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1.
Dicta

Creator:
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1400]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 524
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on vellum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in English bookscript., Four initials in red and blue with penwork; red paragraph marks., and These 2 leaves appear to have been taken from a binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dicta

2.
Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem

Creator:
Valerius Maximus
Published / Created:
[ca. 1420]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 147
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand., Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue., Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem

3.
Facta et dicta memorabilia

Creator:
Valerius Maximus
Published / Created:
[between 1350 and 1400]
Call Number:
Marston MS 234
Image Count:
160
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in less formal scripts., 8 large initials, 10- to 7-line, of poor quality, pink against gold ground thickly edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, green, orange, and yellow on blue ground. Foliage serifs, pink, blue, orange and yellow with white filigree extending into margins to form partial borders. Gold balls, thickly edged in black. Numerous small initials, 5- to 3-line, pink against gold ground edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, orange and yellow on blue ground. Numerous flourished initials, 2- to 1-line, alternate in red and blue with brown or red penwork. Headings in red by at least two rubricators. Paragraph marks in blue for chapters in tables preceding each book; in red and blue for text., Folio 1r damaged with some loss of text. Most of the decoration is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown leather case, blind- and gold-tooled. Title (citing portion of table of contents for Book II, f. 1r) on spine: "De institutis/ antiquis/ de disciplina/ militari/ de iure" and "Triumphandi".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facta et dicta memorabilia

4.
Facta et dicta memorabilia

Creator:
Valerius Maximus
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 666
Image Count:
501
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermark) of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with interlinear and marginal glosses
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria, marked by a curious form of r resembling c., Undecorated. The spaces for headings and initials are blank, except in the first quires, where a 16th-century hand has added some rubrics and plain initials; red capitals and a few contemporary red headings are added on ff. 77v-91r., Top edges severely trimmed. The top corners of ff. 189-249 repaired. Outer edges of ff. 156-166 damaged by mice (?)., and Binding: Early, brown undecorated leather over pasteboard. Spine with four raised bands. Blue sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facta et dicta memorabilia

5.
Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem

Creator:
Valerius Maximus
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1410]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 221
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands., On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator., and Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem

6.
Humanist, Computistic, Liturgical and Devotional Miscellany

Creator:
Bernard Silvestris, active 1136
Published / Created:
[ca. 1499].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1070
Image Count:
76
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper, ca. the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, of 1) Bernard Silvestris, De cura rei familiaris; 2) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum; 3) Elegantiarum viginti precepta; 4) Notes on moveable feasts, a calendar, mnemotechnic verses, calendar tables, lists and other notes; 5) Office for the feast of Our Mary "ad Nives," hymn for the Virgin and Child, and biblical prayers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by three hands: A) copied ff. 1r-6v and 16r-26v in Gothica Semihybrida Currens; B) copied ff. 8r-14r in Gothica Cursiva Currens; C) copied ff. 14v and 27r-36v in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria., Decoration: Red paragraph marks, underlining, stroking of majuscules, rubrics (rare, except in the Calendar, art. 5). Red 1-2-line plain initials. Alternately red and blue 1-2-line plain initials in art. 7. Red KL-ligatures in the Calendar., and Binding: none.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Silvestris, active 1136., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Humanist, Computistic, Liturgical and Devotional Miscellany

7.
Joannes Cassianus; Ambrosius Autpertus

Creator:
Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
Published / Created:
[between 1100 and 1200]
Call Number:
Marston MS 24
Image Count:
194
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (endpieces, holes, speckled on hair side) of 1) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis libri XII. 2) Joannes Cassianus, Conlationes XXIV. 3) Miscellaneous notes. 4) Ambrosius Autpertus, Oratio contra septem vitia. 5) Joannes Cassianus, extracts from Conlationes XXIV
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes of varying degrees of accomplishment in late caroline minuscule and early gothic bookhand., One decorated 5-line initial (rubbed) on f. 1r, constructed of interlacing bands in parchment, outlined in brown ink against an irregular red ground. Plain red initials, some of which are drawn vertically rather than upright, and often with small red pearl designs, appear to be executed by many different hands. Instructions to rubricator in upper margin of f. 1r. Guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Twelfth century, Italy. Original sewing on two tawed pigskin slit straps. The sewing supports and endband cores are laced through a tawed skin spine lining (from a palimpsest?) which extends about 50 mm. on either side and is turned in at head and tail. There is a fragment of finely woven cloth caught up by the lower sewing support and kettle stitch. Chevron endbands on tawed skin straps, one of which extends across the lower side under the lower turn-in. The lower side is reinforced with two irregular pieces of vellum. A flush, tawed skin cover with overlapping corners and irregular turn- ins, wide at the fore edge. Stubs of fastenings which are extensions of the supports. Contemporary title in ink on upper cover: "liber intitulatur de habitu monachorum". Decorative panel containing a drawing of an unidentified animal smeared blue and/or green within a border of brown circles, on lower side.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Vice
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joannes Cassianus; Ambrosius Autpertus

8.
Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

Published / Created:
1471.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 762
Image Count:
904
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Legendary history of the foundation of Rome. 2) Mirabilia Romae. 3) Note on Roman abbreviations especially for personal names. 4) Heading of an index to the Roman History of Livy (?). 5) Note on officials, functions and institutions of the Roman empire. 6) Note on the structure of Roman personal names. 7) Headings of the chapters of Books 1-9 of Facta et dicta memorabilia. 8) Giunta de Sancto Giminiano (14th century), alphabetical table to Facta et dicta memorabilia, from A to T, with ample blank spaces between each letter of the alphabet. 9) Mentions of Valerius Maximus and Livy in works of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas of Lyre. 10) Valerius Maximus (1st century), Facta et dicta memorabilia, including the pseudepigraphic Book 10, De interpretacionibus nominum
Description:
In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria, the text very large, the glosses small., Underlining, paragraph marks, headings, stroking of majuscules and plain initials (with guide letters), all in red., The pages damaged by the acidity of the ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Quarter binding in brown leather, the cardboard covers covered with marbled brown paper. Gold-tooled spine with five raised bands and brown title label with gold-tooled inscription: “VALERIUS MAXIMUS / MANUSCRIPTUM”. Red sprinkled edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Valerius Maximus.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirabilia Romae; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, with glosses

9.
Opusculum de vitiis

Creator:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 651
Image Count:
147
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of assorted works by Cicero with additional texts
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: 1) Human bust, var. Briquet 15599?. 2) Balance, var. Piccard, Waage 1.78?. (3) Crown, unidentified?., Script: Written by two scribes, one writing in Italian Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria and the other in a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata with numerous decorative hairlines., Red paragraph marks. Art. 3 has yellow heightening of the majuscules, a 2-line and a 3-line flourished initial in red, blue and yellow. In art. 1 the majuscules are heightened in red; there are plain red initials in art. 5, but its decoration is not consistent., and Binding: Damaged original binding in deerskin over heavy almost unbevelled wooden boards. Parchment pastedowns, the front one detached from the board. On the front cover inscription in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, worn and difficult to decipher. On the spine a 17th-century paper label with the number "2760" and the title "Huma (?)......Marci Tulii de amicitia manu scripta". Marks of two leather straps fixed to the front cover, the pin holes visible in the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opusculum de vitiis

10.
Proprietates rerum moralizate

Published / Created:
[1425-1475]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 886
Image Count:
98
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper and parchment of Proprietates rerum moralizatae, a moral encyclopaedic treatise arranged alphabetically from "Advocatus" to "Viridarium".
Description:
In Latin., Script: articles 1 and 3 are copied by one hand, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria. Article 2 is by another hand writing a larger and more coarse Gothica Semihybrida Libraria., Red stroking of the majuscules and red paragraph marks; red headings, in Hybrida in artt. 1 and 3, in Textualis in art. 2. Red plain 2-3-line initials., Collation is difficult due to the tight binding and the fact that the fold of ff. 2-5 has been repaired by means of strips of paper. There is a horizontal catchword at right on f. 24v. Parchment ff. 15 and 34 are both singletons with a stub (visible between ff. 14 and 15 and 33 and 34 respectively), through which the sewing cord passes. Probable extent of the quires: I (ff. 1-5), II (ff. 6-24), III (ff. 25-42)., and Binding: 20th century, by P. Dusel (1993). Dark blue morocco over cardboard, the edges of the boards decorated with a gold-tooled fillet ending on small lilies. On the flat spine the gold-tooled title "PROPRIETATES RERUM".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin, Natural history, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Proprietates rerum moralizate

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