- Published / Created:
- 16th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 558
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of short texts including a manual on the astrolabe, treatises on the zodiac, several horoscopes, and a map of England.
- Description:
- 1 map; parchment, some col.; 20.5 x 31 cm. and The manuscript is a composite of many separate treatises, some on paper,others on vellum, of varying sizes bound together. Bound in brown calf, gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England --Maps, Manuscript --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astronomical and astrological treatises
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 317
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional writings
- Creator:
- Gigli, Giovanni, d. 1498
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 25
- Image Count:
- 77
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Giovanni Gigli, Quaestiones de observantia quadragesimali
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Heawood 2473, 2475., Script: Written by a single scribe in English secretary script., Large crude initials, in red, at beginning of each section of text, accompanied by simple penwork designs in brown ink; paragraph marks in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords. No endbands. Cords laced through slanted round holes in oak boards. Covered in dark brown calf with traces of two sets of strap and pin fastenings, not contemporaneous, going from upper to lower board and vice versa. An outer covering of 19th century leather and marbled paper has been added. Sewing breaking. Covers lined with a parchment fragment of a Missal (England, 13th century); (front pastedown:) portions of the Gospel and the Secret for the Annunciation (25 March); (back pastedown:) portions from the Masses for the Nativity of John the Baptist (24 June), for John and Paul Martyrs (26 June), and for the Vigil of Apostles Peter and Paul (28 June).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gigli, Giovanni, d. 1498.
- Subject (Topic):
- Lent, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Quaestiones de observantia quadragesimali
- 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