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1. Antiphonary for the Cistercian rite
- Creator:
- Ferdinandez, Petrus
- Published / Created:
- 1571
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 628
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments on parchment of an Antiphonary by Petrus Ferdinandez of Leon
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish features. Nota quadrata music notation. Additions of text and music by later hands., Paragraph marks and rubrics in red. Yellow heightening of majuscules. Large plain initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line). Cadels of the same size., and Text and musical notation on a five-line staff. Large initials in red, brown, and blue. Rubrics and liturgical instructions in red. Additional antiphons with musical notation added in margins in a hand of the 17th-18th century.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ferdinandez, Petrus., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonary for the Cistercian rite
2. Breviary
- Published / Created:
- 1478.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 609
- Image Count:
- 372
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Includes a calendar for Augustinian hermits
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria under Humanistic influence (frequent use of Half-Uncial d), highly abbreviated., Heightening of the majuscules in yellow; headings in red. 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, in the text (art. 2); 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide-letters, placed half way in the text-block, except in col. a of the verso pages, where they are placed entirely in the margin. Running titles in red on most pages., Badly mutilated with missing folios., and Binding: ca. 1900 (before 1912) by P. Verburg in the workshop of Douglas Cockerell and in the style of the latter's bindings. Blind-tooled brown morocco over cardboard, with braided leather ties (defective) attached to the front cover and metal catchpins; hinges and back rubbed. Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustinians. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary
3. Carthusian breviary
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 690
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Copied in the Charterhouse Val de Benediction (Vallis Benedictionis) at Villeneuve-les-Avignon
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., All important illuminated leaves missing. Headings in red. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. 1-line flourished initials alternately red and blue. Numerous 2-line flourished initials in the same colours. 3-line dentelle initials with partial floral borders in gold (on f. 56r with bar-shaped extensions, on f. 57v no border)., The manuscript is heavily mutilated, some leaves are out of order and many (presumably all illuminated) leaves are cut out., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light-brown leather over pasteboard; the covers gold-tooled with floral border and centre-piece. Gold-tooled spine with four raised bands. One large modern silver clasp attached to rear cover. Edges gilt and gauffered.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carthusian breviary
4. Cistercian gradual
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 530
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Cistercian gradual
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Pigskin over cardboard (previously over wooden boards), blind-tooled with rolls, rebacked. Red edges. On the front flyleaf there is a modern note: "The 16th century German binding has evidently been taken from another volume".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Graduals (Liturgical books), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cistercian gradual
5. Cistercian statutes
- 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
6. De interiori domo, etc
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 512
- Image Count:
- 198
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux (Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis), 1) De interiori homine (Mediationes). 2) De illis qui ingrediuntur religionem ut abundent bonis. 3) De interiori domo. Due to the loss of a quire 20 pages are missing, foliated 49-58. Due to the loss of f. 83 the final paragraphs of this text are lost. 4) A compilation on virtues and vices, followed by quotations of a theological and moral nature. The beginning of this text was on the lost f. 83.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: With the exception of f. 1r apparently copied by one hand, writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; f. 1r, in the same type of script, is by another more rapid hand and is perhaps palimpsest., Headings in red added afterwards, with instructions for the rubricator in Gothica Cursiva in the margins (the headings are missing from f. 91r onwards). Red plain initials, 2-3 lines, sometimes with simple flourishing. A few pointing hands and Nota-marks., and Binding: Original deerskin over bevelled wooden boards. On each cover four small brass bosses. Four similar bosses at the four corners of the spine and at the attachment of a white leather strap attached to the front cover and clutching with a decorated brass piece over a pin in the rear cover. The front paste-down is a fragment of a 14th-century Latin grammatical treatise in two columns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De interiori domo, etc
7. Diurnale of Carthusian use
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 696
- Image Count:
- 349
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Carthusian breviary
- Description:
- Script: written by multiple hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Binding: undecorated sheepskin over pasteboard. Rebacked in the eighteenth century. Spine with four raised bands, gold-tooled with a floweret. Remnants of a gold-tooled title label., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diurnale of Carthusian use
8. Epistolary, Cistercian use
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1550]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 283
- Image Count:
- 324
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Epistle readings for the temporale from Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in large round gothic bookhand with red and black accent marks for recitation., The fourteen full-page miniatures constitute the most extensive extant cycle by the "Spanish Forger". All pages with miniatures have full borders of scrolling acanthus in red, blue, green and purple with hair-spray and gold balls. 3- and 2-line initials, red or blue, with purple or red penwork (6-line on f. 134r). Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Date? Worn red velvet with a silver-gilt crucifix (a fairly recent addition?) on the upper board. Brass clasp engraved with "S. Maria/ ora pro nobis." Rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Epistolaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolary, Cistercian use
9. Hours, use of Paris
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1515]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 375
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fine) of a Book of Hours with full calendar including 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