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1. Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.13
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, incomplete bifolium, from a French breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textura., and Decoration: rubricated. Two-line initials in alternating red and blue ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
2. Breviary of the Franciscan order
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1325]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 646
- Image Count:
- 558
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of prayers, liturgical regulations, and offices
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., Ornate initials in red, blue, and violet., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged brown leather over pasteboards, recovered in paper. Red leather gilt label on spine reading: "Breviarum Manuscriptum".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary of the Franciscan order
3. Canon law text (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.14 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, from a text on Canon law
- Description:
- In Latin. and Script: gothica textura.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Canon law
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canon law text (fragment).
4. De plantis et de herbis (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.42 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, from an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia of botanical descripitons
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. Paraphs and initials in red and blue ink., and Grid ruling very visible in margins and even within text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De plantis et de herbis (fragment).
5. Diurnale of Carthusian use
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 696
- Image Count:
- 349
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Carthusian breviary
- Description:
- Script: written by multiple hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Binding: undecorated sheepskin over pasteboard. Rebacked in the eighteenth century. Spine with four raised bands, gold-tooled with a floweret. Remnants of a gold-tooled title label., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diurnale of Carthusian use
6. Graecismus (fragment).
- Creator:
- Eberhardus, of Bethune, called Graecista
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.117
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Eberhardus Bethuniensis' Graecismus
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the top of each page in black decorated with black penwork and highlighted with red; 2-line initial "P" in red; 1-line verse initials are in black highlighted with red; the text is written in verse lines; red paragraph marks appear immediately to the left of some initials; punctuated very rarely with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Grammarians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Graecismus (fragment).
7. Historia calamitatum and epistolae
- Creator:
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1214
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 161
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: compressed gothic book script., Decoration: 2-line initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing in red or purple. Medieval marginalia includes manicules and grotesques., Manuscript is incomplete (circa 50 leaves missing?). Text opens: id secreto fieret (Historia calamitatum). Text concludes: orationum instantiam confessio[ne]m lau[dis?] (Letter 7)., and Binding: modern blind-stamped white leather.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
- Subject (Topic):
- Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia calamitatum and epistolae
8. Hours
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 19
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Penitential Psalms (incomplete), probably written as part of a Book of Hours
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in liturgical gothic script., Carefully executed initials, 3-line, on blue or pink rectangles outlined in black, mark the beginning of each psalm; partial cusped borders, also in blue and pink, attached to each. Initials infilled with intertwining vines, often on gold ground, sometimes with small animals; modest use of gold dots inside rectangular grounds and borders. 1-line initials of blue with red penwork with blue dots and of gold with blue penwork and red dots. Line-fillers in combinations of red, blue and gold (various linear and flower designs)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Bound in a piece of blind-tooled brown calf, once part of a 17th-18th century binding. Front pastedown and flyleaf from a Bible concordance, version 3 (France, ca. 1300). Back pastedown from 15th-century antiphonal, with musical notation, containing a portion of the office for Nicolas (6 Dec.).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours
9. Missal
- Published / Created:
- [between 1390 and 1400, 1578]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 18
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of four parts. Written at the end of the 14th century (Parts I, III) and in 1578 (Parts II, IV); the prominence of St. Maclovius (Macutus) suggests that Parts II and IV were produced in Brittany or Normandy
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Parts I and III (ff. 1r-40v, 48r-72v): Written in liturgical gothic of two sizes, by one scribe. Parts II and IV (ff. 41r-47v, 73r-102v) were intended to be integrated into the earlier portion: Written in liturgical gothic of the late 16th century, in two sizes by a single scribe; the letters slant slightly toward the left., On f. 48r, a 5-line historiated initial (65 x 58 mm.), white-decorated red and blue on a gold ground, enclosing a priest serving Communion; from the corners sprout blue vines with white, gold, and red trilobe leaves, extending around 3 sides of the page. On f. 1r, an 8-line illuminated initial of white-decorated blue and red (63 x 65 mm.), filled with blue and red trilobe leaves, on a gold ground; the base of the letter is extended around the inner and lower margins as a gold, blue, red, and white bounding line; from the lower two corners of this line and the upper left corner of the initial sprout vines, as for the historiated initial. 3- and 2-line initials in orange-tinted red or blue; rubrics throughout. Square notes in brown on 4-line orange-tinted red staves (the red ink has bled so that the whole written space has an orange glow). Parts II and IV: 4- to 1-line initials in red and blue. Rubrics are sometimes set off on the right side of the page by a narrow vertical border in brown. Musical notation: square notes on 4-line staves, all in brown., and Binding: 1981. Quarter cloth case, retaining brown mottled paper covered boards, 19th century. Traces of earlier bindings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Missal