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1. 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
2. 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