Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main b...
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines.
Subject (Topic):
Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
Manuscript on parchment (thick, but good quality) of a Collection of Texts on St. Barbara. With a miscellany of texts including patristic works, moralistic poems, and prophecies
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barbara, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Prophecies
Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
Published / Created:
[between 1600 and 1610]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 260
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres....
Description:
In Greek.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of an abridgement of a work by John Foxe (1516-87), including a discussion against Papists and a history of England's rulers, important religious figures, and those burned as heretics
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Foxe, John, 1516-1587. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Protestant authors, Doctrines, Christian martyrs, Church history, Persecution, History, Kings and rulers, and Religious life and customs
