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1.
Breviary (fragment).

Published / Created:
[14--].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 485.2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a breviary containing Feria II throughout the year, lauds
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 2-line initial "S" at the beginning of the hymn is in olive-green, green, and red with white filigree and is filled with purple, blue, and red foliage decorated with white filigree; the initial is on a gold ground outlined in black and is surrounded by green, blue, and orange foliage that extends into the margin with gold balls; 1-line initials alternate blue and red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Breviaries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary (fragment).

2.
Commentarius in Psalmos

Creator:
Pseudo-Bede
Published / Created:
[ca. 1100]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 518
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment leaf of Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. The fragment contains Ps. 77:68-78:13, PL 93.909-914. The lemmata are announced by means of paragraph marks in the shape of gallows. There are many corrections; additions are written in the upper margins or vertically in the intercolumnar space, in the same way as in MS 517
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a careful small late Carolingian script., The upper corners and the lower part of the leaf have been trimmed with loss of text., and The fragment was used as cover for a binding of a 16th-century book, f. 1v being the outer side. On what was the spine a handwritten title is vaguely legible "SCHOLIA SAL*** TAN*"; on the front cover the letters "M C E //" and the date "15//" are stamped.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bede.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Psalmos

3.
Corpus iuris civilis

Published / Created:
9th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 974
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of fragments from Codex Iustinianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Carolina, marked by the use of Half Uncial and Uncial d, ri- and st- ligatures (but no ct-ligature), and the improper use of the ae-diphthong and e caudata. Noticeable spellings and miswritings: amguitatibus (for ambiguitatibus), conitionaliter (for cognitionaliter), licteris, magestas, proibentur, spetialiter. Headings and plain initials in red; small slightly decorated black initials., Fragments from Codex Iustinianus. There are a few contemporary interlinear glosses (word explanations) and many textual corrections. In the outer margin of f. 1r a red Nota mark and of f. 1v two contemporary notes., and Only the outer margin is partly preserved; at the three other sides the leaf has been severely cropped, with loss of text; the inner top part is torn, and holes have caused some additional text losses. In the outer margin of f. 1r the modern note in pencil: "103/68/8".
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Civil law, History, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Corpus iuris civilis

4.
De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).

Creator:
Boethius, -524
Published / Created:
approximately 1350.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.87
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments on parchment from a northern Italian copy of this work by Boethius. The bifolium contains Book 2, verse 7.7-Book 3, prose 2.14. The fragment contains Book 4, verse 4.5-Book 4, prose 4,18
Description:
In Latin., Some damage from previous use as a document wrapper. Annotated "1569 1572" and "Baldassar Mariucci.", Interlinear and marginal glosses in a contemporary small cursive hand., Script: gothica textualis., and Decoration: large initial "I" in red and brown penwork, other initials in red ink with smaller initials in black in touched in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boethius, -524.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae (fragment).

5.
Epigrammata (fragment).

Creator:
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:
approximately 1300-approximately 1349.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.52
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments, on parchment, containing parts of the text of Saint Prosper of Aquitaine's Epigrammata. One partial bifolium also contains a fragment of the poem Ad Uxorem, once thought to be by the same author
Description:
In Latin., Script: gothica textualis rotunda italiana., Decoration: larger initials in red ink; smaller initials in brown ink touched with red ink., and Layout: single columns of 24 lines each.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epigrammata (fragment).

6.
Georgics

Creator:
Virgil
Published / Created:
[ca. 1400]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1116
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of portions of books I and II.
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Pastoral poetry, Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Georgics

7.
Humanistic miscellany

Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 856
Image Count:
20
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragments on paper of humanistic miscellany
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two hands, both writing a similar Humanistica Cursiva under Gothic influence, Currens in artt. 1-2, Libraria in art. 3., Space and guide letters for 2-line initials on ff. 1v and 2r, respectively at the beginning of the prologue and of the text proper of art. 2., and The manuscript contains: 1) Final page of a violent invective against a pope (Paul II, 1464-1471, or more probably Alexander VI, 1492-1503) by a woman (repeatedly referring to herself as "ipsa") who had been badly treated by him; it is addressed to another woman. Here attributed to the humanist Filippo Buonaccorsi ("Callimachus"), born 1437 in San Gemignano, d. 1496, a member of the Accademia Romana, who was among the accused of a conjuration against the life of Pope Paul II and had to flee Italy. 2) Francesco Pietrasanta from Milan, De opibus Christianae religionis, a treatise against the wealth of the clergy, addressed to the theologian Filippo Maineri. 3) Two fragments of a history of Florence.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503. and Paul II, Pope, 1417-1471.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanistic miscellany

8.
Sermons (Alan of Farfa, Homiliary?) (fragment).

Creator:
Pseudo-Augustinus
Published / Created:
[between 800 and 833].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 484.3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons, possibly from an Alan of Farfa Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule, which Bischoff has dated to the first third of the ninth century., and Decoration: the homily begins with a 7-line decorated initial "F" outlined in brown and filled with orange, dark orange, ochre, and olive green; 1-line initials in brown uncials; rubric written in red uncials; punctuated with the punctus and punctus versus; a leaf has been drawn in red in the space between the columns on the verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Homiliaries
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons (Alan of Farfa, Homiliary?) (fragment).