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1. Brut chronicle, etc
- 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
2. Decretals and letters
- Creator:
- John XXII, Pope, -1334
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1325]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 645
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment (2 bifolia) of Decretals and letters, primarily of Pope John XXII, with a register of letters (1299) of Pope Boniface VIII
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: several scripts evident, from formal gothic bookhand to cursive., and Illuminated initials in red, blue, and violet. Paragraph marks in red and blue.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303. and John XXII, Pope, -1334.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papacy, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Decretals and letters
3. Flores Grammaticae (fragment).
- Creator:
- Ludolphus, de Luco
- Published / Created:
- [13--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.109
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Flores Grammaticae of Ludolf de Luco of Hildesheim
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: main text written in gothic script (littera textualis); the commentary is added in a contemporary or slightly later hand in littera cursiva currens, both marginally and interlinearly., and Decoration: 1-line initials of each verse are in brown filled with red and are written with the text inside the single bounding line; there are frequent paragraph marks in red preceding the initials outside the bounding line; punctuated with the punctus; the commentary also has paragraph marks in red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Grammar, Comparative and general, History, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Flores Grammaticae (fragment).
4. Historiae Alexandri Magni (fragment).
- Creator:
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1390 and 1410].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.7
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown capitals; there are brief notes on the text written in the margin in a cursive humanistic script of the fifteenth century; punctuated with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. and Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, History, and Historiography
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historiae Alexandri Magni (fragment).