Apologetics--History--Early church, ca. 30-600, Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, ca. 1243-1316
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1325]
Call Number:
Marston MS 139
Image Count:
380
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, pieced) of Aegidius Romanus, De regimine principum.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Black goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled doublures. Bound by L. Magnin, Lyon. Stains from fore-edge clasps of earlier binding on early parchment flyleaf., Divided intials, red and blue, 6- to 5-line, with pen flourishes in red and blue, mark major text divisions; initial on f. 1r has simple border extending down inner margin. Small initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue, with penwork flourishes in opposite color. Headings (some missing) and running headlines in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator., Purchased from Emile Rossignol of Paris in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Augustinians
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment (damaged). The one side has fine drawings of a king and queen (with falcon) in elaborate robes. Beside them is a foot soldier in armor; below a warrior on horseback, in armor, pursued by an archer, without armor. Above is a centaur (Chiron?) shooting an arrow at a flying bird, a second bird on the ground. On the other side (much affected by paste) three warriors storm a tower.
Description:
Removed from Marston MS 89 where it was used as a front pastedown. and See catalogue entry for Marston MS 89.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Greek language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through the early fourteenth centuries.
Description:
Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog. d'alia Obituarium..., Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork, geometric knotwork and animal masks., Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Rubricated.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Martyrologies--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Necrologies--France--Beauvais
Manuscript, in several hands, of the Martyrology of Usuard, with a tabulated martyrology arranged according to the calendar, with numerous added obituary notices for St. Nicholas, Beauvais.
Description:
Binding: later medieval brown leather over beveled boards; some damage to upper board where a chain has been removed., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: main text in early gothic. Additional obituaries in a variety of book and cursive scripts.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Usuard, -876 or 877
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Martyrologies--Early works to 1800, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Necrologies--France--Beauvais
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a missal for the Use of Beauvais.
Description:
Binding: fourteenth-century (?) brown leather over beveled wooden boards; remains of one clasp., Decoration: rubricated., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013., and Script: early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Beauvais (France)
Subject (Name):
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France) and Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals