- Published / Created:
- 1487, 1686.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 34
- Image Count:
- 172
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) and parchment, composed of two distinct sections bound together in the 18th (?) century, but with additional folios inserted. Part I (parchment): Carta ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, granted to Don Alfonso Rodriguez (Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera) by the authority of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Castile. Issued in Salamanca, 1487. Seal missing. Part II (paper): Numerous documents (all dated 1686) concerning a law suit involving Don Diego Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera of Seville, a descendent of Alfonso Rodriguez
- Description:
- In Spanish., Script: Part I (ff. 3-13): Round gothic script by a single scribe. Part II (ff. 19-74): Written in various cursive hands., Folios 1v and 2r have crudely illuminated full-page miniatures, 17th century. Folio 1v: members of the Rodriguez family offering prayers to the Madonna and Child. Folio 2r: arms of the Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera family. Crude decorative border on f. 3v and REY (in gold, outlined in black) may be later additions., Many of the documents included appear to have once been folded. Some loss of text due to trimming., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Thin wooden boards covered with dark brown leather, flesh side out. Vermilion and green ribbon fastenings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., Spain, Salamanca (Spain), and Seville (Spain)
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta ejecutoria, etc
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- Creator:
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 138
- Image Count:
- 319
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Juan de Sant-Fahagun and Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Libros de Cetreria. With the Commentary of Don Beltran de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque, in margins surrounding text
- Description:
- In Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Main 11154., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand, with a somewhat smaller script for the surrounding commentary., Two initials (both f. 1r), the first, 5-line, for the rubric, purple with red penwork; immediately below, the second, for the text, 9-line, the upper portion red, filled with purple penwork, the lower portion purple, filled with red; attached to a thick bar border (side and lower margins) of red and purple vine scrolls in pen, with touches of light brown. One 7-line initial (f. 88r) red, with purple penwork, with exuberant loops and flourishes extending into top and side margins. Depictions of various implements, in black, within text (ff. 37v, 72v, 114r, 115r, 125r, 127r, and 137r). 3-line initials, paragraph marks, and headings in red throughout (except f. 1r, on which, in keeping with the initials, some of the paragraph marks are purple)., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Limp vellum case; title, now illegible, on spine. Front and back pastedown and back flyleaf contain extensive Latin legal references (17th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407.
- Subject (Topic):
- Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libros de cetreria
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.123
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence., and Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle. and Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nicomachean Ethics (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1510].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing the Ordo missae
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic script (littera textualis formata) without feet on the minims., and Decoration: one 9-line initial "P" on fol. 1r in varying shades of blue with foliate decoration on white filigree; in the loop of the letter a peacock in blue and grey with green and gold feathers stands underneath a red rose; the text on the recto is bordered on all four sides and in the center margin with a gold band filled with blue diamons alternating with circles filled with flowers; musical notation is in black on 4-line staves in red; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Noted Missal (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1599]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 710
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and other liturgical texts, with motets by Josquin des Pres added at a later date
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: original text and additions copied in extremely large Southern (Spanish) Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Praescissus), with music notation in nota quadrata., Richly decorated with red rubrics and painted initials., and Binding: s. XVI: undecorated brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. On both covers four large engraved brass corner pieces and more centrally five smaller engraved brass bosses. The leather damaged and several metal pieces lost. On the front cover upside down large number "26" in white paint. On the rear cover four engraved brass catches for clasps (one both at the top and at the bottom edge, and two at the outer edge), and eight nails towards the top probably for fixing a fenestra with title label (now lost). Leather tabs partly with Spanish inscriptions pasted on the outer edges of the leaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Josquin, des Prez, -1521. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ordinarium Missae