- 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
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- 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:
- Vincent, of Beauvais, d. 1264
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 23
- Image Count:
- 127
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais. and Manuscript on parchment (greatly trimmed) of An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Half bound in brown mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and cream, blue-green, and red paste-paper sides. Red and olive green paste-paper pastedowns in a chevron pattern. Red edges. and Script: Written in a small neat got
- Subject (Name):
- Vincent,--of Beauvais,--d. 1264
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Vice, and Virtue
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collectanea drawn from Vincent of Beauvais.
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- Creator:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1069
- Image Count:
- 200
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Confortatorio per i condannati a morte, Florilegium, and Laudi
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Credo
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Gellius, Aulus - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400; between 1415 and 1431]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 59
- Image Count:
- 380
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (hairside yellow and speckled) of Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. With Extract from Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae III.8.8: Epistula Fabricii et Aemilii consulum ad Pyrrhum regem. The text was copied ca. 1400 and the border decoration added between ca. 1415 and 1431.
- Description:
- 14 elegant illuminated initials and partial borders at the beginning of each of the 16 books (the opening pages of Books XII and XV have been excised). Initials, 5- to 3-line, blue with white filigree or red with gold filigree on cusped grounds of gold. Most of the illuminated initials filled with bust-length portraits, presumably of Cicero's correspondents, on red, blue or diapered ground. Some initials filled with vine scrolls with trilobe leaves in red with white highlights against gold ground. Partial borders, scrolling vine with trilobe leaves or acanthus in blue, pink, red and gold with white highlights and green, red and blue with gold highlights. Small figures of angels, dressed in green with gold wings in borders or margins, some playing musical instruments, one holding an open book, one holding the cloth of Veronica. Other marginal figures include the "Agnus Dei" and a pelican piercing its breast. The figures are all characterized by white faces, small angled black eyes, and a preference for green and gold, the green with contour lines in gold. Plain initials alternate red and blue. Rubrics throughout., Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Red velvet case with a dark green gold-tooled label: "M. T. Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Familiares MS. in Membranis". Gilt edges., Imperfect: incomplete, some leaves wanting with loss of text., and Script: Written in a neat fere-humanistic hand by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Topic):
- 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 > Epistolae ad familiares
6.
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- s. XV^^2 [1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 42
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Description:
- The offset on f. 53v of an elaborately decorated border for the opening leaf of the office of St. Felicitas suggests that the codex was originally produced for an institution associated with this saint.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy
- Subject (Topic):
- Graduals (Liturgical books), 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 > Gradual