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1. Bible
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1240-approximately 1250.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a73
- Image Count:
- 716
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
2. Bible
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 81
- Image Count:
- 543
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in tiny gothic textura by a single scribe., Good initials for the beginning of each book and prologue, 10- to 4-line, blue or pink, with various shades combined in a single letter, with white highlights, often with prominent floral serifs in blue, pink, red, orange, and yellow, against pink and blue grounds; grounds for body of letter and serifs in opposite colors. Elaborate descenders, ascenders, as serifs, but often with biting dragons. Letters filled with curling floral motifs, often with dragon-head terminals, and biting dragons. The initials on f. 214r (Esther) and f. 220r (Job) are more elaborate than the others. 2-line initials for each chapter, blue or red, with red or blue flourishes. Running headings and chapter numbers in red and blue, with flourishes. Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Printed vellum fragment, in large gothic letters, with portion of John 4.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
3. Bible
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1250]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 455
- Image Count:
- 860
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Text written in similar styles of gothic bookhand mostly by two scribes who may also have ruled the segments each copied. Scribe 1) ff. 7r-13v, 171v-296r, 307r-409r; running titles. Scribe 2) ff. 15r-171v, 297r-306v. A later hand of the 15th century wrote before and after Scriptural text in a less formal style of gothic; at least four other persons of the 14th-15th centuries have annotated the text in various styles of cursive., Decoration by two distinct hands whose division of work does not correspond precisely to that noted for the scribes. 1) ff. 7r-220v, 325r-340r. Large flourished initials, body divided red and blue, with interior designs primarily in red, and small blue circles added; first line of text in blue capitals decorated with simple red pen strokes. Many rubrics missing. 2) ff. 221r-324v, 341r-409r. Flourished initials similar in design to those by 1, but somewhat smaller in size and mostly without small blue circles; first line of text in blue and red capitals alternating; chapter divisions decorated with long herringbone pendants in red and blue. Running titles and marginal chapter divisions in alternating red and blue letters throughout codex. Notes to rubricator, some perpendicular in gutter., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on five double, tawed supports laced straight and in V's into back-cornered wooden boards and pegged. The spine is square, the sewing supports prominent. Braided tawed skin (?) endbands. The first covering is brown calf with corner tongues. Next is a chemise of pink, tawed skin with an outer cover sewn to it with diagonal stitches of blue thread. Outer and inner covers are adhered to each other and to the boards with extending edges cut off. Two strap-and-pin fastenings with foliate pin bases on the lower board and stubs of kermes pink straps. Green discoloration on pastedowns. Trace of lettering in ink on the spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
4. Bible (Proverbs to Apocalypse).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 104
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 464
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the books of the Bible from Proverbs through the Apocalypse
- Description:
- In Latin., With an Oxford pledge note for the Selton Loan Chest dated 1469 and the mark of the stationer John More. There is also a note by M. Paris, possibly Master Thomas Paris of Oriel College., Layout: double columns of 49 lines., Script: small gothic script., Decoration: red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: modern goatskin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Oriel College. and University of Oxford.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Vulgate, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Universities and colleges
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible (Proverbs to Apocalypse).
5. Bible (fragments).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1250]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1211
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 294
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragments, on parchment, of an English Bible. The bound volume consists of 75 leaves containing the complete texts of the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews. The disbound fragment consists of 62 leaves of Old Testament texts, including most of Jeremiah and Proverbs, most of Zachariah, and 1 and 2 Machabees
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: rubricated. The volume contains 39 illuminated marginal initials, many with long marginal extensions incorporating animals or monsters. The disbound leaves contain several smaller initials. Some illuminated initials, and some leaves that most likely contained illuminated initials, appear to have been cut out in the disbound leaves., and Binding: seventeenth-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, blind-tooled; rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible (fragments).
6. Book of Hours, Sarum use
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1250]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 22
- Image Count:
- 122
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, fuzzy on hair side) of a Book of Hours, followed by 3 short devotional texts in French
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in two styles of script: large gothic bookhands, often with only 3-4 words per line, by three scribes for ff. 1r, 2r-91r, 93r-115v, respectively; Anglicana scripts for ff. 1v, 91v-92v (added prayers)., The codex, now in fragmentary condition with no miniatures extant, contains a sequence of historiated initials, some badly rubbed. Large historiated initials, 3-line, pink or blue with white designs on blue square ground framed with gold; both initial and frame edged in black; figures on gold ground, often rubbed and flaked; elongated dragons extend into margins for ascenders, as in initial D. Small historiated initials, 2-line, of similar designs and colors, but on cusped gold grounds. Other text divisions marked by 2-line initials, pink, orange, blue with simple foliage motifs in the same colors and yellow, all with designs in white and on square or cusped gold grounds that often extend far into margins. Initials on ff. 93-115 are somewhat more delicate in appearance and presumably by a different hand than those on ff. 2-91. 1-line initials in red with blue penwork designs alternate with opposing color scheme. Elaborate line-fillers, including fish and heads of long-beaked beasts, for litany (art. 5). Headings in red, ff. 2-91 only., Manuscript has been heavily trimmed with loss of marginal decoration; staining, rubbing throughout affects illumination., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries, England. Rigid vellum case with note on spine "MS. Circa 1400". Red edges. Bound by Birdsell and Son (Northampton, 1792 and later).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Devotional literature, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours, Sarum use
7. 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
8. 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
9. De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
- Creator:
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa53
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law
- Description:
- In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Title from incipit., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Script: Gothic Textura., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., and Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ
