- Published / Created:
- [circa 1275-1299].
- Call Number:
- Osborn a1
- Image Count:
- 330
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century.
- Description:
- Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century)., Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar., On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century., and The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter, [circa 1275-1299].
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- Creator:
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 243
- Image Count:
- 221
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick) of 1) List of relics in an unidentified church of St. James, probably in Spain. 2) Indulgences for various prayers, masses, etc. when visiting the church of St. James. 3) Unidentified Middle English devotional text. 4) Unidentified prayer, probably a form of absolution related to indulgences in art. 2. 5) Ps.-Augustine, Ps.-Bernard, etc., and wrongly attributed to Richard Rolle, Speculum peccatoris, ending imperfectly. 6) Richard Rolle, De emendatione vitae. 7) Richard Rolle, Oleum effusum (final four sections of the Comment on the Canticles). 8) John of Peckham, extract from Constitutiones. 9) The Five Wiles of the Pharaoh in Middle English.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, England. Original, caught up sewing with very heavy thread on four tawed skin, slit straps laced from out to inside beech boards and pegged in channels which are filled with gesso (?). Green and gold, beaded endbands are sewn on cord cores laid in grooves in the outside of the boards. Spine lined with tawed skin. Covered in tawed skin, originally pink, with two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for brown leather straps. Spine covering disintegrating, thus exposing sewing. Covers much worm eaten., Flourished initials of good quality, 4- to 2-line, blue with red penwork designs incorporating leaf motifs and marginal extensions. Headings in red. Paragraph marks in blue., and Script: Articles 5-7 written by a single scribe in anglicana bookhand. Other texts by contemporary scribes in less careful bookhands, with article 4 in a less formal hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, English (Middle), Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richard Rolle, etc.
- Creator:
- Wotton, Johannes
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1450]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa2
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- In addition to the Speculum Christiani (ff. 64r-100v), the manuscript contains an unidentified Latin alphabetical preacher's manual (ff. 1r-62v), compiled for the purpose of composing sermons. It is incomplete at the beginning, starting with the entry Amor, and continues with 149 entries to Christi acensio (under X)., Manuscript on paper in Anglicana (Scribe 1, ff. 1-62v) and Secretary script (Scribe 2, 64r-100v), produced in England in the mid-fifteenth century., and Spine title: "MS Loci qm Theologi Ord: Alpho 80."
- Description:
- Binding: limp vellum., Headings and various names and phrases in the Speculum Christiani are rubricated., and Spiritual diagram on f. 85v: two ladders are drawn, one for "Celum," one for "Infernum." On the rungs are written the virtues and vices pertaining to each, eight for heaven and nine for hell. The uprights are inscribed Spes and Fides for heaven, and Superbia and Larga Conscientia for hell.
- Subject (Name):
- Wotton, Johannes
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic Church--Spiritual life--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Preaching--Early works to 1800, and Preaching--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum Christiani, [circa 1450].