- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 317
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional writings
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- Creator:
- Pepymay, William
- Published / Created:
- 29 Sept 1419.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 637
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin with some Middle English. and Script: Written in gothic cursive script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pepymay, William.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fragment from an account book
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 660
- Image Count:
- 190
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) John Lydgate (ca. 1370-ca. 1451), Life of Our Lady. The beginning is missing (Book I, verses 1-70 ). 2) The Privity of the Passion, an anonymous English translation, here attributed to Walter Hilton (d. 1396), of part of Ps.-Bonaventura, Meditationes vitae Christi
- Description:
- In Middle English with some Latin., Script: Probably copied by one scribe, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The headings in art. 2 are in a larger form of the same script, more close to Anglicana., In art. 2 the scribe left space for 2-line initials (a 3-line initial at the opening) and generally wrote guide-letters, but initials were never added and all other forms of decoration are missing., Low quality parchment, with holes and irregular edges. The upper outer corner of f. 79 is torn away with loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. Glossy brown leather over pasteboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands; in the second compartment the gold-tooled inscription "LYDGATE - LIFE OF OUR LADY"; at the bottom: "C. 1450". Sprinkled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of Our Lady; The Privity of the Passion
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 360
- Image Count:
- 385
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Psalter in English, in the 8-part liturgical division, beginning defectively. Text is the later version of the Wycliffite translation of the Psalms. 2-7) Book of Hours, use of Sarum. 8) St. Jerome's Psalter, with introductory prayer and text followed by a suffrage to the Virgin. With Notes on Historia, Alegoria, Anagogia, Tropologia
- Description:
- In Middle English and Latin., Script: Written in small, well formed gothic bookhand., Five 6- to 5-line initials at the liturgical divisions of the Psalter (Psalms 26, 52, 68, 80, 97; initials for Psalms 1, 38, and 109 missing, offset initials on ff. 35v, 109r, and 156r), pink and blue with white highlights against cusped gold grounds, filled with brown, blue, and pink foliage with curling foliate serifs; pink, blue and gold bar border in outer margin with foliate shoots, terminals and horizontal extensions full across in upper and lower margins. Eleven 5- to 4-line initials (ff. 139v, 158v, 161r, 162r, 163r, 163v, 164r, 165v, 168r, 169v, 176v), gold, edged in black against a cusped ground, quartered in blue and pink, with white highlights and floral hair-spray. 3-line initials, blue with red penwork throughout. Capitals alternating red and blue. Rubrics throughout. Red and blue line-fillers in litany., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Brown leather case, blind-tooled. Red edges. Smells like a Middleton binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter and Hours