- Published / Created:
- [between 1575 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 656
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (thick) of methods and examples of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and the rule of three
- Description:
- In Italian., Watermark: shield with kneeling man holding cross?. Similar to Briquet 7629?., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Formata., A few geometrical figures., Pages slightly damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Original limp parchment, a large circle traced with a sharp pencil on the front cover, a group of small circles in the form of a cross on the rear cover. At the top left corner of the front cover a paper label with the 16th-17th century inscription in Humanistica Cursiva: "Mathematicorum. Anonymi arithmetica manu scripta linguae Italicae". On the spine is written in the same type of script "Aritmetica" and, at the top, the letter "A".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arithmetica pratica
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2.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 440
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium of Mark 15.46-16.20; text is continuous
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in large uncial script, with very fine strokes for vertical lines of N and for triangular shaped bow of a., and Unpainted initial, 2-line, on f. 1r, with rope and fish motif.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 485.2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Feria II throughout the year, lauds
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 2-line initial "S" at the beginning of the hymn is in olive-green, green, and red with white filigree and is filled with purple, blue, and red foliage decorated with white filigree; the initial is on a gold ground outlined in black and is surrounded by green, blue, and orange foliage that extends into the margin with gold balls; 1-line initials alternate blue and red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Bede
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 518
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf of Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. The fragment contains Ps. 77:68-78:13, PL 93.909-914. The lemmata are announced by means of paragraph marks in the shape of gallows. There are many corrections; additions are written in the upper margins or vertically in the intercolumnar space, in the same way as in MS 517
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a careful small late Carolingian script., The upper corners and the lower part of the leaf have been trimmed with loss of text., and The fragment was used as cover for a binding of a 16th-century book, f. 1v being the outer side. On what was the spine a handwritten title is vaguely legible "SCHOLIA SAL*** TAN*"; on the front cover the letters "M C E //" and the date "15//" are stamped.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Bede.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Psalmos
- Creator:
- John, of Wales, -approximately 1285
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 509
- Image Count:
- 318
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of John Waleys (John of Wales, Iohannes Gallensis), Communiloquium sive summa collationum ad omne genus hominum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria which, however, differs from Rotunda by the absence of Textus Praescissus features. A few rubrics are added in Gothica Cursiva, e.g. ff. 63v and 64v. Instructions for the rubricator are written in thin Gothica Cursiva Currens in the lower margins, mostly lost due to trimming., Headings in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. The decoration consists of (1) alternately red and blue flourished initials, 2 lines; (2) flourished litterae duplices, 3-5 lines, at the opening of the Distinctiones; they have marginal extensions ("J-staves") in pen and ink over the full height of the text area; (3) on f. 4r a damaged foliate initial on a gold, red and blue background, containing a hybrid, with floral extensions featuring a hybrid head and a hybrid. On f. 37r there is a coarse pen and ink drawing of a sword in the margin, probably related to a Hermogenes quotation in the text about murder., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Sprinkled brown leather over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with blind fillets. Spine with five raised bands and two gold-tooled red leather title-labels with the inscriptions "MS. VALLENS. COMMUNILOQ." and "TRACT. DE RE PUBLICA." Red edges. The spine was reinforced by means of two strips of parchment from an English archival document (ca. 1500) in which the names William Holborn, Robert Ball "nuper de Letheringham" and others appear.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- John, of Wales, -approximately 1285. and Franciscans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Preaching, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Communiloquium
- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 234
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in less formal scripts., 8 large initials, 10- to 7-line, of poor quality, pink against gold ground thickly edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, green, orange, and yellow on blue ground. Foliage serifs, pink, blue, orange and yellow with white filigree extending into margins to form partial borders. Gold balls, thickly edged in black. Numerous small initials, 5- to 3-line, pink against gold ground edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, orange and yellow on blue ground. Numerous flourished initials, 2- to 1-line, alternate in red and blue with brown or red penwork. Headings in red by at least two rubricators. Paragraph marks in blue for chapters in tables preceding each book; in red and blue for text., Folio 1r damaged with some loss of text. Most of the decoration is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown leather case, blind- and gold-tooled. Title (citing portion of table of contents for Book II, f. 1r) on spine: "De institutis/ antiquis/ de disciplina/ militari/ de iure" and "Triumphandi".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facta et dicta memorabilia
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 501
- Image Count:
- 271
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria (Rotunda), especially marked by the use of two forms of d (Uncial and Half-Uncial)., Headings in red. The decoration consists of (1) alternately gold and blue flourished initials, 1 line, within the text and in the Litany; the penwork is mauve with the gold initials, red with the blue ones; (2) dentelle initials, 2 lines, also used for "KL" in the Calendar; (3) decorated foliate initials, 5 lines, with full "Ferrarese" borders, painted at the beginning of the Hours from Lauds to Compline in the Hours of the Virgin; (4) large historiated initials, mostly 7 lines, at the opening of the various sections: f. 13r (Hours of the Virgin), Virgin with Child, full border with in its lower section a shield held by two putti; f. 93r (Penitential Psalms), King David in prayer, full border; f. 117v (Hours of the Cross), the Cross on a hill, two-margins border; f. 122r (Hours of the Holy Spirit), the Holy Spirit as a dove, two-margins border; f. 126r (Mass of the Virgin), a lily, full border., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Parchment checkered with green-gold motifs. On the spine red title-label with gold-tooled inscription "Manuscrit du XIIIe siecle".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, use of Rome
- Creator:
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1531-1535]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 727
- Image Count:
- 18
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), Laudum inter papam Clementem et illustrissimum Ducem ferrariae, the arbitration of the conflict between Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici, 1523-1534) and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1505-1534), Ghent, 1531 April 21.
- Description:
- In Latin and Italian., Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva., Contemporary copy of the charter, granted by Charles V, Roman Emperor (1500-1558), by which he arbitrated in the conflict between Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici, 1523-1534) and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1505-1534), Ghent, 1531 April 21., and Binding: the leaves are part of a volume formerly in the possession of Thomas Phillipps, containing mostly copies of documents related to the affairs of the Medici dukes of Tuscany Alessandro (1531-1537), Cosimo I (1537-1574) and Ferdinand I (1587-1609).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and D'Este, Alfonso
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Laudum inter papam Clementem et illustrissimum Ducem ferrariae
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 651
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of assorted works by Cicero with additional texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: 1) Human bust, var. Briquet 15599?. 2) Balance, var. Piccard, Waage 1.78?. (3) Crown, unidentified?., Script: Written by two scribes, one writing in Italian Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria and the other in a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata with numerous decorative hairlines., Red paragraph marks. Art. 3 has yellow heightening of the majuscules, a 2-line and a 3-line flourished initial in red, blue and yellow. In art. 1 the majuscules are heightened in red; there are plain red initials in art. 5, but its decoration is not consistent., and Binding: Damaged original binding in deerskin over heavy almost unbevelled wooden boards. Parchment pastedowns, the front one detached from the board. On the front cover inscription in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, worn and difficult to decipher. On the spine a 17th-century paper label with the number "2760" and the title "Huma (?)......Marci Tulii de amicitia manu scripta". Marks of two leather straps fixed to the front cover, the pin holes visible in the rear cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opusculum de vitiis
10.
- Creator:
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Published / Created:
- 11th or 12th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 673
- Image Count:
- 186
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various hands writing a small late Carolingian script. Folios 24v-25r have been erased, ruled again in lead and rewritten by a 13th century hand using Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the top 10 lines of f. 41r appear to be rewritten over erasure by one of the main hands. Headings, explicits and incipits in display script heightened with red. Red heightening of the opening majuscules of the verses and of the paragraph marks., Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia). The text is incomplete due to the loss of two quires in the middle and two leaves at the end. Marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections date from the 12th-15th centuries. There are running headlines “I”, “II”, “III” etc. on the recto pages up to f. 56. The manuscript also contains a fictitious epitaph of Lucan., The manuscript contains two maps: (1) in the outer margin of f. 21v: schematic drawing coloured in red and yellow illustrating the fauces, lingua and cornua of the harbour of Brundisium; (2) in the outer margin of f. 87v: erased T-O map with the winds, uncoloured, illustrating the description of the world beginning., and Binding: English 19th century binding: brown leather over cardboard; on the spine the gold-tooled title “LUCANI / PHAR./ SALIA”. Marbled endleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pharsalia