Manuscript on parchment. Includes computistical mnemonic verses for finding the date of Septuagesima for all the years of the 19-Years Cycle (Septuagesima interval prayer).
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Plain leather over ... On the flat spine and partly on the covers, a label with the handwritten title "Heures / manuscrites / Sur Vélin. / d'une belle / Conservation". and Script: Copied by one hand, writing Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes. The scribe Pierre Berger, priest of the church of Our Lady in Bourg-en-Bresse (France, dépt. de l'Ain), is unrecorded.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on vellum of 1 leaf from a Breviary, with offices for St. Ursula.
Description:
Two historical initials.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and Ursula,--Saint
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Cite as: Breviary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., In Old Church Slavonic., and Script: Written in Glagolitic script.
Subject (Name):
Breviaries, Catholic Church--Liturgy, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
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 on parchment of Boethius, De topicis differentiis.
Description:
Binding: Date? Limp vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Topica boetij"., One historiated initial, f. 1v, blue with white filigree and highlights against a square reddish brown ground with white filigree, showing Boethius as a monk in a blue robe seated on a chair and holding a scroll inscribed with his name, and a disciple, dressed in a red robe and holding a book inscribed with the opening words of the text proper, both figures against a grey ground with white filigree. Three illuminated initials, ff. 7v, 16v, 23r, 6- to 4-line (without ascenders or descenders), blue with white filigree against reddish brown ground with white filigree or reddish brown against blue ground with white filigree. The initials are filled with scrolling vines blue or reddish brown with white highlights, with stylized leaves, ending in dragons' heads against reddish brown or blue grounds. Descender, f. 16v, in form of a dragon, reddish brown against blue ground. Flourished initials, 2-line, and paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Script: Written in compact gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Derivationes.
Description:
Part II written in Italy in the middle of the 13th century; Part I added in the 14th century when the two parts may have been bound together.
Subject (Name):
Uguccione,--da Pisa, Bishop of Ferrara,--d. 1210
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language--Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library