- Creator:
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 815]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 401
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of portions of Saint Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, copied probably in Canterbury or Worcester. With glosses in Anglo-Saxon added between 950 and 1000, which may be of Kentish origin
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Written by two scribes, Scribe 1, ff. 1r-9v: a vigorous and well spaced Anglo-Saxon minuscule; preference for minuscule d; strokes of letters often extend well into margin at end of line. Scribe 2, ff. 10r-26v: slightly cramped hand; preference for uncial d. Anglo-Saxon glosses added by several hands either in small upward-leaning Caroline minuscule or in a somewhat larger script that uses insular letter-forms., Decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in black surrounded by red dots; smaller initials, 2- to 1-line, in red, often with traces of yellow. Letters, stroked with red, many now oxidized; occasional punctuation in red., Folios 8, 9, and 22 have been used as wrappers; mutilated with loss of text. Significant water damage on ff. 19r-20v, 26r; rewritten by later scribe., and Binding: ca. 1850. Olive paper case with "Middle Hill boards," bound by George Bretherton of Gloucester who worked for Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1848-51.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De laude virginitatis
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- Creator:
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 815]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 401A
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium. Conjugate leaves originally from the same manuscript as Beinecke MS 401. Stitching holes in center of bifolium; outer margins trimmed with some loss of text
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., For the script see MS 401; MS 401A was written by Scribe 2., and Decorative T on f. 2r, black initial surrounded by red dots.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De laude virginitatis
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400, 1000 and 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 578
- Image Count:
- 386
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Psalter-Hymnal, written for a Benedictine monastery. On the rear flyleaf, a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, 1:24-31 and 36-42, in West-Saxon translation
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Copied by three scribes, all writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. The fragment is copied in careful Anglo-Saxon Minuscule., The decoration consists of 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue in the text; 2-line flourished initials in blue with red penwork with marginal extensions; 3- and 5-line litterae duplices with partial or full penwork borders (J-motifs) as indicated in art. 2. Litterae duplices also on ff. 116r, 133v, 143v (artt. 3, 6 and 7)., and Binding: Original undecorated leather over oak boards (?). Spine with three raised bands. Traces (?) of one clasp.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter-hymnal