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1. Bible
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1115]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 414
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., and Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
2. Drawings
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 89A
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment (damaged). The one side has fine drawings of a king and queen (with falcon) in elaborate robes. Beside them is a foot soldier in armor; below a warrior on horseback, in armor, pursued by an archer, without armor. Above is a centaur (Chiron?) shooting an arrow at a flying bird, a second bird on the ground. On the other side (much affected by paste) three warriors storm a tower.
- Description:
- Removed from Marston MS 89 where it was used as a front pastedown. and See catalogue entry for Marston MS 89.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drawings
3. Institutiones grammaticae
- Creator:
- Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1160]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1139
- Image Count:
- 238
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Priscian,--fl. ca. 500-530
- Subject (Topic):
- Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Institutiones grammaticae
4. Martyrology of Usuard.
- Creator:
- Usuard, -876 or 877
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1175-1225].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1172
- Image Count:
- 391
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through the early fourteenth centuries.
- Description:
- Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog. d'alia Obituarium..., Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork, geometric knotwork and animal masks., Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Rubricated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Beauvais (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Martyrologies--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Necrologies--France--Beauvais
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Martyrology of Usuard.
5. Missal, use of Beauvais.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1177
- Image Count:
- 318
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of Beauvais.
- Description:
- Binding: fourteenth-century (?) brown leather over beveled wooden boards; remains of one clasp., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Beauvais (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Missal, use of Beauvais.
6. Missal, use of St. Quentin.
- Published / Created:
- [1100-1199].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1175
- Image Count:
- 308
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in a single hand, containing a missal for the Use of St. Quentin.
- Description:
- Binding: nineteenth-century brown quarter-morocco., Decoration: rubricated. Larger initials in colored penwork., and Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Beauvais (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Missal, use of St. Quentin.
7. Physica 6.2 (233)-6.4 (234)
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1190 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1110
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment.
- Description:
- Schøyen MS 652.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Physics--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Physica 6.2 (233)-6.4 (234)
8. Seneca; Claudian, etc.
- Creator:
- Claudianus, Claudius
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80
Publilius, Syrus, 1st cent. B.C
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148? - Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 45
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (good quality) of 2) Jerome, Prologus beati Ieronimi presbyteri. 3) Ps.-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae, Neronis imperatoris magistri, ad Paulum apostolum et Pauli apostoli ad Senecam. 4) Complete 6-line text of Anthologia latina 667. 5) Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales. 6) Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii. 7) Seneca, De clementia libri ii. 8) Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. 9) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum liber. 10) 19 sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus and Seneca. 11) Claudian, Excerpta. 12) William of Saint-Thierry, De tribus dicendi generibus. Written in the Cistercian abbey at Igny near Rheims.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Bound in light brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and red label: "Opera Senecae MS". Red edges. Mended at tail. Discoloration from bosses (?) of earlier binding on first and last leaves., Carefully drawn monochrome initials with modest penwork designs, 12- to 2-line, in red, green and blue. Headings in red., and Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand; arts. 11-12 in less expert hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Cistercians and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Ethics, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Seneca; Claudian, etc.