Manuscript, on parchment, of an illuminated and decorated gradual made for use in the choir of the Olivetan monks of the monastery of Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan.
Description:
Binding: full deerskin over wooden boards; extensive metalwork on binding., Decoration: five miniatures; eleven large ornamental initials on gold grounds; many decorated initials with penwork., Gift of Susan Weil, 2014., Miniatures have been attributed to the Olivetan Master and the Master of the Lodi Choir Books., and Script: written in liturgical bookhand. Music in square musical notation on five four-line red staves.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy., Master of the Lodi Choir Books,--active 15th century., Olivetan Master,--active 1429-1439., and Olivetans.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript document, signed by William Fellow, Norroy King of Arms, granting Richard Revell of Shorlonglegge (Shirland) in Derbyshire a crest for his coat of arms.
Description:
Decoration: Portrait figure of Norrey King of Arms within the initial "T," in full color; illustration of Revell's coat of arms with the newly granted crest filling left margin, in full color; floral border, top and right margins, in full color., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 20 lines., Script: secretary script., Seals of William Fellow and of the office of Norroy King of Arms suspended from document., and Signed: "Norrey King of Arms of the north."
Subject (Name):
College of Arms (Great Britain)--Early works to 1800., Fellow, William,---1546., and Revell, Robert,--1502-1555.
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry--England., Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Visitations, Heraldic--England.
Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies.
Description:
Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., Ex libris H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., and Script: gothic text hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--To 1066.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.--Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum., Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate., and Nennius, active 796.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain--Church history--449-1066., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaf, parchment, in a single hand, containing text from the Homiliae in Evangelia of Gregory the Great.
Description:
Ex libris Santa Maria della Colonna di Piacenza. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column, varying length., Leaf also contains the ownership inscription of the Cistercian of Santa Maria della Columba, followed by an anathema against theft., and Script: proto-gothic.
Subject (Geographic):
Piacenza (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--approximately 540-604., Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy), and Santa Maria della Columba (Monastery : Piacenza, Italy) Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Incomplete manuscript bifolium, recovered from a binding, containing text from a sermon based on Galatians 5.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: late Carolingian script.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of a portion of the text of Bede's Homily on the Ascension.
Description:
Decoration: capitals touched with red ink., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 28 lines., Script: copied by a single hand in Carolingian miniscule., and Text corresponds to Patrologia Latina (PL) 94: 180/81.
Subject (Name):
Bede,--the Venerable, Saint,--673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Richard de Caistre's popular hymn.
Description:
Binding: modern full red morocco., Bound with Fifteen Joys of Our Lady., Decoration: red and blue penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., and Script: gothic liturgical script.
Subject (Name):
Richard,--of Caistre.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Hymns, English--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of John Stow, of the opening section of John Leslie's Historie of Scotland. This copy ends in the middle of the account of the year 1512.
Description:
From the library of Sir Henry St. George. Phillipps MS 13761. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In English., Layout: single column of 46-48 lines., and Script: mixed cursive.
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--History--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Leslie, John, 1527-1596. Historie of Scotland., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., St. George, Henry,--Sir,--1625-1715--Ownership., and Stow, John,--1525?-1605.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians--Great Britain., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Autograph manuscript, signed, on paper, of a list of many of the Knights of the Round Table and summaries of their histories as given in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Some entries are accompanied by pen and ink drawings of coats-of-arms. The work may have been modeled on Les devise des armes de chevaliers de la table ronde, published by Antoine Verard. Grimken's preface notes that he has not included "many faned and vaine taylles" and connects his interest in the Round Table with the archery fellowship founded by "Kynge Henry of fames memory," Prince Arthur's Knights. The preface concludes with "vivat Regina."
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt., Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil., Ex libris John Louis Goldsmid; ex libris Sir Isaac Heard; Phillipps MS 100. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26 lines each., and Script: secretary.
Subject (Name):
Arthur,--King--Early works to 1800., Goldsmid, John Louis,--1789-1835--Bookplate., Grinken, John., Heard, Isaac,--Sir,--1730-1822--Bookplate., and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Dictionaries., Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.