Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Bible in the usual order with some prologues and later additions. 2) Index of Hebrew names generally attributed to Stephen Langton. 3) List of readings for year, beginning with the first Sunday in Advent through Monday after Easter. 4) Another list of readings from the first Sunday in Advent (f. 427r) through the 25th Sunday after Trinity, for the dedication of a church, for the sanctorale from Andrew through Cecilia, for the common of saints and for Trinity, Holy Spirit, Holy Cross, Virgin Mary, and the dead. and Manuscript on parchment (trimmed).
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Red, straight-grained goatskin, gold-tooled., Collection of Cornelius Vanderbilt (MS 190); bequeathed to Yale in his memory by his daughter Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, Countess Laszlo Szechenyi in 1966., Rectangular pieces cut out of lower margin, ff. 266-69; no loss of text., Script: Written in small gothic textura; a few corrections added in a tiny neat cursive hand. Marginal notes in several cursive hands of 14th-15th centuries., and The historiated initials, 11- to 6-line (not including ascenders or descenders), are pink and blue, with dragons, against pink and blue grounds with gold dots and triplets of white dots. Initials for prologues 6- to 4-line (without ascenders or descenders), as above, filled with intertwining vines, blossoms, dragons, occasionally birds or fish; 4- to 1-line initials, red or blue with blue and red penwork. Headings, chapter numbers, red and blue alternating letters with blue and red penwork. Capitals stroked in red. Some rubrics missing.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Manuscripts, Medieval--France--13th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper (rough, brown; trimmed; no watermarks) of the Life of Josephus, which was perhaps an appendage to his Antiquitates. This codex appears to be one of the earliest surviving authorities for the autobiography of Josephus.
Description:
Binding: 17th-18th centuries (?). Rebound in brick-red leather, blind-tooled with a rope interlace with small dots in the border and a floreate cross in the center., Crude headpiece on f. 1r, with title and small initials in red., Script: Written by a single scribe in well-spaced minuscule; a second scribe added four lines on f. 32v, partly damaged and undeciphered., and The upper and lower portions of the manuscript are waterstained. Most folios have been repaired; the final leaf is badly mutilated with much damage to the text.
Subject (Name):
Josephus, Flavius
Subject (Topic):
Autobiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry; many leaves repaired) of a collection of Saints' lives. The manuscript can probably be attributed to an Augustinian house of Canons Regular in the ancient region of Lotharingia.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), Flanders or France. Wooden boards with a faint rectangular panel design on each board; fastenings may be later additions? Original sewing on double cords. Remains of tawed skin saddle stitched around the tail endband and brown leather added at the head. Paper pastedowns and flyleaves added later. Traces of corner fittings from an earlier binding on first and last parchment leaves., Purchased from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston., Red and medium blue split initials with penwork designs in red and/or blue on ff. 3r, 107r, 194r, 217v; red and/or blue initials, most lacking penwork designs, appear for major text divisions; initial on f. 139r in red and yellow. Numerous smaller initials in green, red, blue and sometimes yellow, a few with simple void designs or in ink of a contrasting color. Rubrics throughout, some written perpendicular to text when there was insufficient space. Numbers and initial letters for chapter lists in red, blue, yellow and/or green. Remains of guide letters and notes to rubricator., and Script: Written by multiple scribes in early gothic book hand, above top line; an early hand has sporadically added running headlines and some notes in lead.
Subject (Name):
Augustinian Canons
Subject (Topic):
Legends, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1250] and ca. 1200
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 828
Image Count:
73
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Guillelmus de Sancto Theoderico (William of St. Thierry, c. 1080-1148), Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei (De vita solitaria), without the Preface. The letter is addressed to the monks of the Charterhouse of Montdieu in the diocese of Reims. With an index of the chapters of art. 1.
Alternative Title:
Frater Bruno
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Yellow velvet over rounded wooden boards. The former cover consists of a 17th-century document on parchment with text on the inner side, largely illegible due to the remnants of paste on its surface, issued by “Frater Bruno [d'Affringues, 1600-1631], ... totius ordinis Cartusiensis generalis minister”. The former binding contained also three fragments of a 13th-century manuscript on parchment, containing liturgical directions. These are now kept apart with the former cover and a former parchment flyleaf., Red heightening of the majuscules, but layout and decoration lack uniformity. (1) Up to f. 12r inclusively the chapters start in the middle of a line and are preceded by a red paragraph mark; the corresponding chapter number is written by another hand at the same height in one of the side margins, and the chapter heading is added by the same hand in one of the margins and connected to the beginning of the chapter by a reference mark or by a connecting line. (2) From f. 12v up to at least f. 22v the chapters open at the left margin with a 1- or 2-line red plain initial and the corresponding heading and chapter number are copied in red by a contemporary hand in the open space on the preceding line; instructions for these are provided by the scribe (B) in small handwriting alongside the upper or lower edges. (3) Starting f. 23v for the final chapters 40-42 we see the type of layout and decoration as described under (1). On f. 1r a large and narrow “shaped inset” littera duplex in red and green initial F in red and green (8/16 ll.). with extremely developed penwork in the same colours and green extensions in the left margin., Script: Copied by two scribes writing a heavily abbreviated early Gothica Textualis Libraria with simplified letter forms: hand A (ff. 1r-10r, line 5) is rather bold and uses single-compartment a and straight s in all positions; hand B (ff. 10r, line 6-26v) is slightly less careful, there is more variety in the shape of a, and final s is either round or straight., and The lower edges of ff. 2, 7 and 11 are irregular; the lower outer corners of ff. 18, 23 and 24 are defective.
Subject (Geographic):
Reims (France)
Subject (Name):
William,--of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry,--ca. 1085-1148?
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
Manscript document, on parchment, in a forged late eleventh-century script, purporting to be a charter issued by Edward the Confessor to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry. Accompanied by six other thirteenth century grants.
Description:
Phillipps MS 27963. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Edward,--King of England,--approximately 1003-1066.
Subject (Topic):
Forgery of manuscripts--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Writs--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
Description:
Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin, Bible.--Latin.--Vulgate, Bible--Commentaries, Bible--Prefaces, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Constitution for the dinghof or cologne of Ingersheim in Alsace, consisting of 16 articles ... Parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched together ... Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe who placed a paragraph mark before each article. and Manuscript on parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched together, of Constitution for the dinghof or colonge of Ingersheim in Alsace, consisting of 16 articles.
Description:
Binding: Boxed., Paragraph mark before each article., Purchased in 1958 from Roux-Devillas, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Roll shows considerable use., and Script: Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe.
Subject (Geographic):
Alsace (France)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Ibn Aṣbagh, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá, 1167 or 8-1223 or 4.
Published / Created:
1224
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 238
Image Count:
182
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Arabic glossary, in verse, arranged by subjects., Copied in A.H. 621 (A.D. 1224)., and The main work ends on leaf 39 recto, and is followed by a supplement, entitled Naẓm al-jumal al-muʻaqqibah min al-ṣifāt li-Kitāb al-mudhhabah.
Description:
Badly worm-eaten., Brockelmann spells mudhahhabah, but Berlin catalog has mudhhabah, and the meter requires this spelling in the prefatory verses on leaf 1 recto (verse 5, 2d half) and in the verses on leaf 40 recto and in the colophon (which also spell ḥulá, Brockelmann: ḥilā). Also al-muʻaqqibah so spelled on leaf 40 recto (Brockelmann: al-muʻaqqabah)., Considerable marginalia., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Incipit same as in Berlin catalog 5370 and Bankipore XX, 1989.
Subject (Name):
Naẓm al-jumal al-muʻaqqibah min al-ṣifāt li-Kitāb al-mudhhabah.