- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 635
- Image Count:
- 155
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Possibly produced at the Cistercian abbey of Fitero (between Pamplona and Tudela).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by various hands in Iberian Praegothica., The original sections (articles 1, 2, 7 and 8) have red headings and red decorative line-fillers; 1-line plain initials and numerous 2-line (sometimes 3- or 4-line) plain or flourished initials or litterae duplices intermingled. Many round initials such as C, D, O, Q are filled with a human face ("face initials"); in art. 7 some initials I are zoomorphic and take the shape of a fish (ff. 127r, 134r). Red and purple initials normally alternate. Art. 4 has red initials. The remaining articles are undecorated., Lower edge of many leaves damaged, with loss of text. The final pages worn and smudged., and Binding: ca. 1800. Limp parchment with remains of two leather ties. On the spine the hand-written title "Charta charitatis, liber usuum et institut. Ordinis S. Bernardi. M.S." At the bottom of the spine a label with the handwritten modern number "1280".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cistercians
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cistercian statutes
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- Creator:
- Hieronymus, de Neapoli
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 379
- Image Count:
- 120
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Book for the instruction of monks
- Description:
- The author Hieronymus Miraballius of Naples was vicar general of the Olivetan order 1417-20, 1431-35., In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-22r) in informal humanistic script. Scribe 2 (ff. 22r-54v) in fere-humanistic script., Gold initial, 4-line, infilled and surrounded by blue penwork designs, on f. 1r for beginning of prologue; charming border extending down inner margin, in blue and purple penwork, with gold dots, incoporates grotesque with gold tongue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, with purple penwork, for first incipit. Headings and paragraph marks in red throughout. Guide-letters for rubricator., Some folios repaired with modern paper or parchment along lower margin., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Rigid vellum case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hieronymus de Neapoli. and Olivetans
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber ad monachos
- Published / Created:
- April 20th, 1792.
- Call Number:
- 792.04.20.01 Shelved in Object Room C:B
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A print with the rules of the card game Faro engraved with decorative motifs across top edge. The print has been mounted on sticks of bone to form a fan
- Alternative Title:
- Regles du pharaon
- Description:
- Titles in English and French from item., Text below English title: The game of faro is perhaps the most simple & at the same time the most entertaining of all the games of hazard., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and mounted on bone sticks to form a fan., and Folded to 25 x 2 x 1.8 cm.
- Publisher:
- Published according to act by J. Cock and J.P. Crowder, Wood Street, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games and Faro
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rules of faro Regles du pharaon. [graphic] =