Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of 15 membranes, of a Chronicle of biblical world history and the genealogy of the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: Unbound., One large illuminated initial for the prologue, 8-line, mauve and blue with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. The initial is filled with a large flower, red, yellow and green, and curling acanthus, orange and green extending into the margin and continued as black inkspray with large leaves, heart-shaped or acanthus, blue, pink, orange, white and green with white filigree, a large orange and gold flower, smaller leaves in gold with blue and pink, gold dots and small green leaves, extending into the upper and left margin to form a partial border. Smaller illuminated initial for the beginning of the main chronicle, 5-line, gold on blue and mauve ground with white filigree. Numerous small initials, 2-line, alternate in gold with blue penwork and blue with red. Paragraph marks alternate in red and blue., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat rough textura., and The genealogical diagrams, which are fitted into the empty spaces between the columns of text, begin with a roundel formed of concentric bands of blue, gold and red with a miniature of Adam with Eve, who is being handed an apple by the serpent. From the roundel of Adam and Eve to the Ascension of Christ the successive Biblical names, framed in orange or green squares, are linked by a continuous band in blue, red and gold. The names of the ancestors of the Kings of England, starting with Brutus, appear in red or blue circles, surmounted by gold crowns. Other names are in plain red circles. Linking lines in the genealogies are in red or green. At the appropriate places in the text are inserted schematized diagrams in red and green ink of Noah's Ark, a plan of the Israelite camp in the desert and a plan of the city of Jerusalem.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--1066-1687
Subject (Topic):
Bible--History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers--Genealogy, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history--Early works to 1800
Manuscript roll, on parchment, of a household inventory. The valuation, which totals 36.02.00, includes household furniture such as beds, silver serving pieces and spoons, farm equipment, and livestock.
Description:
In English. and Purchased from Christopher Edwards on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000.
Subject (Name):
Frescheville, Peter,--Sir,--d. 1559?
Subject (Topic):
Inventories, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Probate records
A fragment of a sutra copied in silver on indigo-colored paper. An 8th century copy. Original. This piece, retrieved from a fire at the monastery To-dai-zhi long ago, is one of the oldest remnants of the kind known in Japan. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand.
Alternative Title:
Konshi ginji Kegonkyo, Konshiginjikegonkyo, Konshiginjikegonkyō, and 紺紙銀字華厳経, [8th cent.].
Description:
"A fragment of a sutra copied in silver on indigo-colored paper. An 8th century copy. Original.", "This piece, retrieved from a fire at the monastery Tō-dai-zhi long ago, is one of the oldest remnants of the kind known in Japan." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., In Chinese., Scroll: 23.0 x 108.6 cm rolled to 23.0 x 26.7 cm in diameter. One roll in a wood box., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ab2.
Subject (Name):
Tripitaka. Sutrapitaka. Avatamsakasutra
Subject (Topic):
Hua yan Buddhism, Japanese manuscripts, Tripiṭaka.--Sūtrapiṭaka.--Avataṃsakasūtra, and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great.
Description:
Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou., Script: archaizing scribal hand., Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns., and Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
Lord's Supper (Liturgy)--Texts, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Published / Created:
circa 1570
Call Number:
Mellon MS 41
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
Alternative Title:
Ripley scroll
Description:
One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.