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1. Arthurian romances
- Creator:
- Robert, de Boron, 13th cent
- Published / Created:
- 1357.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 227
- Image Count:
- 638
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Robert de Borron, Joseph d'Arimathie. 2) Robert de Borron, Lestoire de Saint Graal. 3) Robert de Borron, Lestoire de Merlin. Lestoire de Merlin was copied in 1357, by Jehan de Loles. The other two works are probably contemporary, but rubbing on the first folio of each work suggests that they were once bound separately
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written by five scribes in gothic textura. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-11r (Joseph d'Aramathie). Scribes 2: ff. 12r-83v and 3: ff. 84r-140r (Lestoire de Saint Graal). Scribe 4: ff. 141r-317v (Lestoire de Merlin), except ff. 149r-156v, the second gathering, written by Scribe 5. Scribe 4 is identified as Jehan de Loles from the colophon. Guides for rubrics written in lower or inner margin. Inscriptions adjoining miniatures in 14th-century cursive, brown or black ink, are possibly either later identifications or instructions to the minaturist., The decoration, the work of four hands, is of relatively poor quality. Three large miniatures, 11- to 13-line and two column, blue and/or red frames, gold squares in corners, surrounded by a thin gold band, with gold ivy leaves on black hair-lines at midpoints and corners. Miniatures accompanied by 3/4 bar borders, red, blue and gold, with white highlights; dragon and ivy terminals, with additional ivy extending from the gold segments. 182 small miniatures, 8-line, one column, most in bottom margin, suggesting execution after the original illumination had been completed: thin gold, red, and blue frames, single gold ivy leaf on hair-line stem at each corner; gold and diapered grounds., One historiated initial, f. 186v, 3-line, red against a blue and gold ground, knight and three men outside tent. Illuminated initials, 6- to 4-line, for books and chapters, red against irregular blue grounds with white highlights; gold dots in cusps at corners, infilled with blue and red ivy against gold. 2-line initials (guide-letters remain), gold, against irregular blue, orange, and red grounds with white highlights; black hair-lines at corners. Rubrics in red throughout, with guides for rubrics written in lower or inner margin., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Worn purple velvet over boards, with massive brass corner pieces and fastenings; plaque with arms removed from front cover. Made for Henri, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Robert, de Boron, 13th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arthurian romances, French literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arthurian romances
2. Bible (fragment)
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1330]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 87
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on vellum, in a single hand, of part of the book of Ecclesiasticus (Sirach).
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: double columns of 46 lines each., Script: gothic., and Decoration: Three illuminated initials with bar borders; illuminated chapter numbers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans Abbey.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible (fragment)
3. Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
- Creator:
- Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1320]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.161
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Breviari d'Amor by Matfre Ermengaud. This fragment, the sole example of troubadour lyric in North America outside of the Morgan Library, contains sections II.15913-16015 of the poem, which details the ten punishments of hell. Marginal notes in two later hands are present
- Description:
- In Old Occitan (Old Provençal)., Accompanied by: nineteenth-century printed description in French and translation into modern French., Script: main text in vernacular Gothic bookhand. Marginal notes in a late medieval hand and an early modern hand., Decoration: nine four-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting penwork. Two two-line initials in red. A single red capitulum mark. Rubrics present in red., and Layout: single column of thirty lines; the initial letter of each line is set slightly apart. Light brown ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ermengaud, Matfre, active 1288-1322
- Subject (Topic):
- Hell, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Troubadour songs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviari d'Amor (fragment).
4. Breviary
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 940
- Image Count:
- 732
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Includes computistical mnemonic verses for finding the date of Septuagesima for all the years of the 19-Years Cycle (Septuagesima interval prayer).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand, writing Gothica Textualis Formata in two sizes. The scribe Pierre Berger, priest of the church of Our Lady in Bourg-en-Bresse (France, dépt. de l'Ain), is unrecorded., and Binding: 18th century (?). Plain leather. On the flat spine and partly on the covers, a label with the handwritten title "Heures / manuscrites / Sur Vélin. / d'une belle / Conservation".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary
5. Breviary
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1399].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 939
- Image Count:
- 611
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 14th century French breviary; includes a liturgical calendar, a ferial psalter, an Office for the Dead, a Temporal, a Sanctoral, a Common of the Saints, Readings, and a hymn in honor of St. Nicholas
- Description:
- Script: Copied in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 7 is written in the same script, but by a differnet hand, and in the15th century. Art. 8 and several other additions are written in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Decoration: Yellow heightening of majuscules; red rubrics; underlinings and paragraph marks; alternately red and blue 1-line plain initials; 2-line (rarely 3-line) gold dentelle initials on a blue and/or red background with penwork; and several large foliate initials, anywhere between 4 and 8 lines, in the same colors, with decorative staff in the intercolumnary space or in the left margin. The lost first page of art. 2 possessed a large initial and full border in the same style. The 15th century addition has red rubrics and is decorated with 2-line red plain initials., Binding: 17th century undecorated brown sheepskin over cardboard, sewn on four double cords. The binding is very damaged and the spine is missing., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary
6. Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.13
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, incomplete bifolium, from a French breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textura., and Decoration: rubricated. Two-line initials in alternating red and blue ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
7. Breviary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 102
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, in a single hand, probably from an Anglo-Norman breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: double columns of 25 lines., Script: gothic., and Decoration: Rubricated. Two illuminated initials with long marginal extensions; two smaller initials.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Breviaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).
8. Breviary of the Franciscan order
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1325]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 646
- Image Count:
- 558
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of prayers, liturgical regulations, and offices
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., Ornate initials in red, blue, and violet., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Damaged brown leather over pasteboards, recovered in paper. Red leather gilt label on spine reading: "Breviarum Manuscriptum".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Breviaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary of the Franciscan order
9. Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1150, 1300-1600]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 25
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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:
- In Latin., 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., 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., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., and 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.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines.
- Subject (Topic):
- Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
