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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
21.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 861
- Image Count:
- 698
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of commentaries on the Sunday Epistles and other theological and moral texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., The manuscript contains: 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities., and Binding: 19th century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
- Subject (Topic):
- Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Christianity, Science, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Sunday Epistles; theologico-moral treatises
22.
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 197
- Image Count:
- 412
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment in two volumes of Jerome, Commentaries on the Minor Prophets. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written and neatly corrected in early gothic bookhand by several scribes., Fine painted initials, 19- to 5-line, for major text divisions, monochrome red or polychrome in red, bright green, olive green and/or brown, with pale yellow washes. Preliminary sketches in lead often visible underneath; some bows appear to be drawn with compass. Smaller initials of similar design throughout. Initials are characterized by lattice work, acanthus scrolls and decorative empty spaces within initials. The opening initial on f. 1r is executed in red and blue. Headings in red throughout., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides. Three green gold-tooled labels on the spine of each volume: "Vol. I", "Vol. II"; "Hieronimi in XII Prophetas Manuscrip"; "Saecul XII". Title on black gold-tooled labels: "Hieronimi in XII Prophetas Manuscrip". Edges spattered blue-green. The same distinctive bindings also found on Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 158, and 159, all of Hautecombe provenance.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the minor prophets
23.
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt
- Published / Created:
- [between 1050 and 1099]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.32
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt's Commentarium in Epistolam ad Hebraeos
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with occasional use of an enlarged minuscule "e"; punctuated with punctus and punctus interrogativus; a contemporary hand has made corrections and altered punctuation in a somewhat lighter ink.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Haimo, Bishop of Halberstadt.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarium in Epistolam ad Hebraeos (fragment).
24.
- Creator:
- William, of Melitona
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1325]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 154
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, yellow and speckled on hair side) of William of Melitona, Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum. Copied from a stationer's exemplum secundum pecias
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand., One historiated initial of fine quality on f. 11r, 9-line, reddish brown with white filigree against blue ground with white filigree, edged in gold, showing the author and three companions, presenting a book to a seated monarch dressed in a blue robe against a reddish ground with geometric designs in blue, black and red. Terminals of initial extend as a bar border into inner margin, blue and reddish brown against reddish-brown and blue grounds with white filigree and touches of gold. Border terminates in lower margin in a spray of spiky ivy, blue with gold leaves. Flourished initials, 6- to 3-line, blue or red with red and/or blue penwork designs, often extending the entire length of the text column. Running titles in red and blue. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Biblical passages underlined in red. Initials touched with red. Remains of instructions to rubricator., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain. Early (?) resewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into grooves in wooden boards. Beaded, red, green and natural color secondary endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced into the boards. The spine is lined with vellum between supports. Front and back (mostly concealed by another parchment leaf) pastedowns from a liturgical manuscript with neumes (Spain, 12th century). Remains of contemporary rectangular label on lower board: "Holcot super eccl***/ cum". Covered in brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a central panel and alternate concentric frames filled with rope interlace with red bordering fillets. Spine: supports defined with double fillets on the spine and an X with a central cross-bar in the panels. There are four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps fastened with star-headed nails.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- William, of Melitona.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pecia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ecclesiasticum
25.
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Bede
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 518
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf of Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. The fragment contains Ps. 77:68-78:13, PL 93.909-914. The lemmata are announced by means of paragraph marks in the shape of gallows. There are many corrections; additions are written in the upper margins or vertically in the intercolumnar space, in the same way as in MS 517
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a careful small late Carolingian script., The upper corners and the lower part of the leaf have been trimmed with loss of text., and The fragment was used as cover for a binding of a 16th-century book, f. 1v being the outer side. On what was the spine a handwritten title is vaguely legible "SCHOLIA SAL*** TAN*"; on the front cover the letters "M C E //" and the date "15//" are stamped.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Bede.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Psalmos
26.
- Creator:
- Origen
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 50
- Image Count:
- 322
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Origen, Commentarius in ad Romanos, translated into Latin by Rufinus. Probably written at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in well formed early gothic bookhand., Fine painted initials, ff. 1r and 29v, red with simple green penwork designs and pale yellow wash, 8-line; smaller red, green, or dark yellow-brown monochrome initials, 7- to 1-line. On f. 141r red initial, 7-line, with pale yellow wash. Headings in red., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Half bound in brown sheepskin, gold-tooled, with two green, gold-tooled labels: "Hieronimi/ In Epistol/ ad Romanos/ Manuscrip" and "Saecul XII". Bright pink paper sides and edges spattered blue-green. The spine of the manuscript is back bevelled at head and tail. Rust stains from the nails of four corner bosses of early binding on first two leaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Origen. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in ad Romanos
27.
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1299].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1038
- Image Count:
- 165
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Jerome (ca. 348-420), Commentarii in Danielem, with prologue and later additions
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Artt. 2-4 probably copied by various, very similar, hands in Praegothica, but with frequent interruptions. The texts on the front flyleaf (art. 1) are written in sixteenth century Gothica Cursiva Currens. The many interruptions in the handwriting and the variations in the layout, especially in quire V, are as yet unexplained., Decoration: Unevenly spread; headings and explicit formulas and initials exclusively in red ink., and Binding: 15th century, rebacked in ancient style: reddish brown calfskin over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled. Spine has four raised bands. There are marks of two clasps attached to the front board which close over brass catches on the rear board.
- 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 > Commentary on Daniel
28.
- Published / Created:
- [12--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.100
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of an unidentified commentary on Luke
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis currens)., and Decoration: 1-line initials in black; punctuated with the punctus; accents added by a later hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on Luke (fragment).
29.
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1135
- Image Count:
- 157
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on sheepskin parchment of Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225-1274), Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John, edited by Reginald de Piperno, O.P.; with excerpts (art. 2) from Nicolaus de Gorran, O.P. (d. c. 1295), Postillae in epistolam ad Romanos, chs. 1-9.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: The main text (art. 1) is copied in a small Northern Gothica Semitextualis Libraria; and art. 2 is in a small Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria (Anglicana)., and Decoration: There are alternating red and blue paragraph marks; running headlines associated with chapter numbers; alternating red and blue 2-line flourished initials, half inserted, with penwork in the contrasting colour (N.B. penwork missing on f. 74va); and on f. 1r, a 6-line littera duplex in red and blue, with delicate penwork in the two colours and a J-stave over the full height of the left margin. Art. 2 is undecorated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John
30.
- Creator:
- Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444
- Published / Created:
- 15th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 953
- Image Count:
- 262
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Cyril of Alexandria's Glaphyra in Genesim, Books I-IV (first part of Glaphyra in Pentateuchum).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand writing Humanistica Textualis. Pale red headings, mostly not executed. Space for initials is provided, with guide letters, but initials are mostly not executed. On f. 1r a 6-line white vinestem initial with extensions in the upper and left margins; white vinestem decoration in the lower margin around a wreath, containing now a blank escutcheon. On ff. 37v (4 lines), 42r (6 lines) and 60r (4 lines) white vinestem initials of lower quality and in a different style., Cyril of Alexandria's Glaphyra in Genesim, Books I-IV (first part of Glaphyra in Pentateuchum). Latin translation ascribed to Iosephus. Due to the loss of two leaves a part of the text preceding the final sentences is missing. A few 17th century annotations., and Binding: 19th or 20th century: brown morocco, both covers gold-tooled with a floral stamp, four times crosswise applied in the center. Spine with three raised bands, to which the gold-tooled leather of the 17th century binding has been pasted, with the inscription: "CIRILI / ALEXAND / OPUS / MS". Marbled paper pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cyril, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, approximately 370-444.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on the Pentateuch
31.
- Creator:
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1430]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1087
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment
- Description:
- In Middle English. and Schøyen collection MS 1560.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on the Psalms
32.
- Creator:
- Halgrin, John
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 911
- Image Count:
- 118
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla (d. 1237), Commentum in Cantica Canticorum. With a table of the lemmata commented in art. 1, referring to the original foliation
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in very small Gothica Textualis Libraria, marked by d with a very long ascender, the southern form of tironian et, and occasional lengthening of the ascenders on the top line and the descenders on the bottom line., First pages stained; from about f. 41 the lower outer corners of the leaves are damaged without loss of text., Red underlining of the lemmata. Red captions in the margins. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 1., and Binding: Limp parchment, consisting of a 17th century document in English, the blank verso of which is at the outer side. Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Halgrin, John.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentum in Cantica Canticorum
33.
- Creator:
- Peter, of Poitiers, approximately 1130-1205
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1183
- Container / Volume:
- (Roll)
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Decorated roll containing the text of the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi by Peter of Poitiers (Petrus Pictaviensis). The text, presented in genealogical tree format, appears to be a copy of the second version of this work, containing the full text of the first version accompanied by interpolations from the Historia scholastica and other sources
- Description:
- In Latin., Format: seven membranes sewn together to form one roll., Layout: single vertical column in the form of a genealogical tree., Script: single gothic bookhand., Decoration: text is presented as a genealogical tree, in brown ink, with rubrication; initials in red and blue ink; roundels and planned spaces for diagrams and miniatures (unfinished) outlined in red and blue ink. Linking genealogical tree branches and diagram lines in red and blue ink. Complex grid for layout of design elements ruled in plummet., and Ownership inscriptions at top and bottom of roll: Conradus Mondone Astensis. (Corrado Mondone d'Asti, Master General of the Dominican Order, 1462-1465).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Peter, of Poitiers, approximately 1130-1205.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
34.
- Creator:
- van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365
- Call Number:
- Osborn a23
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in Gothic bookhand, produced in the Netherlands during the fourteenth century. Der Leken Spieghel is a Middle Dutch rhymed Biblical epic, composed between 1325 and 1330. This leaf, a binding fragment, contains a portion of Book II which deals with the lineage of Joseph and Mary
- Description:
- Jan van Boendale is also called Jan Decker and Jan de Clerc., In Middle Dutch., and Illuminated miniatures at chapter headings.
- Subject (Name):
- van Boendale, Jan, d. 1365.
- Subject (Topic):
- History of Biblical events, Poetry, and Dutch poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Der leken spieghel, [13--].
35.
- Creator:
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 699
- Image Count:
- 289
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), Enarrationes in Psalmos 134-150. 2) First half of Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus, Sermo de martyribus. 3) Antiphons for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin (8 Dec.), with neumatic notation
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands., Headings in red. Art. 1 has plain initials (Capitalis, ca. 4 lines) in red, followed by a word in Capitalis/Uncialis. The book opens with an 8-line Romanesque decorated initial in red and black. Art. 2 opens with a black capital followed by two words in Capitalis. Art. 3 is decorated with 1-line initials in black with heightening in red and opens with a 4-line red plain initial., Holes, original repairs and sometimes irregular lower edges., and Binding: Early (probably original) binding in pigskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. The covers are blind-tooled with fillets. On the front cover the fillets make a St. Andrews cross, at a later time decorated with trees in Lederschnitt, countless small circular stamps and a few stars (?); the rear cover, with fillets in lozenge pattern, has only the circular stamps and the stars. Spine with three raised bands. On each cover marks of five brass and iron bosses. Two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover an original paper library label with the title (partly rewritten) "Expositio beati Augustini super Psalmo CXXXIIII et deinceps usque ad finem". The binding is strengthened by means of parchment strips placed around the first quire and taken from a 13th-century Latin manuscript.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphons (Music), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Enarrationes in Psalmos
36.
- Creator:
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1100]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 158
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam. With Acts of the synod of Piacenza, March 1095 (Urban II), chs. 1-14.
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous pen and ink initials of good quality, 8- to 3-line, drawn in red. The initials are constructed of thick vine stems, divided in half and swelling at the ends, issuing sprouts of intertwining stylized foliage. On f. 10v the letter E is formed from a bird and its extended wing; on ff. 75r and 103r the initials terminate in animal heads. The most important initials, ff. 1v, 13r, 36v, 62r, 75r, 114r, 115v and 119v, are touched with patches of ochre and summary modelling in the same color. On f. 1v the continuation capitals are filled in with red and ochre. Plain initials and headings in red. Remains of instructions to the rubricator along outer edge perpendicular to text (e.g., ff. 119v, 120v)., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides that have been covered with tan paper; edges spattered blue-green. Two gold-tooled labels on spine, the first left blank and the lower one reading "Saecul XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 159, and 197, also from the Cisterican abbey of Hautecombe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Urban II, Pope, ca. 1042-1099.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam
37.
- Creator:
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 850]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 389
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 273
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (much worn; many natural flaws; trimmed).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: The commentary is written in a somewhat uneven early Caroline minuscule; the Biblical passages for commentary are written in orange uncials, many of which have faded and are now illegible (some letters written over in brown ink by a later hand)., Heading, f. 1v, square capitals and uncials, in orange. Initials, outlined in black, filled with orange and yellow, ff. 26v, 77v, 131v. Plain initials, black or red, some with modest scroll designs, at beginning of each segment of commentary., Upper portions of ff. 61, 68, 69 torn, loss of text; f. 132v extremely worn., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark green goatskin; gold-tooled. Title on spine: "Bedae Opera. VII. Siecle".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio In Marci Evangelium
38.
- Creator:
- Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1040
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780-856), Expositio in IV libros Regum, up to the middle of 3.4. PL 109.9-133. 2) Beda Venerabilis (d. 735), De templo Salomonis. 3) Hrabanus Maurus, Expositio in IV libros Regum, 3.8-4.25. 4) Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio. The ficticious correspondence between Alexander the Great and the King of the Brahmins about philosophy and morals. 5) Large collection of short moral prescriptions without apparent order, several of them addressed at monks. The authors from whom the sentences are taken are rarely mentioned: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, John Chrysostom, Plato
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: the original part copied by a single hand writing a careful Praegothica. The additional sections are copied by two slightly later hands in smaller and less formal forms of the same script., The decoration of the original part consists of headings and chapter numbering in red; 1-line versals alternately red and green in the chapter tables; and plain initials of various sizes (2-4, occasionally 6-11 lines, sometimes slightly decorated, in red, blue and green. In the additional artt. 4 and 5 red stroking of the majuscules, red headings (not in art. 5), and 1-2 lines plain red initials., and Binding: 18th century. Paper over pasteboard. On the spine red leather title label with inscription. Red mottled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856., Solomon, King of Israel., and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Expositio libri regum, etc
39.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1466-67]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 242
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of 15 membranes, of a Chronicle of biblical world history and the genealogy of the kings of England
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat rough textura., The genealogical diagrams, which are fitted into the empty spaces between the columns of text, begin with a roundel formed of concentric bands of blue, gold and red with a miniature of Adam with Eve, who is being handed an apple by the serpent. From the roundel of Adam and Eve to the Ascension of Christ the successive Biblical names, framed in orange or green squares, are linked by a continuous band in blue, red and gold. The names of the ancestors of the Kings of England, starting with Brutus, appear in red or blue circles, surmounted by gold crowns. Other names are in plain red circles. Linking lines in the genealogies are in red or green. At the appropriate places in the text are inserted schematized diagrams in red and green ink of Noah's Ark, a plan of the Israelite camp in the desert and a plan of the city of Jerusalem., One large illuminated initial for the prologue, 8-line, mauve and blue with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. The initial is filled with a large flower, red, yellow and green, and curling acanthus, orange and green extending into the margin and continued as black inkspray with large leaves, heart-shaped or acanthus, blue, pink, orange, white and green with white filigree, a large orange and gold flower, smaller leaves in gold with blue and pink, gold dots and small green leaves, extending into the upper and left margin to form a partial border. Smaller illuminated initial for the beginning of the main chronicle, 5-line, gold on blue and mauve ground with white filigree. Numerous small initials, 2-line, alternate in gold with blue penwork and blue with red. Paragraph marks alternate in red and blue., and Binding: Unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers, Manuscripts, Medieval, World history, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Genealogical roll chronicle
40.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 1
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 574
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, containing the text of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, including Baruch, with prologues and commentary. The extensive gloss surrounds the centered Biblical text
- Description:
- In Latin., Layout: Biblical text centered, single column, variable length; surrounding gloss written in double columns of 65-75 lines., Script: gothic script. Letters in Biblical text larger than in glosses., Decoration: 18 small historiated initials and approximately 30 other illuminated initials; numerous blue and red penwork initials with red or lilac penwork decoration; rubricated., and Binding: modern blind-stamped red morocco gilt, by Riviere.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Vulgate, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Glossed Bible
41.
- Creator:
- Haimo, of Auxerre, -approximately 855
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350; 1290 and 1325]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 223
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I: 1) Brief prologues to the Pauline Epistles, paraphrasing or extracted from the argumenta of Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio in epistolas Sancti Pauli. 2-4) Notes for sermons arranged according to the liturgical year. Part II: 5) Unidentified sermons. 6) John of Wales, Breviloquium
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-24): Scribe I copied ff. 1r-6v in small gothic bookhand with southern features; Scribe II copied ff. 7r-24r in a somewhat more angular gothic bookhand; additions by different scribes on f. 24r-v. Part II (ff. 25-78): Arts. 5-6 copied in small neat gothic bookhand, by a single scribe; some marginalia added in anglicana script (e.g., f. 46v); art. 7 added in a less careful gothic bookhand., Part I: Red initials, 3- to 2-line, with crude harping designs in black; headings and paragraph marks (art. 3) in red. Instructions for rubricator. Part II: Flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue with penwork designs in the opposite color. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue; headings, often added in margin, in red. Remains of guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Backs of quires cut in for original sewing. Brown calf case, blind-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Haimo, of Auxerre, -approximately 855.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Sermons
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Haimo of Auxerre; John of Wales, etc
42.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 129
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 2
- Image Count:
- 590
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) in two volumes of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, translated into French by Guyart des Moulins. Missing the beginning of Numbers (v. 1, one folio following f. 115), the beginning of 3 Kings (v. 1, one folio following f. 236), and part of Luke (v. 2, one folio following f. 260).
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in a formal batarde with some loops by one scribe. Marginal glosses in a similar but smaller script by the same hand. Corrections by a later hand (15th century) in brown ink., One large, 2-column miniature, 18-lines, f. 3r, of three scribes, set in a wide (25 mm.) frame, brown, decorated with a continuous garland of flowers in gold, green and white, outlined on both inner and outer edges with bands of pink, gold and blue, highlighted in white. Text surrounded by a 3/4 band of pink and gold with white highlights, edged in black. Full border: curling sprouts of blue, gold and some red and light blue acanthus on green stems, largely confined to the corners and centers of the border, with blossoms containing animals, devils, knights; the intervening spaces filled with trailing vines of green and gold leaves with varied flowers in red, blue, light blue, strawberries, grapes and beans as well as denser vines in black ink with leaves in gold and green, with flowers, as above; the entire border densely filled with pen flecks, black, with gold dots., Historiated initials (one column, 8-line), for the Seven Days of Creation (ff. 4v, 5r, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v and 10r), roundels, with circular frames, brown with garlands as above, in some cases with the top and bottom of the roundel lopped off, set against a field of acanthus and/or flowers, as above, and set between two thin gold bands, edged in black. Short, thin borders of acanthus, vines, and flowers as above, divided from text by gold and pink bands, edged in black. Each miniature with a 5-, 4- or 3-line initial, blue with white highlights, filled with strapwork and blue and pink ivy with white highlights, on irregular gold ground. 2-line initials throughout, gold filled with red set against a blue ground or vice versa, trailing black hairspray with gold, red and blue dots. Initials cruder in v. 2. Line-fillers in both text and glosses in similar fashion. Running headings (in v. 1 only), and keys for glosses in red throughout. Traces of tabs in outer margins., and Binding: 1981. Bound in a brown, linen buckram case in the Yale Library Conservation Studio to replace an 18th century brown calf binding. One board of this binding retained in box.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- History Bibles, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica
43.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 129
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 1
- Image Count:
- 534
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) in two volumes of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, translated into French by Guyart des Moulins. Missing the beginning of Numbers (v. 1, one folio following f. 115), the beginning of 3 Kings (v. 1, one folio following f. 236), and part of Luke (v. 2, one folio following f. 260).
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in a formal batarde with some loops by one scribe. Marginal glosses in a similar but smaller script by the same hand. Corrections by a later hand (15th century) in brown ink., One large, 2-column miniature, 18-lines, f. 3r, of three scribes, set in a wide (25 mm.) frame, brown, decorated with a continuous garland of flowers in gold, green and white, outlined on both inner and outer edges with bands of pink, gold and blue, highlighted in white. Text surrounded by a 3/4 band of pink and gold with white highlights, edged in black. Full border: curling sprouts of blue, gold and some red and light blue acanthus on green stems, largely confined to the corners and centers of the border, with blossoms containing animals, devils, knights; the intervening spaces filled with trailing vines of green and gold leaves with varied flowers in red, blue, light blue, strawberries, grapes and beans as well as denser vines in black ink with leaves in gold and green, with flowers, as above; the entire border densely filled with pen flecks, black, with gold dots., Historiated initials (one column, 8-line), for the Seven Days of Creation (ff. 4v, 5r, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v and 10r), roundels, with circular frames, brown with garlands as above, in some cases with the top and bottom of the roundel lopped off, set against a field of acanthus and/or flowers, as above, and set between two thin gold bands, edged in black. Short, thin borders of acanthus, vines, and flowers as above, divided from text by gold and pink bands, edged in black. Each miniature with a 5-, 4- or 3-line initial, blue with white highlights, filled with strapwork and blue and pink ivy with white highlights, on irregular gold ground. 2-line initials throughout, gold filled with red set against a blue ground or vice versa, trailing black hairspray with gold, red and blue dots. Initials cruder in v. 2. Line-fillers in both text and glosses in similar fashion. Running headings (in v. 1 only), and keys for glosses in red throughout. Traces of tabs in outer margins., and Binding: 1981. Bound in a brown, linen buckram case in the Yale Library Conservation Studio to replace an 18th century brown calf binding. One board of this binding retained in box.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- History Bibles, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica
44.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa38
- Image Count:
- 502
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, illuminated, in several proto-Gothic bookhands, of the Historia Scholastica, probably produced in the scriptorium of the monastery of Sutton-at-Hone. The text is complete but does not contain Comestor's later "additions" to the original chapters
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., Text is heavily glossed in several hands., Illuminated initials; rubricated., Ownership: Benedict, Vicar of Sutton; Cathedral Priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, Kent; Philip Mainwaring, Esq. of Over Peover; Sir Henry Mainwaring. Also Royal Archaeological Institute and Warrington Public Library., and Binding: 19th century full paneled calf.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- History Bibles and Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, [1190s].
45.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- 1229.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 214
- Image Count:
- 414
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica. Text missing at beginning of 2 Kings (one folio following f. 85), and at end of 2 Kings and beginning of 3 Kings (one bifolium following f. 90). With a paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. Written for Abbey of Mont-Saint-Quentin in Northeastern France
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in bold, early gothic bookhand by one scribe. Writing above top line, with tall ascenders in upper margin. Various corrections in a different hand (13th century). Guide-letters for illuminator throughout. Scattered short marginal glosses (brown ink) in a similar but smaller hand (13th century). Transcriptions of rubrics in a 15th-century hand., Richly illuminated in early gothic style. The uncial presentation text is set inside a double frame of orange and blue strips, the latter decorated with orange dots; the entire page crowned by an elaborate architectural canopy above four trilobe arches supported at the side of the frame by columns, in blue. There are twenty-three historiated initials orange or blue, decorated with stylized foliage in white, occasionally with biting dragon and curling vine serifs, set in or above orange frames, on gold grounds., Six large foliate initials, in a style dependent on Channel-School models: tight pink and blue vine scrolls with dragon terminals, in some cases on a green trellis, set in light orange frames, edged in black, against gold grounds; on f. 2v an I running the full length of the page (Preface); f. 66r (Joshua); f. 77r (Prologue, 1 Kings); f. 127r (Story of Susannah), f. 134r (Esther) and f. 144r (2 Maccabees), blue capitals with white highlights, filled with vine scrolls and framed as above, against gold grounds. 6- and 3-line initials, red and blue, with blue or red penwork respectively; a few (e.g., f. 98v) in a more elaborate manner with penwork in both colors. On some pages a single column of text is further divided by a vertical guilloche pattern in orange ink. Rubrics in orange throughout., Some pages sewn; some bleeding of orange ink; upper right corner of f. 190 cut out. Text not damaged., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Gilt, gauffered edges. Brown goatskin blind-tooled, with elaborate bosses and fastenings, by Lortic.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Subject (Topic):
- History Bibles, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, etc
46.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 26
- Image Count:
- 578
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. With a Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in small neat gothic textura by two scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-214v; Scribe 2) ff. 214v (bottom of first column) -279r. Writing is above top line., Numerous calligraphic initials in red or blue with simple penwork designs of the same colors; some letters have green added as well. Running titles in red., Portions of the text are faded and difficult to read., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red goat-skin, gold-tooled. Two paper flyleaves inserted at beginning contain extracts from the library catalogue of the duc de la Valliere and from the Nouveau dictionnaire historique.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, 12th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- History Bibles, Catenae, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, etc
47.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1210; 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 220
- Image Count:
- 11
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., 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., 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 Binding: 18th-19th centuries, England. Brown calf, gold-tooled. Striped turn-ins.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Subject (Topic):
- History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, etc
48.
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- circa 1225-1249.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa75
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 322
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, on paper, containing the complete text of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, with marginal glosses and later annotations. This work is preceded in the volume by the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Peter of Poitiers, with complex genealogical diagrams in color. It is followed by the Prophesies of Pseudo-Methodius and the Allegoriae of Hugh of St. Victor
- Description:
- In Latin., Two original flyleaves. Manuscript preceded by three paper leaves to which bibliographical and historical notes about the texts contained in the volume have been affixed., Script: small gothic book script., Decoration: chapter headings in red; red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: twentieth-century full red morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Genealogy, History Bibles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, with other works
49.
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 159
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (poor quality: thick, holes, ends, repairs) of Gregory the Great, Homeliae in Hiezechielem prophetam. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in spiky early gothic bookhand., Spaces left unfilled, f. 1r, for initials and headings at beginning of prologue and text. Decorative monochrome initials and headings, which extend the width of columns, of modest quality, in red (many oxidized). Minor initials, 5- to 2-line, some with simple penwork designs, headings, initial strokes in red., Many leaves damaged along outer edges, now repaired, but with loss of text; stained throughout., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in mottled brown calf with bright pink paper sides. Two gold-tooled, brick red labels on spine: "Greg. Pape. in Ezechiel." and "Saecul. XIII". Red edges. Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 158, 197, also from the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Homeliae in Hiezechielem prophetam
50.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 19
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Penitential Psalms (incomplete), probably written as part of a Book of Hours
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in liturgical gothic script., Carefully executed initials, 3-line, on blue or pink rectangles outlined in black, mark the beginning of each psalm; partial cusped borders, also in blue and pink, attached to each. Initials infilled with intertwining vines, often on gold ground, sometimes with small animals; modest use of gold dots inside rectangular grounds and borders. 1-line initials of blue with red penwork with blue dots and of gold with blue penwork and red dots. Line-fillers in combinations of red, blue and gold (various linear and flower designs)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Bound in a piece of blind-tooled brown calf, once part of a 17th-18th century binding. Front pastedown and flyleaf from a Bible concordance, version 3 (France, ca. 1300). Back pastedown from 15th-century antiphonal, with musical notation, containing a portion of the office for Nicolas (6 Dec.).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hours
