- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 395
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 460
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality) of 1) Herman de Valenciennes, Bible. 2) Herman de Valenciennes, L'Assomption de Notre Dame. Often found, as here, following the poem on the Bible by the same author. 3) Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina clericalis, followed by three moral precepts. 4) Poem in Anglo-Norman on Genesis. 5) Robert de Ho, Les Enseignements de Robert de Ho. 6) Extract from the romance Partenopeus de Blois. 7) Vie de saint Eustache. 8) Letter of Prester John to Emperor Manuel Comnenus, tr. into Anglo-Norman verse by Raoul d'Arundel; this is the earliest translation of the letter (ante A.D. 1200), and the only one known in French verse. 9) Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire. 10) Notes on the influence of the moon. 11) Le voyage du Chevalier Owen au purgatoire de saint Patrice. 12) Wace, Roman de Brut. Some 15th-century glosses, in Middle English and Latin, occur in the text
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman and Latin., Script: Written by 6 scribes in large gothic bookhand. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-75r, 111r-130v, 153r-183v (characterized by decorative descenders in final line of text); Scribe 2: ff. 75r-97v (z with small horizontal crossbar); Scribe 3: ff. 98r-110r, 131r-152v, 189r-201v, 212v-216v (exaggerated ascenders in top line of text); Scribe 4: ff. 184r-188v; Scribe 5: second column of f. 201v (crude script); Scribe 6: ff. 202r-212r, 216v-224v (poorly formed)., 4-line initials, divided blue and red (ff. 111r, 153r, 189r), with penwork in red and blue or red only. 3- and 2-line initials, red with blue penwork or vice versa (quire VI lacks flourishes on initials). Paragraph marks in red or blue; some rubrics at beginning of articles. 1-line initials stroked with yellow or red. Ink drawings in margins include King Arthur (f. 189r)., Early repairs with parchment throughout; no loss of text. Waterstains, ff. 221v-224r. Rubbing on f. 224v has caused some loss of text in col. a., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced red/brown calf, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman poetry, Bestiaries, Christian poetry, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Romances, Anglo-Norman
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anglo-Norman poetry
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1330]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 143
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing prayers from before Matins. From the "Hungerford Hours."
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman French., Layout: single-column; 17 lines., Script: Gothic., Decoration: 5 illuminated initials with decorative extensions and decorative line fillers, with gilt., and Byname: Hungerford Hours.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of Hours and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (fragment)
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 86
- Image Count:
- 52
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Fragments of a Brut Chronicle. Begins imperfectly in chapter 36 (Constantine) and has several lacunae. The work ends in chapter 86 (beginning on f. 11r) with the thirty-first year of Edward III. With art. 3) A note (in Latin) stating that King Henry IV was consecrated in 1399 and documenting his descent from Adam. 4) A list (in Latin) of 86 kings (each numbered) from Brutus to Edward III. 5) Names of prisoners captured and killed at the battle of Poitiers (19 Sept. 1356). 6) Terms of the treaty of Bretigny (8 May 1360). 7) Parliamentary text
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc
- Creator:
- Peter, of Ickham, active 1290
- Published / Created:
- [between 1305 and 1330]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 5
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a version of Peter of Ickham's chronicle of English history. The narrative in this copy ends with 1301; this is followed by several brief entries in the same hand for events dated between 1287 and 1305
- Description:
- In Latin., Scribal explicit: "hic pennam fixi penitet me si male dixi.", Ownership inscription on front paper flyleaf: "Brudenell de Deen d[omi]nusque de Stonton.", Some marginal annotations, particularly in lower margins. Some of these have been trimmed; three leaves containing lower margin annotations have been left untrimmed and folded back, apparently in an effort to preserve the annotations (13r; 22r; 59r)., Two leaves bound in at the end of the volume contain passages from the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Ownership inscription on 1r in a later, (early seventeenth-century?) hand: "Mistresse Leucey Brudenell.", Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: rounded gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated., and Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, with the arms of the Brudenell family in gilt on the covers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Peter, of Ickham, active 1290.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern, Great Britain, History, and Kings and rulers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicon de regibus angliae
- 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
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 118
- Image Count:
- 250
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality) of Hugo Ripelin, Compendium theologicae veritatis. This text has been sometimes erroneously attributed to Albertus Magnus, Bonaventure or Thomas Aquinas
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line. Marginal notes in anglicana scripts., Flourished initials, 14- to 5-line, primarily blue with red and/or parchment designs (including circles), mark beginning of each book. Many blue initials with modest red penwork designs, 5- to 2-line. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, England. Brown, diced calf, gold-tooled. Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compendium theologicae veritatis
- Published / Created:
- 1391(?).
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 62
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a nearly contemporary copy of an extract from a Coram Rege Roll, involving Iohannes de Burgh, his wife Sibilla, and Nicholas de Burgh; concerns property dispute in West Bagborough (Somerset).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in English secretary script., and Badly mutilated with loss of text; stains along left margin suggest it formerly served as a flyleaf.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Connecticut, New Haven., and Somerset (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Common law, Legal documents, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Coram rege roll
- Creator:
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 373
- Image Count:
- 345
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script., Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines., and Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De summo bono and John of Wales, Communiloquium
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- Creator:
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 524
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on vellum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in English bookscript., Four initials in red and blue with penwork; red paragraph marks., and These 2 leaves appear to have been taken from a binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dicta
- Creator:
- Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 426
- Image Count:
- 199
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Matthew of Westminster, Flores historiarum. Written presumably at the Cluniac priory of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, Surrey
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in bold gothic textura; x is crossed., Rubrics, often accompanied by notes to rubricator in well formed current Anglicana script. Decorative initials not filled in. Numerous pen trials and crude drawings in margins (e.g., ff. 28r, 46v, 47r, 63r)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf with a gold-tooled title. Parchment flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) from a Missal (England, 15th century) much rubbed and worn, and with offset impression from original binding of corner tongues and four attachments. Gothic textura. Fine blue initials with intricate herringbone penwork designs in red. Headings in red; paragraph marks in blue.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Flores historiarum