Manuscript volume, in a single hand, containing the text of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, followed by the text of the Historia brittoum of Nennius; a brief biography of Merlin; and Sybilline prophecies
Description:
In Latin., Numerous marginal notes in contemporary and later hands., Bound with: parchment leaf of accounts kept by Robert de Staynford, steward of Lady Idoyne Percy, wife of Henry, Lord Percy (d. 1365)., Laid in: manuscript fragment, on paper, of a contract, in English (ca. 1574), formerly the back pastedown., Layout: single columns of 42 lines., Script: gothic text hand., Decoration: Rubricated. Numerous penwork initials and line fillers in red and blue ink. Ten larger illuminated initials, gilt and red and blue ink., and Binding: original oak boards covered in pink doeskin; remains of clasps.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Great Britain, Church history, and History
Manuscript on parchment composed of two distinct parts. Part I (13th century): 1) Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica. 2) Petrus Pictaviensis, Historia actuum apostolorum. 3) Unidentified text about Titus and Vespasian. Part II (14th century): 4) Augustinus Hibernicus, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, in the long recension. 5) Extracts from Ambrose, Exameron
Alternative Title:
Historia scholastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-173): Written in neat gothic bookhand, above top line; glosses added by a variety of hands, some exhibiting anglicana features. Part II (ff. 174-197): Written in gothic bookhand with some marginalia by contemporary and later hands., Part I: Two illuminated initials in parallel positions on f. 1r, beginning mid-page and extending almost to the bottom of the leaf. The first initial composed of a gold trellis edged in black with heads of a grotesque devouring the trellis at top and bottom, and foliage designs in green and white scrolling around the body of the initial against pink interior with white highlight and gold balls. The whole on a rectangular ground tapering to a point at bottom, with white designs. The second initial, somewhat narrower and less ambitious in design, gold edged in black with blue interior and thin white design in center and two rosettes, one at top, the other at bottom, and a third stylized floral motif in center, all on a pink ground in the same shape as the first initial. Also on f. 1r, 7-line initial divided red and blue with interior foliage designs in green and white on parchment ground, and red and blue penwork designs around exterior of letter. For major text divisions, fine medium blue and/or red initials, 9- to 6-line, with intricate penwork flourishes in red and blue, each accompanied by several lines of oversize letters for the first few words of text, with letters either in one color with designs in the other or alternating red and blue. Small penwork initials, red or blue with modest design in the opposite color, throughout. Headings, running headlines and vertical lines within text columns, in red. Remains of instructions to rubricator (some perpendicular to text in gutter) and guide letters for decorator., Part II: One gold initial, 4-line, with purple penwork designs on f. 194r. Blue initials with red penwork, 9- to 2-line, throughout. Headings and initial strokes added, in brown and red, unsophisticated drawings of birds, animals, leaves and grotesques in upper and lower margins., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries, England. Brown calf, gold-tooled. Striped turn-ins.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
Subject (Topic):
History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) in two parts, the first of which has several distinct formats. Part I: 1) Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as Lais, lacking all of Book I and part of Book II. Part II: 2) Edmund Rich, St., abp. of Canterbury, Speculum amicicie, also known as Speculum religiosorum or Speculum ecclesie, in a French translation. 3) Poem on the love of God and the hatred of sin. 4) Hymn based on the "Iesu dulcis memoria" (14 quatrains). 5) Appeal of Christ to sinner. 6) Collection of recipes
Description:
In French., Script: Part I: Written in gothic textura by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-71v; Scribe 2) ff. 72r-85v. Part II: Written in gothic textura by two hands: Scribe 1) ff. 86r-99v (column 1); Scribe 2) ff. 99v (column 2)-110v., Decoration, Part I: One historiated initial, f. 16v, Master expounding to a pupil, figures predominantly pink and blue on a pale purple and gold diapered ground; blue initial with white filigree and pink and green curling vine serifs on a pink ground with white ivy; ground framed by a thick gold band, edged in black. Two styles of minor decoration that correspond to work division of the two scribes: ff. 1r-71v, 2-line initials, blue or gold with red or blue penwork with flourishes; 1-line initials, blue or gold; numerous line-fillers, almost every line in different styles, blue and gold; first letter of each verse stroked in red. ff. 72r-85v, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork and flourishes. No line-fillers. First letter of each verse stroked in red. Rubrics throughout. Part II: Decorative initial, divided red and blue, 4-line, on f. 86r, with blue and red flourishes and design cascading down inner margin. 2-line initials, blue, with red penwork and flourishes. 1-line initials, red or blue. Rubrics throughout. Very crude drawings (16th century) added on f. 111r-v., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Bound by F. Bedford (London, active 1851-ca. 1883). Title on spine: "Lume As Lais/ Poemes francais MS. XIV siecle".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pierre, de Peckham, -1293.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing letters patent granting Thomas de Greystoke the right to hold a market every Monday and an annual three-day fair on the manor of Greystoke in Cumberland
Description:
In Latin., Great seal of England attached by red silk cord., Layout: single column of 19 lines., Script: secretary script., and Decoration: large initial R and calligraphic ascenders in the first line.
Manuscript on parchment. With graded calendar, in red and black, lacking January and February; the qualifier "pape" erased or crossed out
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in elegant gothic textura (larger size for the Canon), with standard musical notation of Canon, etc., Sumptuous full bar borders surrounding text and running between text columns, alternating red and blue segments, divided by gold panels, from which sprout short sprigs of ivy (blue, red, pink with white highlights, often in a guilloche pattern) and daisy buds, gold cusped corners, filled with ivy or strapwork with flower terminals; the whole further embellished by hair-spray with gold balls and flowers; the gold with simple punches throughout. On the same folios, 7- to 5-line initials, blue and/or red with white highlights, filled with red, pink, and blue ivy or strapwork on irregular gold grounds, with simple punches. Elaborate 3- and 2-line initials throughout, pink and blue, filled with ivy, trailing pink and blue ivy, on irregular gold grounds extending with ivy into border, embellished with gold balls and hair-spray. 2- and 1-line gold initials throughout, with elaborate purple penwork designs, often far into margins; long (up to 10-line) I-initials in the same manner. 2- and 1-line blue initials throughout with red penwork; long I-initials in same manner. 1-line gold initials with simple brown penwork. Line-fillers in the litany, blue and gold. Two leaves, probably with miniatures of the Maiestas Domini and Crucifixion, have been removed before the Canon (after f. 136)., First four leaves are stained and trimmed, but with no loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. White, gold-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. Gilt edges. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (London, 1901 to the present).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Missals
Manuscript, on vellum, in multiple hands, containing the text of the "Old" Natura Brevium; the text of The Old Tenures; and a register of writs from the reign of King Edward III. These texts are followed by a copy of part of a testament by "John Norton of Wadyngham."
Description:
In Latin and Law French. A copy of part of a testament in Middle English on p. 420., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 86.6.25 (number 69 in main catalog numbering)., A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 33-34., Script: English book hands., Decoration: initials have red and blue flourishing; many paragraph marks in red or blue., and Binding: late eighteenth-century? full brown morocco, gilt. Title on spine: Fitzherbert Natura Brevium. Codex MSS in membranis.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377. and Taussig, Anthony.
Manuscript on parchment and paper, composed in 3 parts, of Notes on grammar, syntax, logic, mathematics, and canon law. With excerpts of moral treatises and proverbs. Parts I and II, ca. 1300 on parchment. Part III, between 1300 and 1350 on paper
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1r-8r): Written in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior (Anglicana) mainly by two hands. Part II (ff. 9r-43v): Two hands, both writing Anglicana. Part III (ff. 44r-78v): Several hands, all writing Anglicana Currens and highly abbreviated: the first (ff. 44r-55v) is marked by lengthened and bold or decorated ascenders on the top line., Part II: Red paragraph marks; red plain 2-line initials. Part III: Red paragraph marks in some sections. Red plain 2-line initials (3-line initial f. 44r), some with flourishing, and guide-letters in artt. 5-8. Logical diagrams on ff. 44v and 47r. Hand A has curious line-fillers and his explicits are written in a dotted rectangular frame., and Binding: Early limp vellum, with a bone button in the middle of the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Education, Medieval, Grammar, Comparative and general, Latin language, Grammar, Logic, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, of the text of the "short version" of the Polychronicon (final entry is for 1327).
Description:
In Latin., Layout: double columns of between 44 and 51 lines., Script: cursive book hand., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 404 marginal drawings in pen and ink, many with yellow wash: mostly portrait roundels, but also including two diagrams of Noah's Ark; views of London, Canterbury, Rome and other places; an image of the Annunciation; and a small T-map. Margins ruled to accomodate the roundels. One illuminated initial and others covered in matte gold., Binding: contemporary calf over wooden boards, rebacked. Upper cover plain; lower cover contains central panel with the letters POLICRONICON created by stamping background with seven-pointed star stamp. Background pattern of diagonal fillets with five-petalled flower in circle stamped at each intersection. Remains of leather clasps and one brass catch. Sewn on six raised bands., and Byname: Takamiya Polychronicon.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super Psalterium. Commentary on Psalms 4-8.
Description:
In Latin., Script: The three consecutive folios were written by a single scribe in gothic textura., Three 4-line initials, in blue, with red penwork designs, including foliage in center of initials; passages from the Bible underlined in red; paragraph marks in red and blue., and The leaves are worn and have been trimmed (some text lost). They appear to have been removed from a binding.
