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1. Sacramentary
- Published / Created:
- [between 900 and 1000?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1089
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin. and Schøyen MS 645.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sacramentaries
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sacramentary
2. Commentary on Daniel
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1299].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1038
- Image Count:
- 165
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of St. Jerome (ca. 348-420), Commentarii in Danielem, with prologue and later additions
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Artt. 2-4 probably copied by various, very similar, hands in Praegothica, but with frequent interruptions. The texts on the front flyleaf (art. 1) are written in sixteenth century Gothica Cursiva Currens. The many interruptions in the handwriting and the variations in the layout, especially in quire V, are as yet unexplained., Decoration: Unevenly spread; headings and explicit formulas and initials exclusively in red ink., and Binding: 15th century, rebacked in ancient style: reddish brown calfskin over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled. Spine has four raised bands. There are marks of two clasps attached to the front board which close over brass catches on the rear board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on Daniel
3. De bello iudaico
- Creator:
- Josephus, Flavius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 282
- Image Count:
- 231
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Josephus, De bello iudaico, translated into Latin by Rufinus
- Alternative Title:
- De bello Judaico
- Description:
- In Latin., Written in bold and elegant early gothic bookhand; some looped flourishes in upper margins contain red dots., Seven initials, 17- to 10-line, in red, filled with red swirling foliage on orange and green grounds, with touches of blue, against irregular grounds of blue and/or orange panels. 6- to 2-line initials, green and/or red with red or green foliate flourishes, set both outside and into text column; initials sometimes incorporate simple facial features. 1-line red initials for rubrics. Rubrics throughout; remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Josephus, Flavius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De bello iudaico
4. Scholastica hystoria
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 674
- Image Count:
- 363
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Petrus Comestor (Manducator), Historia Scholastica
- Alternative Title:
- Historia scholastica
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by two scribes (Scribe 1: ff. 1r-47r; Scribe 2: ff. 47r-179v) in proto-gothic script., Large initial on f. 1v embodying 9 miniatures (depicting, top to bottom, God the Father enthroned, Noah and the Ark, Abraham and Melchisidech, Abraham and Isaac, Elijah pouring water around his altar, a king kneeling before an altar, a prophet, David playing the harp, and Petrus Comestor at work). 19 large decorative initial letters in light green, dark green, yellow, blue, and red with interlace and leafy decorations, often employing zoomorphic ornamentation. Hundreds of smaller painted initials., and Binding: 18th century. Brown calf, with gilt embossed ornamentation on spine and the legend: "Historia | Scholastica | Petri | Manducatori" and a label with the printed number 3742.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scholastica hystoria
5. Chroniques de Hainaut
- Creator:
- Baudouin d'Avesnes
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1315]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 339
- Image Count:
- 759
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Baudouin d'Avesnes (d. 1289; Lord of Beaumont and son of Margaret of Flanders), Chroniques de Hainaut. Continues to ca. 1131
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in fine gothic textura. Corrections made over erasures., One fine historiated initial, 4-line (f. 4r): orange, pink and blue with white filigree; a king seated in conversation with three men, the figures orange, pink, and blue against a ground diapered in gold and blue with crowns in white; on a blue ground with white floral filigree framed in gold; curling vine serifs, red and green, extending into a 3/4 vine border, blue and pink, with red, blue, green and white leaves with some knots and gold cusping; large gold dots; two dogs, one with a bone, in lower margin. Two coats-of-arms in upper and lower margins. One fine calligraphic initial, 5-line, f. 197r, divided red and blue with particolored penwork, red and blue, with flourishes and a cascading column of I's, alternating red and blue and extending 3/4 length of inner margin. 4- to 2-line initials, red or blue, with blue or red penwork, dots and large flourishes, one on f. 4r with a cascading column of I's as above. 1-line initials, red or blue, with penwork, as above. Numerous crude marginal drawings in brown ink. Notes to rubricator, arts. 1 and 3., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf over heavy wooden boards which are possibly original.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Hainaut (Belgium)
- Subject (Name):
- Baudouin d'Avesnes.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chroniques de Hainaut
6. Moralia in Job
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- 1388 January.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1152
- Image Count:
- 381
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment containing a possibly unique French translation of the Prologue and first five books of the Moralia in Job, copied in Chimay
- Alternative Title:
- Moralia in Job. French
- Description:
- In Middle French., Script: written in a single gothic bookhand., and Binding: nineteenth-century full blue calf, gold-tooled.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Moralia in Job
7. Theological and ascetic treatises, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450 (1436)]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 904
- Image Count:
- 494
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper containing theological and ascetic treatises and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9)., The manuscript contains: 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents., and Binding: circa 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, History, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Theological and ascetic treatises, etc
8. 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).
9. 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).
