- Creator:
- Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 5
- Image Count:
- 282
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 2r-3v : An early example of alchemical music, the Antiphona, by Johannes de Teschen, written in Hufnagelschrift., Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest) of a large collection of medieval alchemies, both speculative and practical. Includes an important group of writings by Johannes of Teschen, notably his Antiphona with musical notation. Also contains works by Arnold of Villanova, Alanus, Geber, Khalid ibn Yazid, and Albertus Magnus., and MS 5 is notable for its large collection of medieval alchemies, both speculative and practical, and especially for the important group of writings by Johannes of Teschen.
- Description:
- Armorial bookplate of Andreas Beham the Elder, dated 1595, engraved by Johann Siebmacher, (d. 1611), Binding: Fifteenth century, German. Presumably original, of oaken boards covered with red-dyed hide, sides framed by triple blind fillets, additional fillets drawn diagonally to form a pattern of lozenges; the original back laid down on a new backstrip preserving the four original raised bands, plus head and foot bands, which are drawn into the boards, fastened with wooden wedges, and reinforced with strips of parchment (cut from a 13th-century manuscript with faint writing in a very small gothic hand) which are glued down to the inside boards. On both covers single nailholes near the corners and two such holes in the center of each cover indicate the removal of brass cornerpieces and centerpieces; a single brass catch with iron bar, fastened by three brass nails, is preserved in the upper cover, the clasp missing from the lower cover indicated only by a mark. Modern leather label on backstrip, stamped in silver between rules top and bottom: ""ALCHEMICAL MISCELLANY MANUSCRIPT FRANCE 15TH C.""., Important capitals painted in red and blue with occasional filiform decoration, rubricated, and capitals frequently stroked red, but without other ornament or illustration., Modern pencil foliation throughout with various early pagination/foliation schemes., Ruled in red ink in two columns of 40 lines each., Script: Written in Gothica textualis by a careful but ill-formed hand in which differing letter forms are often not discrete, with annotations by a later 15th-century cursive hand and occasional notes by other hands of the same period., and Written space 124 x 98 mm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Music--500-1400
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1100
- Image Count:
- 817
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Description:
- Tightly bound. Ink rubbed with some loss of text.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, with prologues
- Published / Created:
- 13th century.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 793
- Image Count:
- 1298
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome, and interpretations of the Hebrew names.
- Description:
- Binding: 19th century: calf over cardboard; both covers and spine, in six compartments, gold-tooled. Purple silk doublures., Manuscript on parchment of an illuminated Bible, with the prologues attributed to St. Jerome; interpretations of the Hebrew names: Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, with additions in the margins and at the end; an alphabetical list of words with explanations and/or ethymologies; a table of Epistles, Gospels and other readings for the ecclesiastical year: Temporale, Sanctorale and Common of the Saints; and a list, in two columns, of the kings of Juda and Israel., and Script: probably copied by one hand in extremely small Gothica Textualis Libraria (Perlschrift). Article 3 is by a contemporary hand. Numerous historiated initials of various sizes with long vertical extensions.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--Latin--Versions, 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 > Biblia Sacra, cum prologo H. Heironymi
- Published / Created:
- s. XIV 2 ??
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 525.1
- Collection Title:
- 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-v Antiphona. Cruci, corone spinee, clavisque dire, lancee ... per que corone gaudia perpetua speramus. Versus. Adoramus te Christe ... Oremus. Quesumus omnipotens Deus, ut qui sacratissima nostre redemptionis insignia temporaliter veneramur, per hec indesinenter muniti eternitatis gloriam consequamur. Per. De sancto Eustachio antiphona., On parchment., This small luxurious book of devotion seems to be organized according to the liturgical year, the Exaltation of the Cross being celebrated on 14 September, the martyr Eustace on 20 September., and Yellow heightening of the majuscules. One 2-line flourished initial, gold with blue flourishes, and on f. 1r one square miniature (5 lines) in a golden frame representing the Instruments of the Passion, accompanied by a full rinceaux border with a gold and pink bar in the inner margin. In the upper right and the two lower corners flowers and plants grow on a circular grassy patch of earth. The spiralling tendrils between them carry gold balls and vine leaves and flowers.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 101
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from an illuminated Book of Hours. It contains the opening of the Commendation of Souls, a series of psalms often found after the Office of the Dead in English or English-marketed books of hours.
- Description:
- Decoration: historiated initial "B" with a miniature of two souls borne to heaven by two angels, gilt; wide decorated border of blue and green acanthus with flowers and fruits, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 17 lines., and Script: gothic.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bruges (Belgium)
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium--Bruges--15th century., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours (fragment)
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 748
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Illuminated vellum leaf.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours [fragment]
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 748
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Illuminated vellum leaf.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours [fragment]
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 748
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Illuminated vellum leaf.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours [fragment]
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1390-1420
- Call Number:
- Osborn a44
- Image Count:
- 483
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The manuscript contains a book of hours, use of Sarum (ff. 1-138v), and a Missal (ff. 139r-236v). It was produced in England, in liturgical Gothic bookhand on vellum, in two phases. The first section, consisting of quires 1 and 3-18 (ff. 1-6, 17-83, and 86-137), was produced around 1390, perhaps in London. Around 1420 the manuscript was augmented with a second section, consisting of quires 2 and 19-31 (ff. 7-16, 84-85, and 138-236).
- Alternative Title:
- Book of Hours
- Description:
- Binding: early nineteenth-century English calf over carved wooden boards, blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked with spine laid on; gilt edges with traces of painted landscape., Decoration includes thirty-two historiated initials and three half-page miniatures (f.11v, the martyrdom of St. Elmo (St. Erasmus); 109v, Christ at the Tomb, surrounded by the instruments of His passion; f. 118r, the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St. John)., Modern paper binder's blanks (2 l.) at end not digitized., Peyton coat of arms gilt on covers., and Seventeenth-century coat of arms on flyleaf and on f. 139r (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a castle or, 2 and 3, gules 2 foxes or).
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours, Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Missal, and Peyton family--Coat of arms
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sarum Rite
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours and missal, [circa 1390-1420]
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1435
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 748
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Illuminated vellum leaf.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines and Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours, Benedictine [fragment]