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- Creator:
- Gilbert, de La Porrée, Bishop, ca. 1075-1154
- Published / Created:
- s. XII med [mid-12th century]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 152
- Image Count:
- 176
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pauline Epistles (Epistola ad Romanos 2.27 through Epistola ad Hebreos 11.34), with commentary of Gilbert de la Porree. With Argumenta, later additions, all attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro or Peter Lombard.
- Description:
- Binding: Twentieth century, United States (?). Half bound in dark red goatskin with gold-tooled lettering on the spine ("St. Paul/ Epistulae cum commento/ MS. 12th Cent."), marbled paper sides, and yellow edges., Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand in two sizes of script, above top line., and Three illuminated initials at beginning of first three Epistles of excellent quality, ff. 34v, 69v, 86v, 8- to 5-line, with descenders extending into margins, red, blue, green and beige against gold ground. Bodies of initials filled with stylized scrolling foliage, bright blue, red, green, orange, silver and yellow with white highlights against gold ground. Descenders serve as a trellis for similar scrolls, some ending in biting animal's heads or fantastic birds. Scrolling foliage, f. 86v, inhabited by beasts of a canine variety, white with red shading. The decoration of manuscript is unfinished; f. 99r pen and ink underdrawing for an initial as above, with only touches of red added; blank spaces left for initals for remaining Epistles. Small initials, 3-line, gold with red penwork, for beginning of commentary for each Epistle. Headings in red or alternating red and blue majuscules. Plain initials touched with red. Running titles, later addition, in red.
- Subject (Name):
- Gilbert, de La Porrée, Bishop, ca. 1075-1154, Hugh, of Saint-Cher, Cardinal, ca. 1200-1263, Paul, the Apostle, Saint, and Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pauline Epistles, with commentary of Gilbert de la Porree
- Creator:
- León, Alonso de, ca. 1610-1661
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-327
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The first section, a copy of Alonso de Leon's narrative, carries the account to 1649, the second, in the same hand, continues the narrative to 1689, and, the third, is an account by Fernando Sánchez de Zamora, "Viajo...de Don Alonso de Leon...desde la provincia de Coahuila a la Bahia de Espiritu Santo y provincia de Tejas en 26 de Marzo de 1690."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Texas--History--To 1846
- Subject (Name):
- León, Alonso de,--ca. 1610-1661 and Sánchez de Zamora, Fernando,--fl. 1659-1689
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relacion y discursos del descubrimiento, poblacion y pacificacion de este Nuevo Reyno de Leon, Temperamente y calidad de la tierra hechos por el Capitan Alonso de Leon.
- Creator:
- Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436 - Call Number:
- Arabic MSS 436
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (handbook of astronomy) of Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī. and Incomplete at end.
- Description:
- End of leaf 50 corresponds to leaf 162 recto (numbered 166) of Ms. Landberg 361; probably only one leaf is missing., Fairly old (16th century?) hasty nastaʻlīq, almost entirely unpointed., In manuscript on fly-leaf: "Comprado en el Cairo 27/12/28. T[eodoro] B[ecu]." With Becu's bookplate., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 1 of 2 items bound together., Purchased from V.G. Simkhovitch in January 1955., With copious diagrams, some with background-pictures representing the constellations in the form of human and animal figures., and With: 1 other title.
- Subject (Name):
- Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Autograph, Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Bookplate, and Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad,--d. 1221?--Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding and Natural and social sciences--Astronomy and astrology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah / [Mūsá ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīʹzādah]. -- [15--?].
- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^2 [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 43
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an unidentified treatise, incomplete, on the Cardinal Virtues; material taken mostly from Valerius Maximus, with additional material from Augustine, the Bible, Cicero, Seneca, Macrobius, Aristotle, and Vegetius. and Unidentified treatise, incomplete, on the Cardinal Virtues; material taken mostly from Valerius Maximus, with additional material from Augustine (De civitate Dei, De beata vita, Epistolae), Bible (Proverbs), Cicero (De officiis, etc.), Seneca (Epistolae morales, De ira, De constantia), Macrobius, Aristotle, Vegetius, the "Storie Romane" of "Arineo" (f. 6r), and "Salino" (f. 23v). The presence of the "versificatore" (f. 11r), cited in Latin (Walther, Sprichwoerter 33507), and a similar constellation of sources suggest that Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Doctrinale was a major (though not exclusive) source for this author.
- Description:
- Imperfect: incomplete manuscript; leaves 42-43 also wanting. and Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive script.
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic):
- Cardinal virtues, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatise on cardinal virtues
- Creator:
- French, Jared, 1905-1988
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 5316
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- In: Oversize album with spine title: Monroe Wheeler
- Subject (Name):
- Wheeler, Monroe, 1899-
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Photograph copy print of drawing of Monroe Wheeler]
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 2913
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- In: 3-ring binder labeled "E.M. Forster" and Photographic copy print of an illustration
- Subject (Name):
- Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Photographic copy print of sketch of E.M. Forster]