Bound with: Versio trilinguis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorum tractatuum qui adversus episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant : & opusculorum ejusdem quae ex professo in illius commiserandae ecclesiae doctores erroresq[ue] edita sunt / Hironymo Valentino cognomento de Cantoral, interprete ; appositus est ejusdem dialogus appellatus Neophitus, ubi de suscipienda vera fide & gratia evangelij cum silentio, spe, reverentia & humilitate, tractatur, In Latin, Italian, French and Spanish., and Second of two works bound together.
Subject (Name):
Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law.
Description:
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., Previously owned by Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner; Phillipps MS 3097; William Carr; W. J. Carr. Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., Script: Gothic Textura., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., and Title from incipit.
Subject (Name):
Bracton, Henry de,---1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
128r: Signature of Jannette Brongnart, Binding: Modern limp vellum with two pairs of white leather ties. The preceding 19th-century binding is preserved: dark brown leather over cardboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands and gold-tooled title: HEURES DE SENLIS; gilt edges., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Hours, Undetermined Use, with French Calendar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment. Written by a single scribe in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda) in two sizes. The ascenders on the top line often have calligraphic extensions., Red headings. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. All initials (1- or 2-lines) are on a rectangular background and are executed in paint and liquid gold. At the opening of the various Hours there are 4-line initials of the same type, always accompanied by full acanthus borders and an arch-topped miniature. The borders are framed in gold and may also contain leaves, flowers, fruit, birds., and Senlis use according to the inscription on the binding, but this use is not documented. The saints in the Calendar and in the Litany point to Northern France and Hainault.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent. Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
Published / Created:
ca. 1400
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 406
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
Description:
Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin.
Description:
Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura brevium; the text of The old tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
Description:
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., and Script: English book hands.
Subject (Name):
Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377 and Taussig, Anthony
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800, Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Writs--England--Early works to 1800, and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time., In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., and Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law--Great Britain, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library