Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Double columns on single page., Manuscript fragment on parchment., Page numbers have been added in pencil using original fold., and Pages 4 and 1 have a partial illustration.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De republica, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis, Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, and Porphyry, ca. 234-ca. 305
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below image: Cum privil. Regis; Genseos 25., From: Histoire de la Genèse., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Rebekah (Biblical matriarch)., Jacob (Biblical patriarch)., and Esau (Biblical figure).
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Twins, Medicine in the Bible, Births, Midwives, Servants, and Beds
Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, In tertium librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from an exemplar vended by Guglielmus Senonensis, stationer on the rue St. Jacques.
Alternative Title:
Comment on the 3rd book of sentences of Peter Lombard
Description:
Binding: 1899. Quarter leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled label and brass clasps. Bound by Douglas Cockerell (stamp with date inside back cover)., Script: Written in neat gothic textura by a single scribe secundum pecias (notations along bottom of leaves, mostly trimmed)., Small decorative initials in red and/or blue with penwork designs of either or both colors; notes for illuminator in margins. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue throughout; running headings in red and blue., and Some folios mended with chartreuse thread.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Title from caption below image., Place of publication taken from printmaker's known place of activity., and Date of publication from sitter's age at time of portrait.
The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r //tur vobis. Deus autem pacis qui eduxit de mortuis pastorem magnum dominum ... Secundum Marcum. In illo tempore mane prima sabbati ...et illi euntes nunciaverunt ceteris.
Thursday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Hebrews 13:20 and Mark 16.2-13.
f. 1r-v Feria via. Ad Romanos. Fratres, cum adhuc essemus infirmi ... Secundum Matheum. In illo tempore exierunt mulieres de monumento ... usque in hodiernum diem.
Friday of the second week after Easter, with lessons from Romans 5:6-11 and Matth. 28:8-15.
f. 1v Sabbato. Si non fuerit festum novem lectionum sollempnizamus ultimam missam ...
Saturday of the second week after Easter.
Dominica iia post Pascha. Ad missam de beata Maria. Alleluia. Versus. Post partum ... Ad processionem per cimiterium. Antiphona. Surgens Dominus Ihesus ... Ad missam introitus. Misericordia Domini plena est terra ... Gloria in excelsis. Collecta. Deus qui in filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti ... Lectio epistolae beati Petri apostoli. Karissimi, Christus passus est pro nobis ... R. Alleluia. Versus. Ego sum pastor bonus et cognosco oves meas et cognoscunt me mee. //
Second Sunday after Easter, with lesson from 1 Peter 2:21-25., On parchment., Pricking in the upper and lower margins. Ruled with brown ink for two columns of 30 lines below top line (type 43, 212 x 140 mm., The majuscules are heightened in yellow. One line-filler in gold and paint. The decoration consists of (1) 2-line dentelle initials and (2) 3-line foliate initials. On f. 1v there is a gold and blue bar in the intercolumnium ending in the upper and lower margins in rinceaux with vine-leaves, a few flowers and acanthus leaves. Instructions for the rubricator are written in the margins in small Gothica Cursiva., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Below image: Gene 25., From: Histoire de la Genèse., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Pencil marking in margins.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Abraham (Biblical patriarch).
Subject (Topic):
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medicine in the Bible, Dead persons, Shrouds, Caves, and Tombs
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior; Religion & medicine.
Publisher:
Philippe Thomassin
Subject (Topic):
Visiting the sick, Corporal works of mercy, Medicine, Religious aspects, Sick persons, Saints, Hospital wards, Beds, and Altars