- 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
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1510]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 9
- Image Count:
- 528
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a book of hours in the Premonstratensian use
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single copyist in two sizes of liturgical gothic script., One miniature, f. v verso: Saul on the Road to Damascus, an addition (between 1500 and 1510) of fair quality, in an arched frame, brown and gold; a scatter border of flowers and insects on a beige ground, brown edging. Large initials, one (f. 4r) 8-line (45 x 45 mm.) on burnished gold with tooling, the others either on burnished gold with tooling (ff. 1r, 38r, 72v, 127v) or on pink and blue grounds (ff. 154r, 161r, 193v), set in full scatter borders of acanthus twigs (either gold with pink and brown or red, blue, and/or pink), flowers and, in some cases, birds, over compartmentalized (blue/gold, pink/beige, blue/dark blue, beige/brown), beige and parchment (with and without a background of black pen flecks) grounds; some borders without bounding lines. On f. 1r, an unidentified coat of arms in each corner of the border. Upper left and lower right, sable, in chief 2 wreaths vert with dots gules and or, in base a rose per pale gules and argent, barbed vert, seeded or. Upper right, or, a bear (?) rampant argent, langued gules. Lower left, ermine, a fess gules with 4 plates, cottised sable. Small initials, 3-line, gold, either filled with pink with gold filigree on a blue ground decorated with acanthus and black flecks, or filled with blue on a pink ground decorated with black filigree; some with additional flowers or pink and blue acanthus; all associated with short border strips, as above. Numerous 3- and 4-line initials, blue, filled with red curling acanthus drawn in pen, surrounded by red or crimson penwork. 2- and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout., Pieces of the illuminated borders have been cut from ff. 4, 38, 127, 154, and 193. Ink has run or been rubbed in several places, including ff. v verso and 1r., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into wooden boards. The book is so tightly bound that it is impossible to determine whether or not the sewing is original. No endband grooves. Edges gilt. Covered in dark brown calf with a panel stamp of the Virgin and Child on a crescent, within a flambent aureole in the center of each board, hearts pierced with an arrow and a dagger (?) in a diamond, stars in circles above and below the central stamp, all within a vine scroll border. Traces of one fastening, two later fastenings added. Rebacked, very possibly by the binder who rebacked MS 7 as there is a similar, unusual, endcap treatment.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church and Premonstratensians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, Premonstratensian use
- Creator:
- Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609
- Published / Created:
- 1583-1588.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 620
- Image Count:
- 276
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks) of Georg Rollenhagen (1542-1606), Isagoge in astrologiam. This manuscript is apparently the autograph of the Astrologia iudiciaria sive genethliacum reported to have been composed by this German evangelical minister, rector of the Gymnasium at Magdeburg and poet
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Script: Apparently copied by one hand writing a small Humanistica Cursiva Currens in many different forms, often difficult to decipher. Headings in the same script or in fancy capitals. The passages in German are in Gothica Cursiva Currens., Astrological diagrams, tables and calculations, all like the text of a rapid execution., and Binding: Original half binding of blind-tooled white pigskin decorated with rolls, the covers in an unorthodox way covered with green-blue blind-tooled parchment (?). On the front cover the gold-tooled initials "IMD" and the date "1599". Spine with three raised bands, with the number "10" painted in red in the second compartment. At the top illegible title label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rollenhagen, Georg, 1542-1609.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, German literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Isagoge in astrologiam
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 122
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (lightweight and brittle) of Lutheran Church, Sacramentarium et Collectae
- Description:
- In German., Watermarks buried in gutter and obscured by text., Script: Written in gothic textura and cursive by many scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-17v) writes in a large gothic textura. Scribe 2 (ff. 18r-27r) writes in an even cursive script. Other cursive hands make notes and additions on ff. 1r-27r, and are intermingled in the text of ff. 27v-42v., Elaborate capitals on ff. 1r-17v, all by the first scribe, in brown ink. On ff. 18r-26v, headings in gothic textura, square capitals, or humanistic script, above the cursive text. Musical notation on a 5-line staff on ff. 15r-16v (the Lord's Prayer)., Most of the folios are now detached from the binding; some attempt was made to repair this, using paper strips. Margin of f. 1 repaired; does not affect the text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgies, Lutheran Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sacramentarium et collectae