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1. Opera. [In the translation of Rufinus Aquileiensis. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus]
- Creator:
- Josephus, Flavius
Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345-410
Squarciafico, Girolamo - Published / Created:
- March 31 - May 10, 1481
- Call Number:
- 1982 +88
- Image Count:
- 354
- Alternative Title:
- [Works. Latin. 1481]
- Description:
- Bound in reverse order.
- Publisher:
- Raynaldus de Novimagio
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews --History --To 70 A.D
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera. [In the translation of Rufinus Aquileiensis. Edited by Hieronymus Squarzaficus]
2. Epistulae et tractatus
- Creator:
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20 - Published / Created:
- 1439-1440.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 766
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Jermone, Epistulae et tractatus. With Ambrosius Mediolanensis (St. Ambrose, 339-397), De excessu fratris.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown leather over cardboard boards, the covers blind-tooled with a triple fillet lozenge inside a floral roll frame, the center and the corners gold-tooled with two different floral tools. Spine with four raised bands and remnants of gold-tooled lilies in the compartments. Edges painted blue. Marks of two pairs of ties., Headings in red. Red heightening (stroking) of the majuscules. 2-3-line flourished initials (with guide letters) in red with penwork varying from pale red to purple. A large (10 lines) decorated flourished initial in red, with developed purple penwork (“R” instead of “D”) in littera duplex style on f. 229v. Two Gothic historiated initials on gold background with floral marginal extensions: f. 1r: St. Jerome with lion and boy holding open a book (damaged); f. 25v: a monk copying., Script: Apparently four scribes: A, Iohannes de Carnago, is the main scribe and copied ff. 1r-260v (with the exception of 8 lines at the bottom) in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; B copied from the bottom lines of f. 260v to f. 270v, in Humanistica Textualis Libraria; C copied ff. 271r-275v in Gothico-Humanistica Textualis Libraria; and D copied ff. 276r-304v in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria., and The codex belonged to the Diocesan Library of Dunedin, New Zealand. Sotheby sale, London, 27 March 1950 (catalogue, no. 35).
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistulae et tractatus
3. Grammatical treatise; Disticha Catonis
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 750
- Image Count:
- 42
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Anonymous grammatical treatise in prose (Grammatica Latina secundum Donatum). 2) Disticha Catonis.
- Description:
- 1-line red versals and 2-line red plain initials. Two large initials: f. 1r, at the beginning of the text of art. 1, historiated 10- line initial in pink on a blue background, containing a half-length profile of a poet or teacher in outline with a yellow dress; f. 10r, at the beginning of art. 2, decorated 9-line initial in pinkon a blue background, filled with red, yellow and green leaves., Binding: Original half brown leather binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; sewn on two split leather thongs; the spine damaged. Remnants of one strap attached to the front cover, with iron pin on the rear cover., Due to intensive use the pages are badly rubbed and the legibility is impaired; whole passages have been rewritten by a later hand. The corners of the leaves are worn off. Holes and sewings., and Script: Copied by one hand in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The opening majuscule of each verse set off in a separate column.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grammatical treatise; Disticha Catonis
4. De senectute
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- 1467
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 805
- Image Count:
- 58
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of M. Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Cato Maior de senectute, with a List of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
- Description:
- Binding: original Italian, repaired: brown leather over thin wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled and decorated with numerous small gold dots. Marks of two clasps; on the spine, now detached and kept separately, a gold-tooled reddish brown title label (17th century?) with the inscription “STR // DE // SEN”. Gilded edges., Pink headings. The names of the interlocutors and the colophon on f. 48r are written in pink Capitals. The first line of the various sections following the dentelle initial is written in alternately pink and black Capitals, except on f. 2r, where it is written in gold Capitals. The illuminated opening folio before f. 1 has been cut out. The smaller sections open with a pink Capital placed between the double bounding lines. 2-line Renaissance dentelle initials in gold on a divided and indented red and blue background, decorated with silvery penwork, at the beginning of the major subdivisions of the text., R.G. Babcock, T.N. Thomas, D.M. Kibbey, E.P. Archibald, A Book of Her Own. An Exhibition of Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Yale University Library that were Owned by Women before 1700 (New Haven, 2005), p. 66., Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez., Script: copied by Giovanmarco Cinico from Parma in Humanistica Textualis Formata. This famous scribe was active in Naples from ca. 1458 to ca. 1498., and Written for the young Beatrice of Aragon (1457-1508), daughter of Ferrand of Aragon, King of Naples and future Queen of Hungary. Purchased 1994 from Bernard Quaritch (?) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Subject (Topic):
- Dialogues, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De senectute
5. Mariological, mystical and ascetical treatises
- Published / Created:
- 1510
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 738
- Image Count:
- 794
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- In Latin.
- Subject (Name):
- Abbot of St. Mihiel, Smaragdus, fl. 809-819, Bishop of Brandenburg, Stephan Bodeker, 1383-1459, and Blessed Virgin, Saint, Mary
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mariological, mystical and ascetical treatises
6. Opera varia
- Creator:
- Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 248
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fine; leaves repaired before pricking and ruling) of the Collected Works of Hugh of St. Victor.
- Description:
- 8-line illuminated initial, blue with white highlights on square ground, magenta with blue and white highlights; interior of initial inhabited by scrolling vines, rabbit and two animal heads on gold and blue ground; tail of letter extends down inner margin. 11- to 7-line red and blue initials divided by a zig-zag line in parchment and with interior red and blue flourishes resembling the design on a peacock's tail feathers, mostly in red with small blue circles. This style of initial accompanied by long penwork extensions in red and blue I designs and with small spirals, circles, flourishes. Small 3-line initials alternate red and blue with penwork flourishes in the opposite color. 1-line plain initials alternate red and blue for chapter lists. Remains of guide letters for decorator. Headings, running titles (often incorrect), deletions (single horiztonal red line) and initial strokes in red., Binding: France [?], ca. 19th c. Brown calf, elaborately blind-stamped with figure of Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book with alpha and omega displayed on the open pages. Original endbands (and therefore sewing?) and yellow edges., Binding: Nineteenth century, France (?). Brown calf, elaborately blind-stamped with figure of Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book with alpha and omega displayed on the open pages. Original endbands (and therefore sewing?) and yellow edges., Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1960 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in uniform gothic bookhand throughout; contemporary marginal notes in several less formal hands., and Written in uniform gothic bookhand throughout; contemporary marginal notes in several less formal hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Hugh,--of Saint-Victor,--1096?-1141
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia
7. Anti-Jewish controversy
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 837
- Image Count:
- 222
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Raymundus Martini OP (c. 1215-after 1285), Capistrum Iudaeorum, composed c. 1267. 2) Nicolaus de Lyra (c. 1270-1349), Probatio adventus Christi, 2nd redaction, written 1331-1334. 3) Odo Biagi of Ancona (Odo Blasii de Ancona), Quaestiones de vera fide. A treatise addressed to the Jew A., a physician from Piceno, whom the author had met in Ancona the same year.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. De luxe binding (loose) in Neo-Renaissance style: red morocco over cardboard, both covers richly gold-tooled; the turn-ins gold-tooled; the flat spine gold-tooled in five compartments, the second one bearing the inscription “NICOLAI / de / LYRA.” Grey marbled paper endleaves; gilt edges. A repair at the middle of the top of the front parchment flyleaf may indicate that the original binding was chained, the staple being fixed at the top of the front cover., Script: Copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. In art. 1 the handwriting is larger and more careful, with fewer abbreviations, than in artt. 2-3., and Uniform decoration. Headings in red. Red stroking of majuscules. Numerous paragraph marks alternately red and blue. Alternately red and blue 2-line (rarely 3-line) flourished initials with penwork and more or less developed marginal extensions in the contrasting colour; up to f. 41v they have mostly a more developed pattern of penwork; towards the end of art. 3 they are only 1 line high; blue penwork of the initial on f. 31r is extremely pale. 2-3-line painted decorated initials with acanth extensions in the margins in art. 3 only. A 4-line historiated initial with acanths and gold balls in the margin at the opening of each art. At the top of the Genealogy of Christ on f. 94r two roundels containing the portraits of Abraham (“Abraam”) and David (“Davit”). There is a large drawing of a running bird in blue ink in the lower margin of f. 19r.
- Subject (Name):
- Martí, Ramón,--d. ca. 1286 and Nicholas,--of Lyra,--ca. 1270-1349
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anti-Jewish controversy
8. De Tribus partibus penitentie, etc.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De Tribus partibus penitentie, etc.
9. Breviary for Cistercian use
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- [14--]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1112
- Image Count:
- 749
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Manuscript on parchment, for Cistercian use. Rubricated throughout.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and Cistercians
- Subject (Topic):
- Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary for Cistercian use