Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript fragment on parchment of capitula, possibly from a breviary containing among others: Capitula for sext of Pentecost; Capitula for an unidentified office; capitula for unidentified Feria II-VI; capitula for an unidentified Saturday; Capitula from Isaiah 33.2 and Romans 10.13.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule bordering on early gothic., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in red; rubrics written in red minuscule; the rubrics on fol. 2r are in a fifteenth-century hand; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; accents are in the same ink as the text.
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on Romans, begins imperfectly at 1. 24; missing Romans 9.17-21 (and portions of 9.16, 22). 2) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on 1 Corinthians; missing 7.39-15.44. 3) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on 2 Corinthians; ends abruptly at 12.20.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by three scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-2v; 2) 3r-22v, 51r-71v; 3) ff. 22v-50v, 72r-96v., Large elegant initial, 26-line, in red penwork, on f. 72r; smaller similar initial, 16-line, in green with red highlights, also on f. 72r; simple decorative letters, 14- and 6-line, green and red respectively, on f. 51r. Quotations from Bible and marginal notes referring to authors cited, in red. Modern illuminated title page inserted as f. iii: "Catena Commentariorum S. S. Patrum, in Epistolis ad Romanos et Corinthios. M. S. Saeculi XIV"., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Russia leather, blind-tooled, over wooden boards; 4 metal bosses on each cover; leather thong.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Robert, of Bridlington, 1167.
Subject (Topic):
Catenae, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
9 manuscript charters, on parchment, all with seals. 1) Grant by Richard Aberbas to William de Ingelfeld [Englefield] of a meadow in the village of Berehefeld [Burghfield] in Berkshire, for an annual rent of 4d., ca. 1190. 2) Grant by William de Middelwod, vicar of Altarnum, to John of Exeter, Canon of St. Peter's Cathedral in Exeter, of a tenement extending from the main street of Exeter to the barbican of the Exeter Castle. Witnessed by 9 citizens of Exeter, including the mayor, John de Fenton, and the bailiff, William de Okemtom [Okehamton], 1279-1280. 3) Quitclaim from Robert Patrick de Malo [de Malpas] to William Maillard of Sutton, granting relief from all customary services formerly performed by Maillard for three caructates of land at Kagworth in Sutton, including plowing, reaping, and haymaking, in return for one horseshoe. Witnessed by several residents of Sutton, ca. 1200. 4) Indenture grant by John of Exeter, Master of St. John's Hospital, to Philip de Zelebregg of a heritable tenement in Smezenestrete in Exeter. Witnessed by several citizens of Exeter, including John de Godessalve, bailiff, 1284 Oct. 18. 5) Grant by Aymeric de St. Maur, Master of the Knights of the Temple in England, to Henry de Wethelesburghe of all the lands in Wethelesburghe (Wellesbourne in Warwickshire) held by the English Chapter of the Knights, for the rent of 5 marks of silver per year and one third of Henry's chattel at his death. Witnessed by 9 members of the English Chapter, ca. 1200. 6) Royal license by Edward I for John de Methelwold, permitting him to grant a messuage in Methwold in Norfolk to Bromehill Priory. Issued at Westminster, 1293 Jun 14. 7) Confirmatory charter by Roger de Mowbray of a gift of lands to the Cistercians of Fountains Abbey. De Mowbray confirms the original gift of the lands in Nutwith (Yorkshire) by their holder in service, Richard de Hedon, as a grant in free alms in perpetuity and quitclaims the annual rent of a pound of pepper. Witnessed by several residents of Kirkby Malzeard, ca. 1181. 8) Confirmatory charter by Ranulf de Blundevill, Earl of Chester, of several gifts of land to the Premonstratensian canons of Newhouse (Lincolnshire). The Earl confirms gifts of land made by several of his men in fee and offers his formal protection to the canons and their house. Witnessed at Maidenwell, ca. 1199. 9) Confirmatory charter by Pope Honorius IV to the Prior and Priory of St. Swithun's in Winchester concerning an agreement about a pension of 40s. awarded to the Rector of Little Hinton in Wiltshire, originally made before Robert of Bingham, Bishop of Salisbury, with the consent of William of Raleigh, Bishop of Winchester. Issued at St. Sabina, Rome, 1286 May 6.
Description:
Finding aid available. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650., De Mowbray, Roger., Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Honorius IV, Pope, d. 1287., Ranulf, de Blundevill, Earl of Chester, ca. 1172-1232., Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)., Exeter Cathedral., Fountains Abbey (West Riding of Yorkshire)., and Priory of St. Swithun.
Subject (Topic):
Cistercians, Knights of Malta, Premonstratensians, Templars, Monasticism and religious orders, Monasteries and state, Administration of estates, Church lands, and Land tenure
Manuscript, on parchment, in unidentified hand of the Chirurgia (ff. 1r-25r) and the anonymous Chirurgia Salernitana or Bamberg Surgery (ff. 26r-41r).
Alternative Title:
Chirurgia : Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", Chirurgia, Chirurgia Salernitana "Bamberg", and Bamberg Surgery
Description:
In Latin., First title from title page. Second title assigned by cataloger., Script: late carolingian minuscule., Decoration: ff. 1r-25r: one large twenty-line red initial; one- to three-line red initials with decorative flourishes. Ff. 26r-41r: one three-line red initial with gold background and blue floral decorations, two-line alternating red and blue initials. Rubrication throughout., Layout: ff. 1r-25r: 1 column of around 4o lines; ff. 26r-41r: 1 column of 33 lines., Binding: original wooden boards covered with tawed sheepskin. Cover has title and notarial sign in black ink. Remnants of 2 fore edge clasps closing to back cover., Bound with 14th-century fragment used as front pastedown, containing Ps-Bartholoaeus Mini De Senis's Tractatus de Herbis. Incipit: debent poni in ... Explicit: Syr[upus] acetos[us] val[et]., Place of production: origin said to be Italian. However, paleographical evidence points to a German origin. Fore edge clasps closing to back cover points to Spanish or Southern French origin of binding., and Available also on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Surgery, Medieval