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1. Alchemical compilation
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490; 1790]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 20
- Image Count:
- 156
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an alchemical compilation, apparently the holograph of the original compiler, not identified. Probably the laboratory notes of a practicing alchemist. Includes lists of Flemish names, apparently identifying fellow practitioners in early alchemy; and laboratory procedures, designed primarily to color metals and to carry out other operations with various substances. Leaves inserted and blank pages filled at later dates
- Description:
- In Latin, with later additions in Latin and German., Watermark: Outstretched hand, the fingerjoints indicated, a four-leafed petal extending from the tip of the third finger, the wrist and cuff of a sleeve also depicted, comparable to Briquet 11423., Script: The original part of the codex (ff. 1-133) written in a very fine, neat, and clear humanistic hand, and using a considerable range of alchemical symbols; the later additions (ff. 134-145) consist of Latin sections written in a neat italic and German passages in flowing cursive, perhaps both by a single German hand of the 18th century., Headings of procedures in red and blue alternating in the original section, and with some capitals stroked red; no color in the additions. No ornament., Though the whole of the manuscript has suffered some marginal water-staining since it was bound, it appears certain that other stains and damage occurred while the separated quires, or groups of them, remained unbound., and Binding: Probably original. Stiff parchment over paper boards, flaps over the fore-edge, probably dating from about 1525, conceivably later, as the manuscript contents do not appear to have been bound at the time of writing in any case; flat spine with modern inscription in brown ink, "Alchemical | Recipes", original blue edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Science, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical compilation
2. Antiphonary (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.128
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing unidentified chants and Holy Saturday, lauds
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: the 4-line initial "U" is in blue and red; some of the sketched flourishes outside of the letter have been traced in red and filled with green; inside the letter a floral pattern has been sketched and partially completed; the 2-line initial "O" is red with sketched flourishes only partially completed and filled with green; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; quadrata notation is in black on a 4-line staff in red; punctuated with the punctus.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Antiphonaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Antiphonary (fragment).
3. Arma Christi prayer roll
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1187
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript roll, on parchment, in a single hand, illuminated, containing the "Arma Christi" poem and other prayers, in Dutch, including prayers ascribed to Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. The prayers are preceded by a rubric instructing readers to kneel as they recite the prayers in order to obtain an indulgence
- Description:
- In Dutch., Layout: single column of text., Script: gothic., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red or blue. Large miniature at head of roll containing a bust of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, displaying his stigmata, and surrounded by the "arma Christi" (also known as the Instruments of the Passion). On a blue ground in gold frame. One large decorated initial immediately below miniature. Text accompanied by decorated borders on both sides., and Binding: section of leather sewn to top of scroll. Accompanied by seventeenth-century? fabric case with fabric and metal appliqués.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Netherlands
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Passion, Dutch, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Indulgences, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi prayer roll
4. Book of Hours (Litanies) (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.4
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (litanies) including a litany that includes the following saints: Gereon and companions, Cosmas, Damian, Fabian, Sebastian, Gervase, Protase, Crispin, Crispinian, Chrysogonus, Leodegarus, Lambert, Christopher, Thomas, Demetrius, Blaise, Livinus, Firminus, Silvester, Gregory, Leo, Hilary, Martin, Nicholas, Augustine, and Ambrose
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera fere bastarda)., and Decoration: each line begins with a 1-line initial "S" in gold on alternating grounds of red and blue; the names of the saints are written on the same line as "Or[a pros nobis]" but are separated from it by line fillers or alternating bands of red and blue decoraed with gold penwork; there is no punctuation.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Books of hours
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (Litanies) (fragment).
5. Book of Hours (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [14--].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 483.21
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a book of hours (Office of the Dead).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis formata), with a larger script for the canticle and Psalm and a smaller script for the chants., and Decoration: the 2-line initial at the beginning of the Psalm and the 1-line initials at the beginning of Psalm verses are in gold on a ground that alternates between red with blue penwork and blue with white penwork; the interior of letters on the red ground are filled with blue and white penwork, and the interiors of those on blue ground are filled with red and blue penwork; 1-line initials at the beginning of chants are in brown; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated rarely with the punctus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Books of hours
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
6. Book of hours, use of Sarum
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1425-approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a86
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 127
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Illuminated manuscript on parchment of a book of hours, use of Sarum, incomplete. May have been produced for a Scottish patron. Contains 1) Prayers in Latin and Middle Scots, f1r-5v; 2) Hours of the Virgin, use of Sarum, with Hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit intermixed, f6r-30r; 3) Prayers, including Seven Joys of the Virgin, O intemerata, and Obsecro te, f30v-42v; 4) Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, f43r-55v
- Description:
- In Latin; rubrics in Middle Scots., Script: gothic bookhand., Decoration: 5 column-width miniatures, some illuminated; 4-6 line initials with illuminated full borders; 2-line blue initials with red penwork; 1-line initials in alternating red and blue. Rubricated., Layout: single columns of 22 lines., Secundo folio: tuo., Binding: modern limp vellum. Spine title: "Horae ad Usum Sarum" and "MS.", Some annotations in Middle Scots in 15th-century hand., Some full and partial leaves removed throughout., and Bookseller description available.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Netherlands, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours, use of Sarum
7. Breviary
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1499 to 1501]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1007
- Image Count:
- 546
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a breviary with ferial psalter, various prayers, computistical tables, and a calendar
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by five hands in Gothica Hybrida Libraria: scribe A (Arnoldus Guetsen) copied ff. 1r-108v and 246r-268v; B copied f. 110r-v; C copied ff. 111r-206v; D copied ff. 207r-244v; and E copied f. 245r., Decoration: red rubrics, underlining and stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; plain initials; and flourished initials or litterae duplices with penwork, which often takes the form of foliage. Gold initials with or without penwork are seen on ff. 111r-125v and 134r-141v. Large initials variously in the trompe-l'oeil style, the dentelle type, in gold and colours with borders, the Renaissance style, and the landscape style of the Ghent-Bruges school. See catralog description for further detail., and Binding: 20th century red morocco over wooden boards, sewn on two thiongs; two braided leather and brass clasps attached to the rear cover. Red, blue or green parchment tabs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary
8. Calendar
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1127
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a calendar in Latin, one page for each month, based on luni-solar computistical data
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata using only “box”-a., Decoration: Red rubrics; occasional crossing in red of abbreviations such as “epi”, “mr”, “virg”; occasional yellow heightening of majuscules written in black ink; and “KL”-abbreviations treated as 4-line dentelle initials., and Binding: None.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Church calendar and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar
9. Calendar for 1490 with computational tables and a treatise on arithmetic
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1490]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1149
- Image Count:
- 42
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin and Dutch.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arithmetic, Calendars, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar for 1490 with computational tables and a treatise on arithmetic
