Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederick II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123).
Description:
Binding: Modern limp vellum., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Cite as: Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of 1) Petrus Comestor (d. ca. 1179-1189), Historia scholastica, Genesis. 2) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Exodus. 3) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica, Leviticus, chapters 1-15. 4) Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa de casibus poenitentiae. 5) Pseudo-Augustine, De vita christiana (also attributed to Pelagius, d. ca. 423-429). 6) Augustine (doubtful authorship), Sermo 351, De paenitentia agenda. 7) Anonymous Italian Franciscan, Visiones. These seventeen visions are said to have been written in 1243, before the 1st Council of Lyons which took place in 1245 and during which Emperor Frederic II was deposed. 8) An additional vision by Peter of Treviso O.F.M., which he had in Bolzano (?) in 1245, at the time of the Council of Lyons mentioned in art. 7. The final rubric seems to indicate that the author of art. 7 was friar Stephen of Fiorentino. 9) Well-known poem on the Twelve Apocalyptic Stones (cf. Rev. 21:19-20), often ascribed to Marbod of Rennes (d. 1123). Probably written by one hand in extremely small Southern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under some Cursiva influence. The script of art. 9 is larger., On the front fly-leaf r a table of contents written in pencil by the owner S. Harrison Thomson. Purchased in 1972 from Thomson on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Red headings, red heightening of majuscules and red plain initials, mostly 2-3 lines; the red initials were to alternate with blue ones but the latter have not been executed. Many initials are anyhow missing. Guide-letters are seen close to the fold or to the edge of the pages. The running titles were also planned to be executed in alternately red and blue majuscules, but the blue letters are missing; there are no running titles after f. 20 (quire II)., and The ink on the first pages has flaked, making them very difficult to decipher.
Subject (Name):
Comestor, Petrus, 12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, Religious poetry, Latin, and Sermons, Latin
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397 Peter, of Poitiers, ca. 1130-1205 Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1210; 1300 and 1350]
Call Number:
Marston MS 220
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I (13th century): 1) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 2) Petrus Pictaviensis, Historia actuum apostolorum. 3) Unidentified text about Titus and Vespasian. Part II (14th century): 4) Augustinus Hibernicus, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, in the long recension. 5) Extracts from Ambrose, Exameron.
Description:
Binding: 18th-19th centuries, England. Brown calf, gold-tooled. Striped turn-ins., From the estate of Wilfred M. Voynich. Purchased in 1959 from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston., Part I: Two illuminated initials in parallel positions on f. 1r, beginning mid-page and extending almost to the bottom of the leaf. The first initial composed of a gold trellis edged in black with heads of a grotesque devouring the trellis at top and bottom, and foliage designs in green and white scrolling around the body of the initial against pink interior with white highlight and gold balls. The whole on a rectangular ground tapering to a point at bottom, with white designs. The second initial, somewhat narrower and less ambitious in design, gold edged in black with blue interior and thin white design in center and two rosettes, one at top, the other at bottom, and a third stylized floral motif in center, all on a pink ground in the same shape as the first initial. Also on f. 1r, 7-line initial divided red and blue with interior foliage designs in green and white on parchment ground, and red and blue penwork designs around exterior of letter. For major text divisions, fine medium blue and/or red initials, 9- to 6-line, with intricate penwork flourishes in red and blue, each accompanied by several lines of oversize letters for the first few words of text, with letters either in one color with designs in the other or alternating red and blue. Small penwork initials, red or blue with modest design in the opposite color, throughout. Headings, running headlines and vertical lines within text columns, in red. Remains of instructions to rubricator (some perpendicular to text in gutter) and guide letters for decorator., Part II: One gold initial, 4-line, with purple penwork designs on f. 194r. Blue initials with red penwork, 9- to 2-line, throughout. Headings and initial strokes added, in brown and red, unsophisticated drawings of birds, animals, leaves and grotesques in upper and lower margins., and Script: Part I (ff. 1-173): Written in neat gothic bookhand, above top line; glosses added by a variety of hands, some exhibiting anglicana features. Part II (ff. 174-197): Written in gothic bookhand with some marginalia by contemporary and later hands.
Subject (Name):
Petrus,--Comestor,--12th cent
Subject (Topic):
Bible--History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Petrus de Tarentasia (Pope Innocent V), In quartum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Copied from a stationer's exemplar secundum pecias. With Distinctiones on the scholastic and monastic life, entered in a later highly abbreviated script; and Anonymous commentary on the Psalms.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, Germany or Italy (?). Resewn (early) on three tawed skin slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged; channels filled with glue. A pink, green and white, five core endband is sewn through a leather lining on a tawed skin core laced into the boards and pegged. Covered in brick red sheepskin with corner tongues; blind-tooled with an X and sparse use of oak-leaf edging tool. Two truncated diamond catches on lower board, the upper board cut in for the red fabric clasp straps which were attached with star-headed nails. Corner fittings and six-petalled central medallion. Traces of title, in ink, on spine. Spine of the bookblock partially eaten by rodents., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand; arts. 2 and 4 in less formal scripts., and Two historiated initials, 7- and 4-line. Folio 1r: mauve initial with white filigree on blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing a man drawing water from a well, against gold ground, illustrating the Biblical passage "Haurietis aquas...." Serifs, ending in heart-shaped red leaves, on blue and red cusped grounds, with gold balls, extending along the inner margin to form a partial bar border. Perched on the top of the initial is a small bird, grey with red wings. Folio 1v: blue initial with white shading against dark red ground with white filigree. Ascender blue against dark red ground, extending along text column to form a partial bar border. The initial shows the good Samaritan riding on a donkey, against gold ground. Numerous flourished initials, 4- to 3-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Running headlines in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Guide letters for decorator visible beneath initials.
Subject (Name):
Innocent--V,--Pope,--ca. 1224-1276 and Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Psalms, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Pecia, Scholasticism, and Scholia
Maqqarī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ẓāfir, 11th cent.? Saraqusṭī, Ismāʻīl ibn Khalaf, d. 1063
Published / Created:
[13th century?]
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 112
Image Count:
26
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Treatise on the orthography of the Koran.
Alternative Title:
Mukhtaṣar mā rusima fī al-Qurʾān al-sharīf.
Description:
Brockelmann (S I, p. 721) lists a Mukhtaṣar mā rusima fī al-Qurʾān al-sharīf (Cairo catalog, I, 27), perhaps the same work., C. Landberg suggested that the author may possibly be identical with Ismāʻīl ibn Khalaf al-Muqriʾ (Berlin catalog, 591; Brockelmann, I, 407; S I, p. 720)., Islamic binding, paper-covered, with flap., Marginalia., and Old (13th century?) calligraphic naskhī, in red and black.
Ko mon-zho hari-maze byo-bu [28 original documents between 1192-1747, pasted upon screens.]
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated Kenkyū 3 [1192]-Enkyō 4 [1747]. and Manuscript, in an unidentified hand. The original manuscripts dated 建久3 [1192]-延享4 [1747].
Alternative Title:
Harimaze byōbu, Komonjoharimazebyōbu, and 古文書張交屏風, 建久3 [1192]-延享4 [1747].
Description:
"27 [i.e. 28] original documents dating between 1192 and 1747, pasted upon screens." (K. Asakawa. "Gifts of the Yale Association of Japan," 1945)., For individual manuscripts, search by call number: YAJ 2.12-2.13, Stored in 5 boxes., and Yale Association of Japan Collection original call number: Ac3.
Subject (Geographic):
Japan--History--1185-1868--Sources
Subject (Topic):
Japanese manuscripts and Yale Association of Japan Collection
Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
Description:
Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment (thick, repaired) of a Collection of original documents, copies, translations (from Greek and Turkish) of other documents of the Venetian doges of Candia, dated between 1299 and 1472, mostly in Latin with some later documents in Venetian dialect.
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