Fragment of an unidentified prose romance in French
Description:
In French., Script: copied by a single hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. Red paragraph marks and red heightening of the majuscules., Fragment of an unidentified prose romance in French about a king (Alexander?) travelling with his army in the East and meeting with Jewish culture., and Binding: the leaves have been folded parallel to their short side to be used as a cover for an archival register, f. 3v being at the outer side as appears from the smudging around the fold.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Verba Seniorum, which comprises chapters 5-7 of the Vitae Patrum, a collection of Saint's Lives
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded early gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 2- and 3-line initials are in red with red and blue penwork; 1-line initials are in brown uncials; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and colon; accents and hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Saints, and Lives and legends
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Macer Floridus, Viribus herbarum. Composed of one incomplete bifolium containing lines 1369-1387, 1395-1413, 1420-1438,1445-1464 of the 1832 edition edited by L. Choulant
Description:
In Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Layout: Single columns of 19 lines, of an original 26., Script: Gothica Textualis Libraria using Cursiva d., Decoration: Undecorated, except for a 1-line red versal and a 2-line plain red initial M on the last but one line of f. 2r (“Marrubium”)., Binding: used as binding for Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533)., Secundo folio: Et sic sit sumpta., Bookseller description available., and Bound with Galeatius Capella, De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo (Antwerp, J. Grapheus?, 1533). For other title, search by call number.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Macer, Floridus.
Subject (Topic):
Herbs, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript leaf, on parchment, mostly complete, containing text from this life of Saint Severinus in eleventh-century script on one side. The verso is a palimpsest, containing an index of canon law in a fifteenth-century humanistic cursive script
Description:
In Latin., Leaf was used in a binding., Layout: double columns of 32 lines., and Script: Carolingian script.
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
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois
Description:
In Middle High German., Script: written in a gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are in red uncials; other 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; the text is not written according to lines of verse.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wirnt, von Grafenberg, active 13th century.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, German literature, and History and criticism
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm, 249.9-253.22 and 262.23-267.8; the text is not continuous, one bifolium missing between leaves
Description:
In German., Script: Written in gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red; first letters of verses touched with red., and Removed from a binding: text suffers from holes, stains, and creases.
