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1. Legal Document (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.143
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a contract concerning land near Bruneck, a description in Latin of the damage to Mohammed's tomb in Mecca by a storm in 1481, and an account of the coronation of Emperor Maximilian I at Aachen in 1486, written in southern German dialect
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: written in a cursive gothic script (littera cursiva) in a hand similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.144., and Decoration: the first word of the document ("Ich") is enlarged, with the initial "I" trailing down the margin of the entire text; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Legal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal Document (fragment).
2. Legal Document (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1499].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.144
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a legal document containing a document concerning tenure of land; an account of the election of Maximilian, Archduke of Austria and Duke of Burgundy, as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1486; and a brief description of how one is to celebrate the feast of a newly canonized saint
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Script: written in cursive gothic script (littera cursiva), similar to that of the scribe who wrote the document in MS 482.143., and Decoration: the document begins with a flourished initial; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Legal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal Document (fragment).
3. Love letter fragments
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1500-1550.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.250
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 25
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
- Description:
- In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Germany, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Love-letters and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Love letter fragments
4. Unidentified German verse
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 975
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment
- Description:
- In German.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- German poetry and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified German verse
5. Willehalm
- Creator:
- Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1315]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 486
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm, 249.9-253.22 and 262.23-267.8; the text is not continuous, one bifolium missing between leaves
- Description:
- In German., Script: Written in gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red; first letters of verses touched with red., and Removed from a binding: text suffers from holes, stains, and creases.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- German literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Willehalm
