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1. Bible
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1115]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 414
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of what appears to be the second of a two-volume Bible
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in an elegant French minuscule, chapter divisions added in margins by a later hand., Twenty-seven fine aniconic initials, 20- to 7-lines. The initials are drawn in black pen, filled with yellow, brown or blue, most with interlace knots at midpoints and terminals, some with dragon heads, infilled with intertwining palmette foliage against irregular red, blue, green, and yellow panelled grounds. Prologues open with 10- to 4-line initials, red and blue with terminals in a leafy "arabesque" design. Chapters with 3-line initials in red. 1-line initials, running headings, and rubrics throughout. Marginalia sometimes outlined in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red velvet case. Leather placemarks on fore edge.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
2. Bible, Genesis (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1199].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.18
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Genesis and Jerome's Epistula ad Paulinum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in two sizes of gothic bookhand (littera textualis)., and Decoration: the preface on fol. 2r begins with a 10-line decorated initial "D" in red interlace on a green geometric ground with a blue ground for the central portion of the vine stem; the text of Genesis begins with a half-page decorated initial "I" in the same style; 1-line initials in the prefatory material are occasionally red; line fillers are in red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; accents added by a later hand; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- 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 > Bible, Genesis (fragment).
3. Bible, Luke (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1150].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.8
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the biblical book of Luke, containing portions of chapters 5 and 9.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials alternate in red and green uncials; 1-line initials are brown uncials; the running title "Secundum" / "Lucam" is written in brown rustic capitals in the upper margin; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; canon table numbers are written in the left marins in red roman numerals.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, Luke (fragment).
4. Bible, with glossa ordinaria
- Published / Created:
- [between 1175 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 403
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of text of Ezra and Nehemiah. With Glossa ordinaria, both in margins and between lines of text
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in two sizes of neat French minuscule by a single scribe; text written either above or below top line and gloss below top line., Lower half of f. 62 repaired with contemporary (?) parchment., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Plain vellum wrapper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Versions, Vulgate, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible, with glossa ordinaria
5. Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1150, 1300-1600]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 25
- Image Count:
- 343
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick), composed of two distinct parts, of 1) Calendar-obituary giving the names of nuns, lay sisters, and benefactors of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France. The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century, but was still being supplemented in the sixteenth century. 2) A version of the Usuard Martyrology; the body of the text written in the 12th century. 3) Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-46): Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Part II (ff. 47-168): Written in elegant late caroline/early gothic bookhand., Part I: Initials, dates and headings in red. Part II: Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red., First part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired., and Binding: Fifteenth century (?), France. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs. Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines.
- Subject (Topic):
- Benedictine nuns, Christian martyrs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
6. Commentaries on the Psalms (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1100 and 1110].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 484.1
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of the commentaries of Arnobius the Younger and Jerome on the Psalms
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written in Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of each commentary are in red uncials; they are frequently decorated with balls or cross-hatching; 1-line initials are in brown uncials with occasional use of rustic capital forms; the first several words of each commentary are written in brown rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus versus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text; accents were added by a later hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Psalms (fragment).
7. Commentaries on the minor prophets
- Creator:
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 197
- Image Count:
- 412
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment in two volumes of Jerome, Commentaries on the Minor Prophets. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written and neatly corrected in early gothic bookhand by several scribes., Fine painted initials, 19- to 5-line, for major text divisions, monochrome red or polychrome in red, bright green, olive green and/or brown, with pale yellow washes. Preliminary sketches in lead often visible underneath; some bows appear to be drawn with compass. Smaller initials of similar design throughout. Initials are characterized by lattice work, acanthus scrolls and decorative empty spaces within initials. The opening initial on f. 1r is executed in red and blue. Headings in red throughout., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound in brown calf with bright pink paper sides. Three green gold-tooled labels on the spine of each volume: "Vol. I", "Vol. II"; "Hieronimi in XII Prophetas Manuscrip"; "Saecul XII". Title on black gold-tooled labels: "Hieronimi in XII Prophetas Manuscrip". Edges spattered blue-green. The same distinctive bindings also found on Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 153, 158, and 159, all of Hautecombe provenance.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the minor prophets
8. Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
- Creator:
- Victorinus, Marius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1175]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 86
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (warped) of Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam). With an Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I.24-28.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands., Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, 1450-1500): 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree. Black inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with blue and red flowers. Guide letters for decorator in margins., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Victorinus, Marius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin essays, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione
9. Commentarius in ad Romanos
- Creator:
- Origen
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 50
- Image Count:
- 322
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Origen, Commentarius in ad Romanos, translated into Latin by Rufinus. Probably written at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in well formed early gothic bookhand., Fine painted initials, ff. 1r and 29v, red with simple green penwork designs and pale yellow wash, 8-line; smaller red, green, or dark yellow-brown monochrome initials, 7- to 1-line. On f. 141r red initial, 7-line, with pale yellow wash. Headings in red., and Binding: Between 1800 and 1810, Italy. Half bound in brown sheepskin, gold-tooled, with two green, gold-tooled labels: "Hieronimi/ In Epistol/ ad Romanos/ Manuscrip" and "Saecul XII". Bright pink paper sides and edges spattered blue-green. The spine of the manuscript is back bevelled at head and tail. Rust stains from the nails of four corner bosses of early binding on first two leaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Origen. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentarius in ad Romanos
