Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., and Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red.
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 parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212., Contemporary accounts on f. 49v refer to one Jordanus de Walchelina, and to Rotbertus, Liulfus and Leofric. Partially effaced inscription on f. 49v indicates that Stefano Guarnieri (d. 1495) bought the manuscript in Rome in 1465 (see U. Nicolini, "Stefano Guarnieri da Osimo cancielliere a Perugia dal 1466 al 1488," L'umanesimo umbro: atti del XI convegno di studi umbri-Gubiio 22-23 settembre 1974 [Perugia, 1977] pp. 307-23)., On parchment., Purchased from Lathrop Harper in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands., Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins., and Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Victorinus, Marius and Victorinus, Marius. Explanationes in Ciceronis rhetoricam
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality; end pieces) of Boethius, De arithmetica. Text begins imperfectly in Bk. I, ch. 23.
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries, Eastern Europe (?). The back pastedown consists of a portion of a Latin parchment document dated 1374. Front pastedown removed and preserved as Marston MS 89A. Sewn on three supports laced into thick oak boards and wedged. Plain wound endbands on alum-tawed cores originally laced into the boards. Covered with parchment with irregularly serrated turn-ins, with a strap-and-pin fastening, the pin on the upper board. The codex has been so tightly rebacked that it is difficult to open., Parchment stained and warped by damp., Plain intials, 6- to 2-line, red, blue or black, occasionally with modest pen design in red (e.g., ff. 27v-28r). Numerous diagrams and charts throughout., Purchased from G. Heilburn of Paris in 1951 by L. C. Witten who sold it in 1953 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by multiple scribes (some copying or correcting only brief portions of text) in late caroline minuscule.
Subject (Topic):
Arithmetic--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., Binding: Twentieth-century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Kraus in memory of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1975., Gregory the Great, Dialogi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of varying quality, some parts very bad (quire IX), with irregular edges. Contains 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts incomplete I, 3, 2 and ends incomplete III, 24, 3 followed by the title of III, 25. Between ff. 13 and 14 a page is missing which contained Dialogi I, 9, 8-13. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints, containing 7 (?) Lessons. Above the line a twelfth-century hand has repeatedly identified the saint with St. Aderaldus archdeacon of Troyes (d. beginning of the 11th cent.). 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae. There are more than five scribes: A (Carolingian script with very imperfect word separation, s. X2); B (large and bold Carolingian script, s. X2); C (smaller Carolingian script, very close to B, or same hand); D (Praegothica, s. XII); E (various hands writing Praegothica and succeeding each other at irregular intervals)., and T. E. Marston, A Manuscript of the Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great, Gazette, 50 (1976), pp. 15-18.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church, I, Pope, Gregory, ca. 540-604, and Severus, Sulpicius
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
Ko mon-zho hari-maze byo-bu [28 original documents between 1192-1747, pasted upon screens.]
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letter by Nakahara no Kiyonari, the deputy of Harima's provincial governor, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated [Kenkyū sannen] hachigatsu nijūsannichi [Aug. 23, 1192]. Fourth manuscript on right-hand screen of original "Komonjo harimaze byōbu." and Letter by 中原清業, the deputy of Harima's provincial governor, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated [建久三年] 八月廿三日 [Aug. 23, 1192]. Fourth manuscript on right-hand screen of original "Komonjo harimaze byōbu."
Alternative Title:
[Komonjo harimaze byōbu], Komonjo harimaze byōbu., and 播磨国目代中原清業書状, 1192 August 23.
Description:
Forms part of Komonjo harimaze byōbu. For a description of the collection, search by call number: YAJ 2.12-2.13., In Japanese., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
Subject (Geographic):
Himeji-han (Japan)--History--Sources, Japan--History--1185-1868--Sources, and 姬路藩 (Japan)--History--Sources
Subject (Name):
Nakahara, Kiyonari--Correspondence and 中原清業--Correspondence
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts, Local officials and employees--Japan--Himeji-han--Correspondence, and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Ko mon-zho hari-maze byo-bu [28 original documents between 1192-1747, pasted upon screens.]
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript document from Harima's provincial headquarters, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated Kenkyū sannen hachigatsu jūsannichi [Aug. 13, 1192]. Second manuscript on right-hand screen of original "Komonjo harimaze byōbu." and Manuscript document from Harima's provincial headquarters, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated 建久三年八月十三日 [Aug. 13, 1192]. Second manuscript on right-hand screen of original "Komonjo harimaze byōbu."
Alternative Title:
[Komonjo harimaze byōbu], Harima no kuni rusudokoro fu, Komonjo harimaze byōbu., and 播磨国留守所符, 1192 August 13.
Description:
Forms part of Komonjo harimaze byōbu. For a description of the collection, search by call number: YAJ 2.12-2.13., In Japanese., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
Subject (Geographic):
Himeji-han (Japan)--History--Sources, Japan--History--Kamakura period, 1185-1333--Sources, and 姬路藩 (Japan)--History--Sources
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of homilies. Written as part (ff. 154-177) of a codex intended for recitation: a series of accents added in a contemporary hand act as an aid for pronunciation
Alternative Title:
Omelie
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Half bound in black goatskin with black cloth sides and gold tooling on the spine, including: "Omelie" and "MS. Saec. XI"., Plain initials, 2-line, in red and/or brown. Headings in red. Instructions for rubricator and guide letters., Purchased in 1956 from Arthur Rau of Paris by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1958 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a late caroline minuscule.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Ko mon-zho hari-maze byo-bu [28 original documents between 1192-1747, pasted upon screens.]
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated Kenkyū 3 [1192]-Enkyō 4 [1747]. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated 建久3 [1192]-延享4 [1747].
Alternative Title:
Harimaze byōbu, Komonjoharimazebyōbu, and 古文書張交屏風, 建久3 [1192]-延享4 [1747].
Description:
"27 [i.e. 28] original documents dating between 1192 and 1747, pasted upon screens." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., For individual manuscripts, search by call number: YAJ 2.12-2.13, Stored in 5 boxes., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
Subject (Geographic):
Japan--History--1185-1868--Sources
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection