- Creator:
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Lebegue, Jean - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 274
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Inscription along upper edge of f. iii verso indicates that Louis Malet de Graville, admiral de France (1441/50-1516) bequeathed the volume to his daughter Anne Malet de Graville. and Manuscript on paper of Leonardo Bruni, De bello punico, translated into French by Jean Lebegue; made, and presented in 1445, for Charles VII of France (1422-1461).
- Alternative Title:
- De bello punico
- Description:
- Belonged to Lucius Wilmerding; purchased at the sale of his estate by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1960 to Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Sixteenth century, France. Olive green goatskin, roughly gold-tooled with the arms of Claude d'Urfe in the center and a monogram of his initial (C) with that of his wife, Jeanne de Balzac (I) in the corners, together with cornucopiae, caducei, laurel and flaming altars. Gilt edges. Corners repaired., Red and blue divided initials, 5-line, on ff. 1r, 2v, 4v, and for major text divisions thereafter. 3- to 2-line plain red or blue initials throughout. Initials alternate red and blue for tables on ff. 1r-2v. Multi-line headings in red sharply indented toward right. Guideletters for illuminator., Script: Written by a single scribe in an elegant batarde script that sits above the line, rather than on it., and Watermarks: closest to Briquet Armoiries-Trois fleurs de lis 1686.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Punic wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A anne de Grauille de la succession de feu monsieur L'admiral
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- Creator:
- Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1800]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 21
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian.
- Description:
- Binding: Late eighteenth century, probably French. Speckled calf, the sides undecorated, the repaired back in compartments with gilt tooling, the original title-stamping defective, speckled edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, November 1955., Part I: Headings in red throughout, that on f. 1r overwritten in an intense red ink covering earlier writing in pale red ink, the intense ink then used for the remainder of the headings in this portion of the codex, and the overwriting probably by the original scribe. Plain, small, roman capitals at beginnings of sections of the text in blue or green; a large initial "D" and a full border no f. 1r, as well as a smaller initial "L" at the beginning of the second book of text, foot of f. 25r, all finely illuminated in gold and colors in the "white-vine" style, the lower part of the border on f. 1r with a coat of arms consisting of a shield azure, a bear rampant or. Part II: Undecorated., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written by one hand in a neat, minute humanistic cursive. Part II (ff. 41-52): In an Italian hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prussian blue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
3.
- Creator:
- Palladinus, Jacobus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 202
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum). 2) Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand.
- Description:
- According to a note in library files, the manuscript was purchased from B. M. Rosenthal via L. C. Witten in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. On spine: "Liber Bellial" and "Codex Ms. Saec. XV"., Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r. Plain initials, 10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) in red throughout., and Script: Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Palladinus, Jacobus
- Subject (Topic):
- Athanasian Creed, Christian literature, Latin, Consolation--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Belial, etc.
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477 - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 179
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
- Description:
- Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
- Subject (Name):
- Caesar, Julius
- Subject (Topic):
- 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 > Bellum Gallicum
- Creator:
- Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521
Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349. Disputatio contra perfidiam Judaeorum - Published / Created:
- December 1, 1498]
- Call Number:
- Zi +7763
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1498.
- Description:
- For fuller description (including earmarks of vol. 1-2) see collation slip in volume. Bookplates of Thomas Gage Gage and Nathan Comfort Starr.
- Publisher:
- Johann Froben and Johann Petri,
- Subject (Name):
- Gage, Thomas Gage,--1st viscount--Bookplate and Starr, Nathan Comfort--Bookplate
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia latina : [with the Postillae of Nicolaus de Lyra] : Nicolai de Lyra Disputatio contra perfidiam Judaeorum / [edited by Sebastian Brant].
- Published / Created:
- July 30, 1477]
- Call Number:
- ZZi 1980
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1477.
- Description:
- BEIN ZZi 1980: F. 218 wanting. Initials painted in blue, red and gold, and first printed folio ornamented with painted border. Running titles painted in red. A few worm-holes and water-stains. Bound in boards covered with stamped leather.
- Publisher:
- Anton Koberger,
- Subject (Name):
- Menardus, monachus
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblia latina. [With the additions of Menardus Monachus.]
- Creator:
- Boethius, -524.
- Published / Created:
- 1497 pridie kalendas Januarij [31 Dec.]
- Call Number:
- 1988 797
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- De consolatione philosophiae
- Description:
- Binding: comtemporary half pigskin over wooden boards, remains of a single fore-edge clasp; pastedowns from a 13th-century vellum Homiliary., Bought Nov. 11 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Bound with: De disciplina scholarium. Colonia : Impressus in domo Henrici Que[n]tell ..., 1498 mensis die quinta -- Catonis disticha. [Cologne] : Impresse ... M.cccc.xcvi p[er] Henricum Quentell in Colonia, [1496]., Printer and date from colophon., Provenance: "F. Georgius Schmaller de Ratispona Ordinis predicatoru[m] 1549" (ms. on p. [1]); "Co[n]ue[n]tus Fra[n]ckford. Ord. p[re]dicator[um]" (ms. on p. [13]); "Ex libris Estelle Doheny" (bookplate on front pastedown)., Rubricated in red: initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes; copious interlinear and marginal notes in an unidentified hand., and Text surrounded by commentary by Thomas Wallensis.
- Publisher:
- Per Henricum Quentell ...,
- Subject (Name):
- Doheny, Estelle,--1875-1958--Bookplate., Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main Inscription, 1549., and Schaller, Georgius--Inscription.
- Subject (Topic):
- Happiness., Incunabula in Yale Library., and Philosophy and religion.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Boetij viri celeberrimi de [con]solatio[n]e phylosophie liber : cu[m] optimo [con]me[n]to Beati Thome.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 86
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Fragments of a Brut Chronicle. Begins imperfectly in chapter 36 (Constantine) and has several lacunae. The work ends in chapter 86 (beginning on f. 11r) with the thirty-first year of Edward III. With art. 3) A note (in Latin) stating that King Henry IV was consecrated in 1399 and documenting his descent from Adam. 4) A list (in Latin) of 86 kings (each numbered) from Brutus to Edward III. 5) Names of prisoners captured and killed at the battle of Poitiers (19 Sept. 1356). 6) Terms of the treaty of Bretigny (8 May 1360). 7) Parliamentary text.
- Description:
- Acquired from Henry Fletcher in 1950., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., In Anglo-Norman., and Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--14th century
- Subject (Name):
- England.--Treaties, etc.--France,--(1360 May 8)
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Chronicles of England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc.
9.
- Creator:
- Holy Roman Empire.
- Published / Created:
- 1474]
- Call Number:
- 1973 +122
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- For fuller description see collation slip in volume. and Imperfect: ff. 25-26, blank, wanting; ff. 1, 2, and 10 mutilated and repaired.
- Publisher:
- Friedrich Creusner,
- Subject (Name):
- Hugo, Harold--Bookplate., Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard,--1787-1854--Bookplate., Valentine Museum Stamp., and Valentine, William W.--Autograph, 1863.
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bulla aurea.
- Creator:
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D - Published / Created:
- [between 1430 and 1440]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 279
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Contemporary inscription, in gold, in upper margin of f. 2r was apparently added by Genevra Nogarola (1419-1465?). and Manuscript on parchment of Part I: Excerpts from Seneca, Phaedra. Part II: Justinus, Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi.
- Alternative Title:
- Epitoma historiarum Pompei Trogi, etc.
- Description:
- Acquired from L. C. Witten in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Rigid vellum binding, gold-tooled. Traces of turn-ins and bosses from earlier binding on f. 130 and possibly on f. 1., One large illuminated initial, f. 3r, 9-line, pink with white highlights on irregular angular ground, blue with white filigree and a thin white line outlining the ground. Filled with a stylized interlacing pattern of white vine-stem, white with green and yellow shading against gold ground. Numerous small initials, 3-line, yellow, on blue or blue and pink grounds with white filigree. Initial heading in gold; running headlines for book numbers in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-2, palimpsest): Written by several scribes in humanistic bookhand; for the passages from Seneca, the initial letter for each verse is set between vertical bounding lines. Part II (ff. 3-130): Written by a single scribe, below top line, in humanistic bookhand that sits somewhat above the ruled line; the conclusion of the text on ff. 129v-130r was added by a different hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Justinus, Marcus Junianus and Trogus, Pompeius
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Ancient, 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 > Ceneura [sic] anogarolis scripsi manu mea immaculata