- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 196
- Image Count:
- 386
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper and parchment, heavily illuminated (trimmed), of Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Written in Cologne/Lower Rhine (Ripuarian language area) for Augustinian use
- Description:
- In German and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1656., Script: Text written in varying bookhands, most with batarde influence; more formal scripts for some rubrics and portions of text on parchment., Two historiated initials, 12- and 10-line, on parchment bifolios, the letters gold and blue with brown and red penwork, the figures crudely drawn in pen and colored brown, blue and green, against bright red grounds with white highlights; brown and red calligraphic flourishes with red, green, blue and yellow dots extending along upper and side edges of written space. 12-, 10-, and 9-line initials (ff. 13r, 96r, 115r, 179r, 222r, 258r, 322v) gold (or red for ff. 258r, 322v) and blue, filled with brown floral penwork designs with calligraphic flourishes and dots, as above. Floral borders for each 12- through 9-line initial (except ff. 15r and 258r), red, blue, and green flowers with gold dot centers, connected by brown ink stems, arranged in rows or spirals; ff. 13r and 84v with a vase and bird in the margins. Two 9-line initials, ff. 274r and 298r, on parchment bifolios, in a markedly different style, green and blue respectively, with yellow and white highlights, against gold grounds, filled on f. 274r with a large flower, blue and red, on f. 298r with short sections of curling pink and green acanthus. Borders large blue or red flowers with gold dots and centers or short sections of blue and red acanthus on spiraling brown stems with small green teardrop leaves. Numerous 7- through 2-line initials, red and/or blue, with brown penwork and flourishes, as above. I-initials, up to 13-line, red or blue throughout. Some capital W's in text in blue or red. 2-line KL monograms, alternating red and blue. Some portions of the text, including proper names, underlined in red. Notes for rubricator in gutter, perpendicular to text., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing on four supports attached to wooden boards. Covered in dark brown calf with corner turn-in tongues. Blind-tooled with concentric borders, an X, roses and small flowers in the central panel, roses and rampant lions in the outer borders. Two clasp-and-catch fastenings, the catch on the upper board. Rebacked and the endbands probably added. Straps replaced. Covers lined with fragments of unidentified scientific text, in Latin (15th century).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Augustinians., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotion to., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary
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- Creator:
- Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1250]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 7
- Image Count:
- 200
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, containing the text of this commentary on the Song of Solomon by Cassiodorus (fols. 1-26). This is followed by unidentified commentaries on the same text (fols. 26-64). The volume concludes with a copy of the Biblia Beatae Virginis (fols. 64-96).
- Description:
- In Latin., Commentary by Cassiodorus attributed to Bede in incipit (fol. 1r)., Erased ownership inscription: "Liber monastery Sc Marie ... Ste. ... wiknne.", Bookplate of Portsmouth Cathedral on front pastedown, with deaccession stamp dated 1941., Layout: double columns of 38 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: rubricated., and Binding: medieval binding, pink doeskin over wooden boards; remains of metal clasps on lower board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580. and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > In Cantica Canticorum : with other works
- Published / Created:
- 1626.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 1141
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, in the hand of an unidentified nun at the monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa, containing copies of Italian translations from the Revelationes, Sermo Angelicus, and other texts from the Liber Caelestis of Saint Bridget. On the colophon, the scribe identifies herself as a professed nun of the Order of Saint Bridget, and states that the work was completed on July 26, 1626. The manuscript also includes circa 27 contemporary devotional engravings placed throughout the text, many with identifiable artists and publishers from Italy, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. The engravings depict Christian figures, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, the archangel Michael, and various saints; and scenes from the New Testament, including from the lives of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ
- Description:
- Bridget of Sweden (approximately 1303-1373) was a mystic and saint. She experienced visions beginning in childhood, the records of which were gathered and translated into Latin. They are collectively known as the Revelationes and Liber Caelestis., The Birgittine convent known as Scala Coeli was founded in Genoa, Italy, circa 1406. Nuns at the convent translated the writings of Saint Bridget into Italian., In Italian; colophon in Latin., Title from first leaf., Includes table of contents on six leaves at end., Colophon, leaf 317r., and Binding: Contemporary red leather over wooden boards; front and back covers have blind tooled rules and rolls, with a central figure of a female saint and the letters "M S B G" tooled in gold; spine with raised bands and a blind tooled flower in each compartment; front edge originally had two leather straps with brass clasps, and is now lacking one strap and clasp. Later (19th century?) paper spine label with manuscript inscription: "[illegible] S. Brigid. Cavate dei libri delle sue rivela[tion]. Opera di una monaca della ordine stisso[?] per comodite delle Sorelle 1626".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy., Italy, and Sweden
- Subject (Name):
- Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373., Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373, Jesus Christ, John, the Baptist, Saint, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Michael (Archangel)
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotion to, Devotion, Nuns, Saints, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Visioni di Santa Brigida di Suuetia : Cauate da i libri delle sue diuine reuelationi : manuscript
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1470]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 281
- Image Count:
- 248
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry).
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a formal style of bastard Anglicana; delicately decorated ascenders and descenders along upper and lower edges of written space., On f. 5v a large coat of arms, Carent quartered with Toomer, in a green, orange, and gold frame, against a dark green ground, perhaps a slightly later addition; f. 6r, a small coat of arms, Carent, in the lower margin, against a gold ground, surrounded by a phylactery wrapped around the bar border. Arms supported by two seated dogs, in black pen, set in an oblong landscape, edged heavily in black., One 8-line (f. 6r), four 6-line (ff. 1r, 21r, 52r, 85v) and one 4-line (f. 106r) initials, blue and red with white highlights, filled with large four-lobed flowers and acanthus leaves, orange, green, pink, blue, and light blue, against irregular gold grounds, edged in black, with full (ff. 1r, 6r), 3/4 (ff. 52r, 85v) or single marginal (ff. 21r, 106r) borders. The full and 3/4 have gold, blue and red bands attached to initial, with curling and braided sections sprouting curling acanthus at corners; often against gold cusps, with spiraling black ink hair-spray vines with small green teardrop leaves, pink, brown, green, and blue flowers, and gold dots with small pink and blue leaves. 2-line gold initials on irregular blue and red grounds with white highlights, each with two sprigs of black hair-spray with green leaves and gold dots, as above. 1-line blue and gold initials, with red or pink penwork. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin blind-tooled, with a gold-tooled title. Bound by Francis Bedford (London, 1800-84), who worked with C. Lewis and set up his own shop in 1841.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of our lady
- Creator:
- Schenk, Peter, 1661-1711, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1713]
- Call Number:
- Print00919
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Pieter Schenk
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.
- Subject (Topic):
- Visitation, Pregnant women, Pregnancy, and Visiting
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > S. Marie visitatio [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 17th century.
- Call Number:
- Syriac MSS 9
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Syriac-Armenian lexicon (pages 4-199), with the Armenian written in Syriac script, consists mainly of an alphabetical list of verbs in various forms. The lexicon is preceded by poems of Barhebraeus (pages 1-3), and followed by: 1. Poem on the "Life of Saint John", son of Euphemianus, of the city of Rome (pages 200-216). 2. "On the transit of the Mother of God Mary from the world" (folios 216-231). 3. "Syriac-Armenian glossary" of verbs in the imperative forms, conjugations of verbs, pronouns, etc. (pages 231-241). 4. Prayer of the solitary monks (yíḥídāyē) to each other (page 241). 5. Poems by Saint Ephrem: Commandments and admonitions for Christians (pages 242-286). 6. Prayers and miscellaneous statements in a different hand (285-286). The lexicon seems to have been written for the benefit of Syriac speakers within Armenian communities. Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned probably from the 17th century
- Description:
- In Syriac and Armenian in Syriac script., Title supplied by cataloger., Romanization supplied by cataloger., The dictionary starts with: "Eštbíw. Talnúsān ...", The poems of Barhebraeus start with: "Qúm tāʼ aḥún kašrútā lak hā mṭāyibʼnā ...", 1. Poem on the "Life of Saint John", son of Euphemianus starts with: "Kātbínan tašʻítā d-Māry Yúḥanān bar ʼÚpímyanús d-men Rúmí Mdíntā b-níšā d-Māry Aprém Súryāyā ...", 2. On the transit of the Mother of God Mary from the world starts with: "Túb seprā da-štā ʻal šúnāyeh d-Yaldat Alāhā Maryam d-men ʻalmā hānā ṣlútah ʻaman. Āmín ...", 4. Prayer of the solitary monks (yíḥídāyē) to each other start with: "Ṣlútā d-nemrún yíḥíyāyē la-ḥdādē: Alāhā d-barek la-Šlíḥāwhy qadíšē mbarek lak ...", 5. Poems by Saint Ephrem start with: "Ḥúr b-Alāhā ḥabíbay d-madnaḥ šmšeh ʻal bíšē ...", Prayers and miscellaneous statements in a different hand start with: "Ematy d-qāymat b-ṣaprā men šentā pšúṭ ʼīdayk la-šmāyā ú-sím tlātā búrkē l-apay madnḥā ú-ʼemar ..., 10.5 x 15.5 cm; written surface varies ; lines per page vary., Binding: In wooden cover., In clear West Syriac script, in black ink on cream color paper, markings in red., Inside the front cover: An erased note (four lines)., On page 285: An erased note (one lines): "Šlem ktābā ..." (The book is completed ...)., and Many of the pages in the latter half of the manuscript include marginal glosses giving the Armenian renderings of words occuring in the Syriac text.
- Subject (Name):
- Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373. and Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
- Subject (Topic):
- Assumption, Syriac language, Armenian, Armenian language, Syriac, Monks, Prayers and devotions, and Syriac poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Syriac-Armenian lexicon : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 794.00.00.38 Box 120
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122., and Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156.
- Publisher:
- R. Faulder and J. Egerton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1794]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.3 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122., Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156., and On page 232 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 22.4 x 14.3 cm.
- Publisher:
- R. Faulder and J. Egerton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Transubstantiation, Communion, Grinding machines, and Priests
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [19th century].
- Call Number:
- Print20106
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Original date is 1639. This is a 19th century restrike., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Subject (Topic):
- Pulse, Death, Medicine in the Bible, Deathbeds, Saints, Priests, and Angels
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Death of the virgin] [graphic]
- Creator:
- Collaert, Hans, approximately 1530-1581, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1581]
- Call Number:
- Print00938
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Childbirth
- Description:
- Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's nationality., Sheet trimmed., and See: Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etching, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 4-23.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint,
- Subject (Topic):
- Childbirth, Maternity nursing, Child care, Infants, Mothers, Children, Nurses, and Eating & drinking
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Nativity of the Virgin] Cynthia iam nouies totum Instrauerat orbem .../ [graphic]