Binding of v. 1: Original vellum ms. pastedowns with stubs; sewn on five supports attached to wooden boards; remains of brown calf stitched around plain wound headbands; rebacked with (probably) original calf sides inset; sides are blind-tooled with triple diagonals in an outer frame; an agnus dei, angel or floral tool is in each diamond formed., Binding of v. 2: vellum stays inside gatherings; sewn on 3 tawed skin slit straps laced into beech boards; the spine is lined with tawed skin between supports; remains of Kermes pink braid on a simple headband at the head, wanting at the tail; covered in tawed pigskin blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame; remains of two brown leather fastenings, the catches on the upper board; trace of writing and a label at the head of the upper board and an inscribed paper label on the spine., Provenance of v. 1: "Liber dom[us] sororu[m] sa[n]cte Agnetis Tong[r]is" and "Venerabilis Mater Monasterij S[anc]te in Oppido Tongrensi dono dedit hunc lib[r]um bibliothecae F[ra]trum Min[orum] in prefato Oppido commorantium Anno Dmi. 1671" (ms. on fol. 1); "Pro bibliotheca F[rat]rum Min[orum] Tongris" (ms. on fol 256 verso)., Provenance of v. 2: "Ex bibl. Frid. Jac. Roloff." (bookplate on front paste-down); "Ex Biblioth. Regia Berolinensi." and "[underciphered] Kol. Bibliothek Berlin" (stamps on fol. 1)., Rubricated throughout; capitals supplied in red (v. 1); in red or blue (v. 2)., Vol. 1 bought in May 1970; v. 2 bought in Sept. 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., and Vol. 2 imperfect: slightly wormed.
Publisher:
Konrad Winters,
Subject (Name):
Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Tongris Inscription (v. 1), Königliche Bibliothek zu Berlin Stamp (v. 2), Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?, Roloff, Frid. Jac.--Bookplate., and Sisters of Saint Agnes (Tongeren, Belgium) Inscription (v. 1)
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons., Incunabula in Yale Library., and Sermons, Latin.
Bible.--N.T.--Gospels, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
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.
4, XII, s. XII^^4, and XIII [ca. 1175-1200, 12th-13th centuries]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 315
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment composed of three distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-64): Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae. Part II (ff. 65-80): Pseudo-Hugh of St. Victor, Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae. Part III (ff. 81-122): Jean Beleth, Summa.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case with a black label, gold-tooled, and arms of Athelstan Riley on covers. Bound by John R. Hering, London, active 1817-35., Part I: Initials, 12- to 2-line, red, green, blue, with exuberant designs in contrasting colors that often extend full length of folio, some trimmed. Headings in red. Part II: Decorative initials, 8- to 2-line, alternate red and blue, with designs in contrasting colors; plain initials, 1-line, some with simple ornamentation, in red or blue throughout. Heading in red. Guide-letters in inner margin. Part III: Simple initials, a few with designs. Paragraphs marks in red and/or black. Guide-letters in outer and inner margins; notes to rubricator perpendicular to written space in gutter and outer margin. Headings in red., and Script: Each part written by a different scribe, all in early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Honorius,--of Autun,--ca. 1080-ca. 1156
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Book of hours (Sarum use) and Hore Beate Marie ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis
Description:
Colophon: Explicu[n]t Hore Beate Marie, secundu[m] vsum Sar[um], totaliter ad longum, cu[m] multis pulcherrimis orationibus et indulge[n]tijs iam ultimo abiectis. Impresse Parisijs in edibus Francisci Regnault alme vniuersitatis Parisiensis librarij iurati. Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo trigesimo. Die vltima Aprilis., Date of publication follows title on t.p., Description based upon incomplete copy at Beinecke Library., Foliation error: leaf clxxvi numbered lxxvi., Imperfect: wanting leaves xli-cxii; slight worming; repair to leaves clxxi and [4] at end. Ms. notes by Sir Thomas More, including the prayer in English written in the Tower before his death. Inscription on front paste-down: Liber quonda[m] Thomae Mori militis in multis locis manu sua propria inscriptus. Bound as no. 1 of 2 titles with: Catholic Church. [Psalter (Sarum use)] Psalterium cum hymnis secundu[m] vsum & co[n]suitudine[m] Sarum et Eboracen[sis]. Paris, 1522. To view other titles, search by call number MS Vault More., In Latin, with some English passages., Regnault's device on 2b4v., Signature error: A1,2 signed B1,2., Signatures: A-C⁸ a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ 2a⁶ 2b⁴., and Table of contents at end.
Publisher:
Apud Franciscu[m] Regnault, in vico Sancti Jacobi, ad signu[m] Elephantis,
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800, More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, and Regnault, François, d. ca. 1540, bookseller
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours for the use of a convent.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Damaged brownish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls; the central rectangle on the front cover, otherwise free, is decorated with a large oval stamp, heavily worn but probably picturing the Virgin in the Sun. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Marks of a chain attachment at the bottom of the rear cover. Red edges., Headings and rubrics in red. Heightening of majuscules in red. 1-line red versals; 2-line plain initials (sometimes slightly decorated) in red. Intricate large flourished cadels in black filled with red in the texts accompanying musical notation. Art. 4 opens with a 6-line littera duplex in red and brownish red with red penwork. Guide letters for all initials. On f. 29v full-page picture of the crowned Virgin and Child, Mary presenting a flower to the Child, on a flowery pink background in a green and red rectangular frame., On some pages the ink is very faded., and Script: Copied mainly by one hand writing Northern Textualis Formata in two sizes with Central European features. A second less formal hand copied ff. 29r, lines 11-18 and 30r-31v, i.e. the beginning of art. 2. Musical notation in Nota Quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders