Manuscript on paper of a collection of material copied primarily by William Camden, antiquary and historian (1551-1623), from documents, 14th-16th centuries, that were in the Tower of London and in the College of Arms. Some selections are from official records, others are from private papers that were deposited in the Office of Arms. The manuscript is composed of four parts, the first two of which are laid in.
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified design, Part I; Briquet Lion 10555 and similar to Briquet Pot 12736, Part II; unidentified grapes and Briquet Lion 10555, Parts III, IV., Script: Written primarily by William Camden in several styles of cursive., Edges of some leaves crumbled and torn, with loss of text., and Binding: Date? Broken limp vellum case.
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Published / Created:
[between 1200 and 1250]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 828
Image Count:
73
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Guillelmus de Sancto Theoderico (William of St. Thierry, c. 1080-1148), Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei (De vita solitaria), without the Preface
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied by two scribes writing a heavily abbreviated early Gothica Textualis Libraria with simplified letter forms: hand A (ff. 1r-10r, line 5) is rather bold and uses single-compartment a and straight s in all positions; hand B (ff. 10r, line 6-26v) is slightly less careful, there is more variety in the shape of a, and final s is either round or straight., Red heightening of the majuscules, but layout and decoration lack uniformity. (1) Up to f. 12r inclusively the chapters start in the middle of a line and are preceded by a red paragraph mark; the corresponding chapter number is written by another hand at the same height in one of the side margins, and the chapter heading is added by the same hand in one of the margins and connected to the beginning of the chapter by a reference mark or by a connecting line. (2) From f. 12v up to at least f. 22v the chapters open at the left margin with a 1- or 2-line red plain initial and the corresponding heading and chapter number are copied in red by a contemporary hand in the open space on the preceding line; instructions for these are provided by the scribe (B) in small handwriting alongside the upper or lower edges. (3) Starting f. 23v for the final chapters 40-42 we see the type of layout and decoration as described under (1). On f. 1r a large and narrow “shaped inset” littera duplex in red and green initial F in red and green (8/16 ll.). with extremely developed penwork in the same colours and green extensions in the left margin., The lower edges of ff. 2, 7 and 11 are irregular; the lower outer corners of ff. 18, 23 and 24 are defective., and Binding: 20th century. Yellow velvet over rounded wooden boards. The former cover consists of a 17th-century document on parchment with text on the inner side, largely illegible due to the remnants of paste on its surface, issued by “Frater Bruno [d'Affringues, 1600-1631], ... totius ordinis Cartusiensis generalis minister”. The former binding contained also three fragments of a 13th-century manuscript on parchment, containing liturgical directions. These are now kept apart with the former cover and a former parchment flyleaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Reims (France)
Subject (Name):
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
Manuscript on parchment of The Venerable Bede, 1) De templo Salomonis; 2) In librum Regum quaestiones XXX; 3) Aliquot quaestionum liber; 4) In librum Tobiae allegorica expositio; 5) excerpts from Homeliae evangelii
Description:
Script: Copied by several hands in Pregothic script., Decoration: Art. 1 is undecorated. Elsewhere, red headings and incipit and explicit formulae (sometimes in Capitalis); on some pages, red stroking of majuscules; red versals and plain, generally 2-line, initials; some large Romanesque initials, or space for large initials, anywhere between 5 and 13 lines., Binding: 19th century light brown calfskin, silver-tooled with a large, diamond-shaped central motif and four smaller motifs in the corners. Each cover is framed in dark brown leather, blind-tooled with several rolls. The spine, with five raised bands, is partly gold-tooled and partly blind-tooled., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. and Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).
Subject (Topic):
Allegorical interpretations and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper. The compiler of this unidentified world chronicle cites as sources Sallust, Suetonius, Josephus, Orosius, Macrobius, Eusebius, Origen, Eutropius, Sigebertus, Hugh of Fleury, and many others. The chronicle concludes at the end of the twelfth century; the date of composition is given in the final section as 1183 in the reign of Frederick Barbarossa (1155-90). The text of the manuscript is continuous, with no book and few chapter notations
Description:
Written in the middle of the 15th century, perhaps ca. 1456 when the codex was given to John Capgrave by Jacobus de Oppenheim. Capgrave was elected in August of 1455 to another 2-year term as head of the English Augustinian Province. In 1457 he resumed his literary interests, including work on a universal chronicle from the beginning of the world until the year 1417; this endeavor resulted in the Chronicle of England produced ca. 1462., In Latin., Script: Written by three scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-105v, 60 lines of text written in a small and even, slightly rounded gothic bookhand. Scribe 2) ff. 105v-110v (end of quire XI), 112r-114r, 40 lines of text in a small notarial hand with some shading of descenders. Scribe 3) ff. 111r-v, 114r-405r, 55-58 lines of text in a dark gothic script characterized by fine hair-lines and curved flourishes over the letter i., Decoration changes according to scribe. Scribe 1: Guide-letters for initials never supplied. Rubrics (in upright gothic), paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. Scribe 2: Rubrics (ff. 105v-110v only) in same hand as preceding section; rubrics for ff. 112r-114r as for Scribe 3. Paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for initials never supplied. Scribe 3: Decorative initials (signalled by guide-letters), in red, with protruberances and hair-lines. Notes to rubricator in inner and outer margins. Rubrics (beginning f. 111r) in same hand as text; paragraph marks, often exaggerated, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century (Italian?). Sewn on four tawed slit straps laced into wooden boards. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric frames of alternating fillets and rope interlace, the central panel filled with interlace. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the straps, now wanting, attached with seven star-headed nails. Parchment strips from unidentified manuscripts reinforce center of each gathering. Remains of a paper or vellum label with lettering in ink near head of lower board and trace of a chain base at the tail. Heavily restored.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and World history
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of a writ issued in the name of King Henry V of England for the recovery of lands unlawfully entered into, citing acts of Parliament in Westminster, 31 October 1391 and 1420-1421
Description:
In Latin., Issued at Westminster. Endorsed by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, as Regent of England., Layout: single column of 42 lines., and Script: secretary-influenced Anglicana script.
Subject (Geographic):
England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422. and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 1391-1447.
Subject (Topic):
Feudal law, Land tenure, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Writs
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of the Wycliffite New Testament. Begins imperfectly in Matthew 3.4 and breaks off at 1 Timothy 1.15; also missing Romans 9.22 to 1 Corinthians 1.23 (2 bifolios lost after f. 73). Contains the Gospels without prologues, and the Epistles with prologues. The text has been altered in places by a near contemporary hand that has written over erasures. Since the alterations correspond to those adopted in the later edition of John Purvey, MS 125 may reflect an intermediate stage between the Wycliffite Bible and Purvey's version
Description:
In Middle English., Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe who carefully corrected his errors; changes by at least one nearly contemporary and one later writer., Blue initials, 10- to 4-line, with extensive penwork designs in red, introduce each chapter. Headings, running titles, and underlining in red; paragraph marks in red or blue., Bookblock chewed by rodent in upper right corner; margins of many leaves trimmed resulting in some loss of text, marginalia, and catchwords., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown leather, flesh side out, blind-tooled. A black calf spine, gold-tooled, added.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand: a leaf from the table of readings at the beginning or end of a Wycliffite New Testament. The text is from the Sanctoral, from the feast of the Purifcation to the feast of St. Mark
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 36 lines., Script: small gothic bookhand., Decoration: headings in red, capitals in red and blue., and Binding: Inlaid into a large paper leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Matthew's gospel and the Book of Acts from the "Early Version" of the Wycliffe Bible by Nicholas Hereford and his collaborators. The final page of the manuscript is added in a sixteenth-century secretary script
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of James West, 1732, on recto initial blank parchment leaf., Detailed provenance history of manuscript in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on verso of initial blank parchment leaf., Layout: single columns of 19-23 lines., Script: rounded English gothic bookhand., Decoration: large initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page index of readings according to the liturgical calendar and the opening stanzas of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in Latin
Description:
In Middle English, with a few pages in Latin., Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, Manuscripts, Medieval, and English prose literature
