Manuscript on paper of Gasparinus Barzizius (Gasparino Barzizza, 1360-1431), Vocabularium breve
Description:
In Latin., Beinecke MS 897 and MS 898 are parts of the same manuscript., Script: the original text is copied by one hand, writing a small Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria. The additions are in more rapid executions of the same script; the headings in a more calligraphic form, which may comprise Textualis elements., Watermark: a Trefoil. Parchment stays at the outer and at the inner sides of the quires, made from scraps of various manuscripts. Foliation in ink 17th century (?)., Red headings. Red stroking of majuscules and red paragraph marks on f. 1r only. The text opens with a 5-line red plain initial on f. 1r., and Binding: circa 2000. White limp parchment. Two pairs of white leather ties.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Barzizza, Gasparino, ca. 1360-1431.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on trimmed paper of Henricus de Ratisbona's Vocabularius Lucianus. Includes other texts, including sermons by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing, sermons by Konrad Batt, and a partial transcription of Alain de Lille's Liber poenitentialis
Description:
In Latin., Script: The first sections are copied by one or more hands writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens. The Alain de Lille is copied by a hand writing the same script with Bastarda features. The quality of the transcription is mostly low. In the first sections, stroking of majuscules and underlining of biblical quotations and sources in red. 2/3-line red plain initials with little uniformity, sometimes with long extensions; they are missing ff. 55r -62v, 127r-145v., Vocabularius Lucianus, an alphabetical lexicon attributed to Henricus de Ratisbona. Two collections of sermons, the first, Sermones super Evangelia, by Albertus Engelschalk de Straubing (c. 1363-c. 1430), from the first Sunday of Advent to the 24th Sunday after Pentecost. The second, Sermones rurales (Equipollarius), by Konrad Batt (Bart, Vatt, s. XIV). The manuscript also contains a transcription of Liber poenitentialis, Prologue and Book 1, chapters 1-11, by Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202)., and Binding: original binding: brown leather over unbevelled wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled with a frame traced with fillets and numerous impressions of a small quatrefoil stamp. On each cover five small many-lobed brass bosses. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alanus, Altissiodorensis, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., Ratisbona, Henricus de., Lille, Alain de, Bishop of Auxerre, -1185 or 1186., and Lucian, of Samosata.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons, Latin
Manuscript on paper of Henricus de Ratisbona, Vocabularius Dictus Lucianus
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by one scribe in small Gothica Cursiva Currens; the opening lines in low quality Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Stroking of majuscules, underlining and plain initials in red; this decoration stops after f. 34v (quire III), although space had been provided for the initials. Very large flourished initials or litterae duplices with elaborate penwork in red and green on multiple folios., and Binding: contemporary German binding: yellowish parchment over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. The upper of the two leather closing straps is preserved, attached to the rear board and closing over a pin in the front board; the lower one is replaced with a “wrap-around” leather strap. On each cover 5 brass bosses. The paper pastedowns are blank leaves with ink frame-ruling for two columns. Numerous white leather tabs. In the upper compartment of the spine a brownish parchment label with the handwritten inscription s. XIX (?) “Vocabularius / MS 1415”; it replaces a similar but earlier label with the same inscription, in the second compartment.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Henricus de Ratisbona.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of two sections of Jacques de Longuyon's Voeux du paon
Description:
In French., Script: copied by a single hand writing Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. 2-line half inset flourished initials alternately in red and blue, respectively with purple and red penwork extending into the margin. At the opening of the second section, a 6-line littera duplex with penwork. At the opening of the first section, a half-page miniature in three compartments in a decorative frame: at left a tent in which two knights in armour are seated; in the center a tent with two ladies standing; at right Alexander and Cassamus. Under the miniature 14 lines of text, opening with a 5-line foliate initial ending in a bar in the left margin, continued with a foliate bar border in the lower and the right margins; the horizontal section ends at left in the head, forelegs and wings of a monster; at right a bird is sitting., Two sections of the poem "Voeux du paon" by Jacques de Longuyon, composed 1312-1313., and Binding: 18th century. French dark olive green morocco gilt, lined with pink silk. Bound by Bisiaux (his ticket); arms of Edward Vernon Utterson on covers. Folio 8 is bound between ff. 1 and 2.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jacques, de Longuyon, active 1290-1312.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Three manuscript documents concerning grants of rights and rents by and between Maystoke Convent; Thomas de Beauchamp, Count of Warwick; and William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon
Description:
In Latin., Housed in twentieth-century case, quarter red morocco over black cloth boards. Title on spine., and Title transcribed from spine of case.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Beauchamp, Thomas de, Count of Warwick., Clinton, William de, Earl of Huntingdon., and Maystoke Convent.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure, Landlord and tenant, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (one leaf, cut in half vertically). Inner margin continues through gutter, with slits for binding, to include ca. three letters of the text of the other half of the bifolium
Description:
In German., Script: Written in gothic cursive script., Plain initials alternate in red and blue; headings and initials in red. Guide-letters for plain initials., Rubbed and stained on verso with some loss of text., and Inscription on verso, inner margin "Stuefft Buch pro anno 1657" indicates that the leaf was used for a 17th-century binding.
Manuscript fragment (4 leaves), on parchment, of the volume known as the "Whitby Psalter."
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic liturgical script., and Decoration: numerous geometric line fillers in red, blue and burnished gold. Numerous small initials in blue with red penwork or burnished gold with blue penwork at the openings of verses. Three leaves contain four large initials in burnished gold and colors, three further decorated with a bird figure.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and England
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Psalters, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois
Description:
In Middle High German., Script: written in a gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red uncials; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; the text is not written according to lines of verse.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wirnt, von Grafenberg, active 13th century.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, German literature, and History and criticism
