Manuscript on parchment of gospel and liturgical texts with musical notation for the Vigil of Christmas and the Holy Week. Includes a variety of feriae.
Description:
Decoration: headings in red; yellow heightening of majuscules and cadel; numerous elaborately decorated cadels; neumatic chant notation on four-line staff. and Script copied by two hands in a rather angular southern gothica textualis formata (rotunda).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven. and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, of an illuminated and decorated gradual made for use in the choir of the Olivetan monks of the monastery of Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan.
Description:
Binding: full deerskin over wooden boards; extensive metalwork on binding., Decoration: five miniatures; eleven large ornamental initials on gold grounds; many decorated initials with penwork., Gift of Susan Weil, 2014., Miniatures have been attributed to the Olivetan Master and the Master of the Lodi Choir Books., and Script: written in liturgical bookhand. Music in square musical notation on five four-line red staves.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy., Master of the Lodi Choir Books,--active 15th century., Olivetan Master,--active 1429-1439., and Olivetans.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts.
Description:
Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places., Notation in cheironomic neumes., Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria., and Signature of 18th-cent. owner on front flyleaf: "Ex museo Josephi de Fabert, D.M. 1782."
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Chants), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified grammatical treatise.
Description:
Contained in Zi +9499 (Jaime Perez de Valencia, Expositio in Cantica Canticorum Salomonis), in which the fragment is used as a spine support in both the front and back of the book. and Decoration: rubrics in red; chapter marks have an extended top stroke and are black within the text; initials heightened in yellow; capitals decorated with red and yellow.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies.
Description:
Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., and Script: gothic text hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1066.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.--Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum., Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate., and Nennius, active 796.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain--Church history--449-1066., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaf, parchment, in a single hand, containing text from the Homiliae in Evangelia of Gregory the Great.
Description:
Ex libris Santa Maria della Colonna di Piacenza. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column, varying length., Leaf also contains the ownership inscription of the Cistercian of Santa Maria della Columba, followed by an anathema against theft., and Script: proto-gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Piacenza (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--approximately 540-604., Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy), and Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy) Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Incomplete manuscript bifolium, recovered from a binding, containing text from a sermon based on Galatians 5.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: late Carolingian script.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of a portion of the text of Bede's Homily on the Ascension.
Description:
Decoration: capitals touched with red ink., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 28 lines., Script: copied by a single hand in Carolingian miniscule., and Text corresponds to Patrologia Latina (PL) 94: 180/81.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of Georgicorum, Aeneidos et Bucolicorum Vergilii vocabula, an alphabetical compilation of words used by Virgil (and other authors), with their explanations, based on the Virgil commentary by Servius (4th-5th centuries). With two Latin and two Italian proverbs, and an Italian poem (10 verses).
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards (worm-eaten), spine with three raised bands; both covers blind-tooled with a frame of strapwork; in its interior two horizontal rows of quadrangular stamps at the top and at the bottom (a rosette and a Pascal Lamb) and a lozenge-shaped central part of the same strapwork. Five pointed brass bosses on each cover (together eight of them are preserved) and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover by means of two nails with engraved heads; the quadrangular brass catches on the rear cover are engraved with a Pascal Lamb., In art. 3 the opening letter of each lemma is a pale red 1-line capital projecting into the left margin. Each new alphabetical section begins with a 2- or 3-line capital alternately in red and blue (with a guide letter in the left margin), placed within the text area and followed by a black capital. Between the sections a space of two or three lines is left free., MS 108 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (CA). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: Art. 3 copied by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The title on the first front flyleaf (art. 1) is by another hand writing a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (the same hand wrote the beginning of the alphabet on the facing pastedown). Art. 2 is copied by an unexperienced hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens, but the date and the first line are by another hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--active 4th century. and Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Scholia.