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2.
- Creator:
- Persius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 898
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Persius, Satirae.
- Description:
- All headings are missing (one line is blank between the various satires). Red stroking of the majuscules on f. 1r only. 2-line red plain initials at the beginning of the satires, with guide letters. The Prologue opens with a 5-line plain initial with some decoration., Binding: Unbound., Mss. 897 and 898 are parts of the same manuscript., Script: Copied by one hand writing Gothico-Humanistica with single-compartment a. The majuscules, at the beginning of each verse, are Gothic., and Watermark: a Circle surmounted by a Cross. Parchment stays at the outer and at the inner sides of the quires, made from scraps of various manuscripts.
- Subject (Name):
- Persius
- Subject (Topic):
- Satire, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Satirae
3.
- Creator:
- Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 996
- Image Count:
- 276
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Description:
- In Latin.
- Subject (Name):
- Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collationes
4.
- Creator:
- Virgil
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1116
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of books I and II.
- Subject (Name):
- Virgil
- Subject (Topic):
- Pastoral poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Georgics
5.
- Creator:
- Persius
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 800
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Persius, Satirae 1.22-6. With argumenta added in the 15th century.
- Description:
- Binding: 20th-21st centuries, not digitized. Plain brown leather over cardboard. Yellowish paper endleaves., Paragraph marks in red. All the majuscules, those at the opening of the verses and the others, are heightened with dark yellow. The Satires open with a 2-line flourished initial (a 3-line flourished initial for Satire 6) with marginal extensions, alternately in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork., and Script: Copied by one hand writing Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, with a preference for round r and d with relatively short shaft.
- Subject (Name):
- Persius
- Subject (Topic):
- Verse satire, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Satirae
- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 7
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cicero, Orations.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930) in brown goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled spine "Cicero" and "MS". Yellow edges. Discoloration on early parchment endleaves reveal traces of corner tongues., Blanks at end not digitzed., Script: The manuscript was copied by two scribes who exhibit distinct formats and scripts reflecting the transition from gothic to humanistic types of book production. Scribe I) ff. 1-107r, line 14. Written in a very fine early humanistic bookhand, above top line. Scribe II) ff. 107r, line 15-135r. Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules., and Twenty-three illuminated intials of fine quality, 6- to 2-line, yellow on rectangular bright blue grounds with narrow black frames. Grounds filled with restrained and stylized thin white vine-stem ornament and intricate white filigree. Most spaces for rubrics left unfilled.
- Subject (Topic):
- Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orationes, etc.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 86
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Latin) stating that King Henry IV was
- Description:
- Acquired from Henry Fletcher in 1950., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., In Anglo-Norman., and Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--14th century
- Subject (Name):
- England.--Treaties, etc.--France,--(1360 May 8)
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Chronicles of England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc.
- Creator:
- Cuvelier, Jo, fl. 1372-1387
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 990
- Image Count:
- 261
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Cuvelier, Jo,--fl. 1372-1387
- Subject (Topic):
- Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bertrand du Guesclin
- Published / Created:
- [between 1299 and 1472]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 144
- Image Count:
- 307
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- , mostly in Latin with some later documents in
- Description:
- Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827) and to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 11868). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Ca. 1800, Italy. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a gold-tooled red label on spine: "Monum. di Cand. Sotto il Dom. Ven. Cod. Memb"., Many of the leaves are illegible due to severe water damage and damp rot throughout; the codex emits a foul odor., and Script: Written throughout by multiple scribes in mercantesca scripts.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Crete (Greece)--History, Ērakleion (Greece), and Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508
- Subject (Topic):
- Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legal documents
10.
- Creator:
- Lucan, 39-65
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 790
- Image Count:
- 208
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), De bello civili (Pharsalia).
- Description:
- A series of illuminated leaves have been cut out; only the initials at the opening of Books 2, 5, 8, 9 and 10 are preserved. The initials are in Lombard style, pink letters on a blue square background, both decorated with white penwork, and have acanthus extensions of green, orange and yellow in the margin. The decoration is different in each initial; the one on f. 8v contains four yellow flowers. There is no space for a heading at the opening of Books 2 and 5; one line is left free for headings at the opening of Books 8-10, but headings have not been entered., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Blind-tooled brown leather (worn) over slightly rounded beech boards, part of the front cover and the entire spine missing. Worm holes, especially in the rear board. Sewn on three split leather thongs. On the covers a triple frame of four double fillets; the space between the middle and the inner frame filled with interlace design; the four corners of the central panel are decorated with quarter circles of fillets filled with the same design; in the middle an oblong cartouche; on the front board part of the damaged original cover has been replaced by brown leather blind-tooled with a different interlace design. Marks of four clasps attached to the front board; two lily-shaped brass catches remain, fixed by means of three nails to the outer side of the rear board. On the blank wood of the front board there is a fragmentary inscription in ink and large script (upside down, 16th century?)., and Script: Copied by one hand writing Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria/Formata, using the two forms of d. The opening majuscule of each verse is placed in a separate column. The scribe sometimes adds hairline extensions in the upper margin to letters on the top line; the loops of these occasionally contain a sketchy human face.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome--History--Civil War, 43-31 B.C
- Subject (Name):
- Lucan, 39-65
- Subject (Topic):
- Epic poetry, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello civili