Manuscript on paper of Jacobus de Vitriaco, Historia Hierosolymitana Abbreviata, book 1 (the "Historia Orientalis").
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Southern Germany or Austria. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges to channels on the outside of flush beech boards and pegged twice. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with a rope-work flower in a central panel which is divided in three, the upper and lower sections divided into triangles; the whole panel within a rope interlace border. Spine: bands outlined with triple fillets. Two fastenings, now wanting, the lower board cut in to accomodate them., One illuminated intial, f. 1r, 18-line, dark green with stylized foliage in light green with yellow shading against red with gold filigree and gold ground edged dark and light grey. Foliage serifs, blue, green, pink, red, and grey with gold balls and gold accents extending into the upper, inner, and outer margins to form a partial border of attenuated and stylized curling leaves. One flourished initial, 5-line, blue with red penwork, f. 5v. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Headings in red for table and a few chapters; most spaces left unfilled by rubricator., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a well formed hybrida script by a single scribe., and Watermarks: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.749, XIII.771, and similar to XI.226.
Subject (Name):
Jacques,--de Vitry,--ca. 1170-1240
Subject (Topic):
Crusades--13th-15th centuries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? Rufus, Sextus
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 742
Image Count:
159
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Paulus Diaconus (d. after 744), Historia Romana (adaptation and continuation of Eutropius [4th century], Breviarium ab Urbe condita), with the additional Book 17. 2) Festus (4th century), Breviarium historiae Romanae.
Alternative Title:
Paulus Diaconus, Festus
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth-century. Brown-black marbled paper over pasteboard., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, San Francisco (MS 40). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Numerous underlinings and contemporary marginal captions and notes in Gothica Semihybrida Currens throughout the manuscript, written by probably two German readers. Pointing hands., Pale red headings. Gothic calligraphic initials in brown ink of various sizes, with guide-letters in the left margin: 3 lines at the head of each paragraph (art. 1 only), 6-7 lines at the opening of each Book., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under Gothic influence (d mostly Uncial)., and Watermark: crossbow (?).
Subject (Geographic):
Rome -- History
Subject (Name):
Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? Historia Romana and Rufus, Sextus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of homilies. Written as part (ff. 154-177) of a codex intended for recitation: a series of accents added in a contemporary hand act as an aid for pronunciation
Alternative Title:
Omelie
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Half bound in black goatskin with black cloth sides and gold tooling on the spine, including: "Omelie" and "MS. Saec. XI"., Plain initials, 2-line, in red and/or brown. Headings in red. Instructions for rubricator and guide letters., Purchased in 1956 from Arthur Rau of Paris by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a late caroline minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on two parchment bifolia (thick) of Priscian, Institutiones, containing the conclusion of Bk. III (chs. 34-44) and part of Bk. IV (chs. 9-20). The text here is accompanied by modest contemporary interlinear glosses, primarily in Latin with a few in Breton.
Description:
Binding: Unbound; boxed. Two disbound bifolia removed from unidentified binding; originally cut in at five supports and kettle stitches. Discoloration from turn-ins and traces of boss attachments., Heading touched with red and enclosed in a red rectangle. Initial letters stroked with red or yellow (faded)., Leaves stained and affected by pen trials., and Script: Written in elegant caroline minuscule script. Heading on f. 2v in rustic capitals.
Subject (Name):
Priscian,--fl. ca. 500-530
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Filetico, Martino, ca. 1430-ca. 1490 George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 93
Image Count:
92
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (speckled) of George of Trebizond, Isagoge dialectica. With Extracts from Aristotle, De sophisticis elenchis, in an unidentified Latin translation; logical and syllogistic diagrams; Martinus Phileticus (ca. 1430-ca. 1490), 14-line poem to Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino, written in the hand of the author.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and nailed. The spine is lined with leather between sewing supports. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues and blind-tooled with concentric frames, one filled with rope interlace, and a rope interlace square on a point in the central panel. Annular dots are colored with gold or copper, now green. Spine: very faint diapering with triple fillets. There are five round bosses on each board and two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper one cut in for fabric straps. The front board is detached; one boss wanting., One illuminated initial of poor quality, gold, 3-line, on blue, green, and pink ground. Rubrics and marginal key words (for ff. 1r-6r, 31r only) in pale red. Plain blue intials in art. 2; red or blue elsewhere., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Art. 1 in a small and regular Greek minuscule script; arts. 2-6 in humanistic cursive script, below top line, by a single scribe who also added marginalia; art. 7 in humanistic cursive by a different scribe.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, Federico,--da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino,--1422-1482, and George,--of Trebizond,--1396-1486
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Logic--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent. Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
Published / Created:
ca. 1400
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 406
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
Description:
Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415 Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
Published / Created:
[ca. 1441]
Call Number:
Marston MS 140
Image Count:
273
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of four parts. Part I (ff. 1-13): Calendar, etc. Part II (ff. 14-138): Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. Part III (ff. 139-173): Anonymous letter to John Huss written after the Council of Constance; 35 articles of erroneous dogmatic teaching of the Greek church, written in the circle of the papal court during the endeavour to reconcile the Greek and Roman Churches at the Councils of Ferrara and Florence (1437-39). Part IV (ff. 174-269): Latin-German vocabulary.
Description:
Binding: Ca. 1500 (?), Austria. Parchment stays from early manuscripts in center of quires. Original (?) sewing on three tawed skin, double, twisted sewing supports laced into grooves in flush wooden boards and fastened with square pegs. The grooves are filled in with glue. The spine is rounded and backed (naturally?) and back bevelled. A plain, wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core and also laced and pegged. The spine is lined with coarse cloth in the center and vellum at the ends, extending on the outside. Covered in plain, kermes pink, tawed skin (sheep?) possibly a later addition. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the upper board. There may have been a chain attachment at the head of the lower board. The insides of the boards have been varnished; off-set impressions of pastedowns from early manuscripts on both boards., Part I: KL in calendar in blue; other charts and diagrams in shades of red and black. Small plain initials, headings, initial strokes and underlining in red. Parts II and III: Red or blue initials, 4- to 3-line, some with simple designs. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining in red. Guide letters for decorator. Part IV: Plain initials, and initial strokes, in red, for ff. 174r-176r., Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written by a single hand in hybrida script., and Watermarks: unidentified mountain in gutter.
Subject (Name):
Council of Constance--(1414-1418), Council of Florence--(1438-1445), and Jacobus,--de Voragine,--ca. 1229-1298
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Latin language--Dictionaries--German, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
Manuscript on paper of a Lexicon Latino-Grecum. With an epigram of Hubertinus Clericus (Hubertinus de Crescentino), Professor of Rhetoric at Pavia and Milan.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy (Italo-Greek?). Own endleaves. Unusual sewing through three spine linings, the central one paper. An endband of two joined lines of chain stitching is sewn on a largely exposed leather core. The flush paste boards are held on by the cloth spine linings which extend on either side of them and are glued to them. Covered in brown goatskin with rope interlace crosses and random small tools. Traces of four ribbon ties., First initial for each letter of the Roman alphabet: plain red or blue majuscules, 4- to 2-line. On recto, all Latin words begin with bright blue 1-line initials, on verso all begin with bright red; color scheme reverses on f. 7v to end. Art. 2, f. 1r, in pale red., Purchased from B. Rosenthal in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin words written in humanistic bookhand; Greek words in a neat Greek minuscule., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar in general design to Briquet Couronne 4659; two unidentified serpents.
Greek language--Dictionaries--Latin--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts, of Leopold of Austria, Compilatio de astrorum scientia. Part II was copied to finish the incomplete text of Part I. and Ownership inscription on front pastedown indicatesthat the book belonged to Philippus Schoen, medical doctor and canon of thechurch of St. Victor at Xanten, who bequeathed the manuscript together withan astrolabe to the convent of nuns at Sousbeek.
Alternative Title:
Compilatio de astrorum scientia
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Paper wrapper held by stitching at head and tail of spine and sewing around the edges of sides. Astronomical diagram and title in ink on upper side: "Astronomia Leupoldi ducis Austrie filij et cetera"., Part I: Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, for major text divisions. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, some punctuation, marginalia keyed to art. 1, all in red. Part II: Plain initials, 3-line, paragraph marks and initials strokes in red., Purchased from Nicolas Rauch of Geneva in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Part I (ff. i-vi and 1-83): Written in well formed hybrida script. Part II (pp. 1-76): Written in a small gothic bookhand with many initial letters of the opening word of each section of the text written in oversize majuscules., and Watermarks: Part I: unidentified letter P similar in general design to Piccard Buchstabe XIII. Part II: Briquet Coupe 4586.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval, Astronomy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library