Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Greyish green paper case with a black gold-tooled label: "Aesopus. Sec. XIV"., Rubrics on ff. 2r-6v by same scribe who copied text; another hand added rubrics on f. 1r-v. Spaces for initials left unfilled; guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Subject (Topic):
Fables, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Backs of quires cut in V's. Brown goatskin case faintly blind-tooled with concentric frames and spiralling dragon motifs that incorporate flowers and long beaked birds. Rebacked., One illuminated initial on f. 1r, 6-line, gold against deep red, green, and blue cusped ground with white filigree and white dots. From left corners penwork sprays issuing forth into inner margin, with blue and red blossoms and green leaves. Plain initials, placed between vertical rulings, alternate blue and red, some omitted., Script: Written in a round humanistic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre S 9050; watermark on back pastedown similar to Briquet Fleur 6596-97, 99 and 6602.
Subject (Topic):
Fabliaux, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Aegidius Beneventanus, Collection of extracts on moral subjects (Part I), historical, genealogical and geographical subjects (Parts II and III) drawn from classical, Biblical and medieval texts. With Extracts from Isidore, Etymologiae.
Description:
Script: Written by several scribes in an uneven gothic bookhand.
Manuscript on paper, in an Italic hand, of two elegiac poems titled "Funerall teares and consolations" and "Lachrymae funebres" mourning the death of Winifred Fitzwilliam (d. 1635), and dedicated to her father, Baron William Fitzwilliam of Liffer County, Donegal. Prefaced by a rhyming epitaph.
Description:
Binding: full sheep; remnants of gold-tooled decoration. and The paper on p. 44 is dyed black and written upon with silver ink.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English, English literature--17th century, English poetry--17th century, and Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manuscript on paper of Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in vellum with paper spattered with black on the sides. Gold-tooled spine with black label: "Trattato de' Grecismi in Versi Latini," and "1471" stamped along lower edge., Ink has corroded some leaves; many leaves repaired in margins., Plain initials, paragraph marks, initial strokes, punctuation, in red. Guide letters for rubricator., Purchased in 1956 from Bernard M. Rosenthal by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre G 8199, Briquet Lettre B 7980, Briquet Fleur 6393, Briquet Joug 7872, 7876.
Subject (Name):
Evrard,--de Béthune
Subject (Topic):
Didactic poetry, Latin, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin text written in a round humanistic script much influenced by printing; Scribe 1) ff. 1v-21v and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r. French text written in upright batarde; Scribe 1) ff. 2r-22r and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r (a more flamboyant style of script)., and Two initials, one at beginning of Latin text (2-line), the other at the beginning of French text (3-line), respectively gold on blue square ground with gold filigree and gold on dark red square ground with gold filigree. Most stanzas introduced by paragraph marks in gold on blue or red alternating grounds, with gold filigree. First letter of each verse stroked with yellow, as are usually majuscules in text. Headings on ff. 1v and 2r in red.
Subject (Name):
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Narrative poetry, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Jacobus de Vitriaco, Historia Hierosolymitana Abbreviata, book 1 (the "Historia Orientalis").
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Southern Germany or Austria. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges to channels on the outside of flush beech boards and pegged twice. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled with a rope-work flower in a central panel which is divided in three, the upper and lower sections divided into triangles; the whole panel within a rope interlace border. Spine: bands outlined with triple fillets. Two fastenings, now wanting, the lower board cut in to accomodate them., One illuminated intial, f. 1r, 18-line, dark green with stylized foliage in light green with yellow shading against red with gold filigree and gold ground edged dark and light grey. Foliage serifs, blue, green, pink, red, and grey with gold balls and gold accents extending into the upper, inner, and outer margins to form a partial border of attenuated and stylized curling leaves. One flourished initial, 5-line, blue with red penwork, f. 5v. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Headings in red for table and a few chapters; most spaces left unfilled by rubricator., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a well formed hybrida script by a single scribe., and Watermarks: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.749, XIII.771, and similar to XI.226.
Subject (Name):
Jacques,--de Vitry,--ca. 1170-1240
Subject (Topic):
Crusades--13th-15th centuries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library