Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees.
Description:
Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked., Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves., In volume: ownership inscription of Thomas Martin (1697-1771); ex libris Thomas Barber; ownership inscription of Emily Bagot. Purchased from Lux et Umbra on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., and Script: gothica textualis.
Subject (Name):
Bagot, Emily--Autograph, Barber, Thomas,---1785--Bookplate, and Martin, Thomas,--1697-1771
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of the biblical book of I Samuel.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., Script: written in a humanistic script., and These fragments, from the same manuscript, are contained in Zi +4439 (Josephus, Opera), in which they are used as front and back flyleaves.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Job, containing portions of chapters 28 and 29.
Description:
Decoration: initials and rubrics in red; some interlinear corrections; horizontal catchwords visible on back cover., Script: written in caroline minuscule., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4153 (Leonardo de Utino, Quadragesimale aureum), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Vulgate--History, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Judges.
Description:
Decoration: alternating red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork; initials heightened in red; roman numerals in blue and red indicating chapter numbers., In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic bookhand., and These fragments are contained in Zi 3612.6 (Gianantonio Sangiorgio, Sermo de passione...), around which they are used as wrappers.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Vulgate, Bible--Versions, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Luke, containing verses 5:12-26.
Description:
Decoration: rubrics, initials, and chapter marks in red., In Latin., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +5140 (Roberto Caracciolo, Specchio della fede), in which the fragment is used as the front pastedown.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Matthew, containing portions of chapter 25 (Parable of the Talents).
Description:
Contained in Zi +237 (Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulcri, Commentarii in Valerium Maximum), in which the fragment has been used as a spine support., Decoration: initials in red., In Latin., and Script: written in an unidentified script.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of text of Ezra and Nehemiah. With Glossa ordinaria, both in margins and between lines of text.
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Plain vellum wrapper., Lower half of f. 62 repaired with contemporary (?) parchment., and Script: Written in two sizes of neat French minuscule by a single scribe; text written either above or below top line and gloss below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions--Vulgate, Bible.--O.T.--Ezra, Bible.--O.T.--Nehemiah, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Matthew 20.14-22.10; 25.11-28.20, with glossa ordinaria ending: qui diuina mansione sint. Crayon notes throughout in an unskilled hand, now mostly erased.
Description:
Modern pagination. and Only selected leaves scanned.
Subject (Name):
Bible. N.T. Matthew XX, 14-22, Bible. N.T. Matthew XXV, 11-28, Bible. N.T. Matthew--Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Bible. N.T. Matthew--Manuscripts, Latin, and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin--Versions, Bible.--N.T.--Matthew, Glossa ordinaria, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library