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2.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 395
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 460
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality) of 1) Herman de Valenciennes, Bible. 2) Herman de Valenciennes, L'Assomption de Notre Dame. Often found, as here, following the poem on the Bible by the same author. 3) Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina clericalis, followed by three moral precepts. 4) Poem in Anglo-Norman on Genesis. 5) Robert de Ho, Les Enseignements de Robert de Ho. 6) Extract from the romance Partenopeus de Blois. 7) Vie de saint Eustache. 8) Letter of Prester John to Emperor Manuel Comnenus, tr. into Anglo-Norman verse by Raoul d'Arundel; this is the earliest translation of the letter (ante A.D. 1200), and the only one known in French verse. 9) Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire. 10) Notes on the influence of the moon. 11) Le voyage du Chevalier Owen au purgatoire de saint Patrice. 12) Wace, Roman de Brut. Some 15th-century glosses, in Middle English and Latin, occur in the text
- Description:
- In Anglo-Norman and Latin., Script: Written by 6 scribes in large gothic bookhand. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-75r, 111r-130v, 153r-183v (characterized by decorative descenders in final line of text); Scribe 2: ff. 75r-97v (z with small horizontal crossbar); Scribe 3: ff. 98r-110r, 131r-152v, 189r-201v, 212v-216v (exaggerated ascenders in top line of text); Scribe 4: ff. 184r-188v; Scribe 5: second column of f. 201v (crude script); Scribe 6: ff. 202r-212r, 216v-224v (poorly formed)., 4-line initials, divided blue and red (ff. 111r, 153r, 189r), with penwork in red and blue or red only. 3- and 2-line initials, red with blue penwork or vice versa (quire VI lacks flourishes on initials). Paragraph marks in red or blue; some rubrics at beginning of articles. 1-line initials stroked with yellow or red. Ink drawings in margins include King Arthur (f. 189r)., Early repairs with parchment throughout; no loss of text. Waterstains, ff. 221v-224r. Rubbing on f. 224v has caused some loss of text in col. a., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced red/brown calf, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman poetry, Bestiaries, Christian poetry, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Romances, Anglo-Norman
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Anglo-Norman poetry
3.
- Creator:
- Berengaudus, active approximately 859
- Published / Created:
- [between 1000 and 1100].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1083
- Image Count:
- 399
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Berengaudus of Ferrières (9th cent.): 1) Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis, falsely attributed to St Ambrose; and 2) auctoris admonitio, a supplement to art. 1.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: the main part of the codex (quires I-XXII) is copied by three hands in late Caroline handwriting: A copied ff. 1r-12r and 38r20-172v; B copied ff. 12v-38r19; and C copied ff. 173r-180v., Decoration: extremely limited and applied inconsistently., and Binding: red morocco over pasteboard, dated 1904 and signed "K.A." [Katharine Adams at Broadway, Worcestershire]; and the spine has four raised bands and gold-tooled inscriptions. The previous binding was 19th century parchment over pasteboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Berengaudus, active approximately 859.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Apocalypse commentary
4.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1399]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1026
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Apocryphal Gospel Books and Miracles of the Virgin, including 1) Evangelium infantiae; 2) Liber passionis et resurrectionis Iesu Christi; 3) miracle legends about the Virgin
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Copied by two scribes. Hand 1, the notary Franciscus Salvator (Francesco Salvatore) from Ventimiglia, copied artt. 1-4 in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria (Mercantesca). Hand 2 copied artt. 5-6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria/Currens (Mercantesca)., Decoration: Long red headings up to f. 29r (artt. 1-2). In artt. 3-4, space for headings was provided, but they were not executed. Space was reserved for 2-line initials, but these were not executed. Artt. 4 and 5 are undecorated; there are no guide letters for the 1-line initials at the opening of each of these articles, for which space was reserved., and Binding: 20th century, brown leather and wooden boards. Spine has three raised bands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bible
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Apocryphal Gospel Books and Miracles of the Virgin
5.
- Creator:
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 987
- Image Count:
- 738
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Riga, Aurora, as well as Aegidius Parisiensis, De poenis inferni, and an unrecorded poem on the vices and virtues
- Description:
- Script: main text copied by three hands writing Gothica Textualis Libraria: scribe A (ff. 1r-198r and 243r-279v6); B (ff. 198v-204v) wrote larger and bolder; C (ff. 205r-242v and 279v7-360r)., Decoration: headings in red, partly written in the margins, missing after f. 350r. Line fillers at the end of almost every line. Guide letters; flourished initials., Binding: 19th century, signed by P. Lefebvre: dark blue straight-grained leather over cardboard, the covers decorated with simple frames of gold-tooled fillets., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Riga, ca. 1140-1209. and Abbaye de Cîteaux.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Aurora
6.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1240-approximately 1250.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a73
- Image Count:
- 716
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
7.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1250].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 604
- Image Count:
- 889
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of the Bible, with prologues to almost every book; also includes interpretations of Hebrew names
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by several similar-looking hands writing in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Decoration: each Prologue (except Jeremiah, f. 240rb) opens with a painted initial, decorated with interlace and hybrid animals, fishes, etc. Numerous large and small decorative initials in red and blue pen-work. Execution of decoration ascribed to the "Vie de Saint Denis Atelier." See catalog description for further detail., and Binding: Eighteenth century : rose-coloured parchment over wooden boards; both covers gold-tooled; brass bosses and clasps; arms of Johann Christoph Borzek on front cover; cartouche containing a peasant pruning a tree, with the motto "Cum tempore fructus," on rear cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
8.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 589
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thin) containing 1) List of Epistle and Gospel readings (incipit and explicit) for the liturgical year. 2) Survey of the subdivisions of the Bible. 3) Bible text. 4) Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum. Two folios are missing between ff. 184 and 185, two folios between ff. 282 and 283, one folio between ff. 295 and 296, all with loss of text
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in very small Northern Gothica Textualis., Red headings and red heigthening of the majuscules. Alternately red and blue pain initials (1 line) in art. 4. Alternately red and blue flourished initials (2 lines) with long marginal extensions. Beautiful larger flourished initials in the same colours with very developed penwork, in which both colours are sometimes combined, at the beginning of the various books and sections. On f. 1r large littera duplex and on f. 8r (beginning of Genesis) large initial I with very fine penwork, both the full height of the text area and in the same colours. Running titles in red and blue., Many leaves and the lower outer corners of all leaves damaged by moist., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over thin wooden boards, decorated with rolls. Rebacked. Remnants of two clasps fixed to the rear cover. On the spine two labels, the upper one with the gold-tooled title in Gothic, nineteenth century: "Biblia sacra cum interpretationibus Hebraicorum nomine [sic] in fine"; the lower one with gold-tooled inscription in Roman type "MS.P." On the first fly-leaf (f. Iv) a list of Biblical Kings.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
9.
- Published / Created:
- [12--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.96
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a biblical commentary on the Prologue to the Pentateuch through Exodus 30 and on the Song of Songs through Matthew 5.
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle High German., Script: written in a very small, heavily abbreviated gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are written in brown; punctuated with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible commentary (in Latin and Middle High German) (fragment).
10.
- Published / Created:
- [between 975 and 1025].
- Call Number:
- Zi +4153
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Job, containing portions of chapters 28 and 29.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in caroline minuscule., Decoration: initials and rubrics in red; some interlinear corrections; horizontal catchwords visible on back cover., and This fragment is contained in Zi +4153 (Leonardo de Utino, Quadragesimale aureum), around which the fragment is used as a cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Versions, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Job (fragment).
11.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 800].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a part of the biblical book of Judges from the Old Latin version
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in pre-Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to around 800 and attributed to southwestern Germany or eastern France., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown uncials; portions of a running title in brown uncials are preserved in the upper margins of both sides; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand using darker ink has made corrections and altered some of the punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Judges (Vetus Latina) (fragment).
12.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200].
- Call Number:
- Zi 3612.6
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Judges
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in a late pregothic bookhand., Decoration: alternating red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork; initials heightened in red; roman numerals in blue and red indicating chapter numbers., and These fragments are contained in Zi 3612.6 (Gianantonio Sangiorgio, Sermo de passione...), around which they are used as wrappers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Versions, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Judges (fragment).
13.
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 900]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1036
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, incomplete, of a Latin sermon about God's mercy and His aversion to pride, demonstrated from teh example of the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11).
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Layout: single columns of 25 lines., Script: Caroline minuscule., Decoration: rubrication., and Water damage with loss of text on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblical commentaries
14.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 519
- Image Count:
- 354
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (low quality), composed of several manuscripts bound together, of mostly unidentified sermons. Produced at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Small early Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria or Currens script by various hands, some very informal and difficult to decipher, often highly abbreviated., Short running titles are written above the right-hand columns of the recto pages in the following articles: 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 18-23, which seem to be the original part of the codex; article 14 has running titles of a different type., The first folios are stained., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over cardboard, blind-tooled with triple fillets as in MS 517; spine with five raised bands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblical commentaries; Sermons
15.
- Creator:
- Durand, of Huesca
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1235]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 266
- Image Count:
- 579
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Durand of Huesca (ca. 1160-1224?), Biblical Distinctiones, an early 13th-century revision of Peter of Capua's (d. 1214) Alphabetum in artem sermocinandi. Marston MS 266 is apparently the only known witness to Durand's revision. With Rhymed life of Peter of Capua , in quatrains, composed by Durand of Huesca
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a fine early gothic bookhand by several scribes, above top line., Nice penwork initials, 7- to 3-line, for each letter of the alphabet, blue with red or vice versa. Smaller initials, 2-line, in similar but less intricate designs for chapter divisions. Chapter numbers, some initials, plain line fillers, and text divisions in red. Ornamental border, in red, encloses common ending for verses on f. 1r-v. Spaces for rubrics left unfilled. Majuscules in text stroked with pale yellow., Beginning and end of codex worm and rodent damaged., and Binding: Date? Fragmentary binding. Resewn with a chain stitch and the spine lined with coarse cloth. Plain, wound endbands and paste boards (composed of paper and parchment fragments of manuscripts), that once were covered with brick red tawed skin. Traces of two ties. Outline of rectangular label, now missing, on upper cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Durand, of Huesca. and Peter, of Capua, Cardinal.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblical distinctiones
16.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1900]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 804
- Image Count:
- 79
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Collection on paper and parchment of manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves. Including paper leaves from a Latin Psalter, a parchment leaf from the Beauvais Missal (formerly owned by Otto Ege), and a parchment leaf from a Latin Bible concordance
- Description:
- In Latin, French and English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of medieval and renaissance manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves
17.
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.72
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Jerome's Commentaria in Ezechielem
- Description:
- In Latin, Script: written in late Carolina minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; two words in Greek majuscules with a line drawn above them; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; double quotation marks in the outer margin of the recto.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaria in Ezechielem (fragment).
18.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 895
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Petrus Cantor (c. 1130-1197), Commentum in libros Proverbiorum, Ecclesiastes, Sapientiae et Ecclesiastici
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in early Gothica Textualis. Running headlines in flourished majuscules alternately red and blue; they stop after f. 6., Many leaves are badly soiled., Red underlining of biblical passages. 2-line flourished initials with extensions in the margin or in the intercolumnar space; they are in red and blue on ff. in quire I, in red only in quires II-III (two flourished initials on f. 1v are also executed only in red); two initials of that type are missing, ff. 11r and 16r. Larger initials at the beginning of the commentary of new Bible books: 4-line littera duplex "B(eatus)" on f. 4r, Prologue to Ecclesiastes; 3-line "Q(uecumque)" on f. 8v, Prologue to Wisdom; 11-line "S(ummi)" and 6-line "O(mnis)", both red on beige background, on f. 15r, Prologue and text of Ecclesiasticus., and Binding: unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Cantor, approximately 1130-1197.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus
19.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1180]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 643
- Image Count:
- 342
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of biblical commentaries
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by a single hand in Praegothica still close to Carolina. There are short running headlines in Gothica Cursiva up to f. 124r and again from f. 140v to the end., Large Romanesque initials in red., and Binding: 15th century. Blind stamped leather over wooden boards, repaired and recovered. Flyleaves are from a 12th-century Italian homilary (?).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Bible
20.
- Creator:
- Ambrosiaster
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1125]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 554
- Image Count:
- 560
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Ambrosiaster, Commentarius in Epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos, recensio. 2) Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt (here attributed to his pupil Remigius of Auxerre), Commentaries on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Hebrews, Philemon, and Titus
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by a group of scribes, all writing a more or less careful Italian Late Carolingian script. There are numerous and extensive alterations and corrections on erasure. Headings in a mixture of Capitals and Uncials., Headings in red. Initials of various styles: (1) plain Romanesque initials, sometimes with developed decoration, in red; (2) more or less large painted initials in various bright colours on coloured background and filled with white vinestem; the body of the letter often filled with various interlace and frets; the vinestem may be issuing from an animal's mouth. Special forms of these painted initials: ff. 88v (wheel-shape), 90r (a snake winding round the shafts of the letter), 126r (outline drawing of vinestem initial), 136v (zoomorphic: bird-shape), 186v (inhabited by two birds), 204v (zoomorphic: dragon-shape), 209r (idem, with head at both ends), 215v (zoomorphic: fish), 216r (zoomorphic: dragon with head at both ends), 222v (inhabited by two birds), 268v (partly zoomorphic: bird), 274v (historiated: head of St. Paul). Initials are lacking f. 197v, 201v., and Binding: Original doeskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. On each cover traces of five circular bosses; traces of two straps fixed to the rear cover and clutching over pins in the front cover. On the front cover an inscription largely worn off: "Remigius super epistolas sancti Pauli" (13th century?).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ambrosiaster.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Pauline epistles, etc
