Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Ceremonial for the vestment of a nun. 2) Ceremonial for the communion of a sick nun. 3) Ceremonial for administering the extreme unction. 4) Ceremonial at the death of a nun. 5) Commendations for the dead nun. 6) Ceremonial for the burial of a nun. 7) Seven Penitential Psalms. 8) Antiphons, Responses and Hymns for the aspersions with holy water and the processions, with musical notation and rubrics in Latin, for the feast of Purification of the Virgin (2 Febr., f. 52v), Palm Sunday (ff. 54r and 59r), Maundy Thursday (f. 61r), Easter, Ascension, Pentecost (ff. 66r and 68r), the Rogation Days (f. 69r), the Vigil of Pentecost, Corpus Christi (f. 73r), the Assumption of the Virgin (15 August, f. 74v), the Dedication of the Church (f. 76r), Trinity Sunday (f. 78r) and again Purification (f. 79v). These are followed by the various melodies, with Dutch rubrics, for three liturgical formulas. 9) Text of Versicles for various periods and feasts of the ecclesiastical year. 10) Versicles for the Common of the Saints. 11) Dutch prayers for a dying nun. 12) Ceremonial for the consecration of candles at Purification, the consecration of ashes on Ash Wednesday, the consecration of palms on Palm Sunday, the washing of the altar on Maundy Thursday, partly with musical notation. 13) Fragment of the Antiphons for Pentecost, with musical notation. and Manuscript on parchment.
Alternative Title:
Ceremonial and processional and Liturgy and ritual
Description:
Binding: ca. 1500. Blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, both covers decorated with twice a panel containing two rows of four animals in tendrils in a frame of 16 dragons in tendrils (the so-called 24 Animals panel), separated by a frieze with the Peasants' Dance. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps.The pastedowns are two parts of a document in Dutch on parchment (a large section between the two is missing) datable 25 August 1443. It is a chirograph in documentary cursive script, stating that before the court of Geraardsbergen ("Gheerondsberghe", Fr. Grammont, East Flanders) parties have promised to pay a debt of £ 200 in eight instalments over the next four years, 1443-1446. Among the persons mentioned are Heinrik den Haec (?), the lady de Tiennes, the aldermen of Edingen (Enghien, Hainaut?), Collaert van den Foreeste, alderman of Geraardsbergen and Coppenole, counciller of the same city. The design and letters appearing at the top and at the bottom of the document prove that it was made in three copies., Rubrics, underlining and paragraph marks in red; red stroking of majuscules. 1-line versals and 2-line plain initials in red. 2-line flourished initials alternately red and blue ; cadels with red heightening on the pages with musical notation; 3- or 4-line litterae duplices with penwork extensions in red, blue and green on ff. 1r (art. 1), 18r (art. 5), 40r (art. 6), 46v (art. 7) and 86r (art. 11)., and Script: The main scribe (A) wrote Gothica Textualis Formata on ff. 1r-46v, l. 4 (with the exception of f. 39, where another hand wrote a smaller Gothica Textualis Formata). Hand B wrote Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda) on ff. 46v, l. 6 - 87v, l. 4 (artt. 7-11). Hand C copied ff. 88r-94v (art. 12) in Gothica Textualis Formata. F. 95 is 16th century addition copied in a clumsy Gothica Semitextualis. The musical notation is a variant of the Hoefnagel type. There are several later additions of music and text.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
Cursive bookhand script of the late 16th century. Title page illustrated with columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription ""Christ adsit et praesit,"" and signed by I. S. Bound in thick vellum, with mathematical calculations on back c and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated October 8, 1584. It includes psalms arranged as 66 prayers in prose, songs in praise of Christ's birth and the Lord's supper, metrical versions of 66 psalms by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, and "an exhortation unto ye praise of God to be songe before morning and evening praier."
Description:
Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: thick vellum; mathematical calculations on back cover., Illustration on title page of columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription "Christ adsit et praesit," and signed by T. S., On f. 152r, Rose Silvester signed it as her book on July 5, 1649. Next follows the signature of William Silvester and the inscription "his booke and hee that Steles him shall bee hanged upon a hoke as hie as William Silvester can looke.", On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673., On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673. On folio 151v, after the exhortation, two hands repeat the last four lines, dated 1649, one by Rose Silvester. On 152r, Rose Silvester signs it, and Watermark: pot, Briquet 12725 (Bruges, 1581).
Subject (Topic):
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Psalters
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Limp green vellum case, blue-green edges., Headpiece in black ink, on f. 1r. Headings and chapter notations, in red. 3-line initial, with decoration above and below letter, in red on f. 4r; other small initials in red throughout codex at beginning of each section., Same watermark as Harlfinger Croix 41, from a manuscript signed by Andreas Darmarius and dated 5 April 1582., and Script: Written by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who signed the completed manuscript.
Subject (Name):
Africanus, Sextus Julius
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1600, Geography, Ancient--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Five manuscript charters, including land grants and indentures, produced in England between 1352 and 1599. On parchment in cursive charter hand, Chancery script, and Secretary script.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 32220). Purchased and Four of the charters have partially or fully preserved wax seals.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Charters, grants, privileges
Subject (Name):
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Subject (Topic):
Charters, Legal manuscripts--England, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Iacobus de Malvetiis (Jacopo Malvezzi, d. after 1432), Chronicon Brixianum. History of Brescia from its mythical foundation by Hercules up to 15 June 1332. With Prologue added ca. 1600.
Description:
Binding: Eighteenth century. Undecorated yellow parchment over pasteboard. On the spine dark red leather gold-tooled title label with inscription: “CRON. URB. BRIX. / PER MAG. JAC. / DE / MALVET. BRIX. / MS.” Below this label traces of an oval label. Endleaves in decorated paper printed with floral ornament in pink and gold., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., ff. 145-192 blank, not digitized., Guide letters and spaces for 2-line initials (for a 3-line initial on f. 1r and in some other places) have been provided; no initials were executed., and Script: Art. 2 is copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens (Libraria on the first pages), s. XVIin. Art. 3 is by another hand writing the same type of script (Currens). Art. 1 is written in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria s. XVI/XVII, most headings in art. 2 by the same hand in less careful script.
Subject (Geographic):
Brescia (Italy)--History
Subject (Name):
Malvezzi, Jacopo
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Benedictus XII papa (1334-1342), Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), c. 1, first part. 2) Benedictus XII papa, Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), cc. 1 (second part) - 42. 3) Statutes of the General Chapter of Cîteaux of 1335. 4) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Regularem vitam professis", 4 July 1335. 5) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Pastor bonus diligens", 17 June 1335. 6) Statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 24. 7) Part of the statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 23. 8) Carta caritatis, a later version of the original constitution of the Cistercian Order. 9) Statutes of the General Chapter of 1317, incomplete at the end: cc. 1-13.
Description:
Binding: Blind-tooled white parchment over wooden boards, decorated with fillets in a frame and lozenges pattern. Spine with two raised bands., Foliation s. XVII in ink 2-109, but ff. 37-39 are missing., Script: The original text (artt. 2-5, 8, 9) is probably copied by a single hand (A) writing a small Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria. The additional texts are copied in 16th century hands: artt. 1 and 6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria by hand B, who wrote also the majority of the marginal notes and additions; art. 7 by hand C, who used a bold Humanistica Cursiva., and The additional texts are not decorated. The original parts have red headings, red paragraph marks, and red 2- or 3-line plain initials. Art. 2 opens f. 2r with a 7-line littera duplex with extensive penwork and extension in the inner margin in red and blue; art. 8 opens f. 42v with a 3-line flourished initial (Prologue) and a 4-line littera duplex with penwork, as in art. 2 (text). All initials are half inset and have guide letters in the margin.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Claudius Claudianus (ca. 400), De raptu Proserpinae. 2) Plinius Maior (23-79), Naturalis Historia, C. Mayhoff, ed. (Teubner, 1906 ff.), 10.3-5: note on the phenix, as an introduction to art. 3. 3) Claudius Claudianus, Phoenix (Carmina minora 27). 4) Fictitious epitaph of Claudius Claudianus. 5) Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17), Metamorphoses, 11.592-615: description of the dwelling of the god Sleep. 6) Titus Vespasianus Strozza (Tito Vespasiano Strozzi, 1424-1505), Laus Bacchi (poem in praise of wine). 7) Note on the question whether Claudianus was a Christian. A quotation from Paulus Orosius (d. after 418), Historiae adversus paganos, 7.35.2, followed by verses 1-5 of the poem De Salvatore, by or attributed to Claudianus (Carmina minora, 32). 8) Three verses from Claudius Claudianus, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti, 96-98. 9) Final three verses of Claudius Claudianus, Deprecatio ad Hadrianum (Carmina minora, 22), 56-58. Followed by a conclusion about Claudianus's nationality.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brownish mottled paper over cardboard. The preceding binding had wooden boards as appears from the worm holes in the first and final leaves., Headings and explicit formulas in pale red; the heading of art. 5 in Capitalis. Space for 3- or 2-line initials reserved in art. 1. The first words of artt. 2 and 5 are written in pale red capitals., and Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Formata; artt. 7-9 in a more sloping and more rapid script.
Subject (Name):
Claudianus, Claudius
Subject (Topic):
Latin fiction, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library