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
Manuscript fragment (4 leaves), on parchment, of the volume known as the "Whitby Psalter."
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous geometric line fillers in red, blue and burnished gold. Numerous small initials in blue with red penwork or burnished gold with blue penwork at the openings of verses. Three leaves contain four large initials in burnished gold and colors, three further decorated with a bird figure.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Psalters, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois
Description:
In Middle High German., Script: written in a gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red uncials; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; the text is not written according to lines of verse.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wirnt, von Grafenberg, active 13th century.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, German literature, and History and criticism
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm, 249.9-253.22 and 262.23-267.8; the text is not continuous, one bifolium missing between leaves
Description:
In German., Script: Written in gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red; first letters of verses touched with red., and Removed from a binding: text suffers from holes, stains, and creases.
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 479
Container / Volume:
Box 5
Image Count:
502
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 479
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
262
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 479
Container / Volume:
Box 3
Image Count:
532
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
Description:
For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
Copied by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in A.H. 660 (A.D. 1261 or 1262).
Description:
On the scribe, cf. Huart, Les calligraphes et les miniaturistes de l'Orient Musulman, Paris, 1908, p. 84 ff., Pasted in is an ALS by Richard J.H. Gottheil in October 29, 1931 to Henry Fletcher describing this manuscript., Calligraphic microscopic naskhī, in red and black; ʻunwān in blue and gold on leaf 1 verso., Islamic binding, much younger, gilt, with flap., Colophon: "Katabahu Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī sanat sittīn wa-sittimiʼah.", and Translation of the colophon: "Written by Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī in the year 660 [of the Hijrah = 1261/1262]."
Subject (Name):
Fletcher, Henry Prather, 1873-1959., Gottheil, Richard J. H. 1862-1936. (Richard James Horatio),, and Yāqūt al-Mustaʻṣimī, -1299?