Manuscript on parchment of Ps.-Joachim da Fiore, Vaticinia Pontificum. With additional prophetic texts including a Sibylline tract entitled De imperatore; and a Version of the "Tripoli" prophecy, added by a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand, here recorded as a vision in a Cistercian monastery in 1346.
Description:
15 small miniatures, 12-line, within narrow ochre frames inserted into text column, one for each prophecy in art. 3, ff. 15r-22r. The miniatures depict a cycle of Popes and city scapes with emblematic attributes against pink, blue and ochre grounds with small white filigree designs along the edges. Numerous flourished initials, 2-line, alternate in red and blue with purple or red penwork designs. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue., Binding: Fifteenth century (?). Tacketed through a limp vellum (palimpsest?) wrapper to thick leather pads with a basket weave around the sewing threads. Contemporary title in ink, on front: "De imperatore." Backs of quires cut in for sewing., Binding: Place uncertain, s. xv [?]. Tacketed through a limp vellum (palimpsest?) wrapper to thick leather pads with a basket weave around the sewing threads., Contemporary title in ink, on front: "De imperatore., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Arts. 2-4 written in neat gothic bookhand. Art. 1 in a less formal bookhand and art. 5 in a notarial hand with various flourishes.
Subject (Name):
Joachim,--of Fiore,--ca. 1132-1202
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Papacy--History, Prophecies--Early works to 1800, and Visions--Early works to 1800
Used as binding for Galeatii Capellae De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo : habes in hisce libris ... quicquid bellorum in tota Italia ab anno Domini M.D.XXI. usque ad annum M.D.XXX. inter Pontificem, Gallum, Venetos, & Caesarum gestum est ...
Manuscript on parchment of two sections of Jacques de Longuyon's Voeux du paon
Description:
In French., Script: copied by a single hand writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. 2-line half inset flourished initials alternately in red and blue, respectively with purple and red penwork extending into the margin. At the opening of the second section, a 6-line littera duplex with penwork. At the opening of the first section, a half-page miniature in three compartments in a decorative frame: at left a tent in which two knights in armour are seated; in the center a tent with two ladies standing; at right Alexander and Cassamus. Under the miniature 14 lines of text, opening with a 5-line foliate initial ending in a bar in the left margin, continued with a foliate bar border in the lower and the right margins; the horizontal section ends at left in the head, forelegs and wings of a monster; at right a bird is sitting., Two sections of the poem "Voeux du paon" by Jacques de Longuyon, composed 1312-1313., and Binding: 18th century. French dark olive green morocco gilt, lined with pink silk. Bound by Bisiaux (his ticket); arms of Edward Vernon Utterson on covers. Folio 8 is bound between ff. 1 and 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacques, de Longuyon, active 1290-1312.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad, d. 1108 or 9
Published / Created:
[13--?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 165
Image Count:
43
Abstract:
Handbook of rhetoric. and Incomplete at end (probably 1 leaf missing).
Alternative Title:
Kitāb min kalām al-Rāghib fī al-badīʻ.
Description:
For the author see Brockelmann, I, 288-89., Marginalia., Old (14th century?) calligraphic naskhī., and Title, as above, supplied by C. Landberg; leaf 1 recto reads: Kitāb min kalām al-Rāghib fī al-badīʻ.
Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium and rhetorical works (23 pieces).
Description:
"The recovery of a fifteenth-century schoolmaster's book": Beinecke MS 3, no. 34, Voights and Shailor: Yale University Library Gazette, LX, (1985) pp. 11-31. and Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a binding.