Decorated roll containing the text of the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers (Petrus Pictaviensis). The text, presented in genealogical tree format, appears to be a copy of the second version of this work, containing the full text of the first version accompanied by interpolations from the Historia scholastica and other sources.
Description:
Decoration: text is presented as a genealogical tree, in brown ink, with rubrication; initials in red and blue ink; roundels and planned spaces for diagrams and miniatures (unfinished) outlined in red and blue ink. Linking genealogical tree branches and diagram lines in red and blue ink. Complex grid for layout of design elements ruled in plummet., Format: seven membranes sewn together to form one roll., Layout: single vertical column in the form of a genealogical tree., Ownership inscriptions at top and bottom of roll: Conradus Mondone Astensis. (Corrado Mondone d'Asti, Master General of the Dominican Order, 1462-1465)., Purchased from Les Enluminures on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Albert C. Childs Fund, 2014., and Script: single gothic book hand.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ--Genealogy--Early works to 1800, Mondone d'Asti, Corrado,--Autograph, and Peter,--of Poitiers,--approximately 1130-1205
Subject (Topic):
Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
A collection of drawings attributed to Augustino Aglio, circa 1835-1840, that includes a panorama comprised of seven drawings glued together and nine discrete drawings. The drawings depict his interpretation of the Aztec migration myth as conveyed in the Boturini Codex. The Boturini Codex, also known as "Tira de la Peregrinación" (The Strip Showing the Travels), was painted by an unknown Aztec author between 1530 and 1541, and is named for one of its first European owners, Lorenzo Boturini Bernaducci (1702-1751). The codex depicts the legendary Aztec journey from Aztlán to the Valley of Mexico on a long sheet of amatl (fig bark), which was then accordion-folded into pages. Unlike many Aztec codices, the drawings are outlined with black ink and not colored.
Description:
Rodrigo Rivero Lake's blind stamp on first panel of the panorama, and his ink stamp on verso of last panel.
Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of 15 membranes, of a Chronicle of biblical world history and the genealogy of the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: Unbound., One large illuminated initial for the prologue, 8-line, mauve and blue with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. The initial is filled with a large flower, red, yellow and green, and curling acanthus, orange and green extending into the margin and continued as black inkspray with large leaves, heart-shaped or acanthus, blue, pink, orange, white and green with white filigree, a large orange and gold flower, smaller leaves in gold with blue and pink, gold dots and small green leaves, extending into the upper and left margin to form a partial border. Smaller illuminated initial for the beginning of the main chronicle, 5-line, gold on blue and mauve ground with white filigree. Numerous small initials, 2-line, alternate in gold with blue penwork and blue with red. Paragraph marks alternate in red and blue., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat rough textura., and The genealogical diagrams, which are fitted into the empty spaces between the columns of text, begin with a roundel formed of concentric bands of blue, gold and red with a miniature of Adam with Eve, who is being handed an apple by the serpent. From the roundel of Adam and Eve to the Ascension of Christ the successive Biblical names, framed in orange or green squares, are linked by a continuous band in blue, red and gold. The names of the ancestors of the Kings of England, starting with Brutus, appear in red or blue circles, surmounted by gold crowns. Other names are in plain red circles. Linking lines in the genealogies are in red or green. At the appropriate places in the text are inserted schematized diagrams in red and green ink of Noah's Ark, a plan of the Israelite camp in the desert and a plan of the city of Jerusalem.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--1066-1687
Subject (Topic):
Bible--History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers--Genealogy, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history--Early works to 1800
Kongōchō yugachū ryakushutsu nenjukyō, Kongōchō yugachū ryakushutsu nenzukyō , Tennin 1 [1108]. Kan daiichi., Kongōchōyugachūryakushutsunenzukyō, and 金剛頂瑜伽中略出念誦經, 天仁1 [1108]. 卷第一.
Description:
"A sutra, chapter 1. Original copy dated 1108, heavily marked in vermilion in 1122.", "The red marks are an aid to reading and intonation. The postscripts show that the copying was done on Mt. Kōya and the markings added at Ninna-zhi, Kyōto." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., In Chinese., Scroll: 27.2 x 1118.5 cm rolled to 27.2 x 25.9 cm in diameter. One roll in a wood box., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ab9.
Subject (Geographic):
Ninnaji (Kyoto, Japan)
Subject (Topic):
Buddhism, Japanese manuscripts, Shingon (Sect) --Early works to 1800, and Yale Association of Japan Collection
A fragment of a sutra copied in silver on indigo-colored paper. An 8th century copy. Original. This piece, retrieved from a fire at the monastery To-dai-zhi long ago, is one of the oldest remnants of the kind known in Japan. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand.
Alternative Title:
Konshi ginji Kegonkyo, Konshiginjikegonkyo, Konshiginjikegonkyō, and 紺紙銀字華厳経, [8th cent.].
Description:
"A fragment of a sutra copied in silver on indigo-colored paper. An 8th century copy. Original.", "This piece, retrieved from a fire at the monastery Tō-dai-zhi long ago, is one of the oldest remnants of the kind known in Japan." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., In Chinese., Scroll: 23.0 x 108.6 cm rolled to 23.0 x 26.7 cm in diameter. One roll in a wood box., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ab2.
Subject (Name):
Tripitaka. Sutrapitaka. Avatamsakasutra
Subject (Topic):
Hua yan Buddhism, Japanese manuscripts, Tripiṭaka.--Sūtrapiṭaka.--Avataṃsakasūtra, and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Manuscript scroll, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the Greek Orthodox Office of Holy Communion, a series of prayers, hymns and verses intended for private recitation before, during and after taking communion. Text includes prayers attributed to Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Basil the Great.
Description:
Formerly owned by the monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos; ex libris Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; Phillipps MS 3889; Schøyen Collection MS 662. Purchased from Les Enluminures, Ltd. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., Note, in Greek, in a sixteenth-century hand, at the end of the text, attributing the manuscript to the Royal Monastery of Docheiariou., Script: archaizing scribal hand., Scroll composed of seven vellum sheets, written on both sides in single columns., and Titles are written in gold. Each prayer begins with an illuminated initial, also outlined in gold. There is a gilded ornamented tailpiece.
Lord's Supper (Liturgy)--Texts, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Orthodox Eastern monasticism and religious orders
Setsugekka no maki, Setsugekka, Genroku 12 [1699] / Sumiyoshi Gukei., Yuki tsuki hana, and 雪月花, 元禄12 [1699] / 住吉具慶.
Description:
"Scenes of snow, moon, and flower; original paintings by Sumiyoshi Gukei, 1636-1705 ; words by the hand of the poet Kitamura Kigin, 1624-1705 . Done in 1699, when Ki-gin was 75." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., In Japanese., Scroll: 26.0 x 452.6 cm. One roll, in a wooden case., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Aa7.
Subject (Name):
Sumiyoshi, Gukei,--1631-1705, Yoshida, Kenko, 1282?-1350. Tsurezuregusa, and 住吉具慶,--1631-1705
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts, Japanese poetry--Edo period, 1600-1868, Painting, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868, and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? Ripley, George, d. 1490?
Published / Created:
circa 1570
Call Number:
Mellon MS 41
Image Count:
15
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
Alternative Title:
Ripley scroll
Description:
One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
Formed by long sheets of paper featuring hieroglyphic-like characters written in ink by Caruso over existing teletyped text.
Description:
Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").
Subject (Name):
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
Subject (Topic):
Experimental poetry, Italian--20th century, Poets, Italian--20th century, and Visual poetry, Italian--20th century
