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1. Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum
- Creator:
- William, of Melitona
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1325]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 154
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- William, of Melitona.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pecia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum
2. Ivory writing tablet
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 817
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Ivory writing tablet, carved on one side with a scene of the Crucifixion beneath Gothic arches
- Description:
- Erasable writing tablet.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crucifixion, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Tablets (Paleography)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ivory writing tablet
3. Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 99
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre
- Description:
- In Middle French. and Binding: individually mounted.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lancelot (Legendary character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Arthurian romances in art
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures
4. Savoy hours
- Published / Created:
- [between 1325 and 1350, 1350 and 1375]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 390
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 69
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of a fragment of a Book of Hours. The twenty-six folios are the only fragment known to remain of the Book of Hours of Blanche of Burgundy (d. 1348), Countess of Savoy and granddaughter of Saint Louis of France, which was executed in Paris in the atelier of Jean Pucelle. The manuscript received additional texts and miniatures in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, when it was owned by Charles V, King of France, 1364-80.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand; ff. 1r, 1v, 4r, and 4v added in the third quarter of the fourteenth century by Jean L'Avenant., Contains fifty of the original two hundred and fifty-five miniatures, the majority executed between Pucelle's death in 1334 and Blanche's death in 1348, the remainder between ca. 1370 and 1378, the terminus ante quem being the death of Charles's wife, Jeanne de Bourbon, represented on one of the destroyed leaves. All of the miniatures are in tricolor quatrefoils, the first, earlier set against pink or blue grounds with white filigree, gold frames and gold leaves on hair-line stems, the later miniatures with the grounds in pink or blue imitation relief., Each folio with a 3/4 bar border, detached from initial, pink, blue and gold with ivy terminals, or a single bar with ivy attached to initial, in inner margin; some with grotesque terminals, and birds and hunters in the margins and bas-de-page. 2-line initials, with heads, ivy, the arms of Savoy (ff. 2r, 14r, 18v, etc.) or the arms of Burgundy (f. 3v); blue or pink with white highlights on gold grounds. 1-line initials, blue or gold with red or black penwork. Line endings, red, blue and gold, on ff. 1 and 4 only. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red-brown sheepskin heavily gold-tooled with floral borders and corner fans, the center filled in with a circle made up of fan tools.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pucelle, Jean, fl. 1320. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Savoy hours
