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1. Modern illumination

Published / Created:: [between 1900 and 2000 (?)]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 475
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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 (?)...
Description:: In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):: Arts, Forgeries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Modern illumination

2. Vinland map

Published / Created:: approximately 1900 - approximately 1940
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 350A
Image Count:: 3
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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...
Description:: In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):: Manuscripts, Medieval and Maps
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vinland map

3. Gradual (fragment).

Published / Created:: [15--]; [between 1890 and 1910].
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 485.1
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing the Fourth Sunday of Advent; the decorations have been added in modern times
Description:: In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Graduals (Chants).
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gradual (fragment).

4. Golden Bulls of the emperors Theodosius II, Michael III, and Romanus III

Published / Created:: [between 1800 and 1900]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 583
Image Count:: 6
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Golden Bulls of the emperors Theodosius II, Michael III, and Romanus III

5. Elegies

Creator:: Tyrtaeus
Published / Created:: [between 1800 and 1900]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 580
Image Count:: 4
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Elegies

6. Collection of medieval and renaissance manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves

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 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collection of medieval and renaissance manuscript leaves, documents and printed leaves

7. Documents

Published / Created:: 1473-1890.
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 340
Image Count:: 349
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Subject (Topic):: Manuscripts, Medieval and Politics and government
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents

8. Léopold Delisle letters to Count Ernest Armand, 1879

Creator:: Delisle, Léopold, 1826-1910, author
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 1042.4
Image Count:: 11
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Léopold Delisle letters to Count Ernest Armand, 1879

9. Miniatures by Caleb Wing (removed from MS 287).

Creator:: Wing, C. W. (Charles William), fl. 1826-1860
Published / Created:: [ca. 1846-64]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 287A
Image Count:: 25
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: 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
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miniatures by Caleb Wing (removed from MS 287).