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1. Book of hours
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1053
- Image Count:
- 421
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Description:
- Modern foliation includes flyleaves.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours
2. Confessio fidei exhibita invict. imp. Carolo V. Caesari Aug. in Comiciis Augustae
- Creator:
- Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1598]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1084
- Image Count:
- 280
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper.
- Description:
- Bound with: Versio trilinguis Italica, Gallica, Hispanica historicorum tractatuum qui adversus episcopi Romani veraveriorem antichristianam tyrannidem, in Latinis tomis operum D. Mart. Lutheri extant : & opusculorum ejusdem quae ex professo in illius commiserandae ecclesiae doctores erroresq[ue] edita sunt / Hironymo Valentino cognomento de Cantoral, interprete ; appositus est ejusdem dialogus appellatus Neophitus, ubi de suscipienda vera fide & gratia evangelij cum silentio, spe, reverentia & humilitate, tractatur, In Latin, Italian, French and Spanish., and Second of two works bound together.
- Subject (Name):
- Cantoral, Hieronymus Valentinus de
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio fidei exhibita invict. imp. Carolo V. Caesari Aug. in Comiciis Augustae
3. French aphorisms, library catalogue
- Creator:
- Fribois, Noël de, fl. 1400-1468
Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1595]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1029
- Image Count:
- 241
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois (d. 1467/1468), Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban (d. ca. 1473), Epitaph for King Charles VII (1461). 3) Moral aphorisms in the form of distichs. 4) Moral aphorisms in French after the manner of the Disticha Catonis, perhaps by the same author as art. 3. 5) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France (Lille?). The 57 books, listed without a clear order, are almost all in French and were printed between 1534 and 1595, with one book dated 1495; they mostly were produced in Paris, Lyons, Douai and Antwerp. For each the owner gives a full transcription of the title page, reproducing its layout (exceptionnally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
- Description:
- 21 blank leaves at end not digitized., Binding: Binding ca. 1500??: blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands. On the front cover a parchment label with the sixteenth century inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata "Cronicques / abreigiés"., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76), ca. 1450, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda). Part II (ff. 77-88), between 1490 and 1500, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Bastarda). Part III (ff. 89-113), after 1613, Written in documentary Gothica Cursiva Currens., and Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
- Subject (Geographic):
- France--History
- Subject (Name):
- Fribois, Noël de,--fl. 1400-1468
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, French, French poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French aphorisms, library catalogue
4. Horologium sapientiae
- Creator:
- Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 145
- Image Count:
- 380
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of The Horloge de Sapience, a loose translation and adaptation into French of Henry Suso, Horologium sapientiae. With a Colophon, in French verse, stating that the translation was made by a French Franciscan master of theology at Neufchateau in 1389.
- Description:
- Binding: 1800-1810, France. Diced brown calf, blind-and gold-tooled. Edges gilt. Stains from turn-ins of early binding on original front parchment pastedown. Rebacked., Plain initials, 4- to 1-line, headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, foliation and underlining, all in red., Purchased from Maggs Bros. of London in 1955 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written in batarde script, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans--Manuscripts and Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, French, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Horologium sapientiae
5. L'Abuzé en court; Georges Chastellain, Le Temple de Boccace
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 776
- Image Count:
- 256
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed of two parts. Part I: L'Abuzé en court, a satire on court life in the form of a dialogue, in verse and prose. Part II: Georges Chastellain (c. 1415-1475), Le Temple de Boccace, a continuation to Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium, dedicated to Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England and daughter of René of Anjou (1429/1430-1482), composed 1465.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century. Calfskin over cardboard, the covers simply decorated with a frame of triple blind-tooled fillets. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and black leather label with gold-tooled title “LA BUSE / EN / COURT”. Marbled paper endleaves. The two first flyleaves at the end of the book are of the same paper as section I., Part I: Paragraph marks in red. Headings underlined in red. Majuscules heightened in yellow. Red plain initials (2 lines, on f. 1r 3 lines). Spaces for pictures (mostly half-page to three-quarter page) were provided but not executed. Part II: Headings and paragraph marks in red. Red plain initials (2-4 lines). A small picture (height: 7 lines) was provided but not executed on the first page (f. 68r)., Script: Each part written by a single scribe, both writing Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda)., The modern pencil foliation is erroneous, as it has successively ff. 36, 37, 36 bis, 38., and Watermark: Part I: a letter Y surmounted by a cross, var. Briquet 9183?. Part II: Watermark: mermaid, var. Briquet 13858-13859?.
- Subject (Name):
- Margaret,--of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England,--1430-1482
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature--To 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, French
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'Abuzé en court; Georges Chastellain, Le Temple de Boccace
6. Legenda aurea, Vol. 1
- Creator:
- Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1420]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1123
- Image Count:
- 671
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacobus,--de Voragine,--ca. 1229-1298
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legenda aurea, Vol. 1
7. Moralia in Job.
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
- Published / Created:
- 1388 January.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1152
- Image Count:
- 381
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing a possibly unique French translation of the Prologue and first five books of the Moralia in Job, copied in Chimay.
- Alternative Title:
- Moralia in Job. French
- Description:
- Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 91). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 28) on the Herman W. Liebert Book Fund, 2011., Binding: nineteenth-century full blue calf, gold-tooled., and Script: written in a single gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Job--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moralia in Job.
8. Natura brevium and other works.
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1450]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a58
- Image Count:
- 442
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura brevium; the text of The old tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
- Description:
- A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., and Script: English book hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377 and Taussig, Anthony
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--England--Early works to 1800, Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Writs--England--Early works to 1800, and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natura brevium and other works.
9. Necrology and land register for the parish church of Hollain
- Published / Created:
- 1437-1693.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1185
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a liturgical Gothic bookhand, with additional notes in later hands, containing a necrology for the parish church of Hollain in Hainaut, including information concerning the deceased, the donors, the donated properties, and the fees for the celebrants. A brief list of obits (ff. 4-9v) is followed by a detailed list, organized in calendar form (ff. 14-47). Notes added to some entries in later hands contain corrections and updates to the original entries. The perpetual calendar of obits is followed by a register of lands and incomes held by the parish of Hollain (ff. 48-64v.).
- Description:
- Binding: Remnant of original wooden binding attached to back of volume., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue; paragraph marks in alternating red and blue., In Middle French, with some Latin., Layout: single column with varying number of lines., Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Alard Sprien pasteur de Hollain 1647 26 Januarii.", Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Paul François Deschamps pasteur de hollain le 12 de decembre 1693.", Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf: "Pierre Lemari pasteur de hollain, x julii 1660.", Ownership inscription on verso of last leaf:"Antoine Descamps pasteur de Hollain 1607.", Purchased from Les Enluminures on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: Gothic liturgical bookhand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hainaut (Belgium)--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Finance--Early works to 1800
- Subject (Topic):
- Church property--Hainaut (Belgium)--Early works to 1800, Endowments--Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Necrologies--Early works to 1800, Obituaries--Early works to 1800, and Parishes (Canon law)--Hainaut (Belgium)--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Necrology and land register for the parish church of Hollain