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604. William Camden commonplace book
- Creator:
- Camden, William, 1551-1623
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 370
- Image Count:
- 454
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of material copied primarily by William Camden, antiquary and historian (1551-1623), from documents, 14th-16th centuries, that were in the Tower of London and in the College of Arms. Some selections are from official records, others are from private papers that were deposited in the Office of Arms. The manuscript is composed of four parts, the first two of which are laid in.
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified design, Part I; Briquet Lion 10555 and similar to Briquet Pot 12736, Part II; unidentified grapes and Briquet Lion 10555, Parts III, IV., Script: Written primarily by William Camden in several styles of cursive., Edges of some leaves crumbled and torn, with loss of text., and Binding: Date? Broken limp vellum case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Camden, William, 1551-1623.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Camden commonplace book
605. World chronicle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 495
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 832
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. The compiler of this unidentified world chronicle cites as sources Sallust, Suetonius, Josephus, Orosius, Macrobius, Eusebius, Origen, Eutropius, Sigebertus, Hugh of Fleury, and many others. The chronicle concludes at the end of the twelfth century; the date of composition is given in the final section as 1183 in the reign of Frederick Barbarossa (1155-90). The text of the manuscript is continuous, with no book and few chapter notations
- Description:
- Written in the middle of the 15th century, perhaps ca. 1456 when the codex was given to John Capgrave by Jacobus de Oppenheim. Capgrave was elected in August of 1455 to another 2-year term as head of the English Augustinian Province. In 1457 he resumed his literary interests, including work on a universal chronicle from the beginning of the world until the year 1417; this endeavor resulted in the Chronicle of England produced ca. 1462., In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-105v, 60 lines of text written in a small and even, slightly rounded gothic bookhand. Scribe 2) ff. 105v-110v (end of quire XI), 112r-114r, 40 lines of text in a small notarial hand with some shading of descenders. Scribe 3) ff. 111r-v, 114r-405r, 55-58 lines of text in a dark gothic script characterized by fine hair-lines and curved flourishes over the letter i., Decoration changes according to scribe. Scribe 1: Guide-letters for initials never supplied. Rubrics (in upright gothic), paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. Scribe 2: Rubrics (ff. 105v-110v only) in same hand as preceding section; rubrics for ff. 112r-114r as for Scribe 3. Paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for initials never supplied. Scribe 3: Decorative initials (signalled by guide-letters), in red, with protruberances and hair-lines. Notes to rubricator in inner and outer margins. Rubrics (beginning f. 111r) in same hand as text; paragraph marks, often exaggerated, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century (Italian?). Sewn on four tawed slit straps laced into wooden boards. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric frames of alternating fillets and rope interlace, the central panel filled with interlace. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the straps, now wanting, attached with seven star-headed nails. Parchment strips from unidentified manuscripts reinforce center of each gathering. Remains of a paper or vellum label with lettering in ink near head of lower board and trace of a chain base at the tail. Heavily restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and World history
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > World chronicle
606. XIII sermones, etc
- Creator:
- Michael, of Hungary
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1480-83]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 647
- Image Count:
- 140
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Michael of Hungary, XIII Sermones, bound with several other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in a gothic cursive script., Initials in red. Rubricated. Flyleaves contain an early 14th-century English canon law manuscript., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Blind stamped leather over wooden boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Michael, of Hungary.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canon law, Education (Christian theology), Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > XIII sermones, etc
607. [Nine tracts].
- Creator:
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
- Published / Created:
- 1456.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 38 vault
- Image Count:
- 294
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- Manuscript written on vellum and paper in black and red ink. and From Carthusian monastery at Cologne; Leander van Ess (no. 171); Sir Thomas Phillipps (manuscript 555); presented to Yale Med in 1958 by David P. Wheatland.
- Publisher:
- Theodoric of Haarlem [et al.]
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Nine tracts].
608. [unidentified text] (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [unidentified date]
- Call Number:
- Zi 3134
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of an unidentified text
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a bâtarde script., Decoration: capitals heightened in red; red initials and chapter marks in the text., and These fragments, which appear to be from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi 3134 (Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, Confessionale), in which they are used as quire guards and front and back pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [unidentified text] (fragment).