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2.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1065
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an Italian prose paraphrase of Virgil's Aeneid. With an incomplete text on the labors of Hercules.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin, Hercules (Roman mythology), Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aeneis
3.
- Creator:
- Donatus, Aelius
- Published / Created:
- [between 890 and 910]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1090
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Donatus, Aelius
- Subject (Topic):
- 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 > Ars major
- Published / Created:
- [between 975 and 1025].
- Call Number:
- Zi +4153
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Job, containing portions of chapters 28 and 29.
- Description:
- Decoration: initials and rubrics in red; some interlinear corrections; horizontal catchwords visible on back cover., Script: written in caroline minuscule., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4153 (Leonardo de Utino, Quadragesimale aureum), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Vulgate--History, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Job (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 900]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1036
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblical commentaries
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 800]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 976
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Esther, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Esther
- Creator:
- John, of Damascus, Saint
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1006
- Image Count:
- 365
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment.
- Description:
- Acidic ink damage with some loss of text, mostly after ff. 100. Very brittle. and Front board loose.
- Subject (Name):
- John,--of Damascus, Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Christian legends, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Saint Barlaam and Josephat and other saints' lives
8.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 827
- Image Count:
- 299
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the unfinished Winter part of a Breviary, containing 1) Psalterium feriatum for Sunday up to Wednesday; ends Ps. 57:6. 2) Three hymns for Advent. 3) Temporale, winter part, from the first Sunday of Advent to Holy Saturday. 4) Sanctorale, winter part, from the Vigil of Andrew (29 Nov.) to the Conversion of Paul (25 Jan.). 5) Chapters and Responsories for the Common of the Saints: Apostles, Evangelists, One Martyr, Several Martyrs, One Confessor, Several Confessors, One Virgin, Several Virgins, All Saints, Angels. 6) Chapters for the office of the Virgin. 7) Chapters, Versicles and Responsories for Advent through the Holy Week. 8) Prayers for the office from Advent through St. Stephen (26 Dec.).
- Description:
- Binding: Original quarter binding on two split leather thongs, square-edged beech boards; white pigskin decorated with blind-tooled fillets. One decorated brass clasp attached to the rear board, with a decorated brass catch fixed with three nails to the front board. The binding is reinforced with a strip of parchment cut from a ca. 1100 missal (?), decorated with versals and plain initials in red and a 5-line Romanesque initial in red with blue tendrils on a liquid gold background., Rubrics and underlining, versals and 2-line (3-line on f. 25r) plain initials, all in red. On f. 5r a 3-line initial at the opening of Ps. 1 is not executed. All decoration is missing on ff. 23v, 24bis r, 119bis r, f. 125v, line 12 to the bottom of f. 126r, ff. 137r-143v. On ff. 133r-136v there are rubrics (in pale red) but no initials. No guide letters., Script: The main part of the codex (ff. 1r-132v) is copied by a single scribe writing a bold and compressed small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Ff. 133r-143v and the two inserted leaves 24bis and 119bis are copied in a larger and less careful hand using the same type of script., and Watermarks: (1) Cardinal's hat, var. Briquet 3397 (1479-1494); (2) and (3) Bull's head, var. Briquet 15373 (1488-1501).
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Subject (Topic):
- Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary
9.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 770
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on vellum of 1 leaf from a Breviary, with offices for St. Ursula.
- Description:
- Two historical initials.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and Ursula,--Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Breviaries, 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 > Breviary
- Published / Created:
- 12-15th c
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 25
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines
- Subject (Topic):
- Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule