Manuscript fragment on parchment of Petrus Cantor (c. 1130-1197), Commentum in libros Proverbiorum, Ecclesiastes, Sapientiae et Ecclesiastici.
Description:
Binding: Unbound., Many leaves are badly soiled., Red underlining of biblical passages. 2-line flourished initials with extensions in the margin or in the intercolumnar space; they are in red and blue on ff. in quire I, in red only in quires II-III (two flourished initials on f. 1v are also executed only in red); two initials of that type are missing, ff. 11r and 16r. Larger initials at the beginning of the commentary of new Bible books: 4-line littera duplex "B(eatus)" on f. 4r, Prologue to Ecclesiastes; 3-line "Q(uecumque)" on f. 8v, Prologue to Wisdom; 11-line "S(ummi)" and 6-line "O(mnis)", both red on beige background, on f. 15r, Prologue and text of Ecclesiasticus., and Script: Copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in flourished majuscules alternately red and blue; they stop after f. 6.
Subject (Name):
Petrus,--Cantor,--ca. 1130-1197
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Ecclesiasticus, Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Bible.--O.T.--Proverbs, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation.
Description:
Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges., First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text., Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1., and Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line.
Subject (Name):
Halgrin, John
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers., Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown., Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown., Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law., Layout: double columns of 47 lines each., Previously owned by Thomas Thorpe; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 2316); George Dunn; Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 2014 July 16, lot 3) on the Edward J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., Script: gothic textura., Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf., and Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons.
Subject (Name):
Bright, Allan Heywood,--1862-1941--Bookplate., Dunn, George,--1864-1912--Bookplate., Grosseteste, Robert,--1175?-1253., and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Ten commandments--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law.
Description:
A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., Previously owned by Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner; Phillipps MS 3097; William Carr; W. J. Carr. Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., Script: Gothic Textura., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., and Title from incipit.
Subject (Name):
Bracton, Henry de,---1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
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
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment (damaged). The one side has fine drawings of a king and queen (with falcon) in elaborate robes. Beside them is a foot soldier in armor; below a warrior on horseback, in armor, pursued by an archer, without armor. Above is a centaur (Chiron?) shooting an arrow at a flying bird, a second bird on the ground. On the other side (much affected by paste) three warriors storm a tower.
Description:
Removed from Marston MS 89 where it was used as a front pastedown. and See catalogue entry for Marston MS 89.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library