BEIN: Imperfect: title-pages mutilated., Vol. 3 [pt.2] has half-title: Preuves servans à l'Histoire de Lorraine., and First issue of the 1st edition. cf. F.J.B. Noël, Catalogue raisonné des collections lorraines, t.1 (1850/1) p. 24-101; also Aug. Prost in Polybiblion, t.20 (2. sér., t. 6, 1877) p. 74-84, 151-166, 245-256, 356-370.
BEIN: Imperfect: title-pages mutilated., Vol. 3 [pt.2] has half-title: Preuves servans à l'Histoire de Lorraine., and First issue of the 1st edition. cf. F.J.B. Noël, Catalogue raisonné des collections lorraines, t.1 (1850/1) p. 24-101; also Aug. Prost in Polybiblion, t.20 (2. sér., t. 6, 1877) p. 74-84, 151-166, 245-256, 356-370.
BEIN: Imperfect: title-pages mutilated., Vol. 3 [pt.2] has half-title: Preuves servans à l'Histoire de Lorraine., and First issue of the 1st edition. cf. F.J.B. Noël, Catalogue raisonné des collections lorraines, t.1 (1850/1) p. 24-101; also Aug. Prost in Polybiblion, t.20 (2. sér., t. 6, 1877) p. 74-84, 151-166, 245-256, 356-370.
Manuscript on parchment (many holes and repairs) of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by several hands of different appearances, perhaps by scribes of varying ages or at different dates. The scripts range from rounded to angular minuscule., Plain orange initial, 7- to 2-line; heading and chapter notations (in margins) in same shade. Guide-letters and notes for rubricator., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Sewn on three supports laced into wooden boards. The spine is slightly rounded and lined, the lining extending onto the inside of the boards. Covered with white pigskin, blind-tooled. Two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. On the fore-edge of the lower cover is a notation contemporary with binding: "Gesta anglorum bede." Appears to have been bound at the Benedictine abbey of St. Martin of Spanheim in the diocese of Mainz.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Church history, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper (lightly burnished) of Poggio Bracciolini, Historia Florentina, translated into Italian by his son Jacopo. With Prefatory letter of Jacopo di Poggio to Federico da Montefeltro
Description:
In Italian., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387., Script: Written in sloping humanistic bookhand with cursive elements., Illuminated initial in gold, f. 1r, 10-line, infilled and surrounded by flowers in rose and blue (yellow centers), rayed gold discs, winding green stems and leaves, and hair-line decoration. Gold initial, f. 3r, 6-line, on ground composed of blue, green, and rose panels, all decorated with gold scroll designs. Headings in red rustic capitals., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf spine, blind- and gold-tooled, with Strozzi arms and "Poggio istoria tradotta da Iacopo suo figlio" and "M. S. Cartaceo del S. XV". Blue and white decorated paper sides.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
Published / Created:
[between 1175 and 1250]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 590
Image Count:
278
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (sheepskin?) of 1) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae. The text, containing the double dedication, to Robert of Gloucester and Waleran Count of Mellent, and wanting the epilogue addressed to Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury, is believed to be the earliest version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work. 2) Unidentified French poem of which the end is missing (1276 verses preserved), on the vanity and corruption of the world. 3) Le Roman des Romans
Description:
In French and Latin., Script: Art. 1: Copied by one hand, writing a large Praegothica. Art. 2: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 3: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Art. 1: The decoration consists of Romanesque flourished (in one or two colours) or plain initials (2 lines, on f. 1r 4 lines), alternately in red and green. Guide-letters in the margins. On f. 55r, at the beginning of the history of Merlin, a male bust is drawn in the margin., and Binding: Original white leather over rounded oak boards; spine with four raised bands. Marks of one strap fixed to the front cover and clutching over a pin in the rear cover. The front pastedown (detached) consists of fragments of a court roll (from a trial of 1334), identified by N.R. Ker (note kept in the documentary folder in the Beinecke Library) and copied in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior (Anglicana).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown capitals; there are brief notes on the text written in the margin in a cursive humanistic script of the fifteenth century; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. and Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, History, and Historiography
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel