Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
William, of Melitona.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pecia
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, use of Paris. Includes a Full calendar, Fifteen Joys of the Virgin, Seven Requests, and a sonnet, all in French
Description:
In Latin and French., Script: Written in Gothic bookhand., Sixteen miniatures from the workshops of the Lucon Master and the Master of the Duke of Bedford, in blue, pink, and gold arched frames, some with cusping. Each miniature with a lavish acanthus border incorporating arms on ff. 77r and 93r. Text pages with a 3/4 bar border, pink, blue and gold, with interlace knots at corners and terminals and delicate rinceaux, in two sizes on different folios. 3-line initials at text opening, two historiated: f. 77r and f. 93r; f. 51r with a blue and gold diapered ground; the remainder, blue with white highlights or in pink and blue acanthus filled with ivy, with blue and orange leaves, on gold, against pink, blue and/or gold grounds with white filigree; framed in gold, often with small ivy or acanthus serifs. 4- to 2-line initials in text and KL monograms, pink or blue with white highlights, filled with ivy, as above. 1-line initials blue, pink and gold with white filigree. Line endings, blue, pink and gold, three (ff. 57r, 102r, 102v) signed by Petrus Gilberti, known to have signed line-endings in at least four other manuscripts. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Gilt edges. Red velvet with a silver fastening and a silver medallion, with unidentified male figure preaching, in center of upper board.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified of Harangues et oraisons des anciens. Contains examples of ancient speeches from famous events in both Greek and Roman history. Also includes the funerary speech of Perides [sic], several speeches attributed to Philip of Macedonia, Demosthenes, Alexander, Nero, and many others. Also includes a speech by Ottoman envoys to Rhodes (dated to 1522) and an ultimatum of Suleiman I (1494-1566) to Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Description:
In French., Script: Gothica Semihybrida Formata (Bastarda)., Layout: ff. 2-57 single column of 40 lines; ff. 58-165 sincle column of 41 lines., Decoration: Line-fillers in the shape of a red or blue horizontal stroke heightened with liquid gold. Paragraph marks in liquid gold on a square red or blue background. 4- or 5-line painted initials. On the second front flyleaf verso full-page frontispiece: in an imitation wooden frame a room is depicted, in which twelve men are engaged in discussion., Binding: Original green velvet binding over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands; two velvet straps attached to the front board closing over pins in the rear board with two enamelled brass clasps with the arms of François II, duc de La Rochefoucauld, and his wife Anne de Polignac; gilt edges., and The original foliation in Roman numbers, at right in the upper margin of the rectos, is incomple.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Italy, and Greece
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin, Church history, and History
Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre
Description:
In Middle French. and Binding: individually mounted.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Arthurian romances in art
Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of a fragment of a Book of Hours. The twenty-six folios are the only fragment known to remain of the Book of Hours of Blanche of Burgundy (d. 1348), Countess of Savoy and granddaughter of Saint Louis of France, which was executed in Paris in the atelier of Jean Pucelle. The manuscript received additional texts and miniatures in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, when it was owned by Charles V, King of France, 1364-80.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand; ff. 1r, 1v, 4r, and 4v added in the third quarter of the fourteenth century by Jean L'Avenant., Contains fifty of the original two hundred and fifty-five miniatures, the majority executed between Pucelle's death in 1334 and Blanche's death in 1348, the remainder between ca. 1370 and 1378, the terminus ante quem being the death of Charles's wife, Jeanne de Bourbon, represented on one of the destroyed leaves. All of the miniatures are in tricolor quatrefoils, the first, earlier set against pink or blue grounds with white filigree, gold frames and gold leaves on hair-line stems, the later miniatures with the grounds in pink or blue imitation relief., Each folio with a 3/4 bar border, detached from initial, pink, blue and gold with ivy terminals, or a single bar with ivy attached to initial, in inner margin; some with grotesque terminals, and birds and hunters in the margins and bas-de-page. 2-line initials, with heads, ivy, the arms of Savoy (ff. 2r, 14r, 18v, etc.) or the arms of Burgundy (f. 3v); blue or pink with white highlights on gold grounds. 1-line initials, blue or gold with red or black penwork. Line endings, red, blue and gold, on ff. 1 and 4 only. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red-brown sheepskin heavily gold-tooled with floral borders and corner fans, the center filled in with a circle made up of fan tools.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pucelle, Jean, fl. 1320. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1299].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 619
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment (two adjacent folios) of Peter Lombard (ca. 1095-1160), Libri sententiarum, IV.
Description:
Script: Copied by a single hand in a small Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: Red headings and heightening of majuscules. Alternately red and blue 2-line flourished initials half inset, with guide-letters, and penwork in contrasting color. Running numbers of the Books in red and blue; numbering of the Distinctiones in the same color in the outer column., Dinding: None. The two leaves were used as covers for the quinto and tenor partbooks of Rodiano Barera, Il primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, Antonio Gardano, 1596)., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
Subject (Topic):
Education (Christian theology)., Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
