- Published / Created:
- 12-15th c
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 25
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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:
- 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., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., 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., and 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.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines
- Subject (Topic):
- Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
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- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 902
- Image Count:
- 202
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Ceremonial for the vestment of a nun. 2) Ceremonial for the communion of a sick nun. 3) Ceremonial for administering the extreme unction. 4) Ceremonial at the death of a nun. 5) Commendations for the dead nun. 6) Ceremonial for the burial of a nun. 7) Seven Penitential Psalms. 8) Antiphons, Responses and Hymns for the aspersions with holy water and the processions, with musical notation and rubrics in Latin, for the feast of Purification of the Virgin (2 Febr., f. 52v), Palm Sunday (ff. 54r and 59r), Maundy Thursday (f. 61r), Easter, Ascension, Pentecost (ff. 66r and 68r), the Rogation Days (f. 69r), the Vigil of Pentecost, Corpus Christi (f. 73r), the Assumption of the Virgin (15 August, f. 74v), the Dedication of the Church (f. 76r), Trinity Sunday (f. 78r) and again Purification (f. 79v). These are followed by the various melodies, with Dutch rubrics, for three liturgical formulas. 9) Text of Versicles for various periods and feasts of the ecclesiastical year. 10) Versicles for the Common of the Saints. 11) Dutch prayers for a dying nun. 12) Ceremonial for the consecration of candles at Purification, the consecration of ashes on Ash Wednesday, the consecration of palms on Palm Sunday, the washing of the altar on Maundy Thursday, partly with musical notation. 13) Fragment of the Antiphons for Pentecost, with musical notation. and Manuscript on parchment.
- Alternative Title:
- Ceremonial and processional and Liturgy and ritual
- Description:
- Binding: ca. 1500. Blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, both covers decorated with twice a panel containing two rows of four animals in tendrils in a frame of 16 dragons in tendrils (the so-called 24 Animals panel), separated by a frieze with the Peasants' Dance. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps.The pastedowns are two parts of a document in Dutch on parchment (a large section between the two is missing) datable 25 August 1443. It is a chirograph in documentary cursive script, stating that before the court of Geraardsbergen ("Gheerondsberghe", Fr. Grammont, East Flanders) parties have promised to pay a debt of £ 200 in eight instalments over the next four years, 1443-1446. Among the persons mentioned are Heinrik den Haec (?), the lady de Tiennes, the aldermen of Edingen (Enghien, Hainaut?), Collaert van den Foreeste, alderman of Geraardsbergen and Coppenole, counciller of the same city. The design and letters appearing at the top and at the bottom of the document prove that it was made in three copies., Rubrics, underlining and paragraph marks in red; red stroking of majuscules. 1-line versals and 2-line plain initials in red. 2-line flourished initials alternately red and blue ; cadels with red heightening on the pages with musical notation; 3- or 4-line litterae duplices with penwork extensions in red, blue and green on ff. 1r (art. 1), 18r (art. 5), 40r (art. 6), 46v (art. 7) and 86r (art. 11)., and Script: The main scribe (A) wrote Gothica Textualis Formata on ff. 1r-46v, l. 4 (with the exception of f. 39, where another hand wrote a smaller Gothica Textualis Formata). Hand B wrote Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda) on ff. 46v, l. 6 - 87v, l. 4 (artt. 7-11). Hand C copied ff. 88r-94v (art. 12) in Gothica Textualis Formata. F. 95 is 16th century addition copied in a clumsy Gothica Semitextualis. The musical notation is a variant of the Hoefnagel type. There are several later additions of music and text.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ceremonial for a nuns' convent
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1460]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1140
- Image Count:
- 537
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. 2) Mateusz z Krakowa, De modo confitendi. 3) Thomas Aquinas, De consideratione. 4) Series of short texts on simony, adultery and other abuses, including works by Bernardus de Reijsa and Wilhelmus Blok.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery (Canon law), Biography--To 500, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Simony (Canon law)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of texts by St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and others
- Creator:
- Halgrin, John
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 911
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation.
- Description:
- Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges., First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text., Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1., and Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line.
- Subject (Name):
- Halgrin, John
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentum in Cantica Canticorum
5.
- Creator:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
- Published / Created:
- 1469
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 952
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography--To 500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessions
- Published / Created:
- 1314-[ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 966
- Image Count:
- 376
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Description:
- Back flyleaf pasted to leaf from earlier binding[?] and Water damaged with some loss of text.
- Subject (Name):
- Abbaye de Boulbonne
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Consuetudines Cistercienses
- Creator:
- Nicolaus von Dinkelsbuehl
- Published / Created:
- 1431
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 747
- Image Count:
- 365
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Nicolaus von Dinkelsbuehl (ca. 1360-1433), De Tribus partibus penitentie and other texts on virtues and vices.
- Description:
- 2 loose leaves filed between ff. 77-78., 8 leaf quire excised at end. Several other possible excisions[?], Front cover loose., and Modern foliation employed. Flyleaf numbered as f. 1.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicolaus von Dinkelsbuehl
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Repentance, Vices--Early works to 1800, and Virtues--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De Tribus partibus penitentie, etc.
8.
- Creator:
- Pier, delle Vigne, 1190?-1249
Thomas, of Capua, Cardinal, d. 1243 - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 77
- Image Count:
- 317
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pietro della Vigna, Epistolae. On ff. 120v-130v, mixed in with the letters, is an incomplete text of Thomas of Capua, Summa dictaminis.
- Description:
- Binding: ca. 1500, Northern Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps reinforced with fragments of a parchment manuscript (Lectionary?) set in channels on the outside of beech boards. The spine is lined with pieces of parchment manuscript, extending inside the boards between supports. Quarter bound in reddish brown leather with a blind-tooled floral roll along the edges (later but early?). Spine: multiple fillets at head, tail and outlining supports on the spine. Panels tooled with X's with fleurons around them and floral tools in squares on their points in the outer panels. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. The lower board is cut in for straps. Title in ink near the head of the upper board ("Epistole Petr. de Vineis de gestis Friderici Romanorum Imperatoris II **") which is cracked and has been repaired., Headings and some marginalia in red (often faded), by two hands, the second of which ruled two parallel lines in lead for each line of headings that were added in a more upright gothic text hand., Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: similar to Piccard Anker VII.181-83, Briquet Monts 11813, and Briquet Indetermines 16061-63; unidentified letter P with forked descender.
- Subject (Name):
- Pier,--delle Vigne,--1190?-1249
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 962
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentarius in sequentiam “Ave preclara maris stella”, falsely attributed to Caesarius de Heisterbach O. Cist.(c. 1180-c. 1240). 2) Commentarius in sequentiam “Benedictio Trine Unitati”. 3) Addition to art. 2, dealing with the Hebrew alphabet. 4) Humorous note explaining why the eater of cheese (obviously a most unhealthy food) will never thrust a wine-goblet from his hood (?), why he never will be bitten by a dog and why a thief will never enter his house.
- Description:
- Script: Artt. 1-4 are copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria marked by striking hairlines at r and final t. Quotations are clumsily written in a deviating form of Northern Gothica Textualis. Ascenders at the top line are often lengthened and decorated. Art. 5 is copied in a more rapid form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria, possibly by the same hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Hermannus,--Contractus,--1013-1054
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Latin commentaries on two sequences
- Creator:
- Dei, Johannes de, ca. 1190-1267
- Published / Created:
- 1400
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1025
- Image Count:
- 119
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Dei, Johannes de, ca. 1190-1267
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Penance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber poenitentiarius de cautela simplicium sacerdotum