Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of Judges 5:5-6; 6:6; and 10:7-11:26. The leaf originally formed part of a manuscript known as the Werden Heptateuch.
Description:
Byname: Werden Heptateuch (Fragment)., Formerly owned by E. A. Lowe; Estelle Doheny. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 25 lines each., Leaf recovered from a binding., Script: Anglo-Saxon miniscule., and Small part of conjugate leaf still present.
Subject (Geographic):
Werden (Essen, Germany)
Subject (Name):
Doheny, Estelle,--1875-1958--Ownership., Lowe, E. A.--(Elias Avery),--1879-1969--Ownership., and Reichsabtei Werden.
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, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours.
Description:
Decoration: historiated initial "B" with a miniature of two souls borne to heaven by two angels, gilt; wide decorated border of blue and green acanthus with flowers and fruits, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 17 lines., and Script: gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Bruges (Belgium)
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium--Bruges--15th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a book of hours according to the Use of Sarum. The Latin text is followed by a brief treatise in Middle English on prayer, titled "Here begynneth in what man[ner] preyer sholde be vsed." The volume concludes with prayers in Latin and Middle English.
Alternative Title:
Book of hours
Description:
Binding: modern red velvet; red morocco box., Calendar contains three notes concerning births and a marriage of Cheyne family members., Decoration: three historiated initials with full-page borders; one smaller historiated initials and seven large foliate initials with borders. many smaller initals in gold with blue penwork or in blue with red penwork., Description of volume, in Latin, signed WA.1804 on recto of front flyleaf., Formerly owned by the Chenye (Cheney) family; Jone Ffyn; Henry Huth; Edward Cheney. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Ownership inscription of Jone Ffyn on verso of front flyleaf., and Script: gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church.--Book of hours. and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in a single hand, probably from an Anglo-Norman breviary.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Two illuminated initials with long marginal extensions; two smaller initials., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 25 lines., and Script: gothic.
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries--Early works to 1800., 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 a choir breviary, containing part of the offices for Epiphany.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in blue with red penwork. Large illuminated initial "A" with full border on verso, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 51 lines., Musical notation on four-line red staves., References to Thomas Becket struck through on verso., and Script: gothic liturgical hand.
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Musical notation--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaves, on parchment, in a single hand, from a text of Terence's Comedies.
Description:
Attributed to the Florentine scribe "Messer Marco" (Giovanni d'Astore?)., Decoration: initials in blue ink., From a manuscript previously owned by Otto Ege. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30 lines., and Script: humanist script.
Subject (Name):
Terence.
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a portion of Seneca, De Beneficiis, Book 4, Chapter 7.
Description:
Decoration: initial E in red ink with green tendrils., From the collection of A. G. and M. Hammond, MS 29 (2). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 27 lines., Page is trimmed slightly at one edge, affecting the text., and Script: copied by one hand in Praegothica.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers., Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown., Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown., Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law., Layout: double columns of 47 lines each., Previously owned by Thomas Thorpe; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 2316); George Dunn; Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 2014 July 16, lot 3) on the Edward J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., Script: gothic textura., Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf., and Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons.
Subject (Name):
Bright, Allan Heywood,--1862-1941--Bookplate., Dunn, George,--1864-1912--Bookplate., Grosseteste, Robert,--1175?-1253., and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Ten commandments--Early works to 1800.