- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1090 and 1110]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.71
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 10line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus flexus; double quotation marks in the margin; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moralia in Iob (fragment).
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- Creator:
- Musaeus, Grammaticus
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 534
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a facsimile of the edition Venice, Aldus Manutius, [1495-1497]. In contrast with the edition, in which the Greek text is interleaved with the Latin translation by Marcus Musurus (c. 1470-1517), in the facsimile the Greek text is followed by the Latin translation and the copy of the two woodcuts illustrating the Hero and Leander story is placed between both on ff. 11v-12r
- Description:
- In Greek and Latin., Script: "Typographic" Greek and Latin script., and Binding: De luxe binding by Francois Bozerian called Bozerian Jeune, 19th century. Black morocco over cardboard, both covers with gold-tooled frame and corner-pieces and the Aldine anchor and dolphin in the centre. Spine with seven raised bands with in the compartments the gold-tooled inscriptions "MUSAEUS", "ALDUS / 1495", "REL.P.BOZERIAN.JEU" and "IN MEMBRAN". The other compartments tooled. Gilt edges. Gold-tooled green silk doublure and silvery silk pasted on the facing flyleaf.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Musaeus, Grammaticus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Classical literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opusculum de Herone et Leandro
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1299].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.111
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a quodlibetical text, possibly associated with a student of Henry of Ghent
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line initials alternate red and blue, occasionally with red penwork; 1-line initials are in brown capitals, frequently preceded by a paragraph mark which alternates red and blue; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and the virgule; there are marginal corrections written in a contemporary cursive hand as well as numerous corrections within the main body of the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Henry, of Ghent, 1217?-1293.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Quodlibetical text (fragment).
- Creator:
- Langton, Stephen, -1228, author
- Published / Created:
- [12--]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.110
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a selection of sermons by Stephen Langton, including: an unidentified sermon on St. Paul; Sermon on the Conversion of St. Paul (25 January); unidentified sermon on the Annunciation (25 March); and Sermon on John the Baptist (24 June).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in small gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2-line and 6-line sermon initials are in red, except for the initial on fol. 1r, which is a 1-line capital in brown ink; 1-line initials are brown; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Langton, Stephen, d. 1228. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons (fragment).
55.
- Creator:
- Cistercians
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 349
- Image Count:
- 266
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Statuta capituli generalis, with the years 1158 and 1180-1190 mentioned in red. 2) Liber usuum. 3) Super instituta generalis capituli apud Cistercium. 4) Liber usuum conuersorum. 5) Carta caritatis
- Description:
- Probably produced at the abbey of Fontaine-Jean in Northern France, to which it belonged in the late 16th century. The Cistercian abbey of Fontaine-Jean, near Montargis, between Sens and Orleans, was a daughter house of Pontigny founded in 1124., In Latin., Script: Written by one scribe in large, even bookhand. Additions by various hands, 13th-17th centuries; some lost due to trimming., Four large initials, ff. 1v, 38r, 86r, and 93r (12-, 29-, 8-, and 9-line), light brown with crude running pattern of clover-leaf-like forms in brown ink, filled with brown, green and red spiral foliage with flowers and dragon-head terminals, on blue and red grounds decorated with triplets of white dots. One elaborate, but crude, calligraphic initial, f. 118v, 9-line, divided red and green, accompanied by red and green foliate motifs, framed in green. Numerous initials throughout, 7- to 2-line, red or blue, and occasionally green, with blue, red or green foliate penwork, some extensive. 1-line initials, red or blue, alternating. Rubrics throughout, some in text, others in margins. Wavy red line-fillers., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled, with mottled, mauve paper sides. On spine: "Constitutions du monastre de Fontaine-Jehan".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statutes
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 355
- Image Count:
- 378
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, ending abruptly
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Red and blue split initial, 10-line, at beginning of text (p. 11) with fine penwork flourishes within body and length of inner margin, in red, blue, and purple. Similar initials, 6- to 3-line, without penwork extensions, on pp. 68, 130, 284. Small initials, 5- to 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red, throughout. Headings in red; running titles in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on five double, tawed thongs laced into flush oak boards through tunnels in the edge and pegged with rectangular pegs. The back board is cracked and mended. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin. Plain, wound endbands sewn on twisted, tawed skin cores laced into the boards. Added embroidery is sewn through the cover and shows on the spine and the edge, with whip-stitching around the entire endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with corner tongues. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Five foliate bosses on each board. A pin, straps and two bosses wanting. Original front pastedown: incomplete alphabetical index, 14th century, of subjects from amor through uita (no entries for x). Original back pastedown, also contemporary with main text: fragment of a theological text on the biblical prophets, on recto; unfinished diagram of the books of the Bible, divided into categories in mandata diuisio, in exempla diuisio, in ammonitiones diuisio, in reuelationes diuisio (with material from Old Testament only), on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Dominicans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa contra gentiles
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.58
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment, of an unidentified philosophical text, heavily glossed in a different, smaller hand
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: single columns of 16 lines. Very wide margins for glossing., Script: main text in gothica textualis quadrata; marginal gloss in littera glossularis., and Decoration: rubricated. Small initials and paraphs in red ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified philosophical text (fragment).
58.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 436
- Image Count:
- 138
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Book of Hours with Full calendar, in French
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in batarde script., Miniatures and an extensive cycle of border vignettes by Jean and Jacquelin Montlucon who were active in Bourges between 1477 and 1492. The calendar pages are framed by gilt columns and entablatures in the antique manner with the occupations of the month and signs of the zodiac in the outer margin and a Creation cycle in the lower margin. Eleven half-page miniatures framed in magenta and gold with cusping at the top; fanciful architectural bases, surrounded by simulated grey-black marble with joined wings and foliage branches in gold. Twenty-three miniatures, 8-lines in height, in magenta and gold frames, each with a full border of flowers and acanthus, birds and grotesques on compartmented gold and white grounds. Text pages with full borders: columns in inner margin; panels with masks, shields, garlands, and wings in upper margin; flowers and acanthus, as above, in outer margin; and, in the lower margin, one of the fullest known cycles devoted to the wild man (sometimes extended to include outer margin as well). Other manuscripts from the same shop, the Monypenny Hours and Grenoble Bibliotheque Municipale MS 1011, also contain extensive cycles of wild-man imagery; the artists Jean and Jacquelin de Montlucon lived in Bourges in a house "at the sign of the Wild Man.", 5- and 4-line initials with leafy branches, gold with fruits, flowers, profile heads on pink or mauve grounds. 2- and 1-line initials, line-endings, and KL monograms in the same style. Rubrics in red. Calendar entries alternate red and blue. F. i verso added in 16th century: the arms of Gian Francesco di Montegnacco in a frame closely modelled on the decoration of the calendar pages., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tan goatskin, gold-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel daubed with green and red. Red label.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vanderbilt hours