Manuscript, on parchment, of the books of the Bible from Proverbs through the Apocalypse.
Description:
Binding: modern goatskin., Decoration: red and blue penwork initials., Ex libris Ronald A. Coates; Eric Millar; Brian S. Cron. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 49 lines., Script: small gothic script., and With an Oxford pledge note for the Selton Loan Chest dated 1469 and the mark of the stationer John More. There is also a note by M. Paris, possibly Master Thomas Paris of Oriel College.
Subject (Name):
Coates, Ronald A.--Autograph., Cron, Brian S.--Ownership., Millar, Eric George--Bookplate., Oriel College., and University of Oxford.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin., Bible.--Latin--Versions--Vulgate., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Universities and colleges--Great Britain.
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, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers., Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown., Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown., Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law., Layout: double columns of 47 lines each., Previously owned by Thomas Thorpe; Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 2316); George Dunn; Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 2014 July 16, lot 3) on the Edward J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., Script: gothic textura., Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf., and Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons.
Subject (Name):
Bright, Allan Heywood,--1862-1941--Bookplate., Dunn, George,--1864-1912--Bookplate., Grosseteste, Robert,--1175?-1253., and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Ten commandments--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on parchment, composed in three parts. Part I consists of short aphorisms, prayers, recipes, etc. added in the 15th century; and the recopied Prologue to Part II. Part II: Gautier de Chatillon, Alexandreis, with Bks. I-VIII.307 (ff. 1-70) written by a 13th-century scribe and the remainder of the text (Part III) copied in the 15th century. Followed by short texts in Latin and Middle English similar to those in Part I.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, England. Covered first with thin, white tawed skin, second with a tawed skin chemise, third with heavy tawed skin originally sewn to the chemise. One fastening, the catch on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the strap which is wanting. Sewn on three supports attached to oak boards and pegged with wedges set at an angle. The spine is back beveled. Later additions include title, in ink, near head of upper board: "Gesta Alexandri Magni M.S." Repaired at head and tail of spine; rebacked., Loss of considerable text from f. 56 to end due to severe rodent damage., Part I: At the beginning of art. 6, text begins with blue 3-line initial with red herringbone penwork designs and the additional letters R and N, in blue, whose significance is unclear. Part II: Divided initial red and black with simple penwork designs in one or both colors for major text divisions; plain red initials elsewhere. First letter of each verse separated from text between bounding lines and stroked with red; paragraph marks in black. T-O map of the world, f. 7v. Part III: Decorative initials similar to those in Part I., Purchased from C.A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Part I (ff. i recto-iv verso): Written by several cursive hands of a decidedly English character. Part II (ff. 1-70): Written in early gothic bookhand, above top line. Part III (ff. 71-88): Written in well-formed English cursive script. Texts in art. 8 in a variety of cursive hands.
Subject (Name):
Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C and Walter,--of Châtillon,--fl. 1170-1180
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prose poems, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397 Peter, of Poitiers, ca. 1130-1205 Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1210; 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 220
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I (13th century): 1) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 2) Petrus Pictaviensis, Historia actuum apostolorum. 3) Unidentified text about Titus and Vespasian. Part II (14th century): 4) Augustinus Hibernicus, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, in the long recension. 5) Extracts from Ambrose, Exameron.
Description:
Binding: 18th-19th centuries, England. Brown calf, gold-tooled. Striped turn-ins., From the estate of Wilfred M. Voynich. Purchased in 1959 from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston., Part I: Two illuminated initials in parallel positions on f. 1r, beginning mid-page and extending almost to the bottom of the leaf. The first initial composed of a gold trellis edged in black with heads of a grotesque devouring the trellis at top and bottom, and foliage designs in green and white scrolling around the body of the initial against pink interior with white highlight and gold balls. The whole on a rectangular ground tapering to a point at bottom, with white designs. The second initial, somewhat narrower and less ambitious in design, gold edged in black with blue interior and thin white design in center and two rosettes, one at top, the other at bottom, and a third stylized floral motif in center, all on a pink ground in the same shape as the first initial. Also on f. 1r, 7-line initial divided red and blue with interior foliage designs in green and white on parchment ground, and red and blue penwork designs around exterior of letter. For major text divisions, fine medium blue and/or red initials, 9- to 6-line, with intricate penwork flourishes in red and blue, each accompanied by several lines of oversize letters for the first few words of text, with letters either in one color with designs in the other or alternating red and blue. Small penwork initials, red or blue with modest design in the opposite color, throughout. Headings, running headlines and vertical lines within text columns, in red. Remains of instructions to rubricator (some perpendicular to text in gutter) and guide letters for decorator., Part II: One gold initial, 4-line, with purple penwork designs on f. 194r. Blue initials with red penwork, 9- to 2-line, throughout. Headings and initial strokes added, in brown and red, unsophisticated drawings of birds, animals, leaves and grotesques in upper and lower margins., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-173): Written in neat gothic bookhand, above top line; glosses added by a variety of hands, some exhibiting anglicana features. Part II (ff. 174-197): Written in gothic bookhand with some marginalia by contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Name):
Petrus,--Comestor,--12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Bible--History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as lais. All of Books I and VI, and part of Books II and V are missing.
Description:
Binding: Thirteenth century, England. Original wound, caught up sewing with heavy thread, on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of oak boards and wedged. The natural color endbands are sewn on leather cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. The spine is back bevelled. Covered in tawed skin, originally white, but now dark brown on the outside. The turn-ins of the upper board are serrated. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins (traces only) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the fabric-reinforced leather straps. Some sewing supports broken, one board detached, and some covering leather and straps wanting., Many leaves stained, damaged, but with little loss of text, except on bottom of f. 1 and top of f. 36, which are torn with loss of text., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each chapter. Headings in red. Guide letters for decorator., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Pierre,--de Peckham,--d. 1293
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500, Laity--Books and reading--England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--Study and teaching
Manuscript fragment from an illuminated Psalter. The first leaf contains Psalm 47: 12-45 through Psalm 48:16; the second contains Psalm 53:5 through 54:13 (Vulgate numbering).
Description:
Decoration: Two larger illuminated initials with birds perched on them. Smaller initials alternating between gilt with green penwork and blue with red penwork. Decorated line fillers, red and blue penwork, gilt., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., Script: gothic book hand., and Whitby Abbey; Lt.-Col. Moss. John Grant. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Geographic):
Whitby (England)
Subject (Name):
Whitby Abbey.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Psalters--England--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing sermons for the church year cycle.
Description:
Annotations and pen trials on endleaves., Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts (Bergandal 57). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, 2011 July 5, lot 86) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, gilt-tooled., Script: Early gothic miniscule hand., and These sermons also in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms. 1042.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Sermons, Latin, and Sermons--Early works to 1800