- Published / Created:
- 1466 (?).
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 653
- Image Count:
- 268
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, composed in 3 parts, of unidentified sermons. The three sections appear to have the same origin and to have been united soon after their making. The scribe and owner was a lay brother in the convent of Augustinian Canons St. Dorothea in Vienna
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Watermarks: Part I: balance, var. Piccard, Waage V.331?; star, var. Briquet 6077?. Part II: bull's head, unidentified?. Part III: column var. Briquet 4408?; bull's head var. Briquet 14825? (last three folios)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76) copied by various hands writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part II (ff. 77-160) copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part III (ff. 161-261) copied by five hands in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., Part I: Headings in red, often missing; heightening of the majuscules in red; plain red 4-line initials; they are flourished with black penwork on ff.18v-19r. Part II: Headings in red, sometimes missing. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 125v-126r only. Spaces and guide-letters for 2-3 line initials (4-line initial on f. 77r) , which have not been executed., Part III: The decoration of art. 15 consists of 3-4 line plain initials in red; at the opening a 5-line flourished initial in red. Art. 16 has red stroking of the opening majuscules of all verses and 2-line plain red initials. In art. 17 the majuscules are heightened with red. The Fables in art. 15 are illustrated with unframed watercoloured pen drawings., and Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over unbevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover, containing several times the inscription in relief "Osan".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustinian Canons. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, German
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > German miscellany
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.143
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract concerning land near Bruneck, a description in Latin of the damage to Mohammed's tomb in Mecca by a storm in 1481, and an account of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian I at Aachen in 1486, written in southern German dialect
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: written in a cursive gothic script (littera cursiva) in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.144., and Decoration: the first word of the document ("Ich") is enlarged, with the initial "I" trailing down the margin of the entire text; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Legal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal Document (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.144
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a legal document containing a document concerning tenure of land; an account of the election of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486; and a brief description of how one is to celebrate the feast of a newly canonized saint
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: written in cursive gothic script (littera cursiva), similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.143., and Decoration: the document begins with a flourished initial; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Legal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal Document (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 698
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 2
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of the decease of the persons involved. Includes a sealed transcription of a charter, granted by Joseph Bergaigne, Provincial of the Franciscan Order, dealing with the lightening of the obligations incurred towards the benefactors and drawn up in the Convent of Poor Clares at Trier, Jan. 1618, and confirmation of that charter drawn up at Trier, 16 May 1725. Its patronym "Sta. Maria Magdalena" is mentioned in one of the printed documents kept together with the manuscript
- Description:
- In German., Script: Many Gothic hands ranging from the early 16th to the 19th centuries, but mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries., The Day Letters are in red ("A") or stroked with red ("B-G"). Names of months and feasts in red., and Binding: Original brown blind-tooled leather over oak boards, decorated with double fillets and small lozenge tools ("Ihesus" and "Maria" monograms) and rosettes; bound on five white leather thongs. Spine with five raised bands, rebacked. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear cover. The front pastedown is detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Poor Clares.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Obituary of the Convent of Poor Clares in Trier
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 698
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 1
- Image Count:
- 86
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of the decease of the persons involved. Includes a sealed transcription of a charter, granted by Joseph Bergaigne, Provincial of the Franciscan Order, dealing with the lightening of the obligations incurred towards the benefactors and drawn up in the Convent of Poor Clares at Trier, Jan. 1618, and confirmation of that charter drawn up at Trier, 16 May 1725. Its patronym "Sta. Maria Magdalena" is mentioned in one of the printed documents kept together with the manuscript
- Description:
- In German., Script: Many Gothic hands ranging from the early 16th to the 19th centuries, but mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries., The Day Letters are in red ("A") or stroked with red ("B-G"). Names of months and feasts in red., and Binding: Original brown blind-tooled leather over oak boards, decorated with double fillets and small lozenge tools ("Ihesus" and "Maria" monograms) and rosettes; bound on five white leather thongs. Spine with five raised bands, rebacked. Remnants of one brass clasp attached to the rear cover. The front pastedown is detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Poor Clares.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Obituary of the Convent of Poor Clares in Trier
- Creator:
- Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314
- Published / Created:
- 1462.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 654
- Image Count:
- 175
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of John of Freiburg (Iohannes Lector Friburgensis OP, d. 1314), Summa confessorum, German adaptation by Berthold of Freiburg (Bertholdus Friburgensis OP, 14th century).
- Description:
- In German., Watermarks: var. Piccard, v. 15, VIII.1547?; var. Piccard, v. 110, III.1667?., Script: Copied by Johannes Geratwol in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with some Bastarda characteristics., Headings, heightening of the majuscules and mostly 1-line plain initials in red or green. The initial on f. 1r has green penwork. The first lines of all titles in art. 1 are underlined in red., and Binding: Original pigskin, blind-tooled with lozenges traced in double fillets over bevelled oak boards. Spine with three raised bands, a label with handwritten title (worn) and a small label with the shelfmark "634"; the same number is written on the front cover. Traces of one strap attached to the rear cover and clutching over a pin (lacking) on the front cover.The binding stays and the lining inside the spine are said to come from a 12th-century Antiphonary from Tyrol, with text from the office for Epiphany. One strip of the spine lining would be from an unidentified 14th-century manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Johannes, von Freiburg, d. 1314. and Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Christian literature, German, Confession, Catholic Church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa confessorum
7.
- Creator:
- Muenchen, Heinrich von
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1415]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 487
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (one leaf, cut in half vertically). Inner margin continues through gutter, with slits for binding, to include ca. three letters of the text of the other half of the bifolium
- Description:
- In German., Script: Written in gothic cursive script., Plain initials alternate in red and blue; headings and initials in red. Guide-letters for plain initials., Rubbed and stained on verso with some loss of text., and Inscription on verso, inner margin "Stuefft Buch pro anno 1657" indicates that the leaf was used for a 17th-century binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Muenchen, Heinrich von.
- Subject (Topic):
- German literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Weltchronik