Manuscript on parchment of a portion of a single leaf intended to represent a fragment of a large noted service book. On the recto, historiated initial and beginning of a hymn. Verso blank. The fragment is an imitation of a 15th-century antiphonal (?)...
Manuscript on parchment of an outline map of Europe, Africa, Asia, the surrounding seas and the islands including Iceland, Greenland, and "Vinland," which resembles the coastline of northern North America, with identifying legends. Known as the "Vinla...
Manuscript on 3 vellum scrolls of laws and statutes of the Byzantine empire. Said to be of the 5th, 9th, and 11th centuries, but actually written in the 19th century
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire.
Subject (Topic):
Literary forgeries and mystifications and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on 2 vellum scrolls of Tyrtaeus, Elegies, with figure-poems of Dosiadas, Simmias, Besantinus, and Theocritus (attrubuted author), and hymns of Mesomedes and Arion. Said to be third century, but actually 19th-century forgery
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Tyrtaeus.
Subject (Topic):
Greek poetry, Literary forgeries and mystifications, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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 concorda...
Description:
In Latin, French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Psalters
A collection of documents bearing the signatures of rulers or important personages of France; most are preceded or followed by an engraving of the person. Mounted so that both sides of the document are visible
Description:
In French, English, Italian, Latin and Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666., Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589, Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498, Charles IX, King of France, 1550-1574, Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560, Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559, Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589, Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610, Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483, Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531, Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Marie Leszczyńska, Queen, consort of Louis XV, King of France, 1703-1768, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Marie-Thérèse, Queen, consort of Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1683, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
Autograph letters, signed, from Léopold Delisle to Count Ernest Armand and dated between March 26 and April 15, 1879. In the letters, Léopold Delisle observes that the pasteboard of the manuscripts sold from the Anne de Polignac collection consists ...
Description:
Léopold Delisle (1826-1919), French bibliophile and historian, head of the Bibliothèque imperiale (nationale).
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Bookbinding, and Incunabula
Manuscript on parchment of seventeen miniatures (all versos), formerly inserted in MS 287, which were removed and rebound in their present form when recognized as the work of the 19th-century facsimilist, Caleb Wing. They were intended to replace orig...
Description:
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Worn red velvet.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wing, C. W. fl. 1826-1860. (Charles William),
Subject (Topic):
Arts, Forgeries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of a facsimile of the edition Venice, Aldus Manutius, [1495-1497]. In contrast with the edition, in which the Greek text is interleaved with the Latin translation by Marcus Musurus (c. 1470-1517), in the facsimile the Greek tex...
Manuscript on parchment and paper, written in two parts. Part I (parchment, written ca. 1490): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Descriptions of various herbs. Part II (paper, added ca. 1800): 3) Alchemy. 4) Recipes for maki...
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prussian blue
Manuscript on paper of a facsimile of Iohannes Calderia (Giovanni Calderia, 15th century), member of a Venetian family, Politica (De praestantia Venetae politiae libri V ad Antonium Vinciguerra).
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Calderia, Giovanni.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper (watermarks hidden in gutter) of alchemical texts including works by Albertus Magnus, Johannes Andreae, and Paracelsus. With treatises on the Philosopher's Stone and alchemical recipes
Description:
In Latin and German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348., and Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, German poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners ...
Description:
In Latin, with later additions in Latin and German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Science, Medieval
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (late 15th century): 1) John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie. 2) Aqua solempnissima, atque mirabilis. Part II (copied in 1775): 3) George Ripley (?), Touchant le grand magistere des sages, tran...
Manuscript of a collection of humanist texts, including 1) Ghigo Brunelleschi (c. 1353-c. 1410) and Domenico da Prato (c. 1389-1432/1433), Geta e Birria. 2) Nicolaus Perottus (Niccolò Perotti, 1429-1480), Latin translation of the Oath of Hippocrates,...
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459., Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444., Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Perotti, Niccolò, 1430-1480., Persius., and Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
Manuscript on paper. The document establishes the rights of Don Bernardo Antonnio Ramirez Tinagero to property in the district of Riobamba; dated 20 April 1740, Ciudad de los Reyes del Peru (Lima).
Description:
In Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Peru., Connecticut, New Haven., and Lima (Peru)
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure, Land titles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of Unidentified Geography, translated into modern Greek from Latin by Demetrius Notaras. With Dedication to Chrysanthus Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-33).
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Chrysanthos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, ca. 1663-1731.
Manuscript on paper (watermarks: partial, unidentified) of Jacobus Manas, Encomium of Joannes Constantinus Bassarabas. With Jacobus Manas, Epigram on Joannes Constantinus Bassarabas
Description:
Jacobus Manas and the Bassarabas family are mentioned by S. Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity (Cambridge, 1968) pp. 360-84.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacobus Manas.
Subject (Topic):
Greek poetry, Modern, Laudatory poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of the Statutes of Queens College Cambridge. With an Epistle from Queen Elizabeth I dated 1570; the Academic Statutes of the University of Cambridge; and Interpretations of these statutes
Description:
In Latin and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. and Queens' College (University of Cambridge)
Manuscript on paper of Girolamo Morlini (c. 1480-after 1528), Novellae. The manuscript is an exact copy of the edition Naples, Giovanni Pasquet de Sallo, 1520. It reproduces all the features of its printed model, including frontispiece woodcut, foliat...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends...
Alternative Title:
Meditationes vitae Christi. English
Description:
In English and Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Church of England.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I (ca. 1700): 1) Treaty between Edward the Elder, King of England and Guthrun II, King of the Danes in East Anglia, 905-906. 2) Leges Edouardi regis, the Laws issued by King Edward the Elder (ca. 902-ca. 924) or ...
Manuscript on paper (usually thin and white; watermarks vary) of texts on the faith of the Orthodox Church, specifically as it compares to Protestant doctrine. Includes prayers, sermons, commentaries, creeds, poems and glossaries
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1641-1707. and Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Creeds, Devotional literature, Greek poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Greek
Manuscript on paper of Cesare Speciano, Propositioni christiane et civili subalternate a Dio. With a Preface to the reader in which the author states that he completed the work while he was serving as Papal nuntius of Pope Clement VIII in Prague in 15...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Speciano, Cesare.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian, Counter-Reformation, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on paper (unidentified watermark) of outline drawings of saints and prophets and 2 scenes from the New Testament, from a pattern book, with script headings
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Pattern books
Manuscript on paper (deckle edges) of 1) Chronicle of Pisa (from the founding of the city to 1342). 2) Chronicle of Pisa, covering the years from creation to 1400, with the Chronicle of Ranieri Sardo beginning at 1355; the final paragraph, dealing wit...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Pisa (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Italian literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of ...
Description:
In German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
Manuscript on parchment. The Obituary was organized in the early 16th century, obits being transcribed from a 15th-century manuscript recording the deaths of members and benefactors; the majority of the obits were entered subsequently, at the time of ...
Description:
In German.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Trier (Germany)
Subject (Name):
Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Necrologies
Manuscript on paper (sturdy; staggered thumb holes at bottom of leaves) of Antiphons for suffrages. With liturgies and offices for various occasions. Written during the 16th century presumably for Franciscan use and supplemented during the 17th centur...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Antiphonaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rh...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire
Subject (Name):
Jesuits
Subject (Topic):
History, Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin drama (Tragedy), and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (with various watermarks), composed of five separate manuscripts bound together. Parts I and II were written in the 15th century and III-V in the 17th century. Part I: Vita di San Petronio. Part II: Tommaso Nacci Caffarini, Tractat...
Description:
In Latin and Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petronius, Saint, Bishop of Bologna, d. ca. 445.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Papal documents, and Stigmatization
Manuscript on paper (various sizes and qualities) of a collection of notes and documents mostly related to Italian cities, dioceses and abbeys; Eastern churches and monasticism; and Central Europe; but containing also saints' lives, poetry, letters, a...
Description:
In Latin, Italian, French and Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Italy
Subject (Topic):
Eastern churches, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Description and travel
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) and parchment, composed of two distinct sections bound together in the 18th (?) century, but with additional folios inserted. Part I (parchment): Carta ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, granted to Don Alfonso ...
Description:
In Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., Spain, Salamanca (Spain), and Seville (Spain)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment of Diploma for a doctorate of Civil and Canon Law accorded to Franciscus Adelasius (Adelasio) from the University of Padua, 27 Jan. 1674
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Padua (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (sturdy). Pages 9-1315 contain Sermons and Lives of Saints for March 25 through August 29. The manuscript is composed of three parts; the second two serve to complete a text that was either unfinished or damaged
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Athos (Greece)
Subject (Name):
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Sermons
Manuscript on paper of 1) Poem warning against sin. 2) Sermons. 3) Notes on Christian, historical and other subjects, sermons, commonplaces, recipes etc. This is followed by notes on the churches and other buildings of the city, and the relics kept in...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Senigallia (Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Italian poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Italian
Manuscript on paper of the personal handbook of a legal scholar (perhaps from Gloucestershire?) arranged according to subject and with internal cross references; some theological and literary notes interspersed (Latin texts, some with translations int...
Manuscript on paper (watermarks: trimmed and buried in gutter) of Juvenal, Satirae I-IV, in the English translation of Jo Billinge and Sir Thomas Hewitt. The text of the translation is accompanied by Latin footnotes, some drawn from the scholia uetust...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal.
Subject (Topic):
Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment of a Letter of rejoicing, from Henri de la Thuillerie to his father, the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie upon the father's return
Description:
On the French diplomat and politician Gaspard Coignet de la Thuillerie (1597-1653), see Dictionnaire de Biographie Francaise, v. 9, cols. 146-47.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Thuillerie, Henri de la.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which C...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper of The Life, Araignment, and Death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight: Somtymes Lord Chauncellor of England. On f. iii verso, engraving of Sir Thomas More, half-length, to right, standing, pointing to scroll in right ha...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. and Roper, William, 1496-1578.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment (thick, stiff) of 1) Record of those for whom memorial prayers were to be said during November, divided into 6 estaciones, with a total of 501 memoriae. The place where the prayer is to be said is often given; from those mentio...
Description:
In Latin and Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Córdoba (Spain)
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of 1) Noël de Fribois, Abrégé des croniques de France, presented to King Charles VII of France in 1459. 2) Simon Gréban, Epitaph for King Charles VII. 3) Catalogue of the library of Jaspar Scaeck, apparently a lawyer in norther...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461. and Fribois, Noël de, active 1400-1468.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, French poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on paper of a pocket-size codex containing discussions of painting miniatures in manuscripts. On ff. 1r-30v Mariani provides a list of colors and the recipes for each color; in the remainder of the text he discusses techniques for painting ...
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Technique, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miniature painting, Italian, and Workshop recipes
Manuscript on paper of John Rolfe (1585-1622), A true relation of the state of Virginia, autograph manuscript
Description:
The author, best known for his part in the colonization of Virginia under the governorship of Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619) and his marriage to the Indian princess Pocahontas (d. 1617), wrote this account after his return to England in 1616 to show the su...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Virginia
Subject (Name):
Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
Published / Created:
[between 1600 and 1610]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 260
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres....
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology
Manuscript on paper of eighty life-size pen-and-ink drawings, tinted with grey, of various styles of horse bridles and bits; apparently intended as a pattern book. Compiled by and/or for Carlo Filippo di Vuelden