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46. Sacramentary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.16
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing prayers for an unidentified Mass
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials alternate red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sacramentary (fragment).
47. Sermons, etc
- Creator:
- Conrad, of Saxony
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 468
- Image Count:
- 514
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (with parchment of poor quality for inner and outer bifolios of each gathering) of a collection of sermons and materials for the construction of sermons
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: unidentified crown in gutter., Script: Written by two scribes in Secretary script: Scribe 1 (pp. 1-141) uses a looped d; Scribe 2 (pp. 142-502) uses an unlooped d., Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, red with blue designs and vice versa throughout manuscript. Brackets, initial strokes and underlining, in red, throughout. Opening words or line of each sermon in a careful text hand., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in brown calf, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled title ("Sermones") on spine; dark blue cloth sides. Impression of oval label in upper register of spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Conrad, of Saxony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, etc
48. Speculum humane salvationis, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 27
- Image Count:
- 216
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of Speculum humane salvationis. With Pseudo-Bonaventura, Meditationes de passione Christi
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in similar gothic textura bookhands. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-90v) in brown ink. Scribe 2 (ff. 91r-104v) in a darker ink and more compressed script. A few marginal comments and corrections of 15th-16th centuries., The manuscript originally contained 192 miniatures, of which 29 have been entirely and 1 (f. 53r) partially removed. Those remaining are drawn in light brown ink and tinted in brown and yellow washes with touches of red. The miniatures on ff. 7r-38v have been redrawn in black ink by a second hand. A dirty tan ground has been added to miniatures on ff. 67v and 68r., 2-line calligraphic initials, blue, at the beginning of each chapter and "figura" or type (I-initials, 6-10 lines; at the bottom of the page, e.g., f. 29v, the I breaks and runs beneath the lowest line of text), with elaborate, angular penwork and flourishes, in red (some, e. g., ff. 17r and 21r, with faces). On ff. 91r-104v 2-line blue initials, plain; spaces for some initials, including a 6-line initial on f. 91r, left blank. 1-line red or blue initials, some of the blue with red penwork. Capital A's in each Amen alternate red and blue. Guide-letters for initials throughout. Paragraph marks, blue. Tituli, inscriptions in miniatures, chapter numbers, and pagination in red throughout. Guide-numbers for pagination still visible, especially on ff. 58v-60r., The parchment is worn and dirty, with many torn and slashed folios. Apart from the folios which are missing entirely, the upper portions (with miniatures) on ff. 47, 53 and 57 have been removed., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Dutch or German? Sewn on six double, tawed cords laced into beech boards and pegged in three holes. Endband cores laid in grooves and pegged. There is an inner cover of pink, tawed skin. Over this is a chemise of thin, white tawed skin stitched to a heavy outer, tawed pigskin cover which extends about 25 mm. at the head, 70 mm. at the fore-edge, and was whip-stitched at the edges. The tail edge has been cut down. Two straps are attached to the upper cover and tacked to the extending skin at the fore-edge with a narrow, tawed thong. There are two square marks where pins were attached to the lower cover. The original sewing cords have broken and have been replaced, a part of the book resewn, and part of the chemise pocket cut away. The ends of the fastening straps and the endbands are wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum humane salvationis, etc
49. Statuta collegii reginalis, etc
- Published / Created:
- 1704.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 11
- Image Count:
- 228
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of the Statutes of Queens College Cambridge. With an Epistle from Queen Elizabeth I dated 1570; the Academic Statutes of the University of Cambridge; and Interpretations of these statutes
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Script: Written by a certain Langwith according to a note on f. i recto; a fine calligraphic italic hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Written upside down in a brown calf, blind-tooled, ready-made blank book. Split along spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. and Queens' College (University of Cambridge)
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Statutes
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statuta collegii reginalis, etc
50. The Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ, etc
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450, between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 535
- Image Count:
- 302
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends incomplete in I.4. Part II: The Thirty-Nine Articles (doctrinal formulas accepted by the Church of England), articles 1-19 only, in diagram form, all pages being organized in three sections titled "the truth", "the creed", and "errors".
- Alternative Title:
- Meditationes vitae Christi. English
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., Majuscules are heightened in red (?) up to f. 8v. Red paragraph marks (?). Plain red 2- to 4-line initials. A 4-line red (?) flourished initial with rather coarse penwork in (?), including a human head and a fish, on f. 1r., and Two parchment fly-leaves of the original binding are inserted after f. 100: they have been taken from a 13th-century manuscript and contain fragments of Codex Iustiniani, VI.3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Church of England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ, etc
51. Three minor Latin poets
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 513
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (low quality) of 1) Theodulus (10th century?), Ecloga. With an unidentified commentary. 2) Avianus, Fabulae, with interlinear and marginal glosses. 3) Maximianus (6th century), Elegiae. The final verses (VI.4-12) are lost
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: The text is probably written by a single scribe in a rather irregular Gothica Textualis Libraria, the marginal and interlinear commentaries in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Currens (Anglicana)., Red plain initials and heightening of majuscules., The first and last folios are badly damaged and defective, making reading hard or impossible. The outer margin of ff. 16, 24 and 25 cut off., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Parchment over cardboard, far too large for the manuscript. The cover is an 18th-century (?) English document, the text turned inside.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Avianus., Maximianus, 6th cent., and Theodulus, active 9th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin poetry, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Three minor Latin poets
52. William Camden commonplace book
- Creator:
- Camden, William, 1551-1623
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 370
- Image Count:
- 454
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of material copied primarily by William Camden, antiquary and historian (1551-1623), from documents, 14th-16th centuries, that were in the Tower of London and in the College of Arms. Some selections are from official records, others are from private papers that were deposited in the Office of Arms. The manuscript is composed of four parts, the first two of which are laid in.
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified design, Part I; Briquet Lion 10555 and similar to Briquet Pot 12736, Part II; unidentified grapes and Briquet Lion 10555, Parts III, IV., Script: Written primarily by William Camden in several styles of cursive., Edges of some leaves crumbled and torn, with loss of text., and Binding: Date? Broken limp vellum case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Camden, William, 1551-1623.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Camden commonplace book