Marriage contract, manuscript, ink on vellum, dated 17th of Adar 5550 at Gibraltar (1790). The text is in cursive. The outlines of a decoration appear in pencil, but the decoration was never completed. It would appear that the bride and groom were of Shepardic (Spanish-Jewish) families. The text includes a prayer that God show his mercy and protect and preserve ""the exiled from Castile"" and eventually avenge the injustice done to them.
Subject (Geographic):
Gibraltar, --Religious life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Ketubah --Gibraltar and Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
Guillaume, de Deguileville, 14th cent. Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. 1210-ca. 1270
Published / Created:
ca. 1400
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 406
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun.
Description:
Imperfect: f. 1r-v mutilated with loss of text and image.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans--Manuscripts and Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--14th cent
Subject (Topic):
Cosmography--Early works to 1800, Devotional literature, French, Devotional literature--Early works to 1800, French literature--To 1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415 Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
Published / Created:
[ca. 1441]
Call Number:
Marston MS 140
Image Count:
273
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of four parts. Part I (ff. 1-13): Calendar, etc. Part II (ff. 14-138): Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. Part III (ff. 139-173): Anonymous letter to John Huss written after the Council of Constance; 35 articles of erroneous dogmatic teaching of the Greek church, written in the circle of the papal court during the endeavour to reconcile the Greek and Roman Churches at the Councils of Ferrara and Florence (1437-39). Part IV (ff. 174-269): Latin-German vocabulary.
Description:
Binding: Ca. 1500 (?), Austria. Parchment stays from early manuscripts in center of quires. Original (?) sewing on three tawed skin, double, twisted sewing supports laced into grooves in flush wooden boards and fastened with square pegs. The grooves are filled in with glue. The spine is rounded and backed (naturally?) and back bevelled. A plain, wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core and also laced and pegged. The spine is lined with coarse cloth in the center and vellum at the ends, extending on the outside. Covered in plain, kermes pink, tawed skin (sheep?) possibly a later addition. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the upper board. There may have been a chain attachment at the head of the lower board. The insides of the boards have been varnished; off-set impressions of pastedowns from early manuscripts on both boards., Part I: KL in calendar in blue; other charts and diagrams in shades of red and black. Small plain initials, headings, initial strokes and underlining in red. Parts II and III: Red or blue initials, 4- to 3-line, some with simple designs. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining in red. Guide letters for decorator. Part IV: Plain initials, and initial strokes, in red, for ff. 174r-176r., Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written by a single hand in hybrida script., and Watermarks: unidentified mountain in gutter.
Subject (Name):
Council of Constance--(1414-1418), Council of Florence--(1438-1445), and Jacobus,--de Voragine,--ca. 1229-1298
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Latin language--Dictionaries--German, Latin prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417
Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, d. 1221? Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, d. ca. 1436
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 436
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Commentary on al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah (handbook of astronomy) of Maḥmūd al-Jighmīnī. and Incomplete at end.
Description:
End of leaf 50 corresponds to leaf 162 recto (numbered 166) of Ms. Landberg 361; probably only one leaf is missing., Fairly old (16th century?) hasty nastaʻlīq, almost entirely unpointed., In manuscript on fly-leaf: "Comprado en el Cairo 27/12/28. T[eodoro] B[ecu]." With Becu's bookplate., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 1 of 2 items bound together., Purchased from V.G. Simkhovitch in January 1955., With copious diagrams, some with background-pictures representing the constellations in the form of human and animal figures., and With: 1 other title.
Subject (Name):
Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Autograph, Becu, Teodoro,--1890-1946--Bookplate, and Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad,--d. 1221?--Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾah
Subject (Topic):
Islamic binding and Natural and social sciences--Astronomy and astrology
Stuart, of Southville, Connecticut, left Bridgwater for New Haven where he joined the New Haven and California Joint Stock Company. The Company chartered the bark Anna Reynolds, with Capt. John Bottom, and sailed for California. and The journal describes the 1849 voyage around the Horn, by Talcahuano to California and the return voyage in 1850. After a gap, the journal resumes with the company breaking up in San Francisco and Stuart setting off for the mines at Negro Bar on the American River. In March 1850, the journal describes passage on the ship Talma from San Francisco to Realejo, Nicaragua. There is a table of latitude and longitude readings and five pencil sketches of the shoreline of Guatemala and El Salvador.
Description:
Blank pages included in pagination but not scanned.
Subject (Geographic):
Central America --Pictorial works and Diaries --United States
Subject (Name):
Anna Reynolds (bark), New Haven and California Joint Stock Company, and Talma (Ship)
Holograph manuscript diaries kept by John G. Bell during his participation in John James Audubon’s Missouri River expedition in 1843. This volume also contains longer entries, possibly drafts, for August 2-7, with additional accounts, lists, and notes.
Description:
Contains several pages at end, in reverse orientation, badly rubbed and mostly illegible. and Some blank pages throughout not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri River Valley --Description and travel and Yellowstone River Valley --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting, Natural history --Missouri River Valley, and Natural history --Yellowstone River Valley