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10. Prieres de la messe
- Creator:
- Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693
- Published / Created:
- [between 1700 and 1750]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 464
- Image Count:
- 117
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Prayers to be said at various times during the Mass. Composed by Paul Pellisson-Fontanier (1624-93).
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by the master calligrapher Jean Pierre Rousselet, a follower of Nicholas Jarry, active in Paris between 1677 and 1736., Two full-page miniatures and nine historiated headpieces in gouache, all in frames best described as resembling the frames of 18th-century mirrors; the frames blue and purple with white highlights and gold side-pieces decorated with red flowers in diamonds; floral swags at bottom. Tail pieces with swags, as above and filled with gold, on f. 48v with the Holy Spirit as a dove. 3- and 2-line initials, blue with white highlights on gold; 1-line initials in red. Titles in gold, red and blue capitals; running headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Black goatskin, gold-tooled. A red label and salmon pink doublures and flyleaves. Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prieres de la messe
11. Processionale (pars aestivalis) for the Collegiate Church of St. Genesius at Clermont-Ferrand
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 638
- Image Count:
- 185
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. Rubrics in Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda). Music notation in Nota Quadrata., Red rubrics. Heightening of majuscules in yellow. Alternately red and blue1-line plain initials on ff. 176r-177r. Flourished initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line) alternately red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork. Cadels (same size) in a rectangular frame decorated with foliage on a yellow background. On f. 1r damaged large golden initial (2 staves + 2 lines of text) on a blue background containing coat of arms of Hugo Gontard, a canon in the collegiate church of St. Genesius (St. Genez) at Clermont-Ferrand in 1515 and "abbot" of the said church, 1519-1545., Many pages badly damaged and faded, especially f. 1r., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Marbled leather over cardboard, repaired. Gold-tooled spine with title on red leather label: "LIVRE D'HEURES". Brown marbled paper endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Music, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Processionale (pars aestivalis) for the Collegiate Church of St. Genesius at Clermont-Ferrand
12. Psalter
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1325]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 417
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 257
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a sumptuously illuminated and exceptionally well preserved manuscript of East Anglian origin
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in fine gothic bookhand., Eight of the original ten historiated initials survive. The initials are pink and blue with white filigree and dots on f. 7r incorporating intertwining leaves in pink, blue, green and orange; the figures predominantly orange, and purple with some pink, blue and green, on elaborately tooled gold, set against square grounds, quartered blue and red, with diapering. Each initial with a lavishly ornamented full border incorporating spiraling foliage, large oak leaves, flowers, knots, grotesques, and quatrefoils framing additional figures. 2-line initials for Psalms, pink and/or blue, with white filigree and dots, filled with spiraling ivy, large leaves and dots, blue, green and orange, occasionally a fleur-de-lis, flower, or diaper pattern, on gold, against pink and blue grounds, with white filigree and dots, most connected to bar borders, pink, blue, orange and gold with floral, ivy and grotesque terminals. 1-line initials for verses, gold, thickly edged in black, against irregular pink and blue grounds with white filigree and dots. Many varied line fillers in red and blue., Lower right corners of ff. 42 and 85 excised., and Binding: Sixteenth century, perhaps at Oxford. Caught-up sewing on twelve tawed, slit strap supports, only four of them laced into beech boards, the others cut off at the edges of the spine. The spine is square and the bands prominent and defined. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with two concentric frames of medallion heads and arabesques, with thistles in the outer corners of the inner panel and an ornament with a cherub's head on it in the center. Nails for catches but no marks of them on the leather, stubs of two straps on the upper board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter
13. Psalter, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Image Count:
- 412
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Liturgical Psalter (Pss. 1-108) with hymns, canticles, and antiphons. Capitals A and B in outer margins every two Psalms, perhaps to denote change in reader. With Hymns for Matins and Lauds
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a large round gothic bookhand., One crude historiated initial, 6-line (Ps. 1): David seated on ground with both hands raised in prayer, against a blue ground, the letter-form tan, orange, and red with white filigree; large blue, green, pink, and red acanthus leaves at the corners, against a gold ground, edged with two thick black bands, penwork, gold dots, and hair-spray. In bottom margin a "YHS" monogram, against a blue ground, inside sunburst and green, pink, and blue wreath, supported by large bud from which sprout two large acanthus leaves, red berries, gold dots and hair-spray, as above. 6- or 5-line initials red and/or blue, with large green or red dots, elaborate purple calligraphic decoration, portions filled with green and tan. 2-line initials, red or blue, with calligraphic ornament and flourishes, as above. 1-line initials, blue or red, with guide-letters throughout. On f. 160v a large pen drawing of a hand pointing to text., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Sewn on five tawed skin straps. Plain, wound endbands on cores laced into tunnels in the edges of heavy wooden boards. Covered with three separate pieces of dark brown leather (cowskin?) with leather straps extending across the spine and nailed to the boards over the sewing straps. Each board has four corner pieces, a central boss and a strip of metal, probably iron, nailed around the four edges. Strap and pin fastening, the pin on the lower board, stubs of pink, tawed straps attached to the upper one. Fragments from several parchment manuscripts and early printed texts used as binding reinforcements.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter, etc
14. Psalter-hymnal
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400, 1000 and 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 578
- Image Count:
- 386
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Psalter-Hymnal, written for a Benedictine monastery. On the rear flyleaf, a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, 1:24-31 and 36-42, in West-Saxon translation
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Copied by three scribes, all writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. The fragment is copied in careful Anglo-Saxon Minuscule., The decoration consists of 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue in the text; 2-line flourished initials in blue with red penwork with marginal extensions; 3- and 5-line litterae duplices with partial or full penwork borders (J-motifs) as indicated in art. 2. Litterae duplices also on ff. 116r, 133v, 143v (artt. 3, 6 and 7)., and Binding: Original undecorated leather over oak boards (?). Spine with three raised bands. Traces (?) of one clasp.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter-hymnal
15. Vitae patrum
- Published / Created:
- [between 1175 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 625
- Image Count:
- 221
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (coarse, yellow) of about 40 selections from saints' lives
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by a single hand in careful Iberian Praegothica., Fine Romanesque initials (2-5 lines) with foliage penwork in red and blue. Some contain human heads (ff. 9r, 16v, 25r, 25v [two heads], 70r [two heads]). On ff. 64v, 125v and 135v initials of exceptional development, the latter two with animal decoration., Mutilated., and Binding: Twentieth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over....On the spine two labels with the hand-written inscriptions: "FLOS SANCTORUM MS" and "TOLEDO SAEC. XII".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitae patrum