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1. Boccacii Griseldis historia; With Pope Pius II, Epistola, etc
- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 197
- Image Count:
- 60
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks in gutter) of 1) Petrarch, Boccacii Griseldis historia. 2) Pope Pius II, Epistola. 3) Petrarch, Famil. rerum., 12, 2. 4) Pope Pius II, Bulla retractationum. 5) Pope Pius II, Epistola de fortuna
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in similar styles of informal gothic scripts (batarde influence). Scribe 1) ff. 1r-7r; 2) ff. 7v-14v; 3) ff. 15r-26v., One calligraphic initial, f. 1r, 4-line, blue with white floral motifs; infilled with red penwork floral designs tinted with green; penwork trails into inner margin, with plain green dots. Four initials, ff. 1v, 7v, 10v, 21v, red ink, 6- to 2-line. Paragraph marks in red. Numerous capitals stroked in red; rubrics throughout; explicits underlined in red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Vellum spine (verso of an unidentified manuscript) with "Petrarcae et Aeneae Silvii Epistoles" inscribed; grey-blue paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Papal documents
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Boccacii Griseldis historia; With Pope Pius II, Epistola, etc
2. De bello iudaico
- Creator:
- Josephus, Flavius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 282
- Image Count:
- 231
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Josephus, De bello iudaico, translated into Latin by Rufinus
- Alternative Title:
- De bello Judaico
- Description:
- In Latin., Written in bold and elegant early gothic bookhand; some looped flourishes in upper margins contain red dots., Seven initials, 17- to 10-line, in red, filled with red swirling foliage on orange and green grounds, with touches of blue, against irregular grounds of blue and/or orange panels. 6- to 2-line initials, green and/or red with red or green foliate flourishes, set both outside and into text column; initials sometimes incorporate simple facial features. 1-line red initials for rubrics. Rubrics throughout; remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Josephus, Flavius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello iudaico
3. De claris mulieribus
- Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 398
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks: unidentified mountain) and parchment (inner and outer bifolios, of poor quality) of Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus; translated into Italian by Donato degli Albanzani
- Description:
- In Italian., Script: Written by three persons in round gothic script: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-33v (except f. 8, replaced in 16th century); Scribe 2, ff. 33v-36v; Scribe 3; ff. 37r-74r. In portions written by Scribes 1 and 2 some elaborate ascenders and descenders in upper and lower margins, touched with red., Initials, 3- to 2-line, in red or blue, sometimes with red penwork. Rubrics throughout. Initial added [date?], f. 2v, to replace one removed: blue, with leafy filler in green outline, and foliage extending down margin and across top and bottom of column, drawn in green, red, and blue., Initial removed from f. 2v; leaf was then reinforced with paper covering f. 2r, col. b (blank). Lower margins of ff. 1, 33 and 37 cut off., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Vellum spine and fore-edge strip with marbled paper sides. Label on spine: "Donne Illust. del Boccacc. MS".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De claris mulieribus
4. De excidio Troiae historia, etc
- Creator:
- Dares, Phrygius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 598
- Image Count:
- 219
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dares Phrygius, De excidio Troiae historia, in the Latin translation ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, followed by the lists of those killed by the heroes on both sides. 2) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae. 3) De origine Normannorum, a short history of Normandy up to Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy (d. 1135). The main part of this text derives from Hugh of Saint-Victor (Hugo de Sancto Victore, d. 1141), Excerptiones allegoricae, X, 10 (PL 177.284) and is followed by a short list of Dukes of Normandy. 4) Three unidentified poems on the miracles of St. Benedict, followed by rhymed liturgical prayers to be said in the presence of the relics of the saint, and another poem on St. Benedict. This manuscript, which from the beginning contained all four texts described above, was copied in a Benedictine abbey
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Carefully copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Headings and running titles in red, many now poorly legible. Heightening of majuscules in red. Large decorated Romanesque initials, red or green, at the head of artt. 1 and 2; 2- or 3-line plain initials alternately in red and blue and 1-line initials in the same colours in the middle of the text in art. 2; on f. 91r, at the beginning of Book XI, there is a 3-line flourished initial in blue with red penwork, which may be added later. 3-line red plain initial at the beginning of art. 3. 2-line initials in art. 4, of the same kind as in artt. 1-2., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Sprinkled calf over cardboard; the covers have gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., Great Britain, Normandy (France), and Troy (Extinct city)
- Subject (Name):
- Dares, Phrygius. and Benedictines.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Literature, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De excidio Troiae historia, etc
5. Flores historiarum
- Creator:
- Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 426
- Image Count:
- 199
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Matthew of Westminster, Flores historiarum. Written presumably at the Cluniac priory of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, Surrey
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in bold gothic textura; x is crossed., Rubrics, often accompanied by notes to rubricator in well formed current Anglicana script. Decorative initials not filled in. Numerous pen trials and crude drawings in margins (e.g., ff. 28r, 46v, 47r, 63r)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf with a gold-tooled title. Parchment flyleaves (formerly pastedowns) from a Missal (England, 15th century) much rubbed and worn, and with offset impression from original binding of corner tongues and four attachments. Gothic textura. Fine blue initials with intricate herringbone penwork designs in red. Headings in red; paragraph marks in blue.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Flores historiarum
6. Historia regum Britanniae; with French moralistic poetry, etc
- Creator:
- Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
- Published / Created:
- [between 1175 and 1250]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 590
- Image Count:
- 278
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (sheepskin?) of 1) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae. The text, containing the double dedication, to Robert of Gloucester and Waleran Count of Mellent, and wanting the epilogue addressed to Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury, is believed to be the earliest version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work. 2) Unidentified French poem of which the end is missing (1276 verses preserved), on the vanity and corruption of the world. 3) Le Roman des Romans
- Description:
- In French and Latin., Script: Art. 1: Copied by one hand, writing a large Praegothica. Art. 2: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 3: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Art. 1: The decoration consists of Romanesque flourished (in one or two colours) or plain initials (2 lines, on f. 1r 4 lines), alternately in red and green. Guide-letters in the margins. On f. 55r, at the beginning of the history of Merlin, a male bust is drawn in the margin., and Binding: Original white leather over rounded oak boards; spine with four raised bands. Marks of one strap fixed to the front cover and clutching over a pin in the rear cover. The front pastedown (detached) consists of fragments of a court roll (from a trial of 1334), identified by N.R. Ker (note kept in the documentary folder in the Beinecke Library) and copied in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior (Anglicana).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154.
- Subject (Topic):
- French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia regum Britanniae; with French moralistic poetry, etc
7. Legenda aurea, etc
- Creator:
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 111
- Image Count:
- 624
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed in two parts with different formats, of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. With several Saints' Vitae by various authors. Part I was written in (probably Northern) Italy at the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. Part II may have been written in Hainaut and added during the 15th century
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe who made neat corrections, often on lines ruled in the margins. Part II written in well formed gothic textura., Part I: Border decorations: long stems, inner and top margins or between text columns, in blue, pink, and grey segments divided by small balls, sprouting curling foliage (blue, light blue, and orange), concentrated at corners, with large spiky leaves at terminals and large spiral angular returns filled with mauve or gold in the lower margins; large gold dots tucked under leaves and trailing from the tips of leaves on thin brown pen lines. Initials, 4- to 3-line, attached to stems, pink and grey with white highlights; foliage serifs, as above; letters filled with blue and gold, with some vine work (green and grey), against gold grounds with thick black edging. 2-line initials, set into text columns, blue or red, with very elaborate, minute penwork, blue, red, and occasionally green, built up of small spirals, roundels, and long "caterpillar"-like segments, often extending the full length of text columns; with curling flourishes in margin. 1-line initials in Table of Contents red or blue, with thin vertical strokes in the opposite color; chapter numbers in red. Headings and paragraph marks in blue or red; rubrics throughout., Part II: Plain initials, 5- to 3-line, alternating red and blue, with large serifs; one on f. 300v in red and blue. Headings and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Pinkish brown calf case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Legends, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Legenda aurea, etc
8. Mathematical, computistical, astronomical and astrological treatises
- Published / Created:
- 1281.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 556
- Image Count:
- 166
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Algorismus. 2) Thebit ben Chorat, De recta imaginatione sphaerae. 3) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, De sphaera. 4) Iohannes Campanus of Novara (ascr.), Tractatus quadrantis. 5) Iohannes de Sacrobosco, Compotus. 6) Gerardus Sablonetanus (ascr.), Theorica planetarum (also attributed to other authors). 7) Alfraganus, Liber differentiarum, tr. John of Seville
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by a single scribe writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Numerous and often extensive marginal notes by various 13th and 14th century hands, mostly in small rapid cursive handwriting, some in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria., Red paragraph marks and 2-3-line plain initials with guide-letters; on f. 1r a larger flourished littera duplex inbrown and red; the other artt. open with larger plain initials. Numerous pointing hands. Pen-and-ink drawings and diagrams throughout., and Binding: Early, heavy wooden boards recovered with new brown sheepskin. Spine with three raised bands and gold-tooled inscription: "TRACTATUS ASTRONOMICI. MS A.D. 1281".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mathematics, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mathematical, computistical, astronomical and astrological treatises
9. Novellae
- Creator:
- Morlini, Girolamo, 16th cent
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 723
- Image Count:
- 187
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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, foliation and signatures. Soon after its publication the book was suppressed because of the obscenities many Novellae contain
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in clear Humanistica Cursiva; titles in Capitalis., 2-line initials (Capitalis) in black ink. Renaissance initial in pen and ink on f. 2r; space for an initial, with guide-letter, on f. 4r. The frontispiece is a pen-and-ink copy of the original woodcut, showing the author in his study, seated at his desk, with a clock and an armillary sphere, under a starry sky with sun and moon., Numerous pages are damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: Paper (or thin parchment) over pasteboard; on the spine gold-tooled bordeaux leather label with the title "MORLINI. / NOVEL.". Mark of a red seal on the rear cover.
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Novellae