Manuscript fragment on parchment of a fragment of an antiphon from a liturgical book, possibly an antiphonary.
Description:
Decoration: heightened neumes; initials in red., Script: written in late pregothic script., and This fragment is contained in Zi 145.5 (Utrisque juris canonum...), in which the fragment is used as a front endpaper.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Antiphonaries., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre.
Description:
Binding: individually mounted. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances in art., Arthurian romances in art--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of Elias Cortonensis O.F.M., Lumen luminum, said according to this copy to have been composed in 1315, an erroneous date, and drawn from Saracen and Hebrew sources, translated into Latin. With a cryptic text, ascribed to a church figure, with a cipher code; and miscellaneous recipes in Italian.
Description:
Binding: Original, North Italian. Dark leather, the sides ruled with triple bordering lines to form a rectangle within a rectangle, the smaller rectangle with a roll tool of vinelike foliage impressed in blind, a smaller interior rectangle formed by the panel of roll tooling with gold-stamped ivy leaves at the corners and a circular stamp incorporating the "yhs" monogram in the center framed by a lozenge of tooling with the same roll already mentioned; back with five raised bands; modern gold-stamped title label pasted onto second compartment from top. Backstrip and corners extensively repaired; gilt edges stamped with a herringbone knotwork pattern., Denis Duveen; Mellon MS 26, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., ff. 33 of probably 40 originally, the extant leaves numbered by an old hand 1-25, 27-30, 32-33, 36-37 (f. 26, 31, 34, 35, and 38-40, now missing, the last three possibly blanks), In Latin, with Italian prologue., Script: Written in an italic hand and partly in cipher., and Watermark: a circle containing an unidentified design element, with a six-pointed star on a shaft above, not identified.
Subject (Name):
Elia,--da Cortona, frate,---1253.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Ciphers--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin.
Description:
Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a medical treatise.
Description:
Decoration: rubrics in red; initials in blue with red penwork. Some marginal comments are circled in red., Script: written in an unidentified script., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4794 (Giovani Balbi of Genoa, Catholicon), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Méliadus de Léonnoys.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi. Interpolated is an anonymous Middle English translation of the Meditationes de passione Christi.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century vellum., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork; six initials in red., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Ownership inscription of Sir John Gage on f. 126., Previously owned by the Gage family. Ex libris Viscount Gage. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Gage, Henry Raynald Gage,--Viscount,--1895-1982--Bookplate., Gage, John,--Sir,--1479-1556--Autograph., Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi., Love, Nicholas,--active 1410., and Love, Nicholas,--active 1410.--Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi.
Description:
All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive., Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco., Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork., Ex libris Harry Keryng of Rede; Robert Doraunt; St. John's Cathedral Church, Colchester; Lord Aldenham (Henry Hucks Gibbs); J. P. R. Lyell; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (MS 9). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Includes bibliographic note and Vol. 4 No. 5 of Monthly Notes of The Library Association of the United Kingdom, dated May 15, 1883, at end., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Ownership., Dourant, Robert--Autograph., Gibbs, Henry Hucks,--1819-1907--Bookplate., Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi., Love, Nicholas,--active 1410., Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871---Bookplate., and St. John's Cathedral Church (Colchester, England) Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaves from a Sarum missal, containing text from Masses for the third and eighth Sundays after Pentecost and for the dedication of a church.
Description:
Decoration: numerous initials in burnished gold or blue; extensive penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 39 lines., and Script: gothic liturgical script.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church.--Sarum manual.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Missals--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the second section of an Old Testament chronicle and genealogy of Christ in Middle English
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: names in colored cartouches of green or brown squares; circular diagram of the temple of Jerusalem., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns., Originally formed a single roll with Takamiya MS 36., and Script: English gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ--Genealogy--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Topic):
Bible--Chronology--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.