- Creator:
- Gregory, I, Pope, ca. 540-604, creator
- Published / Created:
- between 950 and 1150
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 571
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., Binding: Twentieth-century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Kraus in memory of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1975., Gregory the Great, Dialogi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of varying quality, some parts very bad (quire IX), with irregular edges. Contains 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts incomplete I, 3, 2 and ends incomplete III, 24, 3 followed by the title of III, 25. Between ff. 13 and 14 a page is missing which contained Dialogi I, 9, 8-13. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints, containing 7 (?) Lessons. Above the line a twelfth-century hand has repeatedly identified the saint with St. Aderaldus archdeacon of Troyes (d. beginning of the 11th cent.). 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae. There are more than five scribes: A (Carolingian script with very imperfect word separation, s. X2); B (large and bold Carolingian script, s. X2); C (smaller Carolingian script, very close to B, or same hand); D (Praegothica, s. XII); E (various hands writing Praegothica and succeeding each other at irregular intervals)., and T. E. Marston, A Manuscript of the Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great, Gazette, 50 (1976), pp. 15-18.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church, I, Pope, Gregory, ca. 540-604, and Severus, Sulpicius
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1050]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 402
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Gospel of Matthew, preceded by Prologue to Gospels from Jerome; letter of Jerome to Damasus; spurious addition to letter attributed to Jerome; Prologue to Matthew. 2) Gospel of Mark, preceded by Prologue. Final leaf missing; the conclusion of Mark is added on a piece of parchment (Germany, ca. 1150) stitched in between ff. 110 and 112 (formerly glued to f. 112).
- Description:
- At the beginning of each Gospel, full-page initials, f. 9r (Matthew) and f. 71r (Mark) incorporating symbols of the Evangelists; f. 9r with gold foliate scrolls with silver tendrils, one with a pink dragon-head terminal, against blue, light green and orange; f. 71r gold and silver, with spiraling foliage in shaded blue, orange and green, supported by a pink and gold dragon; both followed by display capitals in alternate lines of gold and silver, shaded in blue. Large initials in gold and silver as above, 2-line, f. 1r, and 6- or 5-line, ff. 3r, 5r, 5v, and 68v, for prefaces, epistles and prologues. 3-line initials, as above, for chapter divisions. 1-line initials throughout, inner margin, orange, filled with gold and/or silver. Rubrics in orange. Some oxidization of silver., Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Red velvet case., and Script: Written in German minuscule by a single scribe.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions--Vulgate, Bible.--N.T.--Mark, Bible.--N.T.--Matthew, 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 > Gospels of Matthew and Mark
- Published / Created:
- [between 900 and 1000]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1145
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper.
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. N. T. Gospels
- Description:
- In Greek.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Greek., Bible.--N.T.--Gospels., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hoffman Gospels.