William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1250] and ca. 1200
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 828
Image Count:
73
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Guillelmus de Sancto Theoderico (William of St. Thierry, c. 1080-1148), Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei (De vita solitaria), without the Preface. The letter is addressed to the monks of the Charterhouse of Montdieu in the diocese of Reims. With an index of the chapters of art. 1.
Alternative Title:
Frater Bruno
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Yellow velvet over rounded wooden boards. The former cover consists of a 17th-century document on parchment with text on the inner side, largely illegible due to the remnants of paste on its surface, issued by “Frater Bruno [d'Affringues, 1600-1631], ... totius ordinis Cartusiensis generalis minister”. The former binding contained also three fragments of a 13th-century manuscript on parchment, containing liturgical directions. These are now kept apart with the former cover and a former parchment flyleaf., Red heightening of the majuscules, but layout and decoration lack uniformity. (1) Up to f. 12r inclusively the chapters start in the middle of a line and are preceded by a red paragraph mark; the corresponding chapter number is written by another hand at the same height in one of the side margins, and the chapter heading is added by the same hand in one of the margins and connected to the beginning of the chapter by a reference mark or by a connecting line. (2) From f. 12v up to at least f. 22v the chapters open at the left margin with a 1- or 2-line red plain initial and the corresponding heading and chapter number are copied in red by a contemporary hand in the open space on the preceding line; instructions for these are provided by the scribe (B) in small handwriting alongside the upper or lower edges. (3) Starting f. 23v for the final chapters 40-42 we see the type of layout and decoration as described under (1). On f. 1r a large and narrow “shaped inset” littera duplex in red and green initial F in red and green (8/16 ll.). with extremely developed penwork in the same colours and green extensions in the left margin., Script: Copied by two scribes writing a heavily abbreviated early Gothica Textualis Libraria with simplified letter forms: hand A (ff. 1r-10r, line 5) is rather bold and uses single-compartment a and straight s in all positions; hand B (ff. 10r, line 6-26v) is slightly less careful, there is more variety in the shape of a, and final s is either round or straight., and The lower edges of ff. 2, 7 and 11 are irregular; the lower outer corners of ff. 18, 23 and 24 are defective.
Subject (Geographic):
Reims (France)
Subject (Name):
William,--of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry,--ca. 1085-1148?
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on paper of a collection of the works of Nicolaus, mostly related to medicine. In addition the codex has interesting lists of substances in Latin and German, as well as a tract on the distillation of brandy.
Alternative Title:
[Antidotarium]
Description:
Binding: Modern three-quarter binding of light brown buckram, plain brown niger back and corners, the back with five (false?) raised bands, gilt-lettered in the second compartment from the top, ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI, and at the foot of the spine, "AB. 1460". Plain edges., Blank binder's leaves not scanned., Large capitals in red at text divisions, sometimes with slight pen ornament, other capitals stroked red throughout, fancy ascenders on top lines transgressing the upper rules and stroked red, similar descenders occasionally below the bottom bordering line, usually not colored., Modern pencil foliation., On paper., Script: Neatly written in a gothic cursive hand., and Watermarks: Two batches of unidentified paper watermarked with a gothic "P," the mark plain and smaller in one batch, larger and surmounted by a trefoil in the other.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Nicolaus, Salernitanus, 12th cent., and Nicolaus,--Salernitanus,--12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Brandy, Distilling--Early works to 1800, Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medicine, Medieval, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript of a Latin Bible with Prologues attributed to St. Jerome, pages1-823, lacking most of the prologue to the whole Bible but including the Prologue to the Pentateuch, lacking Numbers XXXIV:26 to Deuteronomy I:35, Deuteronomy XXXIII:21 to Joshua II:1, Ruth IV:15 to I Kings I:4, I Kings XXX:3 to II Kings II:3, Proverbs XIX:11 to XXIII:11; Ecclesiasticus X:16 to XIV:3, Jeremiah XLIX:16 to LI:3; Interpretation of Hebrew Names, pages 825-896, lacking end (from Uphir). The Psalms are omitted, although the final three Psalms (148:4-150) appear in two parallel versions on page 389 following Job.
Description:
Annotations: contemporary and later annotations in several hands. One mentions the book of Brother Richard of London (page 186)., Binding: contemporary tawed skin over wooden boards; remains of leather straps and brass clasps., Decoration: each Biblical book and some prologues open with a large puzzle initial in red and blue, often with the other letters of the initial word in red and blue capitals with penwork flourishing; chapter initials rubricated and with penwork flourishing., Layout: contemporary pagination. 52 lines in two columns; columns of each book numbered in the lower margins; with the columns themselves divided into sections using letters of the alphabet and Arabic numerals., Script: very small Gothic bookhand., Tra[m]ays, notarial sign and inscription, 15th century. Edward Turner, ownership inscription, 16th century. William Collins, ownership inscription and note, 1614. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christie's London sale, 2012 June 13, lot 6) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2012., and Wanting pp. 1-4, 125-126, 151-152, 191-192, 217-218, 399-400, 429-430, 511, 524-526.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--Latin, Bible.--Latin.--Vulgate, Bible--Commentaries, Bible--Prefaces, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Constitution for the dinghof or cologne of Ingersheim in Alsace, consisting of 16 articles ... Parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched together ... Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe who placed a paragraph mark before each article. and Manuscript on parchment roll consisting of 2 irregularly trimmed membranes stitched together, of Constitution for the dinghof or colonge of Ingersheim in Alsace, consisting of 16 articles.
Description:
Binding: Boxed., Paragraph mark before each article., Purchased in 1958 from Roux-Devillas, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Roll shows considerable use., and Script: Written in neat gothic hand by a single scribe.
Subject (Geographic):
Alsace (France)
Subject (Topic):
Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of a Middle English text of the Book of Sir John Mandeville, probably related to the "Defective Version." Biblical quotations in Middle English on f63v-f64v.
Alternative Title:
Itinerarium. English
Description:
Annotation, in a later hand, on f1r: Sir John Mandevile's Travails., Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, gilt. Spine label reads: Mandevil's travails., From the collection of John Theyer; from the collection of John Barwick of Charing; ex libris Walter Sneyd; ex libris Sir Thomas Brooke; from the collection of Sir John Arthur Brooke (Sotheby's London sale 25 May 1921, lot 921); from the collection of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth (Sotheby's London sale 15 October 1945, lot 2023). Purchased from Martayan Lan Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., Opening illuminated initial with ivy-leaf sprays into margins and 17 blue initials with extensive red penwork flourishing. Three contemporary or near-contemporary marginal drawings, one with color wash, of manicula., Script: cursive anglicana hand in brown ink; 32 lines per page., Side notes and notation marks in various hands, 15th-17th century., Sir John Mandeville is the suppositious author of the "travel" book known as the Book of Sir John Mandeville, or Mandeville's Travels. Written in the 14th century in Anglo-Norman French, it was widely popular and thought to be an accurate account of a knight's journey through Europe, the Middle East and Asia., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership, Mandeville, John,--Sir, Sneyd, Walter,--1809-1888--Bookplate, and Theyer, John,--1597-1673--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 256
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary. 2) Litanies of the Virgin, of Christ on Ascension Day, of St. Jerome on his feast day. 3) An account of the visions of St. Magnus, and the story of St. Magnus's burial and subsequent translation to the church of San Geremia in Venice. 4) Legend of the three monks in Paradise. 5) Exhortation to suffer illness patiently citing three exempla from St. Gregory's Dialogues. 6) Lists of the 7 works of spiritual mercy, the 7 works of corporal mercy, the 7 sacraments, the 7 virtues, the 7 mortal sins, the 5 senses, the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. 7) Unidentified sermon. 8) Anselm of Canterbury, Commendatio animae. 9) Short unidentified text attributed to Gregory I.
Alternative Title:
Life and miracles of the Virgin Mary, etc.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and pegged twice. Yellow edges. Plain wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. Spine is lined with leather between supports. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a triple cross in a central rectangle in concentric frames. Two fastenings; holes from pins on the lower board, the upper one cut in for straps which are fastened with star-headed nails. Spine: supports defined with double fillets; an X of triple fillets in the panels which are bordered with double fillets on the sides., Crudely executed initials red with blue and/or red penwork designs and vice versa; initials on ff. 7v-8v have green added. Blue headings accompany red initials and red accompany blue. Initial letters stroked with red throughout. Line filler in red, blue and yellow on f. 6r., and Script: Written in small round gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Gregory--I,--Pope,--ca. 540-604, Magnus,--of Anagni, Saint,--d. 254, and Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian legends, Christian literature, Italian, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
