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10. Complaintes de la Foy
- Creator:
- Nachier
- Published / Created:
- between 1500 and 1550.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1346
- Container / Volume:
- box
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript, in an unidentified hand, on parchment, of La Foy se complaignant and Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, two poems by a certain Nachier summoning Catholics to embark on a crusade. Rubricated
- Alternative Title:
- Foy se complaignant, Complaincte de la Foy aux vertus, Complaincte de la Foy, Complainctes de la Foy, and Complaintes de la Foi
- Description:
- In Middle French., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Script: lettre bâtarde., Decoration: single large miniature (f.1r) shows Faith dressed in black, kneeling before a vision of God in heaven, accompanied by a white dog. The King of France (decorated with golden fleurs-de-lys) and other mounted courtiers advance from the right. The miniature is attributed to the Master of the Entry of François I. Initials in gold on a red or blue background. Rubricated., Binding: 18th-century brown calf, blind stamped with marbled paper flyleaves. Contained in brown box., Secundo Folio: A qui., Bookseller description available., Title assigned by cataloger., Both poems are unedited as of April 2023., and Title on spine: La foy se complaignant ms. sur velin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nachier.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Church History, Crusades, and Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Complaintes de la Foy
11. Meletiou monachiou peri fyseōs kai tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs. and Μελετίου μοναχίου περὶ φύσεως καὶ του ἄνθρωπου κατασκευής
- Creator:
- Meletius, 8th cent
- Published / Created:
- between 1539 and 1542.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 33 vault
- Image Count:
- 232
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on paper, containing pseudo-Meletius' De natura hominis eiusque compositione, also known as Constitution of man's body
- Alternative Title:
- Meletii monachii de natura et hominia structura, Meletiou monachou peri fyseōs kai tēs tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs, Meletii monachi de natura hominis eiusque compositione, Constitution of man's body : in Greek, and Μελετίου μοναχοῦ περὶ φύσεως καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κατασκευῆς
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from titlepage., Script: Italian 16th-century hand., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 21 lines., Binding: vellum, over paper boards. Spinal title: Meletius, De natura et structura hominis, Graece manuscripta., Author also known as Meletius the monk or Meletius of Tiberopolis (Tiberiopoli, Phrygia)., Volume was likely produced in Venice between 1539 and 1542 or Guillaume Pellicier, bishop of Montpellier and ambassador to Venice., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Meletiou monachiou peri fyseōs kai tou anthrōpou kataskeuēs., Μελετίου μοναχίου περὶ φύσεως καὶ του ἄνθρωπου κατασκευής
12. Acquittance for Edward Greville
- Creator:
- Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609
- Published / Created:
- 1594 November 10.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 126
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Legal document, in a professional hand, signed by the first Baron Lumley, containing an acquittance for 2500 pounds received from Edward Greville for the manor of Mickleton in Gloucestershire
- Description:
- In English., Docketed in later hands., and Attached seal (worn).
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Gloucestershire (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Greville, Edward, Sir, 1542-1616. and Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609.
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Acquittance for Edward Greville
13. Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
- Creator:
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 4
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. The manuscript also contains John Lydgate's Fifteen joys of Our Lady and the anonymous poems, The fifteen ooes of Christ and The charter of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 45 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and three-quarter border on first page of text; three other illuminated initials with gold., Verse ownership inscriptions of Erkynwald Gyttyns on three back flyleaves, accompanied by pen trials and sketches., Ownership inscription of Francis Layton on verso of third front flyleaf., and Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
14. Epistolae : no. 106, sec. 59-67.
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [before 830]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 58
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments, recovered from a binding, of this text from Saint Jerome's Epistolae
- Description:
- In Latin and Greek., Front flyleaf contains provenance annotation in pencil in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: double columns, originally of 30 lines (now 28)., Script: Caroline minuscule (Turonian script)., Binding: Middle Hill boards., and Bound with: 5 leaves of a 13th-century manuscript of Averroes' commentary on Aristotle's Ethics.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, Tours., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epistolae : no. 106, sec. 59-67.
15. Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias and Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Jazzār.
- Published / Created:
- between 1542 and 1599.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 36 vault
- Image Count:
- 306
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in five unidentified hands, on paper, containing books I, II (incomplete), V (incomplete), VI (incomplete), and VII of Ibn al-Jazzār's Viaticum peregrinantium, a translation from Arabic into Greek supposedly done by Constantinus Rheginos. Ends with an incomplete table of contents
- Alternative Title:
- [Viaticum peregrinantium / written in Greek, with incomplete translation attributed to Constantinos Rheginos].
- Description:
- In Ancient Greek., Title from heading., Script: five different Italian 16th-century hands., Decoration: rubrication throughout., Layout: single column of 35-36 lines., Binding: bound in 19th-century brown polished calf. Spinal labels: Liber de morbis curandis / Codex MS. Chartaceus, saeculi XV., Of the 148 leaves in the manuscript, 72 are blank (interleaved)., Watermarks identified as Chapeau 51 (Hilfinger vol.1) from Venice in 1542; suggests that the manuscript was copied in Venice later than 1542., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Greek, Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Greek and Roman, Medicine, and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Logos prōtos peri geneseōs trichōn kai alōpekias, Λόγος πρῶτος περὶ γενέσεως τριχῶν καὶ ἀλωπεκίας
16. De decem praeceptis
- Creator:
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1250]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1197
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single book hand, of a complete text of this commentary on the Ten Commandments
- Description:
- In Latin., Tipped in: printed catalog description of manuscript from Henry Young & Sons., Stencilled crest of Sir Thomas Phillipps stamped on recto of first flyleaf., Bookplate: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, pasted on front pastedown., Bookplate: Allan Heywood Bright, pasted on front pastedown., Layout: double columns of 47 lines each., Script: gothic textura., Decoration: marginal notes in red ink with blue penwork. One historiated initial, in full color, depicting a horned Moses holding the tablets of the Law., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown leather; marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Ten commandments
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De decem praeceptis
17. [King Arthur and the knights of the round table].
- Creator:
- Grinken, John
- Published / Created:
- [between 1553 and 1603]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 34
- Image Count:
- 124
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript, signed, on paper, of a list of many of the Knights of the Round Table and summaries of their histories as given in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Some entries are accompanied by pen-and-ink drawings of coats of arms. The work may have been modeled on Les devise des armes de chevaliers de la table ronde, published by Antoine Verard. Grinken's preface notes that he has not included "many faned and vaine taylles" and connects his interest in the Round Table with Prince Arthur's Knights, the archery fellowship founded by "Kynge Henry of fames memory." The preface concludes with "vivat Regina."
- Description:
- In English., Title devised by cataloger., Book stamp of a lion rampant with autograph annotation by Sir Thomas Phillipps., Layout: single columns of 26 lines each., Script: secretary., Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Arthur, King and Grinken, John.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Renaissance, Arthurian romances, and English prose literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [King Arthur and the knights of the round table].
18. Collection of texts by Jean Gerson
- Creator:
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
- Published / Created:
- 1456.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 38 vault
- Image Count:
- 294
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in the hand of Theodoricus de Harlem, on paper and parchment, containing a collection of works by Jean Gerson: De spirituali mendicitate, De viciis ministrorum ecclesie, Sermo de tribulationibus ecclesie, De pollutione diurnis, Expositio clausule dominice, Oratio anxii peccatoris, Considerationes XII, De monte contemplationis (originally written in French), and Alphabetum divini amoris (written by Johannes Nider, commonly attribued to Jean Gerson).
- Alternative Title:
- Nine tracts
- Description:
- In Latin., Title devised by cataloger., Script: gothic textualis., Decoration: three-line initials in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 32 lines., Binding: 15th-century brown leather over wooden boards; rebacked in 1986 by J. Macdonald., Manuscript note on front pastedown: Liber domus sancte Barbare in Colonia ordinis Carthusiensis in quo continentur subscripta ..., and Colophon (f. 48): Scriptum per manus fratris Theoderici de Harlem monachi domus sancte Barbare in Colonia carthusiensis ordinis. Anno domini 1456. Anno etatis sue 65.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Collection of texts by Jean Gerson
