Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing sermons for the church year cycle
Description:
In Latin., Annotations and pen trials on endleaves., These sermons also in Paris, Bibl. Mazarine ms. 1042., Script: Early gothic minuscule., and Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, gilt-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
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
Manscript document, on parchment, in a forged late eleventh-century script, purporting to be a charter issued by Edward the Confessor to the Abbey of St. Mary, Coventry. Accompanied by six other thirteenth century grants
Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice, bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English
Description:
In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations., Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581)., Script: Gothic bookhand., Decoration: some rubrication of initials., and Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Biblesworth, Walter de.
Subject (Topic):
Administration of estates, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry, Conduct of life, French language, Study and teaching, and Manuscripts, Medieval