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1. 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).
2. Breviary
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 827
- Image Count:
- 299
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of the unfinished Winter part of a Breviary
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: (1) Cardinal's hat, var. Briquet 3397 (1479-1494); (2) and (3) Bull's head, var. Briquet 15373 (1488-1501)., Script: the main part of the codex (ff. 1r-132v) is copied by a single scribe writing a bold and compressed small Gothica Semitextualis Libraria. Ff. 133r-143v and the two inserted leaves 24bis and 119bis are copied in a larger and less careful hand using the same type of script., Rubrics and underlining, versals and 2-line (3-line on f. 25r) plain initials, all in red. On f. 5r a 3-line initial at the opening of Psalm 1 is not executed. All decoration is missing on ff. 23v, 24bis r, 119bis r, f. 125v, line 12 to the bottom of f. 126r, ff. 137r-143v. On ff. 133r-136v there are rubrics (in pale red) but no initials. No guide letters., The manuscript contains: 1) Psalterium feriatum for Sunday up to Wednesday; ends Psalm 57:6. 2) Three hymns for Advent. 3) Temporale, winter part, from the first Sunday of Advent to Holy Saturday. 4) Sanctorale, winter part, from the Vigil of Andrew (29 November) to the Conversion of Paul (25 January). 5) Chapters and Responsories for the Common of the Saints: Apostles, Evangelists, One Martyr, Several Martyrs, One Confessor, Several Confessors, One Virgin, Several Virgins, All Saints, Angels. 6) Chapters for the office of the Virgin. 7) Chapters, Versicles and Responsories for Advent through the Holy Week. 8) Prayers for the office from Advent through St. Stephen (26 December)., and Binding: original quarter binding on two split leather thongs, square-edged beech boards; white pigskin decorated with blind-tooled fillets. One decorated brass clasp attached to the rear board, with a decorated brass catch fixed with three nails to the front board. The binding is reinforced with a strip of parchment cut from a ca. 1100 missal (?), decorated with versals and plain initials in red and a 5-line Romanesque initial in red with blue tendrils on a liquid gold background.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monastic and religious life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Breviary
3. Buchlein der Ewigen Weisheit (fragment).
- Creator:
- Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366
- Published / Created:
- [between 1340 and 1360].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 482.114
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of Heinrich Seuse's Buchlein der Ewigen Weisheit; this is among the earliest known copies of the work and is written in a transitional dialect between Swabian and Alemannic
- Description:
- In Middle High German., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: 3-line initials at the beginning of chapters are in red; 1-line initials are in black highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red in the same script as the text; punctuated with the punctus and virgule.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buchlein der Ewigen Weisheit (fragment).
4. Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850
- Creator:
- Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 129
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 72
- Abstract:
- 20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
- Description:
- Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
- Subject (Name):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850
5. Commentary on Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics
- Creator:
- Servius, active 4th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 834
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Commentary on Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations. Incipits are written in a large and more calligraphic version of the same script., No headings. Unevenly spread alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 3- or 4-line plain initials in red or blue, with guide letters; art. 9 opens with a 7-line plain initial in red. On f. 1r art. 1 opens with a 7-line Gothic foliate initial in blue and red, with green tendrils, on a rectangular background. The page is decorated with a golden staff in inner, upper and outer margins, around which a green tendril carrying red and blue leaves and gold vine leaves is wound. In the lower margin a wild man in a lion's skin (Hercules?) is painted standing between two rocky hills and carrying two coats of arms., The manuscript contains: 1) Donatus (4th century), Vita Vergilii. 2) Note on the three kinds of poetry, after the Venerable Bede, De arte metrica. 3) Ps.-Octavianus Augustus, Poem in praise of Virgil's Aeneis. 4) Ps.-Ovidius, Tetrasticha in cunctis libris Vergilii. 5) Poem in praise of Virgil. 6) Servius grammaticus, Commentum in Vergilii Bucolica, preface. 7) Poem. 8) Servius grammaticus, Commentum in Vergilii Bucolica. 9) Servius grammaticus, Commentum in Vergilii Georgica., and Binding: 17th-18th century. White parchment over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled (but the gold almost entirely lost) with frames of fillets, four lozenge-shaped floral stamps in the corners and a large lozenge-shaped floral stamp in the center. The spine, with five raised bands, gold-tooled, with a red leather title label in the second compartment with the gold-tooled inscription: "SERVIUS / IN / VIRGILI / M.SS." Sprinkled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius, active 4th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics
6. General Count Clairfayt [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 June 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.06.23.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait; almost half-length directed and looking ahead to left, wearing a queue wig and a plain coat with a large badge of a maltese cross; in an oval frame within a rectangle; after Loutherbourg."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., 1 print : stipple engraving and etching, à la poupée ; sheet 29.2 x 20.1 cm (trimmed within plate mark)., and Printed on wove paper.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 23d, 1794, by V. & R. Green, No. 13 Berners Street, & Chr. de Mechel in Basil, Switzerland
- Subject (Name):
- Clerfayt, François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, comte de, 1733-1798,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > General Count Clairfayt [graphic]
7. Gospel Lectionary
- Published / Created:
- [between 1000 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1099
- Image Count:
- 215
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by two hands in small late Carolingian script: hand A copied ff. 1r-59v; hand B copied ff. 61r-103r. Art. 5 has been added on a blank page by a 13th cent. hand, writing in Gothic documentary cursive script., Decoration: red headings in larger script, in Uncialis/Capitalis or Carolingian minuscule; red 1-line versals; 2- or 3-line plain red initials., and Binding: 16th century brown leather over cardboard; both covers are blindtooled with frames of triple fillets, decorated with two rolls; spine undecorated, with label “203”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Chur (Switzerland)
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Lectionaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gospel Lectionary
8. Gradual
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Published / Created:
- [between 1290 and 1310]
- Image Count:
- 283
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria., Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places., Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled., and Notation in cheironomic neumes.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Graduals (Chants), and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gradual
9. Historia gentis Longobardorum, etc
- Creator:
- Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 218
- Image Count:
- 196
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Paul the Deacon, Historia gentis Longobardorum. 2) Palladius of Helenopolis, Liber de moribus Brachmanorum, translated into Latin
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf I.731-35., Script: Written in a cursive minuscule script, above top line; the first words of each chapter in large gothic bookhand., One initial, divided red and blue, 5-line, with red penwork flourishes, f. 1r; the initial may have been retouched by a contemporary hand. Plain red initials throughout; spaces for rubrics left unfilled, except for those at beginning of each book. Running headlines in red. Guide letters for decorator., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Germany. Quires cut in for sewing. Rigid vellum case with a red, gold-tooled label: "P. Diacon. De Gest. langobar". Early title in ink on fore edge: "De Gest. Longobardo".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and India
- Subject (Name):
- Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
- Subject (Topic):
- Literature, Medieval, Lombards, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia gentis Longobardorum, etc
