- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1499]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1194
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an incomplete Psalter with six illuminated initials. Supposedly created and used by a German nun in the last half of the fifteenth century, it has been considered an example of Nonnenarbeiten.
- Description:
- Binding: modern., Decoration: Rubricated. Some banners with texts in margins. Six illuminated initials with gold or silver decoration: decorated silver initial (3v); birds, silver decoration (14v); Jonah, gold decoration (24v); monk with textual banner, gold decoration (35v); Virgin Mary and child, textual banner, gold decoration (43r); animal blowing instrument, silver decoration (50v); trumpeter, textual banner, gold decoration (80v)., Engraved portrait bookplate? on front pastedown of Gerardus, dux Juliæ et Montium, Comes Ravensburgæ, Fundator ordinis anno 1444., Layout: single columns of 14 lines., and Script: Gothic book hand.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Nuns as artists--Germany., Nuns--Books and reading--Germany., and Psalters.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter (incomplete).
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 117
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, probably in a single hand, containing seven discontinuous lines of text in different gothic display scripts in black and red inks, probably produced as a sample sheet of a scribe's work.
- Description:
- Decoration: in red and black ink., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: each line in a different gothic display script.
- Subject (Topic):
- Handwriting--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Scribes--Germany--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scribal sample sheet.
- Creator:
- Catholic Church.
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Music Deposit 60
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a processional for use by a Dominican nuns' convent. Includes processionals for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter among others.
- Description:
- Binding: original binding; reddish brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (often missing); 2-line red plain initials for the prayers; black cadels of the same height, stroked in red., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1949 from C.A. Stonehill., and Script: written in somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Processional : for a Dominican nuns' convent]