Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of the biblical book of I Samuel.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., Script: written in a humanistic script., and These fragments, from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +4439 (Josephus, Opera), in which they are used as front and back flyleaves.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Job, containing portions of chapters 28 and 29.
Description:
Decoration: initials and rubrics in red; some interlinear corrections; horizontal catchwords visible on back cover., Script: written in caroline minuscule., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4153 (Leonardo de Utino, Quadragesimale aureum), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Vulgate--History, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Judges.
Description:
Decoration: alternating red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork; initials heightened in red; roman numerals in blue and red indicating chapter numbers., In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic bookhand., and These fragments are contained in Zi 3612.6 (Gianantonio Sangiorgio, Sermo de passione...), around which they are used as wrappers.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Vulgate, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Luke, containing verses 5:12-26.
Description:
Decoration: rubrics, initials, and chapter marks in red., In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +5140 (Roberto Caracciolo, Specchio della fede), in which the fragment is used as the front pastedown.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
Description:
Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support., Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., and Script: written in an unidentified script.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Marcus Marullus, Institutione bene beateque Vivendi
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Daniel, Chapter 3, verses 22-36.
Alternative Title:
Book of Daniel. Fragment of Ch. 3.22-36, in Beneventan script. In binding of Marcus Marullus, Institutione bene beateque Vivendi.
Description:
Binding: the 16th century binding, now detached, is plain parchment over pasteboard, sewn on three split leather thongs. On the spine is written in large Gothica Textualis Formata, the title “Marc. Marulus +”; on the lower edge in Capitalis: “M. Marull.”, In Latin., Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Two fragments from a manuscript on parchment, used, together with a few other small fragments of Latin manuscripts, for reinforcing the binding of a printed book: Marcus Marullus, De institutione bene beateque vivendi libri sex (Solingen, Iohannes Soter, 1540).
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Daniel, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names.
Description:
Binding: 19th century: calf over cardboard; both covers and spine, in six compartments, gold-tooled. Purple silk doublures., Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome; interpretations of the Hebrew names: Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, with additions in the margins and at the end; an alphabetical list of words with explanations and/or ethymologies; a table of Epistles, Gospels and other readings for the ecclesiastical year: Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of the Saints; and a list, in two columns, of the kings of Juda and Israel., and Script: probably copied by one hand in extremely small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Perlschrift). Article 3 is by a contemporary hand. Numerous historiated initials of various sizes with long vertical extensions.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of 1) Proverbs. 2) Ecclesiastes. 3) Canticles. 4) Wisdom of Solomon. 5) Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach. 6) Laurentius Valla (Lorenzo della Valle, 1407-1457), Encomium sancti Thomae Aquinatis. Oration pronounced 8 March 1457. 7) Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspare da Verona, c. 1400-1474), Oration held in the church of St. Eustachius, see of the Studio Romano, in October 1459 or 1469, dealing with rhetoric, Latin literature and the various sciences. 8) Gaspar Veronensis (Gaspare da Verona), Rhetorical models consisting of the opening sections of nine orations.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary binding without leather covers or spine: bevelled beach boards (too small for the codex), worm-eaten, sewn onto three double leather thongs; remains of one clasp attached to the front board, with brass catch on the rear board. Front endleaves: large fragment of a Latin document on parchment that mentions church officials, written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, dated 1431-1443. The rear endleaves are a fragment of a pattern sheet on parchment, probably from the papal chancery, containing short and longer quotations from papal bulls and other documents, some of doubtful authenticity, in various types of calligraphic script., ff. 66-69 blank and uncut., Script: Copied by two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria: A (ff. 1r-65r) and B (ff. 70r-78v)., and There is little consistency in the decoration. Headings, partly in Capitalis, in red or black (often missing). Opening words or lines in Capitalis. On f. 22v-26r the majuscules are stroked in red; plain red initials somewhat imitating Romanesque models ff. 22v-25r. All other initials (2-3 lines) have guide letters in the margin but were not executed. Curious pointing hands with sleeves in the margins of the Biblical texts.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare,--da Verona,--ca. 1400-1474 and Valla, Lorenzo,--1407-1457
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Rhetoric, Ancient, Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin (Medieval and modern), and Wisdom literature