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1.
Nicomachean Ethics (fragment).

Creator:
Aristotle
Published / Created:
[between 1400 and 1450].
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 481.123
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni Aretino).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in hybrida libraria with notarial influence., and Decoration: 8-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and purple; 3-line initials at the beginning of each capitulum alternate red and purple; 1-line initials in brown highlighted with red; rubrics in red in same script as text; first line of each book written in larger minuscule; paragraph marks alternate red and purple; running headlines in red and purple; punctuated with the punctus and, for major pauses, the punctus versus; another hand in black ink made some corrections and added punctuation, including the punctus elevatus and punctus interrogativus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle. and Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nicomachean Ethics (fragment).

2.
Libre de cavalls

Creator:
Díaz, Manuel
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 454
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
361
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (with parchment leaves interspersed) of Manuel Diaz, Libre de cavalls. With three drawings of horses (f. 1r the effects of the signs of the zodiac on the horse; f.1v anatomical parts of the horse; and f. 2r the proper locations for bloodletting [?]); and Sixty-five diagrams of bits for horses, some with explanations in red
Description:
In Spanish (Valencian dialect)., Watermarks: similar to Piccard Turm 132-47 and Briquet Tete humaine 15670., Script: Written by a single person in Spanish fere-humanistic script., In addition to the illustrations mentioned, there is on f. 40r a drawing of a knight in armor on horseback, in red, blue, green. He holds a shield with the arms of Alfonso V, King of Aragon (d. 1458): per pale argent, a lion rampant gules; bendy of 4, argent and gules., 2-line red initials with penwork in black at beginning of each text section. Headings, paragraph marks, and strokes on initials, in red. Remains of directions to rubricator along lower edge., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on three slit-strap, tawed supports laced to the inside of beech boards and pegged. Plain wound endbands with a secondary, multi-colored sewing on tawed cores. The spine is square and lined with vellum between supports, the sewing supports slightly defined. Covered in brown goatskin, blind-tooled with concentric frames, the spine diced. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board decorated with floral designs, the clasps wanting. Repaired.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Díaz, Manuel.
Subject (Topic):
Horses, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libre de cavalls

3.
De potestate ecclesiastica

Creator:
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
Published / Created:
[ca. 1450]
Call Number:
Marston MS 264
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (irregularly trimmed pieces) of Jean Gerson, De potestate ecclesiastica
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script, below top line., Crude initial, red with an asymmetrical configuration of red and black penwork designs. Floral line-filler at conclusion of prologue. Plain red initials, 3- to 2-line, mark text divisions. Heading, f. 1r, in red. Majuscules stroked with yellow. Contemporary sketches of intertwining snakes on ff. i recto and ii verso., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Spain (?). Sewn on three tawed skin support, two pink, the central one green, laced into a thick parchment wrapper. Contemporary title written in ink on back cover: "Tractatus de potestate eclesiastica***". Rodent damage at tail.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Subject (Topic):
Ecclesiastical law and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De potestate ecclesiastica

4.
Libros de cetreria

Creator:
López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 138
Image Count:
319
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Juan de Sant-Fahagun and Pedro Lopez de Ayala, Libros de Cetreria. With the Commentary of Don Beltran de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque, in margins surrounding text
Description:
In Spanish., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Main 11154., Script: Written by a single scribe in a neat humanistic bookhand, with a somewhat smaller script for the surrounding commentary., Two initials (both f. 1r), the first, 5-line, for the rubric, purple with red penwork; immediately below, the second, for the text, 9-line, the upper portion red, filled with purple penwork, the lower portion purple, filled with red; attached to a thick bar border (side and lower margins) of red and purple vine scrolls in pen, with touches of light brown. One 7-line initial (f. 88r) red, with purple penwork, with exuberant loops and flourishes extending into top and side margins. Depictions of various implements, in black, within text (ff. 37v, 72v, 114r, 115r, 125r, 127r, and 137r). 3-line initials, paragraph marks, and headings in red throughout (except f. 1r, on which, in keeping with the initials, some of the paragraph marks are purple)., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Limp vellum case; title, now illegible, on spine. Front and back pastedown and back flyleaf contain extensive Latin legal references (17th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
López de Ayala, Pedro, 1332-1407.
Subject (Topic):
Falconry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Spanish literature
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Libros de cetreria

5.
Ps.-Phalaris, Ps.-Brutus, Ps.-Crates, Epistulae

Creator:
Pseudo-Phalaris
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 792
Image Count:
134
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper and parchment (goatskin) of 1) Ps.-Phalaris, Epistulae, tr. Franciscus Aretinus (Francesco Griffolini, 1420-after 1465). 2) Ps.-Brutus, Epistulae, tr. Rinucius Aretinus (Rinuccio d'Arezzo, c. 1395-after 1450). 3) Prologue (7 verses) to art. 4. 4) Ps.-Crates, Epistulae, tr. Athanasius Constantinopolitanus
Description:
In Latin., Watermark: letter P, similar to Briquet 8658 (1471-1480)?., Script: Copied by two hands in bold Gothica Semitextualis Libraria with Southern features and under Humanistic influence, visible in the majuscules; hand A copied ff. 1r-51v; hand B, marked by the use of an a closer to Textualis and a preference for straight s in final position, copied ff. 52r-59r., Several lower margins of parchment leaves have been repaired before writing by means of a strip of parchment pasted on the defective edges. A long tear in the parchment of f. 56 has been sewn before writing., Paragraph marks alternately in red and blue (in artt. 3-4 only). Headings in red (in artt. 1-2 only, with sometimes instructions in small script in the margins). Gothic 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue, with guide letters (mostly in red ink) written in the outer margin close to the outer edge of the leaves. 3-line littera duplex with delicate blue and red penwork extending into the margin f. 41v (text art. 2); 4-line littera duplex with the same decoration ff. 40v (prologue art. 2) and 52r (art. 5); 6-line littera duplex with the same decorationf. 1r (art. 1)., and Binding: ca. 1500. Repaired blind-tooled brown leather over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on three leather thongs; the original covers are pasted over the light brown new leather, itself blind-tooled with fillets and a roll; the original covers decorated with fillets, vertical rows of rolls, and at the top and bottom one horizontal row of the same. Remnants of two clasps attached to the rear cover, with two brass catches on the front cover, fixed with three nails and engraved with the inscription “nom” (?) in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. Gilt edges.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Phalaris.
Subject (Topic):
Latin letters, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ps.-Phalaris, Ps.-Brutus, Ps.-Crates, Epistulae

6.
Sermones

Creator:
Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1500]
Call Number:
Marston MS 95
Image Count:
582
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (sized) of Vincent Ferrer, Sermones. In this version of the sermons the text begins in Latin, presents the main points of the sermon in Spanish, and then returns to the body of the text in Latin
Description:
In Latin and Spanish., Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Ciseaux 3694-3702, and unidentified cross bow in a circle., Script: Written in gothic cursive script, above top line., Plain red intials for each sermon; headings, foliation and paragraph marks in red. First words of each sermon in large gothic bookhand for display script., and Binding: ca. 1500, Spain. Wound sewing on four tawed skin, slit straps or double cords laced into the wooden boards. Plain wound natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn on cores laced into the boards and pegged. They are tied down around a strip of tawed skin. There is a coarse cloth spine lining. Back pastedown is part of a bifolium from a liturgical manuscript with Aquitanian musical notation. Covered with reddish-brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with a rope interlace tool, fleurs de lis and annular dots. Spine: supports outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with double fillets with annular dots at the intersections. There are traces of two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, and traces of five round bosses on each board. Damage from a chain attachment (?) near the tail of the upper board; remains of a paper or vellum label near the head.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Vincent Ferrer, Saint, approximately 1350-1419.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones

7.
Carta ejecutoria, etc

Published / Created:
1487, 1686.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 34
Image Count:
172
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper (various watermarks) and parchment, composed of two distinct sections bound together in the 18th (?) century, but with additional folios inserted. Part I (parchment): Carta ejecutoria, or letter of nobility, granted to Don Alfonso Rodriguez (Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera) by the authority of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel of Castile. Issued in Salamanca, 1487. Seal missing. Part II (paper): Numerous documents (all dated 1686) concerning a law suit involving Don Diego Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera of Seville, a descendent of Alfonso Rodriguez
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Part I (ff. 3-13): Round gothic script by a single scribe. Part II (ff. 19-74): Written in various cursive hands., Folios 1v and 2r have crudely illuminated full-page miniatures, 17th century. Folio 1v: members of the Rodriguez family offering prayers to the Madonna and Child. Folio 2r: arms of the Tinagero Rodriguez de la Escalera family. Crude decorative border on f. 3v and REY (in gold, outlined in black) may be later additions., Many of the documents included appear to have once been folded. Some loss of text due to trimming., and Binding: Eighteenth century (?). Thin wooden boards covered with dark brown leather, flesh side out. Vermilion and green ribbon fastenings.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., Spain., Spain, Salamanca (Spain), and Seville (Spain)
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval, Nobility, and Politics and government
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta ejecutoria, etc

8.
Cartulary of St. Cugat

Published / Created:
15th century
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 906
Image Count:
108
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of a Cartulary of the abbey of Sant Cugat del Vallés. The manuscript also contains documents pertaining to a lawsuit between the monastery and the town of Sant Cugat
Description:
In Latin., Script: probably copied by a single hand writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens with Spanish features. Paragraph marks and headings in pale red ink. Red initials with reserved interior shapes, of various heights., Copy of the charter of Lothaire, King of the Franks (954-986), for the abbey of Sant Cugat, dated Compiègne, 986 January-February. The copy was made by Bernard of Caderita, notary at Barcelona, 1044 January 17. The manuscript contains confirmations of this charter by James I, King of Aragon (1213-1276), dated 1233 January 23, and Pedro IV, King of Aragon (1336-1387), dated 1338 April 20. The manuscript also contains documents about a lawsuit before the court of the bishop of Barcelona between the monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallés and the town of Sant Cugat at the occasion of a fight between two inhabitants of the town and the wounds they received, 1273-1380. The Latin language of these documents is very ungrammatical., and Binding: no covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernard, of Caderita.
Subject (Topic):
Cartularies and Manuscripts, Medieval
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cartulary of St. Cugat

9.
Cistercian statutes

Published / Created:
[between 1300 and 1550]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 901
Image Count:
226
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment containing Cistercian statutes and other texts
Description:
In Latin., Script: the original text is probably copied by a single hand (A) writing a small Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria. The additional texts are copied in 16th century hands: artt. 1 and 6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria by hand B, who wrote also the majority of the marginal notes and additions; art. 7 by hand C, who used a bold Humanistica Cursiva., The manuscript contains: 1) Benedictus XII Papa (1334-1342), Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), c. 1, first part. 2) Benedictus XII papa, Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), cc. 1 (second part) - 42. 3) Statutes of the General Chapter of Cîteaux of 1335. 4) Benedictus XII Papa, Bulla "Regularem vitam professis", 4 July 1335. 5) Benedictus XII Papa, Bulla "Pastor bonus diligens", 17 June 1335. 6) Statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 24. 7) Part of the statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 23. 8) Carta caritatis, a later version of the original constitution of the Cistercian Order. 9) Statutes of the General Chapter of 1317, incomplete at the end: cc. 1-13., The additional texts are not decorated. The original parts have red headings, red paragraph marks, and red 2- or 3-line plain initials. Art. 2 opens f. 2r with a 7-line littera duplex with extensive penwork and extension in the inner margin in red and blue; art. 8 opens f. 42v with a 3-line flourished initial (Prologue) and a 4-line littera duplex with penwork, as in art. 2 (text). All initials are half inset and have guide letters in the margin., and Binding: blind-tooled white parchment over wooden boards, decorated with fillets in a frame and lozenges pattern. Spine with two raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cistercian statutes

10.
Foundation document of the Hospital for the Blind, Church of Santa Lorena

Published / Created:
1479 March 15.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 623
Container / Volume:
(Box)
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of documents relating to the foundation of a Hospital for the Blind, by the Church of Saint Lorena in Burgos, 15 March 1479. Mostly dealing with the donation or sale of houses for the Hospital
Description:
In Spanish., Script: Written by a single scribe in a highly abbreviated Spanish Gothic cursive script with many later notes and additions., and Decoration: A miniature on f. 2r depicts the hospital, its patron Saint Lorena, and a blind man, with the legend "hospital de los ciegos". Illuminated initials with marginal extensions ff. 2v and 7v. Illuminated arms on f. 8r within roundel with the letters "c b".
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Blind, Hospitals, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Foundation document of the Hospital for the Blind, Church of Santa Lorena

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