- Creator:
- Apollonius, of Tyana
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1225]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 1
- Image Count:
- 40
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Fifteen pages of largely diagrammatic drawings, approximately thirty-six in all, depending on how their relationships are interpreted (the text calls for thirty-two), are found from f. 10v to f. 17v, most of them accompanied by labels and the texts of prayers consisting of long series of invented names with exotic sounds written in a minute hand in brown ink, while the designs themselves are throughout in red. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names. and Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names.
- Description:
- Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Incantations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei
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- Creator:
- Boethius, d. 524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 117
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Boethius, De topicis differentiis.
- Description:
- Binding: Date? Limp vellum case with title, in ink, on spine: "Topica boetij"., One historiated initial, f. 1v, blue with white filigree and highlights against a square reddish brown ground with white filigree, showing Boethius as a monk in a blue robe seated on a chair and holding a scroll inscribed with his name, and a disciple, dressed in a red robe and holding a book inscribed with the opening words of the text proper, both figures against a grey ground with white filigree. Three illuminated initials, ff. 7v, 16v, 23r, 6- to 4-line (without ascenders or descenders), blue with white filigree against reddish brown ground with white filigree or reddish brown against blue ground with white filigree. The initials are filled with scrolling vines blue or reddish brown with white highlights, with stylized leaves, ending in dragons' heads against reddish brown or blue grounds. Descender, f. 16v, in form of a dragon, reddish brown against blue ground. Flourished initials, 2-line, and paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Script: Written in compact gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De topicis differentiis
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- Creator:
- Aegidius Beneventanus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 119
- Image Count:
- 398
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aegidius Beneventanus, Collection of extracts on moral subjects (Part I), historical, genealogical and geographical subjects (Parts II and III) drawn from classical, Biblical and medieval texts. With Extracts from Isidore, Etymologiae.
- Description:
- Script: Written by several scribes in an uneven gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Aegidius Beneventanus
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Florilegium
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1290-1300
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 923
- Image Count:
- 73
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- On parchment; with a fitted case.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Folding calendar
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent, creator
- Published / Created:
- between 1250 and 1300
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 520
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederick II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123).
- Description:
- Binding: Modern limp vellum., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederic II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123). Probably written by one hand in extremely small Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under some Cursiva influence. The script of art. 9 is larger., On the front fly-leaf r a table of contents written in pencil by the owner S. Harrison Thomson. Purchased in 1972 from Thomson on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red headings, red heightening of majuscules and red plain initials, mostly 2-3 lines; the red initials were to alternate with blue ones but the latter have not been executed. Many initials are anyhow missing. Guide-letters are seen close to the fold or to the edge of the pages. The running titles were also planned to be executed in alternately red and blue majuscules, but the blue letters are missing; there are no running titles after f. 20 (quire II)., and The ink on the first pages has flaked, making them very difficult to decipher.
- Subject (Name):
- Comestor, Petrus, 12th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, Religious poetry, Latin, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, etc.
- Published / Created:
- Kenkyū 3 [1192]-Enkyō 4 [1747]
- Call Number:
- YAJ 2.12-2.13
- Collection Title:
- Ko mon-zho hari-maze byo-bu [28 original documents between 1192-1747, pasted upon screens.]
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated Kenkyū 3 [1192]-Enkyō 4 [1747]. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated 建久3 [1192]-延享4 [1747].
- Alternative Title:
- Harimaze byōbu, Komonjoharimazebyōbu, and 古文書張交屏風, 建久3 [1192]-延享4 [1747].
- Description:
- "27 [i.e. 28] original documents dating between 1192 and 1747, pasted upon screens." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., For individual manuscripts, search by call number: YAJ 2.12-2.13, Stored in 5 boxes., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Japan--History--1185-1868--Sources
- Subject (Topic):
- Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Komonjo harimaze byōbu
- Creator:
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 47
- Image Count:
- 254
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (much worn, pieced) of 1) Ovid, Tristia 1.7.35-40. 2) Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli added in margins.
- Description:
- Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9033). Sold by W. H. Robinson to H. P. Kraus, from whom it was purchased in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century. Sewing, possibly original, on four kermes pink slit straps. Plain, wound endbands on tawed skin cores. Tan blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, also possibly original as they are cut in for the straps. Title gold-tooled on spine: "Ovidii Metam./ Saec. XV. M. S. in memb"., Script: Written by at least three scribes in scripts ranging from late caroline minuscule to early gothic bookhand, all above top line. Interlinear and marginal annotations and running headlines by several hands, 13th-15th centuries., and Two illuminated initials, f. 1r, severely damaged: 21-line initial I for first verse of art. 2 incorporates an elongated grotesque, originally purple, red, blue, and green on gold ground; 4-line initial at beginning of art. 1, gold on red ground with center totally effaced. 8-line initial for Bk. 2, f. 8v, gold on blue (?) ground, now rubbed: inhabited by winged grotesque biting its back with intertwining foliage in blue, green, orange and mauve on gold and red ground. Books 3-15 have attractive penwork initials divided red and medium blue with designs in both colors, ascenders and descenders often sweeping far into margins. Headings and paragraph marks in red. First letter of each verse (either set apart from text block between the first and second or placed directly on the second vertical bounding line) stroked with yellow.
- Subject (Name):
- Lactantius,--ca. 240-ca. 320 and Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin fiction, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Metamorphoses
- Creator:
- Ibn Wāṣil, Muḥammad ibn Sālim, 1207 or 8-1297 or 8
- Published / Created:
- A.H. 680 (A.D. 1281)
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 103
- Image Count:
- 277
- Abstract:
- Copied in Hama in A.H. 680 (A.D. 1281)., Manual of logic., and Preceded and followed by 1 leaf of notes. Title page included in numbering.
- Description:
- Fair cursive naskhī. and Imperfect: wormed with some loss of text. Front cover wanting.
- Subject (Topic):
- Philosophy--Logic
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nukhbat al-fikar fī tathqīf al-naẓar / taʾlīf ... Jamāl al- Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sālim ibn Naṣr Allāh ibn Sālim ibn Wāṣil. -- 1281.
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- [1250-1300?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a49
- Image Count:
- 289
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in a Gothic liturgical hand, of a Psalter, prefaced by a liturgical calendar and followed by the Office of the Dead.
- Description:
- Binding: modern full blue velvet., Ex libris John Ruskin. Ex libris Laurence Hilliard. Ex libris Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (J. R. Ritman Library). Purchased from Sam Fogg on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., Presentation inscription on front flyleaf: Laurence Hilliard with John Ruskin's love, Brantwood, 25th January 1881., Tipped in at front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing copy of a letter from Joseph Mallord William Turner to John Ruskin, Midsummer Day [June 24] 1848, in the hand of John Ruskin., and Tipped in to front of manuscript: parchment leaf containing a description of the illuminations in the hand of John Ruskin.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church, Hilliard, Laurence--Ownership, Ruskin, John--1819-1900.--Autograph, and Turner, Joseph Mallord William--1775-1851.--Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter, with calendar and office of the dead
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 846
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Regula pastoralis.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. De luxe, gold-tooled green morocco over cardboard; each cover framed by rich gold-tooling imitating the decorated initial on f. 1v; turn-ins gold-tooled. Gold-tooled spine with repeated motif in the same style and title: “GREGORII / PASTORALIS / M.S.”. Gilt edges., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 14872)., Headings in red, missing from f. 12v onwards. 1-3-line plain initials in red of various shades. On f. 1v very large (c. 25 lines) decorated Romanesque initial “P” in red., Holes and defective corners, many repaired; the lower margins of ff. 63 and 91-92 are repaired by means of a strip of parchment; the lower margin of f. 93 is cut off. The manuscript is heavily trimmed at the top. First and last pages very soiled., and Script: Copied by various scribes writing Praegothica, difficult to distinguish from each other because of the uneven level of execution of their hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Regula pastoralis