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1. Biblical commentaries; Sermons
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 519
- Image Count:
- 354
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (low quality), composed of several manuscripts bound together, of mostly unidentified sermons. Produced at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Small early Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria or Currens script by various hands, some very informal and difficult to decipher, often highly abbreviated., Short running titles are written above the right-hand columns of the recto pages in the following articles: 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 18-23, which seem to be the original part of the codex; article 14 has running titles of a different type., The first folios are stained., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over cardboard, blind-tooled with triple fillets as in MS 517; spine with five raised bands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblical commentaries; Sermons
2. Book of Hours : Use of Rome
- Published / Created:
- 1497.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1263
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 241
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, containing the remains of a book of hours, probably Use of Rome. All illuminations have been excised and there are few complete sections except for the Penitential Psalms (63r-75v) and the Office of the Dead (82r-112v). These texts are followed by two prayers to Saint Lazarus in Latin (113v- 115r ). Folios 115v-116v contain a personal narrative in French by Sister Collette d'Oisellet of the Hospice of Beaune, the owner of the volume. She describes being miraculously healed from paralysis in 1497 at Autun cathedral through the relics of Saint Lazarus; an annotation records her decision to remain at the Hospice of Beaune to care for the poor. Her account is followed by two additional prayers, also in French
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle French., Ownership inscription of Sister Alix de Besançon on 116v., Nineteenth-century printed bookseller description, annotated in pen, affixed to 116r., Bookseller description available., Script: gothica textura (Book of Hours); bâtarde (personal narrative and final prayers)., Layout: single column, 14-16 lines (Book of Hours)., Decoration: rubricated. Many small decorated initials, gilt; some two-line initials, also gilt. Some line-filler decorated bars. Many ivy leaf borders with gold leaves and colored blossoms. All leaves that might have contained illuminations appear to have been excised from the volume., and Binding: modern amateur binding of reddish velvet over pasteboard. Needlepoint flowers and leaves on both covers; the embroidered word "Heures" on the front cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France., France, Connecticut, New Haven., and Autun (France)
- Subject (Name):
- Oisellet, Collette d'., Lazarus, Saint (Poor man from the Gospel of Luke), Cathedral of Saint-Lazare (Autun, France), Hospices civils de Beaune., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Relics, Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miracles, Nuns, Women, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours : Use of Rome
3. Book of hours, Franciscan use
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1460.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1255
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 376
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, Franciscan Use, created for a clergyman. Contains 1) Calendar, ff. 1r-12v; 2) Mass of the Virgin, ff. 13r-15v; 3) Gospel extracts, ff. 15v-19v; 4) "Obsecro te," "O intemerata," and other prayers, ff.19v-28v; 5) Office of the Dead, use of Rome, ff. 29r-61v; 6) Fifteen Gradual Psalms, ff. 61v-70r; 7) Hours of the Virgin, ff. 70r-121v; 8) Hours of the Cross, ff. 121v-127v; 9) Hours of the Spirit, ff. 127v-132v; 10) Office of the Dead, ff. 132v-134r; 11) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, ff. 134r-153r; 12) Preparation for the Mass, ff. 153r-164v. Items 5-6 belong after f. 132v; text on f. 29r continues from f.133v and Bound with contemporary illuminated manuscript on parchment containing 13) Benedictions, ff. 165r-173v; 14) Pontifical ordos, ff. 173v-180. Benedictions open with 3-line historiated initial. Rubrication. 2-line initials excised at f. 166 and f. 179
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 17-19 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: Forty historiated initials of approximately 6 lines. Inhabited full borders. Rubrication., Binding: nineteenth-century full brown calf. Covers framed with gilt and blind ornament; spine gilt and lettered. Spine title: Missale., and Bookseller description available.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Devotional literature, Latin, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours, Franciscan use
4. Book of hours, use of Sarum
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1425-approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a86
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 127
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, use of Sarum, incomplete. May have been produced for a Scottish patron. Contains 1) Prayers in Latin and Middle Scots, f1r-5v; 2) Hours of the Virgin, use of Sarum, with Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit intermixed, f6r-30r; 3) Prayers, including Seven Joys of the Virgin, O intemerata, and Obsecro te, f30v-42v; 4) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, f43r-55v
- Description:
- In Latin; rubrics in Middle Scots., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: 5 column-width miniatures, some illuminated; 4-6 line initials with illuminated full borders; 2-line blue initials with red penwork; 1-line initials in alternating red and blue. Rubricated., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Secundo folio: tuo., Binding: modern limp vellum. Spine title: "Horae ad Usum Sarum" and "MS.", Some annotations in Middle Scots in 15th-century hand., Some full and partial leaves removed throughout., and Bookseller description available.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours, use of Sarum
5. Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 11
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a Carthusian psalter with the Canticles and the Creed, with musical notation
- Description:
- In Latin., Incomplete. Text ends with Psalm 77., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: large gothic script., Decoration: smaller initial in alternate red and blue; 12 historiated initials; full illuminated border to one page with figures of Carthusian monks and an abbot., and Binding: contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; metal clasps, corner pieces and central bosses.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church and Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Prayers and devotions, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed
6. Compendium theologicae veritatis
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 14
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 368
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of this widely popular theological work dealing with the creation, the fall of man, the Incarnation, grace, the sacraments, and the Four Last Things
- Description:
- In Latin., Work formerly attributed to Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280); now attributed to Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (Hugo Argentinensis) and dated to 1268., Ownership inscription on rear flyleaf: "Mastre Roger Walle off Lychfeld Chanone.", Layout: double columns of 30 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink with penwork decoration. F1r decorated with a small historiated initial in gold containing drawing of a man's face., and Binding: early limp tawed leather wrapper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270., Walle, Roger, of Lichfield., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Doctrines, Eschatology, Fall of man, Grace (Theology), Incarnation, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sacraments, Catholic Church, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compendium theologicae veritatis
7. Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 950 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 571
- Image Count:
- 234
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 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. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., 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., and 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".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon
8. Hours, use of Rome
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 16
- Image Count:
- 494
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with Calendar (rather empty) and headings in French
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in formal batarde script; ff. 238r-241v in a different hand than the preceding folios, but probably almost contemporary., Thirteen undistinguished historiated initials (6-, 4-, and 3-line), ca. 1460-70, blue or pink with white highlights on brown grounds with gold highlights. Six other initials (ff. 13r, 17r, 27r, 107r, 155r, and 195r) enclose carefully studied flowers. Scatter and compartmentalized borders of average quality added later, ca. 1480-1500, for the most part to pages with historiated or flower initials, similar to borders in manuscripts of the "Ghent Associates"; the majority with acanthus branches, flowers, and birds, or flowers alone scattered on backgrounds of pink, bright blue, slate blue, gold and/or black, or flowers set within a lattice of twigs, the diamonds so formed alternately pink and blue (f. 123r) or green, pink and blue (f. 238r). Three borders (ff. 27v, 69v, and 136v) with thistles, brown and blue or brown and green, touched with gold, arranged in a wallpaper-like pattern over grounds of slate-blue or red cross-hatched with lines in a darker shade of the same color. In the border on f. 107r, a grotesque with the torso of a man and the hind legs of a large cat; on f. 185r the same, holding a bow., 2-line initials in gold on pink and blue with white highlights, except on ff. 238r-241v, gold on blue and brown with white highlights. 1-line initials in blue with red penwork, or gold with black penwork, or black with a red stroke; a few spaces for such initials have not been filled. In the text, headings and marks for antiphons in red; in the calendar, headings for months, dates, and important feasts also in red. Line-fillers: two oblique lines, blue or gold, with dots attached., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf. Paste-decorated edges. Rebacked. Spine stamped with gold leaves and the words "GETEY BOEK".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, use of Rome
9. Missal (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [13--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.111
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a missal containing Palm Sunday and Feria II after Palm Sunday
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of rounded gothic script (littera textualis), a larger script for the lessons and prayers and a smaller script for chants., and Decoration: 2-line initials of prayers and lessons alternate red and blue; 1-line initials within lessons, of chants and the first letters following a 2-line initial are brown and yellow; rubrics written in a red cursive script; punctuated with the punctus; a contemporary hand has made corrections in black ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Missal (fragment).