Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of a Gospel lectionary containing the daily lessons for the ecclesiastical year for both fixed and moveable feasts. Manuscript begins the readings of John from Easter to the sixth Sunday after Easter, and concludes with the readings from 21 May to 31 August.
Description:
Accompanied by detailed list of contents., Binding: Fifteenth-century? Greek-style binding of full brown leather over squared and grooved boards. Blind-tooled; bordered with interlace tendrils, diapered and checker-ruled with additional circular tools containing peacock, Agnus Dei, vase, rampant lion, eagle and fleuron designs., Bookplate: L. A., Decoration: ornamented headbands in red ink mark the four major sections of the text. Ornamented initials in red ink at the beginnings of some Gospel readings., Purchased in Beirut by Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, 1886. Formerly owned by Anson Phelps Stokes; Anson Phelps Stokes II; Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sold 18 November 2003 at Christie's London (sale 6853, lot 14). Ex libris L. A. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: Greek miniscule.
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados, piscopal Theologi, Stokes, Anson Phelps,--1874-1958--Ownership, Stokes, Anson Phelps,--1905-1988--Ownership, and Stokes, I. N. Phelps--(Isaac Newton Phelps),--1867-1944--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Lectionaries--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Unidentified Greek-Latin lexicon. 2) Anonymous treatise on breathing marks in Greek. 3) De formationibus temporum uerborum graecorum. 4) De praepositionum significatione et constructione. 4) De numeris.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 3384). Purchased in 1956 from L. C. Witten by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Gilt edges. The secondary, beaded endband is cream and green. Covered in reddish brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a floral border and fleurons in a central panel. Name of owner is gold-tooled on side in Roman letters that have been modified to form Greek letters. Spine: triple fillets at head and tail; single fillet diapering in the panels. Gold tooling added later. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board; the upper board heavily cut in for clasps. Modern title on spine: "Guarini Lexicon Ineditum. MS. in membranis"., and The decoration consists of an illuminated title page, with full border, thin white vine-stem ornament with stylized foliage in red, pink, blue against blue, green and pink ground with white dots and gold balls. In outer border two vases, blue with white highlights, and three roundels framed in red, green or pink with Roman profile heads wearing fillets against blue or gold ground. In inner border foliage curling around a thin gold bar. The upper border consists of a garland, green with gold highlights, tied with red ribbons against a blue and gold ground with two masks, one spouting water. Unidentified arms (palm? tree on red ground) in center of lower border. Large illuminated initial, 12-line, gold against a predominately blue ground with some green, pink, red and gold, and sprouting vine-stem ornament, white with pale brown shading and stylized foliage in red, pink and light brown. 25 illuminated initials for letters of Greek alphabet, 6- to 5-line, gold, against blue, green and dark pink grounds with stylized white vine-stem ornament or white stylized foliage. 2 small illuminated initials (ff. 205v and 206r), 3-line, gold against blue, red and green ground with pale yellow and white dots and white filigree. Heading on f. 1r in blue; others in red. Plain initials in red.
Subject (Topic):
Greek language--Dictionaries--Latin--Early works to 1800, Greek language--Grammar, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
calendis Septembris, anno M.D.XXIIII [1 Sept. 1524]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 969
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
De ueris narrationibus commentarij duo festiuissimi, De veris narrationibus commentarij duo festivissimi, Luciani Samosatensis oratoris clarissimi, De veris narrationibus commentarij duo festivissimi, Lvciani Samosatensis oratoris clarissimi, De ueris narrationibus commentarij duo festiuissimi, and Vera historia. Latin & Greek
Description:
Latin and Greek on opposite pages., Ms. notes in a contemporary hand. With: Lucian, of Samosata.[Dialogi. Selections] Luciani Samosatensis Dialogi aliquot Graeci. Basileae : Apud Valentinum Curionem, mense Febr. an. 1522 -- Ms. of Lucian, of Samosata. Loukianou rhētorōn didaskalos., Second of three works bound together., and Signatures: a-h⁴ i⁶.
Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great.
Description:
Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou., Script: archaizing scribal hand., Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns., and Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
Lord's Supper (Liturgy)--Texts, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
Imperfect: wanting ff.53, many fragments at end with old repairs. and MS of 8 works by Galen in Greek: 1. ff.1-15v Galen, de temperamentis. 2. ff.15v-54r Galen, de naturalibus facultatibus 3. ff.54r-54v short fragment of unknown provenance. 4. ff.54v-57v Galen, de inaequali intemperie. 5. ff.57v-60 Galen, de optima corporis nostri constitutione. 6. ff.60-61 Galen, de bono habitu 7. ff.62-106 Galen, de difficultate respirationis 8. ff.107-140 Galen ad Glauconem de medendi methodo 9.141-154 Galen de alimentorum facultatibus.
Alternative Title:
[ad Glauconem de medendi methodo] and [On the therapeutic method. Greek]