- Published / Created:
- [circa 1450]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a58
- Image Count:
- 442
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura brevium; the text of The old tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
- Description:
- A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., and Script: English book hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377 and Taussig, Anthony
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--England--Early works to 1800, Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Writs--England--Early works to 1800, and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natura brevium and other works.
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 757
- Image Count:
- 330
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
- Description:
- Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic):
- Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer book
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 818
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation.
- Description:
- Binding: Early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans and Nicholas--IV,--Pope,--1227-1292
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 879
- Image Count:
- 58
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation.
- Alternative Title:
- Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., and Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Women--Religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sensuit une bonne doctrine pour ensengnner des religieuse