Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through the early fourteenth centuries.
Description:
Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog. d'alia Obituarium..., Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork, geometric knotwork and animal masks., Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Rubricated.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Martyrologies--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Necrologies--France--Beauvais
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of Beauvais.
Description:
Binding: fourteenth-century (?) brown leather over beveled wooden boards; remains of one clasp., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
Manuscript, in a single hand, containing a missal for the Use of St. Quentin.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown quarter-morocco., Decoration: rubricated. Larger initials in colored penwork., and Purchased from Richard Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals