Manuscript charter, on parchment, issued by the Abbey of Saint Andrew of Gouffern to Fromond, son of David, granting him a house in "Moreriis" on his admission to the Confraternity of Saint Andrew
Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of the text of Peter Abelard's Historia calamitatum, followed by the seven epistolae exchanged between him and Héloïse.
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142. and Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Subject (Topic):
Autobiography, Women authors, Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Love-letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Adolfus von Wein, Doligamus. The text, a series of fables concerning the deceitful conduct of women, is heavily annotated with interlinear glosses and lengthy explanatory prose passages inserted both between segments of the text...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Adolfus, von Wien, 14th cent. and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment of Aegidius Beneventanus, Collection of extracts on moral subjects (Part I), historical, genealogical and geographical subjects (Parts II and III) drawn from classical, Biblical and medieval texts. With Extracts from Isidore, E...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aegidius Beneventanus. and Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Aelian, De instruendis aciebus. The scribe attempts to establish the correct text from a defective exemplar. For example, on f. 2v there is a note, in red, referring the reader to the proper portion of the text on f. 7v. There a...
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aelian, active 3rd century.
Subject (Topic):
Charts, diagrams, etc, Greek literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Strategy
Manuscript on paper of Artt. 1-6: Aesop (Aesopus, 6th cent. before C.), Vita et fabulae, Latin translation by Rinuccio da Castiglione (Rinucius Aretinus, ca. 1395-after 1456). Artt. 7-8: Aesop, Fabulae, Latin translation by Ognibene Leoniceno (Omnibon...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aesop.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a Dutch translation in verse of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, transmitted by three complete manuscripts and a few fragments
Manuscript on parchment of Albertano da Brescia, 1) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi; 2) Liber consolationis et consilii; 3) De amore et dilectione Dei; 4-8) Sermones. Also contains: 9) Petrus Damiani, De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum; 10-13) U...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent., Damian, Peter., and Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Consolation, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, Sermons, Latin, and Theology
Manuscript on paper of Postillae ("sermons," or treatises) on the gospels and epistles in a style close to Petrus Alberti (or, Aldeberti, or Adalberti).
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Church dedication sermons, Church year sermons, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest: written over an unidentified canon law text, 1250-75) of Epitome of Aristotle's Ethics translated into Italian by Taddeo d'Alderotto (ca. 1235-1295).
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alderotti, Taddeo, 1223-1295. and Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Ethics, Italian literature, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium. Conjugate leaves originally from the same manuscript as Beinecke MS 401. Stitching holes in center of bifolium; outer margins trimmed with some loss of text
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of portions of Saint Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, copied probably in Canterbury or Worcester. With glosses in Anglo-Saxon added between 950 and 1000, which may be of Kentish origin
Description:
In Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment and paper of the Alfonsine Tables, a scientific work on astronomy, executed on parchment and decorated, but unfinished, to which paper leaves have been added at a not much later date, and the text completed, probably by a schol...
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, t...
Description:
In Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550. and Megret, Remy.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Devotional literature, French, French prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Soul, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors, French
Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, 1) De paradiso. 2) De Cain et Abel. 3) Exhortatio virginitatis. 4) De institutione virginis. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Celibacy, Christianity, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology