Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing the Assumption of Mary (15 August).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early Gothic script., and Decoration: initials of the first antiphons of lauds and of second vespers are 1-line red capitals; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; those for the antiphons and responses of matins are dotted or traced in red; rubrics are written in red rustic capitals; the name "maria" is sometimes written with uncial "M" and mostly with capital "R"; punctuated with the punctus; chants and marginal tonary letters have neumes in the St. Gall style.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing: Common of the Martyrs; Common of a Confessor
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; square musical notation in block on four-line red staff; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible--Paraphrases, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Latin., Script: Text written in similar styles of gothic bookhand mostly by two scribes who may also have ruled the segments each copied. Scribe 1) ff. 7r-13v, 171v-296r, 307r-409r; running titles. Scribe 2) ff. 15r-171v, 297r-306v. A later hand of the 15th century wrote before and after Scriptural text in a less formal style of gothic; at least four other persons of the 14th-15th centuries have annotated the text in various styles of cursive., Decoration by two distinct hands whose division of work does not correspond precisely to that noted for the scribes. 1) ff. 7r-220v, 325r-340r. Large flourished initials, body divided red and blue, with interior designs primarily in red, and small blue circles added; first line of text in blue capitals decorated with simple red pen strokes. Many rubrics missing. 2) ff. 221r-324v, 341r-409r. Flourished initials similar in design to those by 1, but somewhat smaller in size and mostly without small blue circles; first line of text in blue and red capitals alternating; chapter divisions decorated with long herringbone pendants in red and blue. Running titles and marginal chapter divisions in alternating red and blue letters throughout codex. Notes to rubricator, some perpendicular in gutter., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on five double, tawed supports laced straight and in V's into back-cornered wooden boards and pegged. The spine is square, the sewing supports prominent. Braided tawed skin (?) endbands. The first covering is brown calf with corner tongues. Next is a chemise of pink, tawed skin with an outer cover sewn to it with diagonal stitches of blue thread. Outer and inner covers are adhered to each other and to the boards with extending edges cut off. Two strap-and-pin fastenings with foliate pin bases on the lower board and stubs of kermes pink straps. Green discoloration on pastedowns. Trace of lettering in ink on the spine.
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed). The codex is probably a normal French Bible but is so badly bound, with lacunae throughout, that we cannot be certain
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat, but slightly round, gothic bookhand, on the top line. Notes for initials and chapter numbers in margins, in an informal cursive script. Numerous corrections between rulings in lower margin; the corrections were then written in a neat gothic bookhand next to the text., The surviving historiated initials, 8-, 7-, 6-, and 5-line, are of varied design, and are all badly damaged. In type and style they are somewhat comparable to initials in mid-13th century Parisian manuscripts. For the most part, the initials are red or blue, with white highlights; the body of the letter on a dark blue, pink, or grey ground, with white dots; curling floral and dragon serifs, some with cusps (orange, red, and green); descenders (up to 2/3 of text column) same color as body of letter, with adjoining strips of pink, blue, or grey, often with cusped floral terminals, rampant dragons; all sections thickly edged in black. Other historiated initials, blue or pink, with cusped serifs, against a brown ground with delicate floral filigree in white; thick black edging. Three historiated initials (ff. 25r, 90v, and 117v) in architectural settings, in dark blue, blue, red, pink, and gold, with elaborate floral pendants below. The historiated initials for two books, f. 1r (Proverbs) and f. 63v (Philippians) were cut out; script and decoration have been restored with unusual care (15th century); large floral buds (green, orange, yellow, and/or pink) on short green stems against purple or black grounds., Illuminated initials, 4- to 2-line for prologues, pink or blue with white highlights, occasionally with gold; otherwise, diminutive versions of historiated initials types (f. 63 [Prologue to Philippians] with a small bird); one initial of this type f. 35v (John), originally historiated, has also been restored. 4- to 2-line initials for chapters, set into text columns, red and blue with blue and red penwork flourishes running along column into margins, some with animal-head terminals; some initials in bottom line with unusual penwork pendants. Capitals in text stroked in red. Chapter numbers, red and blue, often with flourishes; running headings, red and blue; rubrics in red throughout; corrections surrounded by undulating red lines, occasionally with trailing penwork flourishes., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum case. Paper boards are composed of fragments of several French legal documents of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, of the books of the Bible from Proverbs through the Apocalypse.
Description:
Binding: modern goatskin., Decoration: red and blue penwork initials., Ex libris Ronald A. Coates; Eric Millar; Brian S. Cron. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 49 lines., Script: small gothic script., and With an Oxford pledge note for the Selton Loan Chest dated 1469 and the mark of the stationer John More. There is also a note by M. Paris, possibly Master Thomas Paris of Oriel College.
Subject (Name):
Coates, Ronald A.--Autograph., Cron, Brian S.--Ownership., Millar, Eric George--Bookplate., Oriel College., and University of Oxford.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin., Bible.--Latin--Versions--Vulgate., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Universities and colleges--Great Britain.
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees.
Description:
Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked., Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves., In volume: ownership inscription of Thomas Martin (1697-1771); ex libris Thomas Barber; ownership inscription of Emily Bagot. Purchased from Lux et Umbra on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., and Script: gothica textualis.
Subject (Name):
Bagot, Emily--Autograph, Barber, Thomas,---1785--Bookplate, and Martin, Thomas,--1697-1771
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a biblical commentary on the Prologue to the Pentateuch through Exodus 30 and on the Song of Songs through Matthew 5.
Description:
In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in a very small, heavily abbreviated gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are written in brown; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on the biblical book of Wisdom
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a small gothic script with frequent abbreviations (littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in black; punctuated with the punctus; quotations from Wisdom are underlined in black.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Criticism, interpretation, etc and Manuscripts, Medieval