Manuscript fragments on parchment of John 1:1-14 and 13:33-35.
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule with some later forms and chancery influence., and John 1:1-14. Noticeable spellings and variants: “comprenderunt” (“comprehenderunt”), “misus” (“missus”), “periberet” and “perhiberet”, “cotquot”,“ex voluptate” (“ex voluntate”). John 13:33-35. In 13:34 the words “ut et vos diligatis invicem” are missing. From a modern note accompanying the present leaf it was used in the binding of a copy of Iohannes Fontanus (Jean Fontaine, 16th century), Hortulus puerorum pergratus ac perutilis latine discentibus.
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of anonymous sermons, mostly drawn from the Italian Homiliary
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in a nice large early gothic script, above top line., Attractive pen-and-ink drawings throughout the manuscript, in red, though much of manuscript now stained. Folio 1r with a partial border formed of fantastic beasts, dragons and grotesques. Other drawings in margins include a fantastic bird, f. 9r; a dragon with a human head issuing forth stylized scrolls, f. 40v; a scroll inhabited by a fantastic bird, f. 49r; a lizard-like creature, its tail forming a partial border, f. 53r; a grotesque, f. 73v. Several drawings in the lower margin have been trimmed. Plain initials in red, some with penwork scrolls or simple flourishing. Headings and underlining of Biblical passages in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century (?), Italy (?). Brown leather case with title, in ink, on spine: "Homil. in Evangel". Fragment of an unidentified 13th-century Latin document (monastic register?) bound in as second front flyleaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Homiliaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on parchment (much worn, pieced) of 1) Ovid, Tristia 1.7.35-40. 2) Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli added in margins
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by at least three scribes in scripts ranging from late caroline minuscule to early gothic bookhand, all above top line. Interlinear and marginal annotations and running headlines by several hands, 13th-15th centuries., Two illuminated initials, f. 1r, severely damaged: 21-line initial I for first verse of art. 2 incorporates an elongated grotesque, originally purple, red, blue, and green on gold ground; 4-line initial at beginning of art. 1, gold on red ground with center totally effaced. 8-line initial for Bk. 2, f. 8v, gold on blue (?) ground, now rubbed: inhabited by winged grotesque biting its back with intertwining foliage in blue, green, orange and mauve on gold and red ground. Books 3-15 have attractive penwork initials divided red and medium blue with designs in both colors, ascenders and descenders often sweeping far into margins. Headings and paragraph marks in red. First letter of each verse (either set apart from text block between the first and second or placed directly on the second vertical bounding line) stroked with yellow., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Sewing, possibly original, on four kermes pink slit straps. Plain, wound endbands on tawed skin cores. Tan blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards, also possibly original as they are cut in for the straps. Title gold-tooled on spine: "Ovidii Metam./ Saec. XV. M. S. in memb".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320. and Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin fiction, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ḥullin, which covers a discussion of mutual exclusion, the father's responsibility for his minor daughter, levirate marriage obligations, when the ram's horn (shofar) is blown, and when the separation (havdalah) prayer is said at the end of a festival
Description:
In Aramaic and Hebrew., Script: written in semi-cursive script., and 1 column. 26 lines. Dry-point ruling.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a lectionary or missal containing portions of the biblical books of Wisdom, Hebrews, Proverbs, and the Apocalypse
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in Beneventan script., and Decoration: 3- and 4-line initials are written on the inner vertical bounding line; one of them is a plain red square capital "I"; the others are brown square capitals filled with red foliate ornamentation; 1-line initials are brown, highlighted with red; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Lectionaries, and Missals
Manuscript fragment on parchment of medical recipes, primarily of a gynecological nature; recipes include: medical recipes for tumors or swelling of the vulva; medical recipes for hardness of the breasts, ulcers, and cancers, increasing milk, so a girl will not grow breasts nor a boy testicles, and so that the hands and neck will be white; there are several undecipherable recipes and a portion of a poem in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century hand on the sounds made by various animals
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in early gothic script (littera textualis); the added entries on fol. 2r are written in a French or Italian cursive hand from the second half of the fourteenth century; the upper portion of fol. 2v is written in littera textualis currens from the thirteenth century; the verses on animals are in a littera textualis from the latter thirteenth or early fourteenth century., and Decoration: punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Formulas, recipes, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Verba Seniorum, which comprises chapters 5-7 of the Vitae Patrum, a collection of Saint's Lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red with red and blue penwork; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and colon; accents and hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript on parchment of the earliest known redaction of the Constituta legis et usus of Pisa, issued ca. 1146-56.
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes in well formed bookhands. Scribe 1: ff. 1v (1r erased)-20r; Scribe 2: ff. 20r-38v; Scribe 3: ff. 39r-62v., Decorative initial, 7-line, f. 1r, in red and black with simple foliage designs in interior; red initial, 4-line, at beginning of art. 3, f. 18v; rubrics throughout, some perpendicular to text in margins. Plain initials, 2- to 1-line, and paragraph marks, in red; on f. 15v only, two initials, 1-line, and paragraph mark in blue. Guide-letters for rubricator in gutter or margins., Folio 1r almost entirely erased and illegible., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter bound with reddish-brown goatskin over wooden boards. Paper label, with title "Statuta Civitatis Pisanae An. 1186" written in ink on spine.
Manuscript on parchment of Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, with the text of the Doctrinale (verses 29 to 1567) added in the margins by various hands
Description:
Script: Copied by various similar hands, writing in a very small Gothica Textualis Currens. The Doctrinale text (art. 3) is written in the margins by various later hands, mostly using a bold and rounded Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, with sometimes elongated and decorated ascenders or descenders. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment in two parts. Part I: Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. Due to the loss of quires or leaves the following parts are missing: Ps. 23:1-31:6; Ps. 44:14-50:21; Ps. 88:48-95:10; Ps. 131:8-147:14. The contents of the first quire, which is equally lost, is unknown. Written at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Part II: Unidentified definitions and theological and ethical discussions of Biblical terms and quotations without apparent order, on behalf of preachers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by various hands close to each other in small late Carolingian script, with sudden changes in the shade of ink and sometimes badly following the lines. The handwriting on ff. 77-84 (quire XI) and ff. 112-113 (quire XVI) has markedly different features. Part II (ff. 114-133): Written by a single hand in tiny Southern Gothica Textualis Currens, at different times and in many different ink shades. The scribe opens both quires with "Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia" in the upper margin., Part I: The very simple decoration is uneven and consists of plain Romanesque initials, 2 or 3 lines, in red ink; on f. 41r (Ps. 51) 5 lines; many initials are not executed or later coarsely added in black ink. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled with triple fillets. Spine with three raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bede. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Preaching
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379
Published / Created:
approximately 1200 - approximately 1599
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 532
Image Count:
1416
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on vellum and paper of Saint Basil of Caesarea, De Legendis Gentilium Libris and various treatises on grammar and rhetoric bound together and Contains St. Basilius, De legendis gentilium libris, fols. 2r-14v, on vellum; Constantinus Lascaris, Grammaticae compendium, fols. 75r-104v, 196r-199r; Georgios Choeroboskos, Grammatica, fols. 107r-129r; Manuel the Rhetorician, Opusculum, fols. 134r-136r; Theodorus Prodromus, Erotemata, fols. 137r-160v; Michael Syncellus, De constructione libellus, fols. 178r-195v; Maximus Planudes, De constructione libellus, fols. 202r-233v; Corinthus, De dialectis, fols. 236r-262r; Phrynichus, Eclogae nominum et verborum Atticorum, fols. 282r-293v; Tryphon, De passionibus dictionum, fols. 296r-297v; Constantinus Lascaris, De pronominibus, fols. 344r-353r; Pythagoras, Aurea carmina, fol. 455r; Hymni Orphici, fols. 455r-460v; Michael Apostolios, Epistolae, fols. 463r-471r; Synesius Cyrenaeus, Epistolae, fols. 473r-574r; Theophylactus Simocatta, Dialogus, fols. 575r-587v; Astronomical Tables, fols. 619r-636v, 651r-664r. Also bound with Porphyrius, Liber Homericarum quaestionum, edited by C. Lascaris (Rome, 1518), which is not foliated and is bound between fols. 454 and 455
Alternative Title:
Address to young men
Description:
In Greek., Decoration: Some sections rubricated; astronomical and astrological tables at end., and Binding: Brown morocco over wooden boards; clasps missing.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fathers of the church, Grammar, Comparative and general, Language and languages, Grammars, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Prudentius (beginning of the fifth century), Psychomachia, with interlinear and marginal glosses by various hands in Latin and Italian, variant readings and corrections
Description:
In Latin, with Italian glosses., Script: Copied by one hand writing an uneven Southern Semitextualis Libraria with some two-compartment a's. The scribe Ciutus is not recorded., Red stroking of the majuscules. 2-line red plain initials. Larger and more elaborate initial in red and black at the opening of the text. Numerous pointing hands., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellow parchment over pasteboard, both covers framed with a gilt running scroll. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "PRUDENTII PSYCHOMACHIA . COD. SEC. XV (?)".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Prudentius, 348-
Subject (Topic):
Allegory, Christian poetry, Latin, Fathers of the church, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 2) Bucolica. 3) Georgica. 4) Aeneis. With commentaries, pseudo-Virgilian tracts, and a miscellany of treatises, many anonymous. Ff. 1-31 are from the first half of the thirteenth century; the rest of the manuscript and the decoration were added half a century later
Description:
In Latin., Script: Two scribes: A copied ff. 1-31 in Southern Praegothica close to late Carolingian script; B copied the rest, starting with the text of Book 5 of Aeneis, in more rapid early Southern Textualis/Semitextualis; his spelling is marked by italianisms., The headings in red are not executed; some added later in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca); instructions for the rubricator are seen ff. 70v-75r. Numerous paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, sometimes black. Plain and flourished initials of various sizes in red and blue (other colours are also used in quires I-IV). Seventeen painted initials decorated with gold balls. From f. 70v onwards there are guide-letters, but all initials and other decoration are missing. A rectangular space of the width of one column was reserved for a miniature on f. 1ra, which was not executed., Ff. 1-31 appear to be palimpsest, with very irregular edges, sometimes repaired by sewing strips of parchment onto them, which are now lost., and Binding: Seventeenth century. White parchment over pasteboard. On the spine with five slightly raised bands red leather label with gold-tooled inscription "VIRGI-/LIUS / M.S." (this title has been completed in black ink with "P(ublius)" , "Eneidos etc." and "membr"); below the label the handwritten date "saec. XIV". Marbled endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment of Apollonius, Ars notoria, sive Flores aurei. A text in which a direct approach to knowledge is sought by means of incantation. The text of the manuscript also includes numerous prayers, some of them consisting of exotic names
Description:
In Latin., Script: Neatly written in Gothica Textualis, mostly very regular and small, sometimes minute, with various additions by similar and later hands., Capitals in red, blue, or green at paragraph beginnings, mostly plain, but some with slight extensions; a large capital in red and blue with green tracery at beginning. Diagrams and drawings in red ink, mostly accompanied by text in brown, often with the text forming a part of the design, on parts or all of ff. 10v-17v., and Binding: Wrapper, probably modern, consisting of a piece of old parchment, perhaps cut from the blank portion of a large document with a fold and some slits, the modern sewing penetrating the back.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a judicial decision emanating from the podesta of Trento, Riprandus Otonis Rici, by order of Bishop Aldricus of Trento concerning easement of a stable
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in notarial script by Rolandinus., and Decoration: at the opening of the document there is a design in brown ink resembling a chalice; a cross stands above the entire document; the initial "E" of the notary's signature is a 2-line square-shaped capital in black ink decorated with dots; punctuated with the punctus and, at the end of the document, the punctus versus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a charter of Gregory IX mandating Franciscan friars be received charitably
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in chancery script., and Decoration: large initial "G" and 1-line capitals are in brown; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; the rope for the seal is at the bottom of the document; there are no chancery marks or signatures under the fold.
