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1. Augustine, Bonaventure, Hymns
- Creator:
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1001
- Image Count:
- 321
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Lactantius, Divinae institutiones; 2) Augustine, Enchiridion, with preceding table of contents; 3) Bonaventure, Lignum vitae, Breviloquium, and Hymn on the Cross; 4) hymns, and a few works regarding different saints
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: the manuscript proper (artt. 4-11), is copied by two hands very close to each other: A copied ff. 1r-151r (upper half), 151v-155r, and 156v in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; B copied ff. 151r (lower half) and 155v-156r. Art. 1 is copied by a 15th century hand using deviant spellings. Art. 2 is in 16th century Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 3 (the endleaves) is in large Carolingian handwriting., Decoration: Red headings and stroking of majuscules; red line-fillers for verses; red or blue paragraph marks. The text copied by hand B as well as the additional artt. 1 and 2 are undecorated. Art. 3 (the endleaves) has red heading and red stroking., and Binding: contemporary, undecorated white leather (deerskin?) over wooden boards, sewn onto three split leather thongs. The remains of a leather strap are attached to the front board and closes over a pin (lost) in the center of the rear board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Augustine, Bonaventure, Hymns
2. Collection of texts on St. Barbara
- Published / Created:
- [between 1470 and 1480]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 287
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a regular heavy hybrida formata script with features of bastarda by a single scribe who placed small circular flourishes above the letter u., 10-line illuminated initial on f. 5r, blue and mauve with white designs and highlights on gold cusped ground, a blue and gold bar border extending into the left-hand margin and terminating in acanthus leaves in the lower margin; interior of initial in orange, blue and gold checkered pattern. Fine red and blue divided initials, 8- to 7-line, with parchment designs and extensive pale purple flourishes, for major texts. Smaller plain initials in red or blue with parchment designs. Headings and initial strokes in red. Some instructions to rubricator in outer margins., and Binding: ca. 1500, Belgium. Covered in brown calf with corner tongues over wooden boards, a central panel diapered with blind-tooled triple fillets. Center and corner fittings and title written in a careful gothic bookhand under a brass-framed window on the upper board: "liber gloriose uirginis et martyris christi barbare". Lower board cut in for the straps which are attached with metal plates. Hasps of a chain on the lower board. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Barbara, Saint.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian martyrs, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prophecies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of texts on St. Barbara
3. Commentary on the Pentateuch
- Creator:
- Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 953
- Image Count:
- 262
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cyril of Alexandria's Glaphyra in Genesim, Books I-IV (first part of Glaphyra in Pentateuchum).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Textualis. Pale red headings, mostly not executed. Space for initials is provided, with guide letters, but initials are mostly not executed. On f. 1r a 6-line white vinestem initial with extensions in the upper and left margins; white vinestem decoration in the lower margin around a wreath, containing now a blank escutcheon. On ff. 37v (4 lines), 42r (6 lines) and 60r (4 lines) white vinestem initials of lower quality and in a different style., Cyril of Alexandria's Glaphyra in Genesim, Books I-IV (first part of Glaphyra in Pentateuchum). Latin translation ascribed to Iosephus. Due to the loss of two leaves a part of the text preceding the final sentences is missing. A few 17th century annotations., and Binding: 19th or 20th century: brown morocco, both covers gold-tooled with a floral stamp, four times crosswise applied in the center. Spine with three raised bands, to which the gold-tooled leather of the 17th century binding has been pasted, with the inscription: "CIRILI / ALEXAND / OPUS / MS". Marbled paper pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on the Pentateuch
4. De corpore christi, etc
- Creator:
- Eusebius Gallicanus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 181
- Image Count:
- 66
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of an anonymous catena of Eucharistic proof texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes, perhaps at different times, in early gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red or green (spaces left for others), followed by rustic capitals. Heading, in red, on f. 1r. Simple schematic drawings to explicate the text of art. 20 (ff. 21r, 22r)., Some loss of text due to trimming on f. 23v., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Eusebius Gallicanus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catenae, Fathers of the church, Lord's Supper, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De corpore christi, etc
5. De paradiso, De Cain et Abel, etc
- Creator:
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
- Published / Created:
- [between 1125 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 153
- Image Count:
- 188
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, 1) De paradiso. 2) De Cain et Abel. 3) Exhortatio virginitatis. 4) De institutione virginis. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in late caroline minuscule. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-61r): preference for uncial d, angular abbreviation strokes, and a slightly larger module of script than that used by Scribe 2 (ff. 61r-83r)., Plain red initials, 6- to 4-line, with small "pearls" on the thin strokes of the letters, introduce each text. Headings in red. Instructions to rubricator and guide letters., Heavily stained but with no loss of text., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound with a brown calf spine and goatskin corners, bright pink paper sides and red edges. Three green, gold-tooled labels on the spine: "Manuscri," "S Ambrosi de Cain" and "Seculi XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Celibacy, Christianity, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De paradiso, De Cain et Abel, etc
6. Decretals, etc
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Isidore
- Published / Created:
- [between 850 and 875]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 442
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 513
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality) of excerpts from the writings of Church Fathers, canon law, and conciliar documents. There has been extensive scholarly debate about the manuscript's provenance and its relation to other copies of the Pseudo-Isidore Decretals. The manuscript seems to have been written, corrected, and rubricated by multiple scribes and to have been composed in units; the quality of the parchment often changes from scribe to scribe
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in Caroline minuscule., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf with gold-tooled spine. Boards mostly detached, sewing breaking, part of spine leather wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Isidore.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decretals, etc
7. Dialogi
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1000 and 1099]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1039
- Image Count:
- 365
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pope Gregory the Great, Dialogi
- Description:
- Script: Copied in late Carolingian handwriting by several, often inexperienced and uneven, hands, making many mistakes, that have been corrected by other hands., Decoration: Inconsistent. Indication of the interlocutors in Capitalis of various sizes, in red or black ink; 1-3 line initials in red or black, mostly plain; red chapter headings from f. 166v onwards., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogi
8. Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini
- Creator:
- Eugippius
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 810]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 912
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fragments) of Eugippius (c. 500), Excerpta ex operibus sancti Augustini
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in early Carolingian handwriting of the type described by B. Bischoff as "Arn minuscule"., and Binding: twentieth century quarter binding, parchment and purplish decorated paper over pasteboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Eugippius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini
9. Expositio super Matthaeum, etc
- Creator:
- Remigius, of Auxerre, approximately 841-908
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 80
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (sturdy but of uneven weight; no watermarks, wavering chain-lines ca. 53 mm. apart) of a collection of excerpts from Biblical commentaries and sermons by patristic writers. Mainly drawn from Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio super Matthaeum; and Bede, Expositio super Lucam. Also includes texts by Leo, Gregory, Gualterus Anglicus, Augustine, Anselm, Ambrose, and Boethius. Sermons written for feast days and about the Passion of Christ
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written mostly by one scribe, perhaps over a period of time, in a small gothic book hand with many abbreviations. Additions by slightly later hands in more or less formal script, e.g. ff. 1v, 3r-5v, 87v-105v., Initials (3-line), paragraph marks, underlining and strokes on 1-line capitals in red., and Binding: Date? Square, flush boards. Trimmed out turn-ins suggest a late date. Covered in vellum with contents and a compass-drawn circle on lower cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Remigius, of Auxerre, approximately 841-908.
- Subject (Topic):
- Passion, Catenae, Church year sermons, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio super Matthaeum, etc
