Manuscript fragment on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super Psalterium. Commentary on Psalms 4-8.
Description:
In Latin., Script: The three consecutive folios were written by a single scribe in gothic textura., Three 4-line initials, in blue, with red penwork designs, including foliage in center of initials; passages from the Bible underlined in red; paragraph marks in red and blue., and The leaves are worn and have been trimmed (some text lost). They appear to have been removed from a binding.
Documents on parchment of a process brought before Parliament ina property dispute between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory ofCoventry. and Parchment scroll of a process brought before Parliament in a property dispute between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory of Coventry.
Alternative Title:
Processus super quibusdam demonstracionibus et peticionibus prioris de Couentre et peticione domine Isabelle regine Anglie exhibitis coram domino rege in parliamento suo apud Westmonasterium, 1336.
Description:
Formerly "Osborn Rolls 2." and In Latin and Law French.
Subject (Name):
Coventry Priory--History, Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377, England and Wales.--Parliament, and Isabella,--Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England,--1292-1358
Subject (Topic):
Benedictines--England--Coventry and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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
Manuscript on parchment of a Psalter, with astrological notes, a Calendar, and other litanies and prayers
Description:
In Latin., Written by two scribes in tiny gothic textura. Scribe 1: ff. 2v-91v; Scribe 2: ff. 91v (last folio of quire 8)-95v. Several later hands have added scribbles, prayers, and inscriptions on ff. 1r-2r, 10r, 95v, 96r, 97v, 98r, 99r., Small (6-line) and rather crude historiated initials. The initials for Ps. 52 (the Fool) and Ps. 109 (the Trinity) are missing. In each initial, the figure drawn in black and colored pink, green, and/or blue on a gold ground; the initials attached to cusped, tapering bar border, blue, red, and gold, with white highlights, with ivy terminal, black with red and green leaves. Gold and blue calligraphic initials (2-line), with blue and red penwork respectively; 1-line initials, alternating red and blue. KL monograms, gold on red and blue, with white highlights. Because the initial I was placed in the margin without an inset space in the text, the illuminator often missed it (e.g., for Ps. 70 on f. 42r; for Ps. 113 on f. 62r, and for Ps. 125 on f. 68v)., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on three two-layered tapes of tawed skin attached to wooden boards. The endband cores are of tawed skin with a tawed skin braid at the head, a new endband added at the tail. The spine is square and the cover adhered to it. Covered in tawed skin, originally pink, with corner tongues. Cover repaired at spine and two corners and two silver clasps added. In a flexible grey leather pouch.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
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
Manuscript on parchment in two parts of an anonymous, and apparently incomplete, collection of questions and responses on theological subjects
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I written primarily in a tiny English gothic bookhand (with some German features), with numerous abbreviations; marginalia and texts in art. 33 added by several 15th-century English hands. Part II written in an untidy English script, with Anglicana features; texts added on ff. 43v-46v by same hands as art. 33; another hand entered text on f. 43v., Initials, 2-line, in red with brown flourishes, alternate with blue with red flourishes; paragraph marks alternate red, blue; guide-letters for flourished initials in margins., and Binding: Date? Limp vellum folder. Off-set impression of turn-ins from original binding on f. 46v.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, Study and teaching, and Catholic Church
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
Manuscript on parchment (thin, poor quality) of unidentified sermons.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth-century. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a red gold-tooled label Manuscript. Earlier fastenings covered over. Boards detached., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Crude 3- and 2-line initials in red, the initial on f. 1r with red flourishes. Many small initials not executed. Rubrics and paragraph marks in red, many missing or erased. Guide-letters for rubricator., Library of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry of Marbury Hall (1843-1925; bookplate, with Case 22, Shelf 9). Purchased from S. Harrison Thomson (MS 14, note inside front cover) in 1970, with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Fund., Manuscript on parchment (thin, poor quality). Numerous folios were end pieces; corners and edges have been squared and straightened by adding pieces of coarse paper. Folio 84, very poor quality and thin at the center, was reinforced on verso (blank) with a strip of paper. Written by three (?) scribes in small, neat Anglicana. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-145r, 174r-188v, rubrics and marginal notes throughout, and all catchwords except that for quire XIV. Scribe 2: ff. 145r-173r. Scribe 3: f. 173v (traced over hand of Scribe 2?)., and Sermons. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of English statutes, many from the reign of Edward I. The volume opens with a table of chapters in the principal statutes, headed "Magna carta," followed by a copy of the Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I (ff. 17-26) and a copy of his confirmation of the Carta de foresta. This is followed by copies of statutes including the Statutes of Westminster I and II; Quia emptores (Statute of Westminster III); statutes of mortmain and champerty; and Frangentibus prisonam
Description:
In Latin and Middle French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184).Taussig catalog number: MS 81.7.14 (number 3 in main catalog numbering)., A complete description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 4-7., Layout: single column, 16-19 lines., Script: contemporary Anglicana hand., Decoration: Initials mostly in blue or burnished gold; 23 larger initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds. One large illuminated initial with ivy-leaf border including a dragon., and Binding: contemporary stitching on three double bands; later vellum over pasteboard binding.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307., Taussig, Anthony., and England. Parliament.
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Feudal law, Law, Manuscripts, Medieval, Mortmain, and Maintenance and champerty