with a prayer: [f. 27] Oracio devota, Obsecro te salvator mundi Ihesu christe respice et miserere mei et libera me a multitudine iniquitatum mearum . . . f. 61. [Jerome] [De viribus illustribus]. Incipit: Effrem adossene [sic] ecclesie dyaconus multa syro sermone composuit. Explicit: decessit autem sub valente principi [sic]. Rubric: Ieronimus autem loquens de sancto effrem in libro Illustrium virorum sic ait. Latin. PL 23:746-747, for the passage speaking about Ephraem. f. 61r-v. [Verba seniorum]. Incipit: Puer erat adhuc sancte memorie effrem. Explicit: et quia sancti spiritus operacio est que egrediebatur de labiis effrem. Rubric: Item in libro qui appellatur seronticum [sic] prefatus Ieronimus sic ait. Latin. A condensation of the first and third paragraphs of the Vitae Patrum, PL 73:321. ff. 62-104. [Ailred of Rievaulx] [De Institutis Inclusarum]. Incipit: //manuum suarum opere sustentantes. Illi vero qui nec hoc sibi securum propter solitudinis libertatem. Explicit: ut apud remuneratorem meum quem expecto apud iudicem meum quem timeo pro peccatis meis intercedat. Explicit formula vite seu regula sancti anselmi cantuariensis archiepiscopi ad sororem suam reclusam. Latin. C. H. Talbot, ed.,"The De Institutis Inclusarum of Ailred of Rievaulx," Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis 7 (1951) 167-217, here beginning defectively. ff. 104v-107. [Hours of the Conception] Rubric: Sequuntur hore concepcionis beate marie virginis a prefato beato anselmo composite, Ad matutinas. Incipit: Eya mea labia nunc anunciate. Latin. Hours of the Conception, in short form. ff. 107v-163. [Pseudo Augustine] Liber soliloquiorum. Incipit: Agnoscam te domine cognitor meus. Explicit: sed Iubilare facis omnia ossa mea et reiuviscere [sic] facis ut aquile canos meos. Explicit liber soliloquiorum beati augustini. Rubric: Incipit liber soliloquiorum sancti augustini episcopi, primum capitulum. Latin. Ps. Augustine. PL 40:863-898. ff. 163-167; ff. 167v-168v blank. [Excerpts from the church fathers]. Rubric: Sequuntur aliqua dicta egregia sanctorum et doctorum fidei catholice et primo beati bernardi. Incipit: Ut igitur ab interiori Incipiens ad exteriorem hominem sermo procedat. Explicit: Qui habet laudem dei in corde suo in postremo apud deum gaudebit et animam suam in celo mirificabit. Hec augustinus. Rubric: Sequuntur aliqua dicta egregia sanctorum et doctorum fidei catholice et primo beati bernardi. Latin. Excerpts from the church fathers. Cited are Jerome, Bernard, Maximus, Augustine and Cyril. f. i; f. i verso blank. [Alphonsus de Spina] [Fortalitium fidei]. Incipit: //demones effugasse, mortuos suscitasse, ventis Imperasse pedibusque siccis super undas maris ambulasse et alia multa miracula fecisse. Explicit: Et sic satis claret ex predictis iiii testimoniis tempus adventus messie fuisse ante destructionem secundi templi. Ex fortalicio fidei libro primo testimonio quarto. Latin. Alphonsus de Spina, Fortalitium fidei, Book 1, Consideration 3, Article 6, Point 4, Thesaurus 1, at the end, on signature e5 v of the edition printed by Johann Mentelin in Strasbourg [not after 1471]; GW 1574. Added on the back flyleaf, in the same hand as that on the front flyleaves.

Missal, for Cistercian use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-141v (+ f. 108r-v bis). Latin. ff. 1-50v, Temporale, beginning defectively; ff. 50v-55v, Prefaces and canon of the mass; ff. 55v-130, Sanctorale; ff. 130-139v, Votive masses; f. 140r-v, Office of the dead, beginning and ending defectively; f. 141r-v, Full office of Elizabeth, beginning defectively, several other masses, and prayers for the blessing of water, starting with the blessing of salt.

mssHM 1079

Martyrologium : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-131v (+117r-v bis); f. 132r-v, blank. [Usuard] [Martyrologium]. Latin. Rubric: Incipit martirologium ordinis fratrum beatissime marie virginis dei genitricis de monte carmeli conventus eiusdem gloriose virginis ad urticas extra muros prope heylprun. On ff. 1-130, martyrology as in PL 123:601-992, 124:9-858; many corrections by one person of single words, of omitted or reversed passages, of an omitted day (f. 117 bis, 28 November) or notes on leap year (f. 20); on ff. 130v-131v, explanation of the use of kalends, nones and ides.

mssHM 1044

Fragment from the Decretals : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2: [Gregory IX, Decretals, with the gloss of Bernardus Parmensis]: Incipit: //procurator proposuit ex adverso quod cum olim ad petitionem patronorum ecclesie amoriensis ... Explicit: et correctio ex consuetudine potius habetur ut s. de electione dudum dic super hoc ut dixi s. e. cum satis//.

mssHM 46015

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