- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 205
- Image Count:
- 143
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- use in a Dominican house of nuns
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Script: Written by a single scribe in well formed gothic textura. Articles 1 and 6 have 4-line staves, in red, and black square notes., Uninspired blue initial, 2-stave, on f. 1r, infilled and surrounded by red penwork flourishes with blue accents. Similar plain initials, 2-line, alternate in blue, red, and black with red throughout. Running titles and headings in red., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn, using original sewing holes, on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into back-cornered and indented oak boards. Endbands embroidered on a strip of vellum and adhered, the vellum extending onto the outside of the boards. The spine is square and lined all along with manuscript fragments extending to the inside of the boards. Covered in vellum blind-tooled with concentric borders containing heads in oval frames among foliage in the outer, and busts of saints in the inner. Two brass fastenings, the catch on the upper board, straps attached to the lower with a metal plate. Straps wanting and a slight crack in one joint.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans
- Subject (Topic):
- Dominican sisters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Processional, Dominican use
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- Creator:
- Humbert of Romans
- Published / Created:
- [between 1290 and 1299].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.91
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Sororum O.P., a guidebook for Dominican nuns
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the beginning of chapters are in red with red ornamentation; 1-line initials in the capitula list are in red; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; paragraph marks in red are occasionally used in the margins to mark the beginning of a new lesson; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dominicans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Liber Constitutionem Sororum O.P. (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1515]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 375
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- the major Franciscan and Dominican feasts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise humanistic script similar in style to that of Geoffroy Tory (1480-1533)., Fifteen full-page miniatures in camaieu-gris with gold accents in narrow frames of gold in form of a rope. Twelve smaller miniatures in narrow gold frames with the occupations of the months in the Calendar. Signs of the zodiac appear in the sky or in the background. In addition there are three miniatures, 8-line, f. 14v (Gospel Sequences) St. Luke; f. 15r (Gospel Sequences) St. Matthew; and f. 20v (Stabat mater) the two Marys at the cross. All text pages with elaborate borders consisting of solid panels in gold or grey divided by knotted cords, black with white or gold highlights enclosing the letters E, F, G., Initials, 4- and 3-line, blue, grey, or pink with white highlights, filled with knotted cords or flowers against gold grounds flecked with black. Initials, 2- and 1-line, and KL monograms, gold, on red and blue grounds with gold filigree. Line fillers gold on red and blue grounds with gold filigree, or gold logs. Rubrics in gold and blue., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Tortoise shell sides with two gold-plated (?) clasps. Pale blue watered silk doublures.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours, use of Paris