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1.
Ho Voskopoula hē Eumorphē onomasmenē. Eis typou k' eis phanerōsin palin metabalmenē

Published / Created:
1818
Call Number:
Ocb52 825p
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
[Greek music manuscript]
Description:
Bound with 5 other titles: Polyzōidēs, Anastasios. Theōria genikē. En Mesologgiō, 1825., In black and red ink., On paper., and Rubricated.
Publisher:
Para Nikolaō Glykei tō ex Iōanninōn
Subject (Topic):
Music --Greece
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ho Voskopoula hē Eumorphē onomasmenē. Eis typou k' eis phanerōsin palin metabalmenē. Diorthōtheisa, hōs phainetai, akribōs sēmeiōmenē

2.
Orthodox Eastern Church music

Creator:
Unidentified
Published / Created:
[17--?]
Call Number:
GEN MSS MUSIC MISC VOLUME 33
Collection Title:
General Collection manuscript music miscellany
Container / Volume:
Group 85
Image Count:
167
Abstract:
Bound autograph manuscript in an unidentified hand of the Psalms of David and other church music in Ancient Greek, set to music for use in the churches at Constantinople.
Description:
Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., In red and black ink., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy and ritual and Orthodox Eastern Church--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Bible. O.T. Psalms. Greek., Psalms (Music), and Sacred vocal music
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orthodox Eastern Church music

3.
Grammatica minor

Creator:
Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530
Published / Created:
[between 1175 and 1200]
Call Number:
Marston MS 67
Image Count:
137
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (end pieces, worn, repaired) of Priscian, Grammatica minor.
Description:
8-line initial (later addition?), f. 1r, red with crude penwork designs in red and black; biting the letter is a grotesque stretched across upper margin, outlined in black with details in red. Small initials in red and/or black: ff. 17v, 31r, 35v, etc. Paragraph marks, initial strokes, and lines drawn through text passages written in Greek, all in red., Binding: Thirteenth century (?), France. Original sewing (except for the first few gatherings) on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to the outside of quarter sawn (?) oak boards, almost flush, and fastened with rectangular, angled wedges. Blue/green and natural color chevron endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores. There is a strip of tawed skin extending a short distance on the outside of the boards and turned in at head and tail. The boards are edged with white, tawed skin and an outer cover is whip stitched to this edging. There is no adhesive on the spine and the cover is held in place by the endbands. The outer cover probably extended and has been cut off flush. Needle holes along the inner edge of the back board fore-edge turn-in. There are traces of two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Hole bored on the tail and fore edge of the front board does not seem to serve any purpose., Script: Written by a single scribe in early gothic bookhand, above top line., and Some marginalia lost due to trimming and rubbing.
Subject (Name):
Priscian,--fl. ca. 500-530
Subject (Topic):
Education, Medieval, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grammatica minor

4.
Gesta Mathie Apostoli

Creator:
Périon, Joachim, 1499?-1559
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1600]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1071
Image Count:
22
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Subject (Name):
Matthew,--the Apostle, Saint and Périon, Joachim,--1499?-1559
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gesta Mathie Apostoli

6.
French aphorisms, library catalogue

Creator:
Fribois, Noël de, fl. 1400-1468
Gréban, Simon, d. ca. 1473
Published / Created:
[ca. 1595]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1029
Image Count:
241
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois (d. 1467/1468), Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban (d. ca. 1473), Epitaph for King Charles VII (1461). 3) Moral aphorisms in the form of distichs. 4) Moral aphorisms in French after the manner of the Disticha Catonis, perhaps by the same author as art. 3. 5) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in northern France (Lille?). The 57 books, listed without a clear order, are almost all in French and were printed between 1534 and 1595, with one book dated 1495; they mostly were produced in Paris, Lyons, Douai and Antwerp. For each the owner gives a full transcription of the title page, reproducing its layout (exceptionnally also the colophon); for the last two items also a note on the binding.
Description:
21 blank leaves at end not digitized., Binding: Binding ca. 1500??: blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine with four raised bands. On the front cover a parchment label with the sixteenth century inscription in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata "Cronicques / abreigiés"., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76), ca. 1450, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Bastarda). Part II (ff. 77-88), between 1490 and 1500, Copied by a single scribe in Gothica Semihybrida Currens (Bastarda). Part III (ff. 89-113), after 1613, Written in documentary Gothica Cursiva Currens., and Watermarks: Part I, ox, Briquet 2786?? Part II, letter P, var. Briquet 8576??
Subject (Geographic):
France--History
Subject (Name):
Fribois, Noël de,--fl. 1400-1468
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, French poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French aphorisms, library catalogue

7.
Eis ten metaphysikan Aristotelous pragmateia

Creator:
Aristotle
Syrianos
Published / Created:
[ca. 1580]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 829
Image Count:
402
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Syrianos, Commentaria in Aristotelis Metaphysicae libros B, G, M, N.
Subject (Name):
Syrianos
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Metaphysics--Early works to 1800
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Eis ten metaphysikan Aristotelous pragmateia

8.
Cronica unnd Beschreibunge, was fur Bischove auch Ertzbischore das Hochloblich Ertzstifft und

Creator:
Jordan von Martinsbuech, Christoff
Published / Created:
1577
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 734
Image Count:
368
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
On paper
Subject (Geographic):
Salzburg (Austria)--History--Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic):
Devices (Heraldry)--Europe--Early works to 1800 and German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica unnd Beschreibunge, was fur Bischove auch Ertzbischore das Hochloblich Ertzstifft und uralte Haubstat Saltzburg...

9.
Cistercian statutes

Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1550]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 901
Image Count:
226
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Benedictus XII papa (1334-1342), Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), c. 1, first part. 2) Benedictus XII papa, Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), cc. 1 (second part) - 42. 3) Statutes of the General Chapter of Cîteaux of 1335. 4) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Regularem vitam professis", 4 July 1335. 5) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Pastor bonus diligens", 17 June 1335. 6) Statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 24. 7) Part of the statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 23. 8) Carta caritatis, a later version of the original constitution of the Cistercian Order. 9) Statutes of the General Chapter of 1317, incomplete at the end: cc. 1-13.
Description:
Binding: Blind-tooled white parchment over wooden boards, decorated with fillets in a frame and lozenges pattern. Spine with two raised bands., Foliation s. XVII in ink 2-109, but ff. 37-39 are missing., Script: The original text (artt. 2-5, 8, 9) is probably copied by a single hand (A) writing a small Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria. The additional texts are copied in 16th century hands: artt. 1 and 6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria by hand B, who wrote also the majority of the marginal notes and additions; art. 7 by hand C, who used a bold Humanistica Cursiva., and The additional texts are not decorated. The original parts have red headings, red paragraph marks, and red 2- or 3-line plain initials. Art. 2 opens f. 2r with a 7-line littera duplex with extensive penwork and extension in the inner margin in red and blue; art. 8 opens f. 42v with a 3-line flourished initial (Prologue) and a 4-line littera duplex with penwork, as in art. 2 (text). All initials are half inset and have guide letters in the margin.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cistercian statutes

10.
Breviary

Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1550]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 896
Image Count:
277
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (sturdy).
Description:
Binding: Original, yellowish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls. Spine blind-tooled with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear board, with engraved brass catches (one partly preserved) on the front board. Yellow spine., Red rubrics and red stroking of majuscules. Red initials: 1-line versals, 2-line plain initials; art. 1 opens with a 4-line initial and features several 3-line initials, all of the same type as the other ones in the manuscript., Script: Copied by two hands, both writing Gothica Textualis Formata. Hand A copied ff. 1r-8v (art. 1) in bold script with little angulariy and long ascenders and descenders; hand B copied all the other pages in Textus Semiquadratus in two sizes, with conspicable forking at the top of the ascenders, spurs, hairlines, a very short d and Southern German or Central European features such as the shape of the -orum and -arum abbreviations, the use of y for ii, etc. The texts on the inserted leaflets in art. 2 and some corrections are in Gothica Hybrida (Fractura)., and Slips of parchment with additional texts have been inserted between ff. 18-19, 33-34, 35-36.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary

11.
Recognoissances

Published / Created:
[ca. 1324-1549]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1179
Image Count:
175
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in several hands, containing copies of legal documents, many concluding with notarial signs. Two internal title pages. The first reads: "Recognoissances de noble Pierre de Salles. 1324. Quartrefois B. Recognoi.ces de Noble Bernard de Salles. 1350. Quatrefois C. Recog.ces de Mons.r L'arceuesque de Narbonne. Aux Noble Bernard de Salles. Et Scindic du Chappitre St. Estienne de Narbonne / 1350. Quatrefois D." The second reads: "Recognoissances de noble Jehan de Vidal Conseig.r de Salles. 1514 Quatrefois N.
Description:
Binding: 18th century? full patterned calf. Red leather spine tags., Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text., Manuscript waste used in two internal bindings., and Spine titles read: R--ON- / DE / SALLES. 1324. / 1350. / 1439. / 1514.
Subject (Geographic):
Narbonne (France)
Subject (Name):
Salles family, Salles, Bernard de, Salles, Pierre de, and Vidal, Jehan de
Subject (Topic):
Law--France--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recognoissances

12.
A collection of his alchemical writings, with some additional related matter by others

Creator:
Christopher, of Paris
Published / Created:
[ca. 1540]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 31
Image Count:
343
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of the writings of Christopher of Paris (pseudonym for a Venetian exile), including his major work, Lucidario, with its supplementary alphabet, plus three letters.
Description:
Binding: Original plain parchment wrapper without ties, back with three raised bands, soiled and worn. Plain edges., ff. 1r-167r correctly paginated 1-333 and the pagination used in the detailed description, the remainder unnumbered, of ff. 170 originally, single leaves apparently canceled originally and cut away by the copyist after ff. 162 and 164, as noted in the detailed collation, but not noted in the description as the original pagination is consecutive., Mary Mellon, acquired from William Gannon (bookseller), New York, 1941; Mellon MS 145. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Rubricated, headings often in red., and Script: Written by a single good italic hand, sometimes hasty toward the end of the codex.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Alphabet books, Italian letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of his alchemical writings, with some additional related matter by others

13.
Hours and offices for a religious community

Published / Created:
1531
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 756
Image Count:
282
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours for the use of a convent.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Damaged brownish pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled with frames of fillets and rolls; the central rectangle on the front cover, otherwise free, is decorated with a large oval stamp, heavily worn but probably picturing the Virgin in the Sun. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Marks of a chain attachment at the bottom of the rear cover. Red edges., Headings and rubrics in red. Heightening of majuscules in red. 1-line red versals; 2-line plain initials (sometimes slightly decorated) in red. Intricate large flourished cadels in black filled with red in the texts accompanying musical notation. Art. 4 opens with a 6-line littera duplex in red and brownish red with red penwork. Guide letters for all initials. On f. 29v full-page picture of the crowned Virgin and Child, Mary presenting a flower to the Child, on a flowery pink background in a green and red rectangular frame., On some pages the ink is very faded., and Script: Copied mainly by one hand writing Northern Textualis Formata in two sizes with Central European features. A second less formal hand copied ff. 29r, lines 11-18 and 30r-31v, i.e. the beginning of art. 2. Musical notation in Nota Quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours and offices for a religious community

14.
Alchemical miscellany

Creator:
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Published / Created:
1528
Call Number:
Mellon MS 30
Image Count:
327
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Alchemical miscellany, compiled in 1528, perhaps by Niclaus of Sweden, who appears to have signed the last procedure in the volume on f. cclxxxxviiij verso
Description:
Binding: Original blind-stamped brown calf over beveled wooden boards, the sides paneled in vertical patterns of roll tools, two brass catches on upper cover, remains of brass attachments for clasps on the lower; the original backstrip with three raised bands laid down; plain edges; restored by Carolyn Horton, New York, and with a leather title label on the backstrip supplied by her., ff. 322v-346r blank and not scanned. Signatures 2R, 2S, 2T, 2V noted at 329r, 335r, 339r, and 341r, respectively., ff. 348, of which ff. 1-18 are unnumbered, ff. 19- 317 are correctly numbered i-cclxxxxviiij by the scribe, the remaining ff. 318-348 originally blank and unnumbered now partly with later additions, ff. 18 and 322-346 blank, the last leaf serving as the end pastedown., On paper., Script: Very neat and clear gothic cursives, captions by the same hand, written in two parts, the second beginning at f. 201r., Some red sentence-strokes and underlining; red captions and chapter headings with minimal elaboration, carefully laid out on the page, also pen line-fillers at end of each section, as needed for text spacing. A penned brown and red crown as folk symbol at left margin of f. 135r. Infrequent sketches of alchemical vessels in brown or red at side margins, some very slightly trimmed., and Watermarks: 1) a long-stemmed cross above a bull's head; 2) a six-lobed arc above and each lobe surmounted by a three-lobed cross; 3) a crown. All with vertical chain marks, trimmed, not identified.
Subject (Name):
Duveen, Denis I., bookplate, Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365. Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum. German, and Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Metallurgy--Early works to 1800
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany

15.
Hore Btīssime Virginis Marie ad legitimĩ Sarisburiẽsis ecclesie ritum: cum quindecim orationibus

Creator:
Catholic Church
Published / Created:
Anno Dñi millesimo quingẽtesimo decimo nono, [1519]. Die vero.xxiiij. Octobris]
Call Number:
Mrm61 1519
Image Count:
222
Description:
Imperfect: many head-lines bled ; some borders restored. and Signatures: A10A-Z8&828ã4.
Publisher:
per Nicolaum Hicq̃mã Allemanũ: imprensis et sumptib[9] ... Francisci Regnault ...
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hore Btīssime Virginis Marie ad legitimĩ Sarisburiẽsis ecclesie ritum: cum quindecim orationibus Beate Brigitte: ac multis alijs orationibus ...

16.
Prayer book

Published / Created:
1518
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 831
Image Count:
572
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a Collection of prayers and hymns, compiled 1518 by the humanistic-minded Benedictine monk Vitalis of Rothenthal (Rubrevallensis) (ff. 1-110). Bound with a printed Book of Hours, Vienna, Hieronymus Vietor and Iohannes Singrenius for Leonardus and Lucius Alantse, 14 September 1513.
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria with Bastarda/Fractura features. Art. 1 is written in s. XVI2 Gothica Semihybrida Currens. Art. 74 is printed in black and red in Gothic Textura.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayer book

17.
Novvm instrumentu omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum & emendatum, no solum ad græcam

Creator:
Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536
Froben, Johann, d. 1527. bkp
Oecolampadius, Johann, 1482-1531
Published / Created:
1516]
Call Number:
MLh691 +b516
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Bible. N.T. Greek. 1516.
Description:
"The earliest published edition of the New Testament in Greek."--Hist. cat. of printed Bibles, no. 4591., BEIN MLh691 +b516 Copy 2: Variant copy. 32 cm. In the 2d count, p. 215 misprinted 126 (misprinted 216 in the preceding variant), and p. 419, 620, 625 misprinted respectively 434, 670, 675 (numbered correctly in the preceding variant)., Epistles of Paul bound in after first p. 324., Greek text and Latin translation in parallel columns., and Printer's mark on t.-p. and at end; dedications within ornamental borders; head pieces and initials (part in red).
Publisher:
in ædibus I. Frobenij,
Subject (Topic):
Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul--Greek and Bible. N.T. Greek--Versions--Erasmus
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novvm instrumentu omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum & emendatum, no solum ad græcam ueritatem, uerumetiam ad multorum utrisq[ue] linguæ codicum, eorumq[ue] ueterum simul & emendatorum fidem, postremo ad probatissimorum autorum citationem, emendationem & interpretationem, præcipue, Origenis, Chrysostomi, Cyrilli, Vulgarij [i.e. Theophylacti archiepiscopi Bulgariae], Hieronymi, Cypriani, Ambrosij, Hilarij, Augustini, una cu annotationibus, quæ lectorem doceant, quid qua ratione mutatum sit ...

18.
Mariological, mystical and ascetical treatises

Published / Created:
1510
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 738
Image Count:
794
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Binding: Original blind-tooled brown leather over unbevelled oak boards, bound on four double cords. The two covers are decorated by means of triple fillets with different patterns: on the front cover a double rectangular frame divided into small lozenges decorated with lozenge-shaped hand-tools: griffon, unicorn (?), undetermined, ad two small flowerets; on the rear cover a double rectangular frame divided into six triangles decorated with only a few lozzenge-shaped hand-tools. Both covers protected by four engraved brass corner-pieces (three lost). Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover. Spine reinforcement consisting of four fragments from a missal (see below). Spine (damaged) with four raised bands and plaited headbands. Brown leather spine label with gold-tooled title and shelf-mark: VEN. BEDAE / SCINTILLA ETC. / I. XXII. B. V. (now detached). Five red leather tabs or traces of tabs, one at the beginning of each part. Front paste-down of blank parchment., Cite as: Mariological, Mystical and Ascetical Treatises. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Libra, Consecutive rear fly-leaf and paste-down cut from the same missal as the binding reinforcements, Germany, 14th century. Final part of the Ordinary of the Mass, containing corrections and changes. The Pater noster has neumatic notation on 4-line staves in black, red and yellow. Parchment. Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, the corrections in smaller Textualis Libraria (ca. 1400). Red stroking of majuscules, red rubrics and plain initials., f. 142 loose. Originally tipped in and tab bound., In Latin., Manuscript on paper in five parts, each with its own very partial foliation (ca. 1800); they seem to have had the same history. The handwriting, by various scribes sometimes difficult to discern, is generally very uneven. The paper at places damaged by the acidity of the ink. Part I (ff. 1-84, art. 1): Copied by four Gothic hands: A (ff. 1r-29v): Hybrida Formata; B (ff. 30r-39va): Semihybrida Currens; C (ff. 39vb-56r): Hybrida Libraria; D (ff. 56v-77r): small Hybrida Libraria. Part II (ff. 85-215, art. 2): Copied by various scribes, writing Hybrida Formata, Hybrida Libraria, Cursiva Libraria (ff. 153v-157v) and Semihybrida Currens (f. 210r-v, 212v). The headings are in diverse types of script, often slovenly written. Part III (ff. 216-273, art. 3): Copied by three hands. A (ff. 216r-230v): large, bold Hybrida Formata; B (ff. 231r-272ra): Hybrida Libraria; C = friar Rudolphus Deyrdynck (f. 272rb-v): Hybrida Libraria. Part IV (ff. 274-343, artt. 4-19): Copied by one hand writing Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria/Currens. Part V (ff. 344-388, art. 20): Copied by three hands. A (ff. 344r-352ra, 14): bold Hybrida Formata/Libraria; B (ff. 352ra, 14-354va): bold Semihybrida Libraria; C (ff. 354vb-388r): linear Hybrida Libraria/Currens sloping to the left., Note in the lower margin of f. 1r suggests that the manuscript was produced in the Benedictine abbey of Huysburg, north of Halberstadt. The scribe Rudolf Deyerdynck may have been a member of this community. Gift of the Library Associates of Yale University Library., Part I: Headings in red. The majuscules are stroked in red. Plain initials of various sizes in red, generally with the simplest form of penwork; they are all executed by the same hand., Part II: Plain initials in red of various styles and sizes, often with some flourishing; they are missing on ff. 206r-207v., Part III: Headings in red. The majuscules are stroked in red. 2-3 line plain initials in red., Part IV: Headings in red. Red stroking of majuscules and red paragraph-marks. Plain initials in red of mediocre execution; on ff. 279r-284r cadels with fancy forms; a face in the initial on f. 312r; some initials (ff. 324r-341v) apparently by the same hand as those in Part I., and Part V: Headings in red. Stroking of initials in red. 2-3-line plain initials in red at the opening of the chapters. A human face in the initials on ff. 351r, 352r, 375v. The names of the authorities quoted are in red.
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 and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mariological, mystical and ascetical treatises

19.
Dialogus samuelis

Published / Created:
[ca. 1510]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 907
Image Count:
494
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript of 1) Dialogus Samuelis comico stilo exarata incipit foeliciter adolescens: 5 chapters of a dialogue between a young man and a young woman. 2) 8 chapters from a manual on letter writing. Bound with a printed text: Gerson, Jean (1363-142), Sermo de passione domini: Nuper e Galiico... (Strassburg: [Mathias Schuerer], 1510).
Description:
The woodcuts in this work are allegorical pictures containing the Evangelists’ symbols and figures referring to the principal subjects dealt with in each gospel. Some are hand-coloured. The leaf containing the first imago for Matthew is missing and is kept separately as MS 907.2
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean,--1363-1429
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Letter writing--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Palm Sunday
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogus samuelis

20.
Astrological miscellany.

Creator:
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512
Published / Created:
[ca. 1505]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 25
Image Count:
508
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of astrological texts drawn largely from Arab astrology of the early Middle Ages, and transmitted in medieval Latin translations; in addition Ptolemy's Centiloquium is present, transmitted not in Greek but through the Arabic, along with a single contemporary component, the Astrolabium planum of Johann Engel.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, English. Marbled paper boards, green calf back with six heavy (false?) bands, the compartments with patterns of small tools impressed in gold and with gold-stamped titles, a small rectangular label with the printed number 1037 and a small round label with the inked number 894 glued to the bottommost compartment. All edges gilt. Preserved in a modern green cloth folding box, probably French, with leather label., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Mellon MS 155, acquired from C. A. Stonehill, Inc. (bookseller), New Haven. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Rubrics, and occasional headlines in red, diagrams in the text in brown and red inks. Full illuminated border, outlined in red, on f. 1r of leafy sprays in colors and gold, the white spaces filled up with black dots and small burnished gold circles each with three or four small tendrils; a large initial in burnished gold and colors at the beginning of the text in the first column, with gold band extending downward and then around three sides of the page forming an inner border, completed by a red line at top; a lozenge at the center of the lower band of the border containing a pattern of platelike discs, quatrefoils, and a leafy spray on a dull gold ground, this segment almost certainly a later replacement of an original coat of arms which has been erased. Elsewhere in the manuscript smaller illuminated initials in the style of the first frequently occur, and larger ones with descenders to partial borders at the foot of the page occur. Each of the ninety-six pages from f. 191r through 238v has four drawings in colors (six on those pages which open each of the signs of the Zodiac), placed within diagrams accompanied by slight text., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a large and clear hand in Gothica textualis formata and Bastarda.
Subject (Name):
Ptolemy,--2nd cent
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Arab, Astrology--Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astrological miscellany.

21.
Alchemical miscellany

Creator:
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Published / Created:
[ca. 1505]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 24
Image Count:
191
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a group of shorter works by Christopher of Paris (pseudonym), probably a Venetian alchemist. With John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century. Brown calf, the covers blind-ruled to a rectangular pattern, the large center rectangle diagonally ruled to a lozenge pattern, a single quatrefoil impressed in blind in each of the rectangles and lozenges so formed, edges partly renewed and rebacked in the style of the period of the binding with compartments formed by three double raised bands, a gold stamped title label in the second compartment from top reading: "CHRISTOPHE | DE PARIS | - | RUPESCISSA | MANUSCRIPTS | ITALY | 15TH C". The endpapers are modern insertions, though of old paper, and the binding, while of the period of the manuscript, probably had no original connection with this codex., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 45, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., In Italian and Latin., No headlines, headings and some capitals in pale red., Script: Written by a single scribe in a late humanistic cursive hand sloping slightly to the right., and Watermarks: 1) anchor with ring atop the shank, all within a circle; 2) plain and ill-drawn anchor with thick flukes, the top of the shank forming a small, neat cross with the short stock. Both probably Italian papers, not directly comparable to the varieties illustrated by Briquet.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany

22.
[Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].

Creator:
Meghen, Peter, scribe
Published / Created:
1502
Call Number:
Osborn a50
Image Count:
300
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
Description:
In a Humanistica script.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Economic conditions--1066-1485
Subject (Name):
Meghen, Peter,--scribe
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].

23.
Ceremonial for a nuns' convent

Creator:
Catholic Church
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 902
Image Count:
202
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Ceremonial for the vestment of a nun. 2) Ceremonial for the communion of a sick nun. 3) Ceremonial for administering the extreme unction. 4) Ceremonial at the death of a nun. 5) Commendations for the dead nun. 6) Ceremonial for the burial of a nun. 7) Seven Penitential Psalms. 8) Antiphons, Responses and Hymns for the aspersions with holy water and the processions, with musical notation and rubrics in Latin, for the feast of Purification of the Virgin (2 Febr., f. 52v), Palm Sunday (ff. 54r and 59r), Maundy Thursday (f. 61r), Easter, Ascension, Pentecost (ff. 66r and 68r), the Rogation Days (f. 69r), the Vigil of Pentecost, Corpus Christi (f. 73r), the Assumption of the Virgin (15 August, f. 74v), the Dedication of the Church (f. 76r), Trinity Sunday (f. 78r) and again Purification (f. 79v). These are followed by the various melodies, with Dutch rubrics, for three liturgical formulas. 9) Text of Versicles for various periods and feasts of the ecclesiastical year. 10) Versicles for the Common of the Saints. 11) Dutch prayers for a dying nun. 12) Ceremonial for the consecration of candles at Purification, the consecration of ashes on Ash Wednesday, the consecration of palms on Palm Sunday, the washing of the altar on Maundy Thursday, partly with musical notation. 13) Fragment of the Antiphons for Pentecost, with musical notation. and Manuscript on parchment.
Alternative Title:
Ceremonial and processional and Liturgy and ritual
Description:
Binding: ca. 1500. Blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, both covers decorated with twice a panel containing two rows of four animals in tendrils in a frame of 16 dragons in tendrils (the so-called 24 Animals panel), separated by a frieze with the Peasants' Dance. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps.The pastedowns are two parts of a document in Dutch on parchment (a large section between the two is missing) datable 25 August 1443. It is a chirograph in documentary cursive script, stating that before the court of Geraardsbergen ("Gheerondsberghe", Fr. Grammont, East Flanders) parties have promised to pay a debt of £ 200 in eight instalments over the next four years, 1443-1446. Among the persons mentioned are Heinrik den Haec (?), the lady de Tiennes, the aldermen of Edingen (Enghien, Hainaut?), Collaert van den Foreeste, alderman of Geraardsbergen and Coppenole, counciller of the same city. The design and letters appearing at the top and at the bottom of the document prove that it was made in three copies., Rubrics, underlining and paragraph marks in red; red stroking of majuscules. 1-line versals and 2-line plain initials in red. 2-line flourished initials alternately red and blue ; cadels with red heightening on the pages with musical notation; 3- or 4-line litterae duplices with penwork extensions in red, blue and green on ff. 1r (art. 1), 18r (art. 5), 40r (art. 6), 46v (art. 7) and 86r (art. 11)., and Script: The main scribe (A) wrote Gothica Textualis Formata on ff. 1r-46v, l. 4 (with the exception of f. 39, where another hand wrote a smaller Gothica Textualis Formata). Hand B wrote Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda) on ff. 46v, l. 6 - 87v, l. 4 (artt. 7-11). Hand C copied ff. 88r-94v (art. 12) in Gothica Textualis Formata. F. 95 is 16th century addition copied in a clumsy Gothica Semitextualis. The musical notation is a variant of the Hoefnagel type. There are several later additions of music and text.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Processionals (Liturgical books)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ceremonial for a nuns' convent

25.
Horologium sapientiae, etc.

Creator:
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 130
Image Count:
514
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Henry Suso, Horologium Sapientiae, translated into Italian. With Office of Eternal Wisdom (Cursus de aeterna sapientia), composed by Henry Suso; and several anonymous, miscellaneous texts.
Description:
[Notes on back pastedown refer to the Venetian monastery for Benedictine nuns, San Zaccaria], Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on four tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of wooden boards to channels on the outside and nailed. A tawed skin endband core is laid in grooves and covered with plain, wound primary and red secondary embroidery. Spine: supports outlined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Covered in light brown goatskin with corner tongues, and decorated with interlace squares on their points within concentric frames. Trace of one fastening, the catch on the lower board and the upper one cut in for a red fabric strap attached with star-headed nails. The cover has been varnished., For main text divisions good blue initials with plain parchment designs and red penwork flourishes; elsewhere 2-line initials alternate red with blue harping designs and blue with red. On f. 11r red rectangular page filler at bottom of text space. Small plain 1-line initials alternate red and blue. Headings and paragraph marks in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Remains of guide letters., and Script: Main text written in gothic bookhand, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Seuse, Heinrich,--1295-1366
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Italian, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Mysticism--Early works to 1800
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Horologium sapientiae, etc.

26.
Summulae naturalium

Creator:
Venetus, Paulus
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 32
Image Count:
358
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Summulae naturalium, composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429).
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373". Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges., Brittle. Acidic ink damage with some loss of text., Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, filled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in humanistic cursive script with gothic features, below top line; inital words of each section in gothic bookhand., Watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfinger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder., and Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle, Augustinians, and Venetus, Paulus
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Physics--Early works to 1800, and Scholia
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summulae naturalium

27.
Latin commentaries on two sequences

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 962
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Commentarius in sequentiam “Ave preclara maris stella”, falsely attributed to Caesarius de Heisterbach O. Cist.(c. 1180-c. 1240). 2) Commentarius in sequentiam “Benedictio Trine Unitati”. 3) Addition to art. 2, dealing with the Hebrew alphabet. 4) Humorous note explaining why the eater of cheese (obviously a most unhealthy food) will never thrust a wine-goblet from his hood (?), why he never will be bitten by a dog and why a thief will never enter his house.
Description:
Script: Artt. 1-4 are copied by one hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria marked by striking hairlines at r and final t. Quotations are clumsily written in a deviating form of Northern Gothica Textualis. Ascenders at the top line are often lengthened and decorated. Art. 5 is copied in a more rapid form of Gothica Cursiva Libraria, possibly by the same hand.
Subject (Name):
Hermannus,--Contractus,--1013-1054
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Latin commentaries on two sequences

28.
Vitae Patrum

Creator:
Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 951
Image Count:
159
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Subject (Name):
Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960--Bookplate and Martin, of Braga, Saint, ca. 515-579 or 80
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Vitae patrum
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitae Patrum

29.
Vocabularium breve

Creator:
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 897
Image Count:
72
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Gasparinus Barzizius (Gasparino Barzizza, 1360-1431), Vocabularium breve.
Description:
Binding: ca. 2000. White limp parchment. Two pairs of white leather ties., Case marked vol. 2 contains former (modern) limp parchment binding, Modern binder's blanks not digitized., Mss. 897 and 898 are parts of the same manuscript., Red headings. Red stroking of majuscules and red paragraph marks on f. 1r only.The text opens with a 5-line red plain initial on f. 1r., Script: The original text is copied by one hand, writing a small Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria. The additions and artt. 2-3 are in more rapid executions of the same script; the headings in a more calligraphic form, which may comprise Textualis elements., and Watermark: a Trefoil. Parchment stays at the outer and at the inner sides of the quires, made from scraps of various manuscripts. Foliation in ink 17th century (?).
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vocabularium breve

30.
Libri sententiarum

Creator:
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 893
Image Count:
754
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Petrus Lombardus (c. 1095-1160), Libri sententiarum. With Capitula.
Description:
Binding: Original, red-dyed pigskin over non-bevelled heavy wooden boards; the covers are blind-tooled with frames of thick and thin fillets and floral tools; on both covers the binder's name "Gassner" is stamped in a scroll. Five small brass bosses on each cover. Remnants of two brass clasps, attached to the rear cover, with engraved catches on the front cover. Spine with four raised bands. Yellow edges., Collation impossible due to the tight binding. Most quires appear to contain twelve leaves. Horizontal catchwords at right, mostly lost at the trimming of the codex (see e.g. ff. 130v and 142v)., Copied by three hands: A copied ff. IIr-IIIv (the first section of art. 1) and ff. 1r-184v (Books 1 and 2 of art. 2) in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria; B copied f. IVr-v (the second section of art. 1) in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; C copied ff. 185r-355v (Books 3 and 4 of art. 2) in a narrower and more rapid Semihybrida Libraria with Bastarda features., MS 116 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley, California. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and There is no decoration in art. 1 (a 3-line initial was provided on f. IIr). In art. 2 red headings, underlining of authorities and stroking of majuscules; 2-line plain initials, sometimes with long marginal extensions, in red or green in; similar 3-line plain initials at the beginning of each Distinctio in Books 3 and 4 (scribe C); The Prologue (f. 1r) and Book 2 open with a flourished littera duplex in the same colours (c. 6 lines). Books 1 and 3 open with a plain initial, respectively 3 and 5 lines; the opening of Book 4 has no special initial. The decoration is missing in some series of pages, such as ff. 162v-166v and 174v-177v.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libri sententiarum

31.
Commentaries on the Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary and the Apostles' Creed

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 869
Image Count:
48
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Henricus de Langenstein (Henricus de Hassia the Elder, c. 1325-1397), Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 2) Henricus de Langenstein, Expositio super Ave Maria. 3) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, Sermo super Symbolum Apostolorum. 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De Oratione Dominica. 5) Expositio in Orationem Dominicam, based on excerpts from the following authors: Ambrosius, Anselmus Cantuariensis ("Anshelmus"), Augustinus, Bernardus Claraevallensis ("Berenhardus"), Cyprianus, Cyrillus Alexandrinus, Fulgentius Ruspensis, Gregorius Magnus, Hieronymus, Hilarius Pictaviensis, Iohannes Chrysostomus, Isidorus Hispalensis, Origenes, "Theophilus", Thomas de Aquino, "Titus".
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. White parchment and marbled paper over cardboard., Headings, underlining and stroking of the majuscules in red. Red plain initials in artt. 1-5, normally 4 lines. On f. 16r, space for a 7-line initial was provided but not executed., Script: Copied by two hands writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria; A copied ff. 1r-15v; B, writing a wider, more sloping and more rapid script, copied ff. 16r-20v. Both hands spell the diphthongs ae and oe in the classical manner., and Watermark: Ox head with eight-petalled flower on a rod and a cross below the mouth (Piccard, Ochsenkopfwasserzeichen, XIII.723 (1471-1474).
Subject (Name):
Heinrich,--von Langenstein,--ca. 1325-1397 and Pseudo-Augustinus
Subject (Topic):
Apostles' Creed, Ave Maria, Lord's prayer, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary and the Apostles' Creed

32.
Sermons, excerpts and treatises; St. John Chrysostom; etc.

Published / Created:
1454-1459; [between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 863
Image Count:
380
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of two independant sections. Part I (ff. 1r-121v): Sermons, excerpts and treatises. With works by Thomas de Hibernia and Albertus de Padua. Part II (ff.122r-180v): Works by St. John Chrysostom; with a treatise on temptations and special Mass prayers.
Description:
Binding: Contemporary Northern French or Flemish binding, which no doubt was made for Part II and rebacked when Part I was added: blind-tooled brown calfskin over bevelled wooden boards; the decoration consists of frames and a lozenge pattern traced in triple fillets, the lozenges filled with three tools: a rose, an acorn motif and a standing figure (?). Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover, with engraved brass catches on the front cover. On the 19th-century (?) spine the gold-tooled inscriptions “SERMONES” / and “IOANNES / CHRYSOSTOMUS”., Part I: Underlining and plain initials. Headings underlined or framed or written in red. Framed running headlines on the pages where a new article begins. Part II: Headings, heightening of the majuscules, and red 2-line plain initials in art. 41. The heightening is continued up to f. 137v, but the initials have not been executed from art. 42 onwards. Guide letters for all initials., Script: Part I: Copied by one hand in small Gothica Hybrida Currens. Some additions in a larger and more formal handwriting. Marginal captions. The scribe is Iohannes de Lovanio (John of Louvain), called (de) Dynen, lector in the convent of the Hermits of St. Augustine in Venice. Part II: Copied by the priest Jean Frassent in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Bastarda), which is less carefully executed on the final pages. Calligraphic extensions at the ascenders on the top line., and There is a contemporary foliation in red ink in arabic numerals in the middle of the upper margins of the recto pages, which coincides with the modern foliation up to f. 86; ff. “87”-“88” of the contemporary foliation are missing; the latter continues from “89” (= f. 87) to “113” (= f. 111). There are traces of a still earlier foliation, also in the center of the upper margins, which has been erased and appears to run from “70” (= f.1) to “159” (= f. 90, “156” and “157” being the missing leaves).
Subject (Name):
John Chrysostom,--Saint,--d. 407 and Thomas,--of Ireland,--ca. 1265-ca. 1329
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, excerpts and treatises; St. John Chrysostom; etc.

33.
Ascetic and devotional treatises; Life of St. John Calybita; Italian poetry in praise of the Virgin

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 862
Image Count:
221
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Manuale (preface and chapters 1-24). 2) Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum, large final part of chapter 2. 3) Arnulphus de Boeriis (ca. 1200 (?), Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), Speculum monachorum. 4) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo de vita et passione Domini. 5) Vita S. Iohannis Calybitae or Vita S. Iohannis monachi. 6) Flores ex operibus S. Bernardi de dignitate et excellentia beatae virginis Mariae. 7) Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), Epistola 111, written in the name of the monk Elias to the latter's parents. 8) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Contemplationes de passione Domini secundum septem horas canonicas. 9) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Formula honestae vitae. 10) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae. 11) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Varia et brevia documenta pie seu religiose vivendi. 12) Bonaventura OFM (1221-1274), Regula novitiorum, 3. 13) Bonaventura, Regula novitiorum, 4.1-3. 14) Matthaeus de Cracovia (c. 1335-1410; Ps.-Thomas de Aquino, Ps.-Bonaventura; here ascribed to Iohannes de Capistrano OFM, 1386-1456), De modo confitendi et de puritate conscientiae (Speculum munditiae). 15) F. Carboni, Incipitario della lirica italiana dei secoli XIII e XIV, v. 1, Studi e Testi, v. 277 (Vatican City, 1977), 863. 16) Carboni 212. 17) Carboni 96. 18) Religious poems in Venetian dialect. 19) Lamentatio Virginis Mariae ad Crucem, attributed to Philippus de Grevia (Philippus Cancellarius, Philippe de Grève, d. 1236). 20) Zeno Veronensis (d. before 380), Tractatus, 1.1.7.20-21. 21) Moral sentences and quotations by or ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 22) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermo 12.
Description:
Binding: the two covers and the spine are covered with a fragment from a large Italian choirbook in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata; parts of two 4-line red staves with notation in Nota Quadrata and two lines of text are preserved., Red headings and paragraph marks. 2-line red and blue plain initials, with guide letters., Script: Copied by two similar hands: A, writing a rapid Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria, copied ff. 2r-56v and 69r-104v; B, writing a more formal version of the same script, under slight Humanistic influence, copied ff. 57r-68v. The Latin of both scribes is very defective., and Second preliminary leaf included in foliation.
Subject (Name):
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to
Subject (Topic):
Asceticism, Christian hagiography, Christian poetry, Italian, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--15th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ascetic and devotional treatises; Life of St. John Calybita; Italian poetry in praise of the Virgin

34.
Lumen animae, part II

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 855
Image Count:
442
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (first leaf parchment) of a theological and moral treatise based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). Christian authors are relatively rarely quoted; excerpts from Aristotle and his commentators, a multitude of Greek and Roman authors, Arabic and more or less obscure medieval scientists are on the contrary extremely numerous .
Description:
Binding: Original undecorated red pigskin over wooden boards; spine with four raised bands. Two clasps attached to the rear cover, with quadrangular brass catches on the front cover; a hole about the center of the top of the rear cover indicates that the booklet once was a liber catenatus. On the front cover a rectangular parchment title label with handwritten inscription in Gothica Cursiva Libraria: “De confessione. De amore Dei. De beatitudine” (16th century?). The upper, outer and lower edges of the front cover have been repaired with red leather. F. 1 is a fragment of a 15th-century notarial act in Latin, the end of which only is preserved. The script is Gothica Cursiva. The rear pastedown is a leaf from a missal on parchment, containing the first half of the Gospel for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Luke 17:11-19), preceded by the end of the Gradual and the Versicle. Written in ca. 1400 Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Semiquadratus). Red headings and stroking of majuscules; blue plain initial. Probably from Southeastern Germany or Austria., Headings, paragraph marks, stroking of majuscules and underlining of the references to the authorities and their works, all in red ink (the underlining was beforehand traced by the scribe in black ink). Plain red 1-line initials at the opening of each chapter, sometimes with marginal extensions (a 3-line initial at the beginning of the text, f. 9r). Instructions for the rubricator are found in the margins., MS 135 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Booksellers, Berkeley, CA. Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: Two scribes: art. 1 is copied in Gothica Cursiva Formata close to Fractura; art. 2 in Gothica Semihybrida Currens with many abbreviations; in this art. the first line of each chapter is in clumsily executed large Gothica Textualis Formata.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Ethics, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Science, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lumen animae, part II

35.
Esposizione del credo

Creator:
Cavalca, Domenico, d. 1342
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 835
Image Count:
292
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Domenico Cavalca OP (c. 1270-1342), Esposizione del Credo.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding, brown paper over cardboard, the spine in brown leather with five raised bands, the second compartment gold-tooled with the title “CAVALCA / ESPOSIZIONE / DEL CREDO”. Marbled endpapers., Parchment stays in the center and at the outer side of the quires; the fold of many bifolios is repaired by means of strips of parchment. The top, outer and lower margins water-stained, the upper outer corners of the leaves defective. Many lower margins repaired by means of strips of paper., Script: Written in many different hands., and Unevenly spread decoration.
Subject (Name):
Cavalca, Domenico,--d. 1342 and Dominicans
Subject (Topic):
Creeds, Italian literature--15th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Esposizione del credo

36.
Breviary

Published / Created:
[between 1490 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 827
Image Count:
299
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of the unfinished Winter part of a Breviary, containing 1) Psalterium feriatum for Sunday up to Wednesday; ends Ps. 57:6. 2) Three hymns for Advent. 3) Temporale, winter part, from the first Sunday of Advent to Holy Saturday. 4) Sanctorale, winter part, from the Vigil of Andrew (29 Nov.) to the Conversion of Paul (25 Jan.). 5) Chapters and Responsories for the Common of the Saints: Apostles, Evangelists, One Martyr, Several Martyrs, One Confessor, Several Confessors, One Virgin, Several Virgins, All Saints, Angels. 6) Chapters for the office of the Virgin. 7) Chapters, Versicles and Responsories for Advent through the Holy Week. 8) Prayers for the office from Advent through St. Stephen (26 Dec.).
Description:
Binding: Original quarter binding on two split leather thongs, square-edged beech boards; white pigskin decorated with blind-tooled fillets. One decorated brass clasp attached to the rear board, with a decorated brass catch fixed with three nails to the front board. The binding is reinforced with a strip of parchment cut from a ca. 1100 missal (?), decorated with versals and plain initials in red and a 5-line Romanesque initial in red with blue tendrils on a liquid gold background., Rubrics and underlining, versals and 2-line (3-line on f. 25r) plain initials, all in red. On f. 5r a 3-line initial at the opening of Ps. 1 is not executed. All decoration is missing on ff. 23v, 24bis r, 119bis r, f. 125v, line 12 to the bottom of f. 126r, ff. 137r-143v. On ff. 133r-136v there are rubrics (in pale red) but no initials. No guide letters., Script: The main part of the codex (ff. 1r-132v) is copied by a single scribe writing a bold and compressed small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Ff. 133r-143v and the two inserted leaves 24bis and 119bis are copied in a larger and less careful hand using the same type of script., and Watermarks: (1) Cardinal's hat, var. Briquet 3397 (1479-1494); (2) and (3) Bull's head, var. Briquet 15373 (1488-1501).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
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

37.
Macer Floridus

Creator:
Macer, Floridus
Published / Created:
[between 1150 and 1200; 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 823
Image Count:
56
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts of different age and origin, of 1) Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung, c. 1070), De viribus herbarum. 2) Fragments of a Missal: (a) Third Sunday of Lent. (b) Saturday after the first Sunday of Lent. (c) Second Sunday of Lent.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Wooden boards and brown calf spine. Endleaves are fragments of a Missal (Italy, 15th century)., Part I: Red (?) chapter headings in larger script written at the right of the text. Red paragraph marks. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 1r and 10 v only. 2-line (exceptionally 1- or 3-line) early flourished initials in red with red flourishing (red filling on f. 10r). 5-line red, blue and white initial with strapwork decoration on f. 1r. Part II: Chapter headings in red, centered. Red 2-line plain initials (Capitalis)., Part II adapted to the size of part I by pasting strips of parchment to the bottom of the bifolios. The five outer bifolios (ff. 11-15 and 18-22) are palimpsest: leaves from a manuscript in two columns, the text transversal to the textus rescriptus; the inner bifolium (ff. 16-17) is of bad quality; the upper corners of ff. 11 and 22 are missing with loss of text and have been repaired with blank parchment., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-10): Copied by one hand writing Praegothica with wide distance between the lines. Part II (ff. 11-22): Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Macer,--Floridus
Subject (Topic):
Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Science, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Macer Floridus

38.
Confessionale

Creator:
Bartholomaeus, de Chaimis
Published / Created:
[between 1490 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 820
Image Count:
296
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (de Mediolano, d. c. 1496), OFM, Confessionale. 2) Ps.-Anselmus Cantuariensis (Pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury), Interrogationes faciendae infirmo morienti.
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over bevelled beech boards, both covers blind-tooled with fillets and small tools in ropework design. Sewn on three split leather thongs. Spine damaged. Remnants of three clasps, one at the top, one at the bottom and one at the side edge of the covers, each attached with three engraved nails to the front cover; quadrangular decorated brass catches on the rear cover, engraved with the initial “S” and each fixed with four nails., Headings in purplish red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks and 1- and 2-line plain initials with guide letters. Decorated initials: f. 1r (Prologue), 7-line white vinestem initial followed by text line in fancy Capitalis; f. 2r (Part 1), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 12r (Part 2), 4-line white vinestem initial; f. 18v (Part 3), 4-line Humanistic dentelle initial; f. 127v (Part 4), idem. Running headlines in Capitalis in purplish red., and Script: Copied by one hand writing a small and rather uneven Humanistica Textualis Libraria, highly abbreviated, especially in the quotations of authorities.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Confession--Catholic Church, Extreme unction, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessionale

39.
Patristic and medieval theological texts

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 811
Image Count:
516
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Ps.-Ambrosius Mediolanensis (Pseudo-Ambrose), De dignitate sacerdotali, without the opening section. 2) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, c. 470-542), Sermo 41 (De indigna familiaritate extranearum mulierum et de martyrio). 3) Fastidius (s. V, attrib.; Ps.-Augustinus), De vita christiana. 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Speculum peccatoris. 5) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux) or Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Planctus de passione Domini. 6) Richardus de Sancto Victore (Richard of Saint Victor, d. 1173) or Egbertus Schonaugiensis (Egbert von Schönau, d. 1184), Soliloquia. 7) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom, c. 345-407), Quod nemo laeditur nisi a seipso, Latin version. 8) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom), De compunctione, Latin version. 9) Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus (Pseudo-John Chrysostom), De paenitentia, Latin version. 10) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom), De reparatione lapsi, Latin translation ascribed to Anianus Celedensis (5th century). 11) Fulgentius Ruspensis (Ps.-Augustinus, c. 468-533), De fide ad Petrum. 12) Ps.-Augustinus (Pseudo-Augustine), De contemptu mundi. 13) Caesarius Arelatensis (Ps.-Augustinus), Sermo 7 (Admonitio per quam ostenditur quantum boni sit lectionem divinam legere, et quantum mali sit ab illa vel inquisitione desistere). 14) Ps.-Hieronymus Stridonensis (Pseudo-Jerome), Epistula ad Paulinum. 15) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De quattuor beneficiis. 16) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, c. 348-420), Epistula 52 (Ad Nepotianum). 17) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 109 (Ad Riparium). 18) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Contra Vigilantium. 19) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 22 (Ad Eustochium). 20) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 125 (Ad Rusticum de vita monastica). 21) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, c. 470-542), Sermo 44 (De castitate). 22) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 43 (De castitate coniugali). 23) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 157 (De lectione evangelica). 24) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 33 (De reddendis decimis). 25) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii. 26) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii.
Description:
Binding: Original undecorated white parchment (spine repaired) over wooden boards; spine with three raised bands. Remnants (rectangular brass plates fixed with four nails) of two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover the damaged early inscription in ink: “*******o*ale” (pastorale?)., On many pages the reading is impaired by the acid ink., Script: Copied by one hand in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria. The running headlines and the marginal notes are written in small Gothica Cursiva Currens of often scant legibility. The pastedowns are copied by a contemporary hand writing a very bold and angular Gothica Hybrida Libraria (Fractura)., The headings are written or underlined in red; red heightening of the majuscules and red plain initials. There is no red heightening and the initials are not executed on ff. 133-156., and The modern pencil foliation, in the lower corners, skips a leaf after f. 217 (= f. 217 bis).
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600, and Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Patristic and medieval theological texts

40.
Ps.-Phalaris, Ps.-Brutus, Ps.-Crates, Epistulae

Creator:
Pseudo-Phalaris
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 792
Image Count:
134
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper and parchment (goatskin) of 1) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistulae, tr. Franciscus Aretinus (Francesco Griffolini, 1420-after 1465). 2) Ps.-Brutus, Epistulae, tr. Rinucius Aretinus (Rinuccio d'Arezzo, c. 1395-after 1450). 3) Prologue (7 verses) to art. 4. 4) Ps.-Crates, Epistulae, tr. Athanasius Constantinopolitanus.
Description:
Watermark: letter P, similar to Briquet 8658 (1471-1480)?.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Phalaris
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ps.-Phalaris, Ps.-Brutus, Ps.-Crates, Epistulae

41.
Vita sancti lamberti

Creator:
Sigebert, of Gembloux, ca. 1030-1112
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1131
Image Count:
40
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment.
Subject (Name):
Lambert,--Saint, Bishop of Maastricht,--ca. 635-ca. 705 and Sigebert,--of Gembloux,--ca. 1030-1112
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vita sancti lamberti

42.
Sermons

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1109
Image Count:
529
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript of sermons, introductory addresses and preambles for the Church year; sermons and introductory addresses for the dedication of a church.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Church dedication sermons, Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons

43.
Prayers, litany, calendar and excerpts from patristic writings

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1078
Image Count:
319
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prayers, litany, calendar and excerpts from patristic writings

44.
Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris, etc.

Creator:
Bernard Silvestris, fl. 1136
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1070
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Bernard Silvestris, Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris. 2) Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum. 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta. 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemonics for remembering the names of saints, calendar tables, lists and other notes. 5) Office for the feast of St. Mary, Jubilus, hymn, prayers and other short readings from the Bible and the Apocrypha.
Description:
4 blank leaves. and Gatherings of 7, 7, 12, 6, 2, 2, and 2 leaves respectively as found.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,--ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistola super gubernationem rei famailiaris, etc.

45.
Sermones quadragesimales and other works

Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1068
Image Count:
471
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians and Jacobus,--de Voragine,--ca. 1229-1298
Subject (Topic):
Lenten sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones quadragesimales and other works

46.
Sermones dominicales per annum (Summer part)

Creator:
Hugo, de Prato Florido, d. 1322
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1056
Image Count:
537
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Subject (Name):
Hugo,--de Prato Florido,--d. 1322
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones dominicales per annum (Summer part)

47.
Book of hours

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1053
Image Count:
421
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Description:
Modern foliation includes flyleaves.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours

48.
Devotional miscellany

Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 970
Image Count:
783
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a Devotional miscellany of a Celestine priest containing texts on the Passion and the Sacraments by Augustine, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Anselm, and Bernard, with prayers, hymns, and other anonymous texts.
Description:
Numerous errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Celestines, Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20, Jesus Christ--Passion, and John Chrysostom,--Saint,--d. 407
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sacraments--Catholic Church
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional miscellany

49.
Treatises on orthography

Creator:
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431
Festus, Sextus Pompeius, 2nd cent
Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1064
Image Count:
384
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Sextus Pompeius Festus (s. II2), De verborum significatione, epitome by Paulus Diaconus (Eighth Century). 2) Guarinus Veronensis (Guarino da Verona, 1374-1460), De vocabulorum observatione (Lexicon Servianum). 3) Gasparinus Barzizius Pergamensis (Gasparino Barzizza, c. 1360-1431), De orthographia (alphabetical part; see art. 4). 4) Gasparinus Barzizius, De orthographia (systematic part), incomplete.
Description:
Binding: Parchment wrappers with turned edges., Contemporary pagination contains some errors., Red stroking of majuscules on pp. 1-11, 22-31, 44-51, 64-73, 88-93 only.There is ample space for headings and initials (with guide letters), but they have not been executed, except headings in Gothica Textualis on pp. 46, 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; plain red Gothic initials (4 lines) on pp. 46 , 49, 51, 66, 71, 92; a few initials have been entered at a later date., and Script: Copied by two scribes: artt. 1-3 copied by a scribe called Stephanus in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria; according to Barbero this scribe is perhaps identifiable with Stefano Guarnieri; art. 4 is by a scribe writing a script halfway between Humanistica Textualis Libraria and Cursiva Libraria. The opening majuscules of paragraphs protrude into the margin.
Subject (Topic):
Italian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Treatises on orthography

50.
Ovid and Pseudo-Ovid

Creator:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Sappho
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 780
Image Count:
20
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid, 43 BC-AD 17), Heroides, 15 (Sappho Phaoni), and Epistola Phaonis ad Sappho, a response by an anonymous humanist to Heroides.
Description:
Binding: Twentieth century. Quarter binding, white parchment and brown paper. Red edges pertaining to a preceding binding., Blank space for a heading above art. 2; red final note on f. 6r. Red stroking of all majuscules. Gothic plain initials in red, 4-line at the head of art. 1, 2-line at the head of art. 2. Large guide letters at the left of the initials., On the originally blank f. 6v a later hand has written notes in a very rapid Gothica Cursiva most difficult to decipher., and Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence and of low quality.
Subject (Name):
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Epistolary poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ovid and Pseudo-Ovid

51.
Epistolae

Creator:
Pier, delle Vigne, 1190?-1249
Thomas, of Capua, Cardinal, d. 1243
Published / Created:
[ca. 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 77
Image Count:
317
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Pietro della Vigna, Epistolae. On ff. 120v-130v, mixed in with the letters, is an incomplete text of Thomas of Capua, Summa dictaminis.
Description:
Binding: ca. 1500, Northern Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps reinforced with fragments of a parchment manuscript (Lectionary?) set in channels on the outside of beech boards. The spine is lined with pieces of parchment manuscript, extending inside the boards between supports. Quarter bound in reddish brown leather with a blind-tooled floral roll along the edges (later but early?). Spine: multiple fillets at head, tail and outlining supports on the spine. Panels tooled with X's with fleurons around them and floral tools in squares on their points in the outer panels. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the upper board. The lower board is cut in for straps. Title in ink near the head of the upper board ("Epistole Petr. de Vineis de gestis Friderici Romanorum Imperatoris II **") which is cracked and has been repaired., Headings and some marginalia in red (often faded), by two hands, the second of which ruled two parallel lines in lead for each line of headings that were added in a more upright gothic text hand., Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: similar to Piccard Anker VII.181-83, Briquet Monts 11813, and Briquet Indetermines 16061-63; unidentified letter P with forked descender.
Subject (Name):
Pier,--delle Vigne,--1190?-1249
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae

52.
Regulae de constructione

Creator:
Gaspare, da Verona, ca. 1400-1474
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 262
Image Count:
58
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Gaspare da Verona, Regulae de constructione.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays adhered inside each quire. Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. A natural color endband, caught up on the spine, is sewn on a tawed skin core which is laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. Tied down through brown leather. Quarter bound in mottled brown tawed skin cut out around the head and tail supports. Two fastenings, the leaf-shaped catches (wanting) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red fabric straps. The letter R written in ink on head edge., ff. 53v-60r blank, not digitized., Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Guide letters for initials in margin., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., and Watermarks, buried in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6647-49, Briquet Croix grecque 5576 and Piccard Kreuz II.607, Piccard Einhorn III.1648.
Subject (Name):
Gaspare,--da Verona,--ca. 1400-1474
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Regulae de constructione

53.
Mariological, ascetical and other texts

Published / Created:
14--
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 733
Image Count:
231
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
The decoration is uneven and differs from section to section. Artt. 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 have headings in red ink, red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red plain initials (plain and unusual flourished initials in red in art. 3) of various sizes. Artt. 2, 4 and 5-8 may have yellow heightening of majuscules too. No initials or paragraph marks in art. 8. Artt. 9-11 have red plain initials up to f. 81v; after that blank spaces with guide-letters; headings are missing after f. 67r. Artt. 2, 4, 12, 13, 14 have almost no decoration. Running headlines (author names) in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata on pages of artt. 1, 3, 5 and 6., Binding: Nineteenth-century. Damaged half linen, the pasteboard covers covered with red paper impressed with a spiky lozenge pattern in black. Removed and rebound in purple paper. Modern binding not digitized., Cite as: Mariological, Ascetical and Other Texts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on paper. This incomplete manuscript consists of a series of more or less independent sections. An unusual feature is the writing of text parts in the lower margins as if they were catchwords. Leaves are missing, and many texts are consequently incomplete. Many pages spoilt by the acidity of the ink. Apparently copied by four different hands, mostly very unstable and looking different depending on the period during which they entered the various sections. A (ff. 1r-54v = artt. 1-8 and ff. 107v-108v = art. 14) writes peculiar forms of Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria, which if written rapidly (Currens) tends to become a Cursiva with more pronounced Gothic features, especially in the additional artt. 2, 4 and 14; typical is the unusual abbreviation for in in the shape of dotted i. B (ff. 55r-66v = art. 9) writes Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria, equally under Gothic influence. C (ff. 67r-98v = artt. 10-11) writes a small sloping Gothico-Antiqua Currens. D (ff. 99r-105r = art. 12) writes a Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under Gothic influence; a deviant form D' is seen on ff. 106r-107r = art. 13., and Modern foliation followed. Wanting ff. 71-72.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, John, of Wales, 13th cent, and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Contemplation in literature, Exempla -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mariological, ascetical and other texts

54.
Ars moriendi, etc.

Published / Created:
15th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1018
Image Count:
131
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Bound with other texts, including Lucidarius, by Honorius of Autun., ff. 101v-108r blank, not scanned., MS waste used in binding., and On paper.
Subject (Name):
Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156 and Lucidarius
Subject (Topic):
Religion --Philosophy
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ars moriendi, etc.

55.
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

57.
Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule

Published / Created:
12-15th c
Call Number:
Marston MS 25
Image Count:
343
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn., ff. 3, 46 excised., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule

58.
Credo

Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Published / Created:
15th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1069
Image Count:
200
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
Confortatorio per i condannati a morte, Florilegium, and Laudi
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Credo

59.
L'histoire Romaine

Creator:
Bersuire, Pierre, ca. 1290-1362
Livy
Wier, Richard, -1792
Published / Created:
[Second half of the 15th century]
Call Number:
1954.17.1.4
Image Count:
468
Alternative Title:
Ab Urbe Condita, Des faites des Romains , and Historiarum romanorum
Description:
7 miniatures on vellum: ff. 1r, 34r, 63r, 88r, 124v, 165r, 200v. and Phillipps #13332.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome --History
Subject (Name):
Mac-Carthy-Reagh, Justin, comte de, 1744-1811--Provenance and Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872--Provenance
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'histoire Romaine

60.
L'histoire Romaine

Creator:
Bersuire, Pierre, ca. 1290-1362
Livy
Wier, Richard, -1792
Published / Created:
[Second half of the 15th century]
Call Number:
1954.17.1.3
Image Count:
522
Alternative Title:
Ab Urbe Condita, Des faites des Romains , and Historiarum romanorum
Description:
10 miniatures on vellum: ff. 1r, 35r, 65r, 94r, 129r, 165r, 179v, 193v, 209r, 238v. and Phillipps #13332.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome --History
Subject (Name):
Mac-Carthy-Reagh, Justin, comte de, 1744-1811--Provenance and Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872--Provenance
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'histoire Romaine

61.
Cronica, libri II-XI

Creator:
Villani, Giovanni, d. 1348
Published / Created:
15th century.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 931
Image Count:
147
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of a summary of Giovanni Villani's Croniche.
Description:
Script: copied by a single hand writing Gothico-Humanistica Libraria on the basis of Italian Hybrida. Pale red headings. Flourished initials with penwork and marginal extensions, 2-line up to f. 16r, generally 3-line from f. 16v onwards. On f. 1r 2-line white vinestem initial incorporated into a border corner piece of the same style. In the lower margin two marks of oval seals (?) and the early number or date “1264”.
Subject (Name):
Villani, Giovanni,--d. 1348
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature--To 1400
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cronica, libri II-XI

62.
Cartulary of St. Cugat

Published / Created:
15th century.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 906
Image Count:
108
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a Cartulary of the abbey of Sant Cugat del Vallés. The manuscript also contains documents pertaining to a lawsuit between the monastery and the town of Sant Cugat.
Description:
Binding: no covers., Copy of the charter of Lothaire, King of the Franks (954-986), for the abbey of Sant Cugat, dated Compiègne, 986 January-February. The copy was made by Bernard of Caderita, notary at Barcelona, 1044 January 17. The manuscript contains confirmations of this charter by James I, King of Aragon (1213-1276), dated 1233 January 23, and Pedro IV, King of Aragon (1336-1387), dated 1338 April 20. The manuscript also contains documents about a lawsuit before the court of the bishop of Barcelona between the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallés and the town of Sant Cugat at the occasion of a fight between two inhabitants of the town and the wounds they received, 1273-1380. The Latin language of these documents is very ungrammatical., Script: probably copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with Spanish features. Paragraph marks and headings in pale red ink. Red initials with reserved interior shapes, of various heights., and Wanting f. 30.
Subject (Topic):
Cartularies, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cartulary of St. Cugat

64.
Summula ecclesiae sacramentorum

Creator:
Giffono, Leonardus de, d. 1407
Published / Created:
1497
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1126
Image Count:
474
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Imperfect: wormed with loss of text. and Modern foliation omits ff. 76, 98.
Subject (Name):
Giffono, Leonardus de, d. 1407
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Sacraments--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summula ecclesiae sacramentorum

65.
Alchemical compilation

Published / Created:
ca. 1490 and ca. 1790 (additions)
Call Number:
Mellon MS 20
Image Count:
156
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners in early alchemy; and laboratory procedures, designed primarily to color metals and to carry out other operations with various substances. Leaves inserted and blank pages filled at later dates.
Description:
Binding: Probably original. Stiff parchment over paper boards, flaps over the fore-edge, probably dating from about 1525, conceivably later, as the manuscript contents do not appear to have been bound at the time of writing in any case; flat spine with modern inscription in brown ink, "Alchemical, Headings of procedures in red and blue alternating in the original section, and with some capitals stroked red; no color in the additions. No ornament., Recipes, original blue edges., Script: The original part of the codex (ff. 1-133) written in a very fine, neat, and clear humanistic hand, and using a considerable range of alchemical symbols; the later additions (ff. 134-145) consist of Latin sections written in a neat italic and German passages in flowing cursive, perhaps both by a single German hand of the 18th century., Though the whole of the manuscript has suffered some marginal water-staining since it was bound, it appears certain that other stains and damage occurred while the separated quires, or groups of them, remained unbound., and Watermark: Outstretched hand, the fingerjoints indicated, a four-leafed petal extending from the tip of the third finger, the wrist and cuff of a sleeve also depicted, comparable to Briquet 11423.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Science, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical compilation

67.
Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft

Published / Created:
[ca. 1484]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 882
Image Count:
415
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas.
Description:
Leaf 105a excised.
Subject (Name):
Carthusians and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Third orders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft

68.
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]

70.
Rules and privileges of the Order of the Franciscan Penitents

Published / Created:
[ca. 1480]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1113
Image Count:
88
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rules and privileges of the Order of the Franciscan Penitents

71.
Polistorio, Books I and II

Creator:
Zoppino, Nicolò, fl. 1508-1544
Published / Created:
[ca 1479]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1142
Image Count:
385
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Description:
Error in modern foliation: leaf after 177 skipped. and Water damage at head, with no loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Zoppino, Nicolò,--fl. 1508-1544
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Polistorio, Books I and II

72.
[Alchemical and medical miscellany]

Published / Created:
ca. 1475
Call Number:
Mellon MS 15
Image Count:
105
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Alchemical and medical miscellany]

73.
De consideratione quinte essentie

Creator:
Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Published / Created:
[ca. 1475]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 16
Image Count:
85
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie, anonymously translated into German.
Description:
Binding: Original reddish brown polished leather over finely beveled wooden boards, troughs for two clasps and two spikes on front cover, each cover with five nipplelike wrought brass bosses, one at each corner and one in the center, the lower cover with two large brass roundels used to fasten the now-missing strap ties which emerged from the lower fore-edge; sides ruled to a simple geometric pattern, back with raised bands, the clasps now missing and the hinges cracked, but the binding sound., Headings and capitals (a few decorated) in red throughout., and Script: Written by a very fine and bold German gothic cursive hand.
Subject (Name):
Johannes,--de Rupescissa,--ca. 1300-ca. 1365
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consideratione quinte essentie

75.
Epistles of Paul

Published / Created:
[between 1470 and 1475]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 965
Image Count:
174
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistles of Paul

76.
Prudentius; Fortunatus; Sedulius, etc.

Creator:
Filelfo, Francesco, 1398-1481
Fortunatus, Saint, d. ca. 400
Prudentius, b. 348
Sedulius, 5th cent
Published / Created:
1473
Call Number:
Marston MS 98
Image Count:
140
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (coarse) of 1) Prudentius, Praefatio. 2) Prudentius, Psychomachia. 3) Final verses from Francesco Filelfo, Satyrarum hecatostichon septima decas, hecatosticha quinta. 4) Franciscus de Fiano, Deprecacio pulcherrima ad gloriosissimam matrem. 5) Fortunatus, selected verses from Carmina III.9.1 (Ad Felicem episcopum de pascha). 6) Sedulius, Carmen paschale. 7) Sedulius, Hymnus I. 8) Two unidentified poems. Written by a Cistercian monk.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Bound in tan sheepskin, over wooden boards. Bluish green edges. "Prudentii" scratched on leather of upper board., Contemporary foliation, in ink, in upper right corner skips from 4 to 6; correct modern foliation, lower right, in pencil., Script: Written in humanistic bookhand with gothic features by a single scribe, above top line., Some headings, in red, for art. 6 only., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Lettres Assemblees 9607; similar to Piccard Blume II.900, but with prominent stitching holes.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians and Prudentius,--b. 348
Subject (Topic):
Christian poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prudentius; Fortunatus; Sedulius, etc.

79.
Book of Tobias

Creator:
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Published / Created:
[ca. 1470]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 989
Image Count:
120
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Apocrypha.--Tobit, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Tobias

81.
Confessions

Creator:
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Published / Created:
1469
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 952
Image Count:
242
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment.
Subject (Topic):
Biography--To 500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Theology--History--Early church, ca. 30-600
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessions

82.
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, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Old age
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De senectute

84.
Divinae institutiones

Creator:
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320
Published / Created:
13 Febr. 1466.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 798
Image Count:
689
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), note on Lactantius, shortened version of Contra Faustum Manichaeum (CPL 321). 2) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine), note on Lactantius, shortened after Epistula 143.2-3. 3) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from Epistula 58.10. 4) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius (in fact on Origen), after Epistula 62.2. 5) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from De viris illustribus, 80 (CPL 616). 6) Table of Contents (list of chapters) of Divinae institutiones. 7) Firmianus Lactantius (d. c. 325), Divinae institutiones (CPL 85).
Description:
f. 138 excised. and Watermarks: (1) Lion rampant holding a sword and surmounted by a fleur de lis: Piccard, Wasserzeichen Raubtiere, 1699-1700 (1465-1466); (2) and (3) Mountain: var. Briquet 11702, 11709 (1440, 1466).
Subject (Name):
Lactantius,--ca. 240-ca. 320
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Divinae institutiones

85.
Historia Alexandri Magni, etc.

Creator:
Rufus, Curtius
Published / Created:
[ca. 1460-65]
Call Number:
Marston MS 9
Image Count:
446
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into Italian and supplemented with material from Plutarch by Pier Candido Decembrio. 2) Pier Candido Decembrio, Comparazione di Cesare e d'Alessandro Magno.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and pegged. Gilt edges. Covered in brown goatskin with corner tongues, and blind-tooled with a ropework star inside painted (red) and blind-tooled circles inside a floral border, all with metallic annular dots. There are traces of four leaf-shaped fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for fabric straps attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked twice., One illuminated intial, 6-line, gold against blue, green and pink ground with white vine-stem ornament, extending into inner margin to form a partial border; terminating at top and bottom in pen inkspray with buds in green and pink and gold balls with hair-line extensions. Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue, mark text divisions; headings in pale red., Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Written by a single scribe in a slightly rounded humanistic bookhand with many cursive elements, below top line.
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius, Decembrio, Pier Candido,--1399-1477, Plutarch, and Rufus, Curtius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Italian literature--15th century, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia Alexandri Magni, etc.

86.
Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc.

Creator:
Plato
Published / Created:
1464
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 920
Image Count:
124
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Excerpts from Plato (427-347 B.C.), De legibus, in Latin translation. 2) Excerpts from Plinius Maior (23-79), Naturalis historia, C. Mayhoff, ed. (Teubner, 1906 ff.), Books 27-37. With an additional text: Italian remedy for healing ringworm.
Description:
Artt. 1-3: a few red or pale red headings; Paragraph marks, capitals and stroking of the majuscules in the same colour. The running headlines indicate the number of the Dialogue or Book excerpted on the page below; they are in black in art. 1, in red (e.g. "Li.// 28") in artt. 2-3. Artt. 4-5 are undecorated., Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Mottled beige paper over pasteboard., Script: Artt. 1-3 are copied by one hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria with relatively many abbreviations. The numerous marginal lemmata, headings or Nota-marks are, apart from a few later additions, by the same hand. Artt. 4-5 are by two different 16th century Italian hands., and Watermark: a horn (var. Briquet 7686). An unknown number of bifolios is missing between ff. 28 and 29.
Subject (Name):
Plato and Pliny,--the Elder
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Excerpts from Plato and Pliny the Elder, etc.

88.
Vocabularius Lucianus, etc.

Creator:
Henricus de Ratisbona
Published / Created:
[ca. 1461]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 916
Image Count:
373
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Henricus de Ratisbona, Vocabularius Lucianus. With other texts, including sermons, possibly by Matthias Engelschalk; sermons by Conradus Batt; partial text of Alain de Lille's Liber Poenitentialis.
Description:
Approximately 20 leaves excised between ff. 63-64. 30 leaves excised after ff. 184.
Subject (Name):
Henricus de Ratisbona and Lucian,--of Samosata
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sermons, Latin--Early works to 1800
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vocabularius Lucianus, etc.

89.
Legenda aurea

Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298
Published / Created:
[ca. 1455-1460]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1134
Image Count:
653
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Complete version of the earliest German translation of the Legenda aurea., Teil I: Sommerteil, and Teil II: Winterteil
Description:
2 volumes bound together with discreet foliation., On paper, and Teil II wanting ff. 4, 292.
Subject (Name):
Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad, 1722-1798, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints --Biography --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Calendar --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Legends --Early works to 1800, Church calendar --Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, German--Germany, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legenda aurea

90.
Collection of texts by St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and others

Published / Created:
[ca. 1460]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1140
Image Count:
537
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. 2) Mateusz z Krakowa, De modo confitendi. 3) Thomas Aquinas, De consideratione. 4) Series of short texts on simony, adultery and other abuses, including works by Bernardus de Reijsa and Wilhelmus Blok.
Subject (Name):
Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
Subject (Topic):
Adultery (Canon law), Biography--To 500, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Simony (Canon law)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of texts by St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and others

91.
Twelve steps of humility

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1460]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1098
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment.
Description:
Nested bifolia.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, English (Middle), Humility--Religious aspects--Christianity, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Twelve steps of humility

92.
Expositio passionis; Augustine, meditationes

Creator:
Weitmann, Johannes
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1460]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1076
Image Count:
231
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Johannes Weitmann, Expositio Passionis. 2) Augustine, Meditationes.
Subject (Name):
Weitmann, Johannes
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio passionis; Augustine, meditationes

93.
Lexicon Greco-Latinum, etc.

Published / Created:
[ca. 1460]
Call Number:
Marston MS 94
Image Count:
424
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Unidentified Greek-Latin lexicon. 2) Anonymous treatise on breathing marks in Greek. 3) De formationibus temporum uerborum graecorum. 4) De praepositionum significatione et constructione. 4) De numeris.
Description:
Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 3384). Purchased in 1956 from L. C. Witten by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: ca. 1500, Italy. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Gilt edges. The secondary, beaded endband is cream and green. Covered in reddish brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a floral border and fleurons in a central panel. Name of owner is gold-tooled on side in Roman letters that have been modified to form Greek letters. Spine: triple fillets at head and tail; single fillet diapering in the panels. Gold tooling added later. Traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board; the upper board heavily cut in for clasps. Modern title on spine: "Guarini Lexicon Ineditum. MS. in membranis"., and The decoration consists of an illuminated title page, with full border, thin white vine-stem ornament with stylized foliage in red, pink, blue against blue, green and pink ground with white dots and gold balls. In outer border two vases, blue with white highlights, and three roundels framed in red, green or pink with Roman profile heads wearing fillets against blue or gold ground. In inner border foliage curling around a thin gold bar. The upper border consists of a garland, green with gold highlights, tied with red ribbons against a blue and gold ground with two masks, one spouting water. Unidentified arms (palm? tree on red ground) in center of lower border. Large illuminated initial, 12-line, gold against a predominately blue ground with some green, pink, red and gold, and sprouting vine-stem ornament, white with pale brown shading and stylized foliage in red, pink and light brown. 25 illuminated initials for letters of Greek alphabet, 6- to 5-line, gold, against blue, green and dark pink grounds with stylized white vine-stem ornament or white stylized foliage. 2 small illuminated initials (ff. 205v and 206r), 3-line, gold against blue, red and green ground with pale yellow and white dots and white filigree. Heading on f. 1r in blue; others in red. Plain initials in red.
Subject (Topic):
Greek language--Dictionaries--Latin--Early works to 1800, Greek language--Grammar, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lexicon Greco-Latinum, etc.

94.
Laude caritatis, etc.

Creator:
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Published / Created:
1459
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 889
Image Count:
254
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Hugh of St. Victor, Laude caritatis, and De modo orandi. 2) Heinrich von Langenstein, Expositio super Orationem Dominicam. 3) Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Paradisus animae. 4) Memoriale Biblicum with interlinear gloss.
Description:
Script: copied by seven scribes. Hand A copied ff. 1r-18v in Gothica Textualis Formata; Hand B copied ff. 19r-38v in Gothica Hybrida Formata/Libraria; Hand C copied ff. 39r-47r in bold Hybrida Libraria; Hand D copied ff. 48r-50r and 54r-57r in Semihybrida Libraria; Hand E, which is perhaps identical with Hand D, copied ff. 50v-53v in Hybrida Libraria; Hand F copied f. 57v in Cursiva Libraria; Hand G copied ff. 58r-116r in Hybrida Libraria (in two sizes for text and gloss of art. 21). Headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks and (in articles 10-19) underlining in red. All initials in the same colour: 1-line versals; 2- and 3-line plain initials; a 4-line plain initial with interior reserved shapes on f. 1r; a 3-line plain initial containing a human face on f. 48r. Article 20 stands apart by the form of its initials, its decorative paragraph marks and the absence of headings (instructions for the rubricator are written alongside the lower edge; chapter numbers have been added by a later hand). In article 21, elongated decorated initials at the top line.
Subject (Name):
Hugh,--of Saint-Victor,--1096?-1141
Subject (Topic):
Ave Maria
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Laude caritatis, etc.

95.
Texts on St. Jerome

Published / Created:
1 May 1457.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 801
Image Count:
185
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper and parchment containing 1) Ownership inscription and note on the scribe, followed by a variant form of a Biblical quotation (Lamentations 3:27-28). 2) Legend of St. Jerome in Italian, with special attention for miraculous events, as an introduction to artt. 4-6. Quotes Iohannes Belet (12th century), St. Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, Sulpicius Severus. 3) Ps.-Eusebius, Epistula de morte Hieronymi (BHL 3866), Italian translation. 4) Ps. -Augustinus Hipponensis, Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi (BHL 3867), Italian translation. 5) Ps.-Cyrillus, Epistola de miraculis Hieronymi (BHL 3868), in Italian translation. 6) History of abbot Daniel living in Thebais and his disobedient servant, to whom he tells the life of a virtuous man they have met, called Eulogius, who eventually became patricius and praefectus praetorio in Constantinople at the time of emperor Justinus I (518-527); due to the loss of one or more quires the major part of the text, containing the intervention of the Virgin, is missing.
Description:
Binding: Quarter binding of bevelled wooden boards (worm-eaten) and brown leather; spine with three raised bands and paper title label with handwritten 17th-century inscription: “Vita / di S. / Girola.” On the boards marks of one clasp attached to the front board and on the front board the ca. 1800 inscription “JO.” written in black ink. Possibly the binding once belonged to another manuscript., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal (MS 38). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Description follow modern foliation which includes two preliminary leaves.., Headings in pale red, often difficult to read. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. Initials, with guide letters written in the space reserved for the initial: (1) flourished initials (3-4 lines) in red with pale red (or brown) penwork or in blue with red penwork, sometimes with marginal penwork extensions; (2) at the beginning of each text a larger initial; the letters following this type of initial are majuscules. F. 3r: 12-line blue initial of the littera duplex type with extensive penwork in red and some blue, with decorative border in the same colours in the inner and lower margin and tendrils in the other margins containing flowers and acorns; the border of the lower margin terminates in a medallion containing a coat of arms; ff. 8r, 41r: 9-line initial of the same type and in the same colours; f. 47v: 6-line, idem; f. 77v: 7-line black initial., Script: Copied by one hand in a peculiar form of Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence as visible in the total lack of compression; special features are: the sloping hairline at the top of the second stroke of e, parallelled by the sloping stroke on i; h with exceptionally long curved extension under the baseline; the forked lower ending of f and straight s on or under the baseline and the forked descender of p; and the very fancy majuscules., and The lower margin of f. 62 torn off.
Subject (Name):
Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Texts on St. Jerome

96.
Interpretatio in Odysseam

Creator:
Didymus, Chalcenterus
Ioannes Skoutariotes
Published / Created:
1453
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 278
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Didymus' interpretation of the Odyssey.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Wooden boards. Quarter bound in brick-red goatskin. Bound for the convent of San Marco, Florence; title in gold on spine with number "232"., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 10371), who purchased it from Payne. Acquired in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston from C. A. Stonehill. Gift of Thomas E. Marston in 1959., Script: Written and signed by the scribe Ioannes Skoutariotes, who finished the manuscript 4 October 1453., Simple initials and headings, in red, at the beginning of each book., and Watermarks: Harlfinger Fleur 108, from a manuscript dated 4 Nov. 1445 and attributed to Ioannes Skoutariotes.
Subject (Name):
Didymus,--Chalcenterus
Subject (Topic):
Classical poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholia
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Interpretatio in Odysseam

97.
Commentarii in Librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi

Creator:
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
Published / Created:
1452
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Book 4 of the Sentences of Peter Lombard.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on five slit, tawed straps laced into wooden boards. Endband cores laid in grooves. Covered with white, tawed skin, blind-tooled with a St. Andrew's cross within panel borders. The covering leather is sewn around the endbands, from spine to edges, with a back-stitch. Traces of round bosses, probably brass, and of two strap and pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board., Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 573). Given to Yale in 1929 by Mrs. J. L. Leipziger., Plain initials in red and rubrics throughout., Script: Gothic cursive script of three hands. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-156v; Scribe 2) ff. 157r-274r; Scribe 3, Laurence of Mechlin, wrote ff. 274r-317r and dated the codex 1452., and Watermarks: similar to Briquet Ancre 381, Balance 2427, Tete de boeuf 15102.
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarii in Librum IV Sententiarum Petri Lombardi

98.
Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 182
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-48): Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum. Part II (ff. 49-114): Cicero, Orationes.
Alternative Title:
Orator; Orationes
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink on the tail edge, mostly illegible., Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., On paper, Part I: Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f. 1r in red majuscules. Part II: Heading and plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Each part written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified hunting horn, in gutter. Part II, in gutter: similar in design to Briquet Fruit 7380-81., and Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed copying the text
Subject (Name):
Guarnieri, Stefano--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Oratory--Early works to 1800, and Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse Imparatorem [sic] eligendum

99.
L'Acerba

Creator:
Cecco, d'Ascoli, 1269-1327
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 259
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (polished) of Cecco d'Ascoli (Francesco Stabili), L'Acerba, Bks. 1-4 with the final 214 lines of Bk. 4 and all of the fragmentary Bk. 5 missing.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Vellum stays adhered inside and outside of quires. Backs of quires cut in for original sewing. Bookblock tacketed to a semi-limp paper case, reinforced at the spine. Handwritten paper label with title and a printed medallion with Flora (?) standing on an anchor and globe (?), both on spine., Blue initial, 6-line, with nice penwork designs, f. 1r. Smaller initials, 2-line, red with purple designs or blue with red designs, alternate throughout. Headings in pale red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Later addition of arms in lower margin, f. 1r, effaced and covered with mending strips., Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in mercantesca script, above top line., and Watermarks: unidentified cherries (?) in upper margin, trimmed.
Subject (Topic):
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Early works to 1600, Italian poetry--To 1400, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > L'Acerba

100.
Etymologiae, etc.

Creator:
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274
Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 123
Image Count:
450
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Epistolae of Isidore, Braulio and Sisibutus. 2) Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae. 3) Richardus de Wedinghausen (Richardus Praemonstratensis), Expositio missae. 4) Bonaventure, Sermo VI de assumptione Beatae Virginis Mariae. 5) Extract from Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion IV.14. 6) List of forbidden magical arts.
Description:
2[?] preliminary leaves excised., Binding: 15th-16th centuries, Bohemia. Stays from 15th-century parchment manuscript. Original sewing on three double supports attached to flush, sharply bevelled wooden boards. Spine leather originally sewn around endbands. Covered in cream colored suede-like skin with very faint traces of a blind-tooled X in an outer frame. Spine: double fillets at head and tail; a neat, sewn mend near the head. Pink paper place marks on the fore edge. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board and stubs of kermes pink straps attached to lower one with flower-shaped plates. Trace of a chain attachment near head of lower board; title (mostly effaced) in gothic bookhand near head of upper board., MS waste used in binding., Purchased from H. Rosenthal in 1946 by H. P. Kraus, who sold it in 1957 to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in running hybrida script., Unattractive initials in red (or red and black divided) with penwork designs, dots, knobs and/or heart-shaped appendages, all in red and black. Numerous plain red initials of similar design. Headings, running headlines, chapter numbers and initial strokes in red. T-O map of the world on f. 131v in red., and Watermarks for both end papers and text: Piccard, Ochsenkopf XII.685, Nuremberg 1430.
Subject (Name):
Isidore,--of Seville, Saint,--d. 636
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language--Etymology, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Etymologiae, etc.

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