- Creator:
- Cuvelier, Jo, fl. 1372-1387
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 990
- Image Count:
- 261
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Cuvelier, Jo,--fl. 1372-1387
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bertrand du Guesclin
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 800]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 976
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Esther, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Esther
- Published / Created:
- [between 1025 and 1050]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 808
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (single leaf) of 1) Last article of an unrecorded Capitulary, probably from the beginning of the reign of emperor Louis the Pious (814-840). 2) Capitula adhuc conferenda, i.e. Memorandum for a Capitulary, ca. 819 (?). This is a list of 18 questions to be discussed in view of a planned new Capitulary.
- Description:
- “Cap. XV” in art. 1 is written in Uncialis in red ink, and the opening letter V, in the same colour, is a 2-line initial. In art. 2 all the opening capitals (D, Q, S or U) are said to be likewise red, but their colour is hardly distinguishable from the colour of the text., Script: Copied by one hand writing Carolingian script., and The fragment was perhaps the final leaf of a codex, which would explain the smudges and offsets visible on the verso.
- Subject (Name):
- Louis--I,--Emperor,--778-840
- Subject (Topic):
- Franks--History--814-843, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Capitulary; Memorandum for a capitulary of Louis the Pious
4.
- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
- Published / Created:
- [between 1125 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 157
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick and furry, numerous imperfections, some repaired) of Augustine, Confessiones.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled spine and title: "Confescion/ Santti/ Augustini" and "Manuscrit/ du 12^e siecle". and Ten illuminated initials of good quality, 19- to 6-line, drawn in brown ink against medium blue, reddish orange and/or ochre grounds. The initials are constructed of scrolling vines with stylized foliage and/or winged dragons, with vines issuing from their mouths, accentuated or shaded in red. Some initials inhabited by winged dragons, f. 10v with grotesque (outlined by prickings), f. 25r with a nude male figure. Headings in red.
- Subject (Topic):
- Autobiography, Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessiones
- Creator:
- Boethius, d. 524
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 89
- Image Count:
- 83
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality; end pieces) of Boethius, De arithmetica. Text begins imperfectly in Bk. I, ch. 23.
- Description:
- Binding: 19th-20th centuries, Eastern Europe (?). The back pastedown consists of a portion of a Latin parchment document dated 1374. Front pastedown removed and preserved as Marston MS 89A. Sewn on three supports laced into thick oak boards and wedged. Plain wound endbands on alum-tawed cores originally laced into the boards. Covered with parchment with irregularly serrated turn-ins, with a strap-and-pin fastening, the pin on the upper board. The codex has been so tightly rebacked that it is difficult to open., Parchment stained and warped by damp., Plain intials, 6- to 2-line, red, blue or black, occasionally with modest pen design in red (e.g., ff. 27v-28r). Numerous diagrams and charts throughout., Purchased from G. Heilburn of Paris in 1951 by L. C. Witten who sold it in 1953 to Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by multiple scribes (some copying or correcting only brief portions of text) in late caroline minuscule.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Mathematics, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De arithmetica
- Creator:
- Arnald, Abbot of Bonneval
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 268
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Early ex-libris on f. 52v in light ink: "iste liber est de fontibus geradi [sic]. and Manuscript on parchment of Arnald, abbot of Bonneval, 1) Tractatus de septem verbis domini in cruce. 2) Libellus de laudibus de B. Mariae virginis.
- Description:
- Binding: 13th-14th centuries (?), France. Original sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps laced from out to inside the boards and wedged at an angle. Pastedowns sewn with book. The upper board is beech, the lower oak. The grooves on the inside of the boards have been burned as well as gouged out. A blue and natural color endband is sewn in a chevron pattern. The primary core is laced into grooves parallel to the edges of the boards but not fastened and the endband is sewn through the cover. Fragment of an unidentified text (France, 1125-ca. 1150) used for front pastedown; portion of a document dated 1225 (?) involving Theobaldus, abp. of Rouen (1221-29) and the Cistercian nunnery of Fontaine-Guerard (Fontes Guerardi) for rear pastedown. Covered in very thick tawed skin, neatly patched and pieced out. The turn-ins are nailed near the corners. There are two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board and the kermes pink, tawed skin strap ending in a catch with a twisted, tawed skin cord and tassel attached, later additions (?). Remains of later title, in ink, on spine., Red initial, 4-line, with red and green arabesque designs on f. 1r; red monochrome initials with simple decorative designs, ff. 2v, 9r, 14r; less elaborate red initials, ff. 18v, 23r, 29v, 47r. Heading in red for art. 1 only. Initials stroked with red., and Script: Written in a neat late caroline minuscule that is written above the text ruling, not on it.
- Subject (Name):
- Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De septem verbis Domini in cruce, De laudibus B. Mariae virginis
- Creator:
- Berengaudus, fl. ca. 859
- Published / Created:
- [between 1000 and 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1083
- Image Count:
- 399
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--N.T.--Revelation, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis
8.
- Creator:
- Aristotle
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 88
- Image Count:
- 184
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thin, pliable) of Aristotle, 1) Priora analytica, Lat. tr. Boethius. 2) Posteriora analytica, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus (ca. 1130-40). 3) Books I-III of the Ethica Nicomachea. 4) De anima, Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus. 5) De anima (from the Parva naturalia), Lat. tr. Jacobus Veneticus.
- Description:
- Attractive flourished initials, red and blue divided with penwork designs in the same colors, mark the beginning of arts. 1-4; first few words of each of these texts written in red and blue alternating majuscules. For minor text divisions 2-line initials red or blue with designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks in red (or sometimes alternating red and blue). Headings and instructions to rubricator in red., Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Parchment case binding made from a bifolium of a missal (Germany, 15th century) containing text for the end of the Secret for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost through part of the Gospel reading for the 12th Sunday. Remains of title, in ink, on spine. Pink (faded red?) edges., and Script: Written in a small neat gothic text script, above top line and with uncrossed tironian et. Marginal and interlinear annotations, contemporary or slightly later, in a variety of scholarly hands; annotations written in ink, crayon and lead, some very faded and barely legible.
- Subject (Name):
- Aristotle
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Philosophy, Ancient
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 818
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation.
- Description:
- Binding: Early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans and Nicholas--IV,--Pope,--1227-1292
- Subject (Topic):
- Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis