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 a version of Peter of Ickham's chronicle of English history. The narrative in this copy ends with 1301; this is followed by several brief entries in the same hand for events dated between 1287 and 1305
Description:
In Latin., Scribal explicit: "hic pennam fixi penitet me si male dixi.", Ownership inscription on front paper flyleaf: "Brudenell de Deen d[omi]nusque de Stonton.", Some marginal annotations, particularly in lower margins. Some of these have been trimmed; three leaves containing lower margin annotations have been left untrimmed and folded back, apparently in an effort to preserve the annotations (13r; 22r; 59r)., Two leaves bound in at the end of the volume contain passages from the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Ownership inscription on 1r in a later, (early seventeenth-century?) hand: "Mistresse Leucey Brudenell.", Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: rounded gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated., and Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, with the arms of the Brudenell family in gilt on the covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Peter, of Ickham, active 1290.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern, Great Britain, History, and Kings and rulers
Manuscript, in parchment, in unidentified hand, containing Rolandus of Parma's Cirogia vulgare (ff. 1-65). Followed by an anonymous list of medical recipes and antidotes. Imperfect: many sections of the list of antidotes censored with black ink. Folio 104 almost completely torn away; its verso and extra vellum leaf at end have manuscript notes on astrology, in a later hand
Alternative Title:
Chirurgia vulgare : followed by a ricettario, and antidotarium vulgare
Description:
In Italian., First title from title heading, other titles assigned by cataloger., Script: southern gothic textualis., Decoration: headings in red ink and rubrication throughout., Layout: double column of 24 lines., Binding: vellum binding with spinal title: Cirogia vulgare / MS. XIV. Saec., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Antidotes, Surgery, Medieval, Materia medica, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Benedictus XII papa (1334-1342), Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), c. 1, first part. 2) Benedictus XII papa, Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), cc. 1 (second part) - 42. 3) Statutes of the General Chapter of Cîteaux of 1335. 4) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Regularem vitam professis", 4 July 1335. 5) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Pastor bonus diligens", 17 June 1335. 6) Statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 24. 7) Part of the statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 23. 8) Carta caritatis, a later version of the original constitution of the Cistercian Order. 9) Statutes of the General Chapter of 1317, incomplete at the end: cc. 1-13.
Description:
Binding: Blind-tooled white parchment over wooden boards, decorated with fillets in a frame and lozenges pattern. Spine with two raised bands., Foliation s. XVII in ink 2-109, but ff. 37-39 are missing., Script: The original text (artt. 2-5, 8, 9) is probably copied by a single hand (A) writing a small Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria. The additional texts are copied in 16th century hands: artt. 1 and 6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria by hand B, who wrote also the majority of the marginal notes and additions; art. 7 by hand C, who used a bold Humanistica Cursiva., and The additional texts are not decorated. The original parts have red headings, red paragraph marks, and red 2- or 3-line plain initials. Art. 2 opens f. 2r with a 7-line littera duplex with extensive penwork and extension in the inner margin in red and blue; art. 8 opens f. 42v with a 3-line flourished initial (Prologue) and a 4-line littera duplex with penwork, as in art. 2 (text). All initials are half inset and have guide letters in the margin.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Manuscript, on parchment, in several unidentified hands containing a collection of various medical treatises. Manuscript consists of tree sections bound together. First part contains several works by Aristotle (all in William of Moerbeke's recension): De anima (ff. 1r-26r; marginal commentary by Thomas Aquinas), De somno et vigilia (ff. 26r-37r), De generatine et corruptione (ff. 38r-55r), De causis (ff. 56r-61r), De motibus animalium (ff. 62r-63r, beginning imperfect), De memoria et reminiscentia (ff. 63r-66v), De longitudine (ff. 67r-69r); and Henricus Monachus' Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha (f. 70r). The second part (15th c. date on the basis of paleography) contains Johannes de Sacrobosco's Algorithmus (ff. 70v-74r), De sphaera (74r-81v), and Compotus ecclesiastius (82v-98r), the anonymous' De simplici et composito quadrante (98r-100v), Robertus Grosseteste's De sphaera (ff. 101r-106r) and Compotus (ff. 106r-124r), Campanus de Novara and Robertus Grosseteste's Tabulae (ff. 124r-126r), Expositio tabule de annis Arabum Magistri Campani (f. 126r), De pratica quadrantis (ff. 127r-130r), Chylindrus (ff. 137r-139r), Compotus manualis (ff. 139r-142r), and Gerardus Creonensis' Theorica planetarum (ff. 143r-155r). The third part (14th c. date on the basis of decoration) contains Prophatius Hebraeus' Tractatus quadrantis novi (ff. 156r-171r), and the Tabula ad sciendu quantum cum quolibet gradu zodiaci... (f. 171v) Ends with two diagrams (ff. 172v-173r) and a table the fixed stars (f. 173v)
Alternative Title:
De anima, De somno et vigilia, De generatione et corruptione [etc.] : [the Tabula ad inveniendum Pascha of Henricus Monachus, followed by selections, mostly astronomical and arithmetical, from Johannes de Sacrobosco, Robertus Grosseteste, Johannes de Ahrweiler, Gerardus Cremonensis]
Description:
In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: Gothica textualis., Decoration: decorative red and blue initials, and several hand drawn maps of the fixed stars. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of around 40 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown pig-skin binding, blind-tooled. Contemporary pig-skin tabs attached to fore-edges to demarcate beginins of new texts. Traces of straps from back to front cover. Traces of metal bosses on front cover and 3 holes in triangular formation for chain attachment on back cover. Label on front cover: Algorism[us] ... / Sper materialis / Compo[si]tus philosop[] / uel custod[]. Label on back cover: Sphaera materialis / Joannis de Arweilerio. Quadra[n]s / nouus Probacii Hebrei 1554. Note on binding on inside front cover: Anno domini MCCCCLIIII. Ligatus est iste liber per reuerendum patrum fratrem Matthiam Halddenof suppriorem conuentus wiennensis., Date of the first and oldest part is based on scribal note (f. 26r): Explicit liber de anima petri Rodeheym. Amen. Anno domini MCCLXXXXI in uigilia pentecostes., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, Aphorisms, Medicine, Medieval, Manuscripts, and Psychology
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, of the commentary on the fourth book of Peter Lombard's Sentences by Petrus de Tarantasia's (later Pope Innocent V). This manuscript is a palimpsest; the parchment is from at least three unidentified thirteenth century Italian manuscripts. The first, apparently a glossed legal text, is most apparent at f21-22v.
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century half sheep; patterned paper over pasteboards., Decoration: two-line initials in pen and ink., Ex libris Convent of San Domenico, Gaeta; HIspanic Society of America (MS B2566). Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. on the Asahel Henry Grant Fund, 2014., Ff. 89-80, back flyleaf and former pastedown, is a bifolium in a different, round gothic book hand, containing part of an alphabetical index to an unidentified legal text., Foliation given as found in the manuscript, including six foliated stubs., Laid in: fragment of a description of the manuscript, in French, in a nineteenth-century hand., Layout: double columns throughout, mostly of 60-65 lines each. Four-column list of chapter headings on f87v-88v., Ownership inscription in the lower margin of f1r: Iste liber est conventus sancti dominici de gayeta ordinis predicatorum..., and Script: semi-cursive gothic book hand.
Subject (Name):
Dominicans, Innocent--V,--Pope,--approximately 1224-1276, Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--approximately 1100-1160.--Sententiarum libri IV, and San Domenico (Church : Gaeta, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Palimpsests, and Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
William,--of Melitona
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Pecia
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a commentary on Ps.-Gilbert of Poitiers, Lib. VI principiorum
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a small gothic script with frequent abbreviations (scriptura notularis)., and Decoration: spaces are left for two 2-line initials, but they have not been added; 1-line initials are in brown capitals; quotations from the text are underlined in brown; paragraph marks are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.