- None1
You Searched For
1 - 47 of 47
Search Results
2.
- Creator:
- Shahrastānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm, 1086?-1153
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 615
- Image Count:
- 165
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Treatise on the various religious sects and philosophical schools, Beginning missing; end (leaf 163 verso) pasted over, and A note on leaf 163 verso is dated A.H. 699 (A.D. 1299) at Taʻizz, Yemen
- Description:
- Compared with Cureton's edition., Fair naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the back cover is preserved.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Milal wa-al-niḥal / [before 1299].
3.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 479
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5
- Image Count:
- 502
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ / [13--?].
4.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 479
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3
- Image Count:
- 532
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ / [13--?].
5.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 479
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 262
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary (presumably completed by Aḥmad al-Qamūlī) on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Incomplete and fragmentary set, comprising the second, third, and last volumes of the work, an unnumbered volume, and a small fragment of another volume, and A waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto, vol. II (the third volume of the work), is dated A.H. 797 (A.D. 1395).
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 586., Fair 14th century naskhī, sparsely pointed., and Fragments of old leather bindings in volumes 1-3, 5, in brown.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ / [13--?].
6.
- Creator:
- Ibn al-Rifʻah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1310 or 1311
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 313
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 412
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī.
- Alternative Title:
- Maṭlab fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
- Description:
- The title al-Maṭlab lil-Qamūlī is given in the waqf-deed on leaf 1 recto (dated A.H. 797 [A.D. 1395]); Aḥmad al-Qamūlī presumably having completed Ibn al-Rifʻah's unfinished work., Perhaps al-Qamūlī's autograph., For the author see Brockelmann, II, 133., For the handwriting cf. Landberg MSS 283., C. Landberg compared this manuscript with Landberg MSS 283 (al-Qamūlī's Baḥr al-muḥīṭ, on the same subject) and found the text to be different., and Islamic binding, in brown, only the back cover having been preserved.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Maṭlab : al-juzʾ al-ʻāshir / [before 1327?].
7.
- Creator:
- Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 53a
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 702
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī., Beginning and end missing, and Perhaps a holograph (cf. Landberg MSS 283).
- Description:
- Fair naskhī. and Loose in Islamic binding, in brown, flap and back missing.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ : al-thālith / [before 1327].
8.
- Creator:
- Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 283
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2
- Image Count:
- 125
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ : al-juzʾ al-tāsiʻ [wa-]al-sādis ʻashar / [before 1327].
9.
- Creator:
- Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 283
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 215
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī; volumes 9 and 16 only, The beginning of both volumes is missing, and Holograph
- Description:
- For what appears to be another volume of this set see Landberg MSS 53a., Considerably worm-eaten., Fair naskhī., and Other volumes wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ : al-juzʾ al-tāsiʻ [wa-]al-sādis ʻashar / [before 1327].
10.
- Call Number:
- Persian MSS 8
- Image Count:
- 101
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Treatise on the Prophet's ascension to heaven. Incomplete at beginning
- Description:
- Title found on slip pasted to front cover., Fair modern nastaʻlīq (17th century?), except for the first leaf in naskhī script., With colored miniatures., and Limp Islamic binding; blind tooling with the name Muḥammad Bāqir.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Miʻrājʹnāmah], [16--?].
11.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1300.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.5
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript bifolia, on parchment, from an unidentified theological work. Subjects include prayer, the Trinity, creation, and Revelations 6:21.
- Description:
- In Latin., Bottom of sheets trimmed with loss of margin and at least one line. One column of each bifolium largely cut away., Recovered from a binding., Script: small cursive gothic hand., Decoration: rubricated., and Layout: 20 columns, originally 50 lines each?, now 49 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Unidentified theological work (fragment).
12.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1450 (1436)]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 904
- Image Count:
- 494
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment and paper containing theological and ascetic treatises and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by various scribes in Gothica Semihybrida or Hybrida Libraria; the last section only (art. 11) is copied in a more rapid Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, by Henricus de Benthem., The decoration differs from section to section. Red heightening of majuscules, red paragraph marks and red underlining. Headings in red or black, sometimes in Textualis. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) plain initials in red. 4-, 5- or 6-line flourished initials in red with black penwork on ff. 2r (art. 2), 50v (littera duplex, art. 4), 72r (littera duplex, art. 5), 146r (littera duplex, art. 8), 178r (art. 9)., The manuscript contains: 1) Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Peyraud, s. XIII), De professione monachorum. 2) Requirements for the priest who is proceeding to the consecration of the Eucharist. 3) Iohannes Gerson (1363-1429), Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione et de arte moriendi. 4) Anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments. 5) A short treatise on the Canonical Hours, being an annex to art. 5. 6) Henricus de Coesvelt OCarth. (d. 1410), De sacramento eucharistiae. 7) Anonymous treatise on the preparation to mass. 8) Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353), Historia Ioseph. 9) Thomas de Cantimprato (Thomas of Cantimpré, d. before 1266?), Vita sanctae Christinae Mirabilis (d. c. 1224). 10) Guido Vicentinus OP (d. 1332), Margarita Bibliae (Biblia metrica), without the prologues. 11) Table of contents., and Binding: circa 1900. Tan morocco binding over heavy bevelled wooden boards; the covers decorated with a blind-tooled roll, and gold-tooled frames. Five decorated brass bosses with cornerpieces, of an undetermined age (16th century?), on each cover, and two brass clasps, equally much older than the binding, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. Six leather tabs.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, History, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Theological and ascetic treatises, etc
13.
- Published / Created:
- 1432-1448.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 813
- Image Count:
- 609
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of texts on the Psalms and Canticles, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: apparently four hands: A writing a bold Gothica Hybrida Libraria copied ff. 1r-186r and 201r; B writing Gothica Cursiva Currens copied ff. 189r-199va15; C writing Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens copied ff. 199va16-200v; D writing Gothica Semihybrida Currens copied ff. 203r-299v; the document on f. 226v is probably in the same handwriting. Scribe D is the unrecorded Hinricus Landesberch in Wernigerode., Red underlining, paragraph marks, heightening of majuscules and plain initials, generally 2 lines, at the head of various texts larger. Pointing hands., The manuscript contains: 1) Honorius Augustodunensis (Honorius of Autun, c. 1090- c.1150), Expositio in psalmos CI-CL et in cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 2) Alanus de Insulis (Alain de Lille, c. 1120-1202), Glosatura super cantica veteris et novi testamenti. 3) Notes on the Book of Psalms, its subdivisions, significance, on Ps. 1 and Ps. 150, etc. 4) Extracts on the Psalms from a florilegium of the works by or attributed to St. Augustine, called Summula Florigeri sancti Augustini. 5) Treatise on the virtues and vices arranged according to the course of the sun through the signs of the Zodiac; the names of the months and of the zodiacal signs are given in Latin and in German, with examples from the Bible and legend. 6) Miracles and legends. 7) Copy of a notarial document. 8) Isidorus Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville, d. 636), Quaestiones in vetus testamentum. 9) Vision of the horrors of Hell shown to St. Paul of Thebe (Paulus Eremita, 228-341). 10) Rabbi Samuel, De adventu Messiae praeterito, translated from the Arabic by Alphonsus Bonihominis OP (d. c. 1353). 11) Two sermons on the Immaculate Conception, quoting many exempla. 12) Incomplete legend of St. Catharine of Alexandria. 13) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, De essentia divinitatis: an excerpt from Eucherius Lugdunensis (Eucherius bishop of Lyons, d. c. 450), Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, chapter 1., and Binding: original undecorated white deerskin over bevelled heavy wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs; spine with plaited headbands; in its upper compartment a paper label with a 17th-century indication of the content; in the second compartment a paper label with the number "VIII". On each cover five small brass bosses on indented square plates; marks of two leather straps attached to the rear cover, the holes of the pins visible in the front cover. At the top of the front cover a contemporary Table of Contents is written in ink in Gothica Hybrida Libraria, now badly legible; at the bottom of the same cover, in a large Gothica Hybrida Formata: "Tractatus Honorii pape" [sic]. The rear pastedown (half detached) consists of a large fragment and scraps on paper from a 15th-century Latin register of personal interdicts attached to persons with German names; the handwriting is Gothica Cursiva Currens.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Alanus, de Insulis, -1202., Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint., Honorius, of Autun, approximately 1080-approximately 1156., Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636., Paul, the Hermit, Saint, -approximately 341., Pseudo-Augustinus., and Samuel, Marochitanus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Texts on the Psalms and Canticles, on the Old Testament, etc
14.
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 355
- Image Count:
- 378
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra gentiles, ending abruptly
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe., Red and blue split initial, 10-line, at beginning of text (p. 11) with fine penwork flourishes within body and length of inner margin, in red, blue, and purple. Similar initials, 6- to 3-line, without penwork extensions, on pp. 68, 130, 284. Small initials, 5- to 2-line, alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red, throughout. Headings in red; running titles in red and blue; paragraph marks alternate red and blue., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Sewn on five double, tawed thongs laced into flush oak boards through tunnels in the edge and pegged with rectangular pegs. The back board is cracked and mended. The spine is square and lined with tawed skin. Plain, wound endbands sewn on twisted, tawed skin cores laced into the boards. Added embroidery is sewn through the cover and shows on the spine and the edge, with whip-stitching around the entire endband. Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with corner tongues. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the lower board. Five foliate bosses on each board. A pin, straps and two bosses wanting. Original front pastedown: incomplete alphabetical index, 14th century, of subjects from amor through uita (no entries for x). Original back pastedown, also contemporary with main text: fragment of a theological text on the biblical prophets, on recto; unfinished diagram of the books of the Bible, divided into categories in mandata diuisio, in exempla diuisio, in ammonitiones diuisio, in reuelationes diuisio (with material from Old Testament only), on verso.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Dominicans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, Scholasticism, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summa contra gentiles
15.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 416
- Image Count:
- 23
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (leaves are very uneven due to irregular trimming) originally composed of roughly executed full-page illustrations and diagrams that constitute the Speculum theologie
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Inscriptions written in gothic bookhand, additions in either textura or running scripts (ff. 2r. 7v)., The illustrations on ff. 1r-7v are drawn in red ink, heightened with green, orange, and yellow. The diagram on f. 8r is drawn in brown and red, touched with blue, red, yellow and gold., Folio 8r darkened and rubbed with some loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half bound in mottled brown goatskin, gold-tooled, with a red label. Marbled paper sides.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum theologiae, etc
16.
- Creator:
- Qamūlī, Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, 1255-1327
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 652
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 272
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on al-Wasīṭ (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī. Volume II only and Incomplete at beginning and end
- Alternative Title:
- Baḥr al-muḥīṭ fī sharḥ al-Wasīṭ
- Description:
- The identification of author and title of this volume is uncertain., Title given on the lower edges., Fair naskhī, probably of the 14th century., Islamic binding, in brown, of which only the front cover is preserved., and Other volumes wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ al-Wasīṭ : [al-juzʾ] al-thānī / [13--?].
17.
- Creator:
- Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 675
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 660
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on Minhāj al-ṭālibīn (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Yaḥyá al-Nawawī. and Copied in A.H. 877 (A.D. 1473).
- Description:
- Fair naskhī, in red and black. and Loose in Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap.
- Subject (Name):
- Nawawī, 1233-1277.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sharḥ Minhāj al-ṭālibīn / 1473
18.
- Creator:
- Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint
- Published / Created:
- 1494.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 614
- Image Count:
- 72
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Table of Contents. 2) Praefatio in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes, translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia (Rufinus Aquileiensis, c. 345-411). 3) Gregory of Nazianzus (Gregorius Nazianzenus, d. c. 390), Apologeticus, Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia. 4) Gregory of Nazianzus, De epiphaniis sive de natali Domini. 5) Gregory of Nazianzus, De luminibus, quod est de secundis epiphaniis. 6) Gregory of Nazianzus, In semetipsum de agro regressum. 7) Gregory of Nazianzus, Ad cives Nazianzenos gravi timore perculsos et praefectum irascentem. 8) Gregory of Nazianzus, De Pentecoste et de Spiritu Sancto. 9) Gregory of Nazianzus, De reconciliatione et unitate monachorum. 10) Gregory of Nazianzus, De grandinis vastatione. Ends incomplete. 11) Gregory of Elvira (Gregorius Illiberitanus, d. after 392), De fide orthodoxa. Missing beginning. Often ascribed to Gregory of Nazianzus and erroneously considered a Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermark: var. Briquet 2482., Script: Copied by one hand in small Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., Pale red headings. Plain initials (Capitals) in pale red ink, 2-3 lines., The paper is at places slightly damaged by the acid ink., and Binding: Nineteenth century. English brown polished calf over pasteboard, both covers and turn-ins framed with gold-tooled fillets. Back repaired. Gold-tooled title on spine "GREGORI NAZIANZENIS OPUSCULA LATINA INTERPRETE RUFFINO. M.S. CART 1494". Grey paper endleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint.
- Subject (Topic):
- Doctors of the Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons; with Gregory of Elvira, De fide orthodoza
19.
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 377
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, etc
20.
- Creator:
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Published / Created:
- [between 1150 and 1200]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 846
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Gregorius Magnus (Gregory the Great, pope 590-604), Regula pastoralis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by various scribes writing Praegothica, difficult to distinguish from each other because of the uneven level of execution of their hands., Headings in red, missing from f. 12v onwards. 1-3-line plain initials in red of various shades. On f. 1v very large (c. 25 lines) decorated Romanesque initial "P" in red., Holes and defective corners, many repaired; the lower margins of ff. 63 and 91-92 are repaired by means of a strip of parchment; the lower margin of f. 93 is cut off. The manuscript is heavily trimmed at the top. First and last pages very soiled., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. De luxe, gold-tooled green morocco over cardboard; each cover framed by rich gold-tooling imitating the decorated initial on f. 1v; turn-ins gold-tooled. Gold-tooled spine with repeated motif in the same style and title: "GREGORII / PASTORALIS / M.S.". Gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Letters, Papal, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Regula pastoralis
21.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1325 and 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 470
- Image Count:
- 97
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment in two parts of an anonymous, and apparently incomplete, collection of questions and responses on theological subjects
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I written primarily in a tiny English gothic bookhand (with some German features), with numerous abbreviations; marginalia and texts in art. 33 added by several 15th-century English hands. Part II written in an untidy English script, with Anglicana features; texts added on ff. 43v-46v by same hands as art. 33; another hand entered text on f. 43v., Initials, 2-line, in red with brown flourishes, alternate with blue with red flourishes; paragraph marks alternate red, blue; guide-letters for flourished initials in margins., and Binding: Date? Limp vellum folder. Off-set impression of turn-ins from original binding on f. 46v.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, Study and teaching, and Catholic Church
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Quodlibeta theologica
22.
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Augustinus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1490 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 826
- Image Count:
- 138
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Pseudo-Augustine, texts relating to the Pelagian controversy, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: two hands, both writing a very small Humanistica hesitating between Semitextualis Currens and Cursiva Currens. A, the main scribe, copied ff. 1r-60v; B, an inexperienced hand, marked by the use of d with ascender curving to the right, i longa and round s in all positions, added the prayers on ff. 61r-63r., Headings in purplish red. Spaces for 1- or 2-line initials have been reserved throughout the codex, but these have not been executed, except in artt. 8-10, where they have been clumsily written in black ink in the left margin. At the opening of art. 1, 3-line half inset Humanistic dentelle initial on a square background in green and blue decorated with silver and gold penwork. It has floral extensions with gold balls in the upper and inner margin. In the lower margin of the same f. 1r, between three similar floral decorations, a circular medallion containing the coat of arms of the Ugolini family of Florence (parti per bend, or on azure, with two lions passant counter changed, surmounting)., The manuscript contains: 1) Ps.-Cyprianus Carthaginensis (Pseudo-Cyprian of Carthage or Pseudo-Augustine), De singularitate clericorum. 2) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), De incarnatione Verbi ad Ianuarium. 3) Pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis. 4) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Carthage, A.D. 416, to pope Innocentius I. 5) Letter of pope Innocentius I to the bishops at the council of Carthage A.D. 416. 6) Letter from the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416 to pope Innocent I. 7) Innocentius I, letter to the bishops assembled at the council of Mileve A.D. 416. 8) Prayer to be said before the image of Corpus Christi. 9) Prayer to Jesus Christ. 10) Prayer to Jesus Christ ascribed to Thomas Aquinas., and Binding: original Italian reddish brown leather over pasteboard with a flap at the rear cover closing over the front cover with leather ties. Covers and flap are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of quadruple fillets, decorated with small circular tools either single or in clusters, and a full border consisting of a scroll motif. At the top of the front cover, in black ink, Capitalis ca. 1500: “Aur. (?) Augustini opus”. Parchment flyleaves. On the front flyleaf verso a Table of Content written in red by hand A, recording artt. 1-7 only, under the title “Que in hoc libello inserte sunt”.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Augustinus. and Council of Carthage
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Pelagianism, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Pseudo-Augustine; Texts relating to the Pelagian controversy
23.
- Creator:
- Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 819
- Image Count:
- 132
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Petrus Blesensis (Peter of Blois, c. 1135-c. 1204), 1) De amicitia Christiana. 2) De caritate Dei et proximi. 3) Devotional texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermark: Horn, var. Briquet 7965?., Script: copied by one hand writing a peculiar Gothica Semitextualis Libraria under Humanistic influence., Headings and stroking of the majuscules in red (but some headings are missing). Spaces left blank for inset initials (2-5 lines); guide letters are sometimes visible. A few pointing hands., The top of the leaves badly water-stained, and the edges of the front flyleaves and quire I very defective, with loss of text., The devotional texts include: (a) On the value of attending Mass, quoting Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine ("Agustinus"), St. Paul, Luke, Matthew ("Mactheus"), Bede, Gregory the Great, etc. (b) 9 selected Psalm verses. (c) On the value of Confession. (d) On Christian hope., and Binding: original quarter binding: undecorated white leather fixed with a strip of leather and engraved iron nails onto square-edged heavy oak boards; sewing on two split leather thongs. Folio 60 used as pastedown. Remnants of a leather strap attached to the rear board, with a hole of the pin in the front board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter, of Blois, approximately 1135-approximately 1212.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peter of Blois
24.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 811
- Image Count:
- 516
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing numerous patristic and medieval theological texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in bold Gothica Cursiva Libraria. The running headlines and the marginal notes are written in small Gothica Cursiva Currens of often scant legibility. The pastedowns are copied by a contemporary hand writing a very bold and angular Gothica Hybrida Libraria (Fractura)., The headings are written or underlined in red; red heightening of the majuscules and red plain initials. There is no red heightening and the initials are not executed on ff. 133-156. On many pages the reading is impaired by the acid ink., The manuscript contains: 1) Ps.-Ambrosius Mediolanensis (Pseudo-Ambrose), De dignitate sacerdotali, without the opening section. 2) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis, c. 470-542), Sermo 41 (De indigna familiaritate extranearum mulierum et de martyrio). 3) Fastidius (s. V, attrib.; Ps.-Augustinus), De vita christiana. 4) Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Speculum peccatoris. 5) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux) or Ps.-Augustinus Hipponensis (Pseudo-Augustine), Planctus de passione Domini. 6) Richardus de Sancto Victore (Richard of Saint Victor, d. 1173) or Egbertus Schonaugiensis (Egbert von Schönau, d. 1184), Soliloquia. 7) Iohannes Chrysostomus (John Chrysostom, c. 345-407), Quod nemo laeditur nisi a seipso, Latin version. 8) Iohannes Chrysostomus, De compunctione, Latin version. 9) Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus (Pseudo-John Chrysostom), De paenitentia, Latin version. 10) Iohannes Chrysostomus, De reparatione lapsi, Latin translation ascribed to Anianus Celedensis (5th century). 11) Fulgentius Ruspensis (Ps.-Augustinus, c. 468-533), De fide ad Petrum. 12) Ps.-Augustinus (Pseudo-Augustine), De contemptu mundi. 13) Caesarius Arelatensis (Ps.-Augustinus), Sermo 7 (Admonitio per quam ostenditur quantum boni sit lectionem divinam legere, et quantum mali sit ab illa vel inquisitione desistere). 14) Ps.-Hieronymus Stridonensis (Pseudo-Jerome), Epistula ad Paulinum. 15) Ps.-Bernardus Claraevallensis (Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux), De quattuor beneficiis. 16) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome, c. 348-420), Epistula 52 (Ad Nepotianum). 17) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 109 (Ad Riparium). 18) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Contra Vigilantium. 19) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 22 (Ad Eustochium). 20) Hieronymus Stridonensis, Epistula 125 (Ad Rusticum de vita monastica). 21) Caesarius Arelatensis (Caesarius of Arles, c. 470-542), Sermo 44 (De castitate). 22) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 43 (De castitate coniugali). 23) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 157 (De lectione evangelica). 24) Caesarius Arelatensis, Sermo 33 (De reddendis decimis). 25) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii. 26) Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo de die iudicii., and Binding: original undecorated white parchment (spine repaired) over wooden boards; spine with three raised bands. Remnants (rectangular brass plates fixed with four nails) of two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover the damaged early inscription in ink: “*******o*ale” (pastorale?).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Patristic and medieval theological texts
25.
- Creator:
- Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700
- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 238
- Image Count:
- 355
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (polished, except for ff. 129-136) of Passages on Asceticism by various authors, including John Chrysostom, Basil, Isidore, Theodoretus, Maximus, Nilus. With other theological texts, especially concerning monasticism
- Description:
- In Greek., Unidentified watermarks: anchor in circle., Script: Written by a single scribe who signed himself "Callistus the holy deacon"., Simple headpieces on ff. 1r, 34r, 58r, 60v, 74r. Initials and headings, in red, for each new passage. Crudely drawn angel hovers over top of initial, f. 34r; birds perch on others. Folios 129-136 are not rubricated., and Binding: Date? Pastedowns sewn with bookblock. Three chain-stitched supports. Endbands attached to the square-edged, flush wooden boards. Loops of thread around the edges of the quires at head and tail. The spine is square and lined all along with vellum extending onto the inside of the boards and there seem to be lining strips extending on the outside of the boards also. Two pin holes with stubs of iron pins in them in the edges of the upper board and two holes for each strap on the lower. Rebacked. Covered with 13th-century Greek manuscript fragment containing musical notation, with front flyleaf from the same manuscript, and back flyleaf from a 12th century Greek liturgical text (all badly rubbed).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Anastasius, Sinaita, Saint, active 640-700.
- Subject (Topic):
- Asceticism, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monastic and religious life, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Passages on asceticism
26.
- Creator:
- Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 87
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Albertano da Brescia, 1) Liber de doctrina dicendi et tacendi. 2) Liber consolationis et consilii. 3) De amore et dilectione Dei. 4-8) Sermones. 9) De omnibus ordinibus omnium hominum. 10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages. 14) Ps.-Seneca, Proverbia. 15) Seneca, De beneficiis (extracts).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in an informal gothic bookhand, below top line., Initials for major text divisions in red with designs on parchment ground, 18- to 4-line, and some (e.g., f. 28r) with modest penwork designs in red and/or black. Small plain initials, 3- to 1-line, rubrics, and paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Quarter bound in tan paper with semi-limp paper sides. Written, in ink, on spine: "De Scientia/ Loquendi/ Tacendi/ Manos" and "Albertani/ Pergomena". On parchment leaves at front and rear: rust stains from five bosses and 2 fore-edge fastenings of an earlier binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertano, da Brescia, 13th cent.
- Subject (Topic):
- Consolation, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, Sermons, Latin, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia, etc
27.
- Creator:
- Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320
- Published / Created:
- 12 February 1474.
- Image Count:
- 522
- Alternative Title:
- Works. 1474
- Description:
- The first and last pages and page 15 are blank., Includes, in Latin, his Divinae institutiones, liber 7; De ira Dei; and De creatione hominis., and Med: Later Italian binding. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
- Publisher:
- Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) and Simon Nicolai Chardella
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman, Philosophy, and Theology
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Opera
28.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 248
- Image Count:
- 388
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Includes: Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus; Eusebian Canons; the New Testament; Epiphanius of Cyprus, In Sabbato magno; and John Damascene, De dormientibus in fide
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: Written throughout in an extremely small Greek minuscule, by five scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-32v and 171r-173r; Scribe 2, ff. 33v-68v; Scribe 3, ff. 69r-168r; Scribe 4, ff. 168r-170v; Scribe 5, ff. 173r-188v. Notes added on f. 33r (originally blank) and in margins by various later hands; in some of the notes on f. 33r Latin letters are used for Greek words., Two headings and title of Matthew in blue (f. 37r). Initials in red with simple floral ornament. Extensive rubrication. Headpieces and bars between sections in red, blue, green and yellow (all faded). Eusebian Canons done with compass and ruler, in red and blue., Several folios originally had holes, which have been written around., and Binding: Date? Original sewing on three chain supports laced in a Z pattern into square, flush wooden boards, grooved on the edges. Two pin holes in the edge of the upper board and three holes for each strap in the lower. Traces of rectangular plates (?) at the fore-edge near the head of the upper board and the tail of the lower. Rebacked and the sides covered with cloth.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > New Testament; Eusebian canons, etc
29.
- Creator:
- Nicolaus, de Lovanio, -1522, author
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1497]
- Image Count:
- 72
- Resource Type:
- text
- Alternative Title:
- Minorica elucidativa racionabilis separationis fratrum minoru[m] de observantia ab aliis fratribus eiusdem ordinis
- Description:
- BEIN Marston MS 277: Bound with manuscripts relating to the Franciscan Order., BEIN Marston MS 277: Provenance: contemporary manuscript note on verso F6: Mors tua mors [Christi] trans mu[n]di gaudia celi et dolor inferm. sint meditenda tibi. Armorial Bookplate of Marston. Gift of the Library Associates., BEIN Marston MS 277: Binding: sixteenth century, Netherlands. Bound in tan goatskin over paste boards. Very faint blind tooling and four fastenings, two of them ribbon. Catches on the lower board. Front pastedown (and possibly back pastedown?): portion of a document dated 1491., Authorship also attributed to Alexander de Ariostis., and Signature: A⁸ B⁴ C⁸ D⁶ E⁴ F⁶ (F6 blank).
- Publisher:
- Jacobus of Breda
- Subject (Name):
- Franciscans.
- Subject (Topic):
- Monasticism and religious orders and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Minorica elucidatiua racionabilis separationis fratrum minoru[m] de obseruantia ab aliis fratribus eiusdem ordinis
30.
- Creator:
- Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216
- Published / Created:
- [about 1499].
- Image Count:
- 92
- Alternative Title:
- De miseria humanae conditionis
- Description:
- Full page woodcut on title page, which reads: Liber de vilitate conditionis humane., Final leaf entitled: De proprietatibus romanorum., and Signatures: a8-d8, e4.
- Publisher:
- Pierre Le Dru, for Jean Petit
- Subject (Topic):
- Theology and Early works to 1500
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Liber de contemptu mundi : sive De miseria humanae conditionis
31.
- Creator:
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 406
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality; trimmed) of 1) Guillaume de Deguilleville, Le Pelerinage de vie humaine. 2) Guillaume de Deguilleville, three poems in Latin. 3) Poem added in a 15th-century hand, contrasting the life of a servant and a rich man. 4) Willem van Ruysbroeck, Itinerarium. 5) Summary of Aethicus Ister, Cosmographia III.31-39, on the land of Gog and Magog. 6) Jean Chapuis, Les sept articles de la fois; often attributed, as it is here, to Jean de Meun
- Description:
- In Latin and French., Script: Composed of two distinct parts. Written by multiple scribes in cursive, with or without loops., Part I (ff. 1r-92v): illustrated with 79 column miniatures; two others on ff. 83v and 85r have been cut out. The miniatures are simple pen drawings, tinted pink, red, tan, purple, and blue, in pen-ruled frames, tinted in yellow; on ff. 18r and 22r with ivy leaves on hair-line stems at corners and centers. On f. 16v an unframed drawing of the carpenter's pax. 2-line initials throughout, red or blue with black or red penwork. First letter of each verse stroked in yellow. Proper names in red., Part II (ff. 93r-129r, 129v-141v) has two distinct formats. Between ff. 93r and 135r (art. 5), two 2-line initials, red, with simple brown penwork. Some capitals stroked in red or yellow. Between ff. 135v and 141r (art. 6), three crude tinted drawings, red, green and brown, in initials, either divided red and brown with red flourishes and dots, or red, with a scroll and a fish incorporated. Three drawings cut out from ff. 135v, 136v and 137r. Space left for one drawing on f. 139r and for two on f. 140v. 2-line initials in red, some with red penwork., Folio 1r-v damaged, with loss of text and parts of miniatures., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label. Edges spattered red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Guillaume, de Deguileville, active 14th century. and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Cosmography, Devotional literature, Devotional literature, French, French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Pelerinage de vie humaine, etc
32.
- Creator:
- Pierre, de Peckham, -1293
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 219
- Image Count:
- 128
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Pierre de Peckham, La lumiere as lais. All of Books I and VI, and part of Books II and V are missing
- Description:
- In French., Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line., Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue for each chapter. Headings in red. Guide letters for decorator., Many leaves stained, damaged, but with little loss of text, except on bottom of f. 1 and top of f. 36, which are torn with loss of text., and Binding: Thirteenth century, England. Original wound, caught up sewing with heavy thread, on four tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of oak boards and wedged. The natural color endbands are sewn on leather cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and pegged. The spine is back bevelled. Covered in tawed skin, originally white, but now dark brown on the outside. The turn-ins of the upper board are serrated. Two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins (traces only) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the fabric-reinforced leather straps. Some sewing supports broken, one board detached, and some covering leather and straps wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pierre, de Peckham, -1293.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature, Laity, Books and reading, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and Study and teaching
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La lumiere as lais
33.
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS suppl. 495
- Image Count:
- 281
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Very old Koran on parchment in Kufic script and Apparently bound out of sequence: begins surah 40:14; ends surah 9:107-111
- Description:
- Bookplate of Thomas Ewart Marston. and Soiled and partially rat-eaten.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Koran. -- [8--?].
34.
- Creator:
- Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 318
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 472
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manual of Shafiʻi law and Copied in A.H. 507 (A.D. 1114).
- Alternative Title:
- Wajīz
- Description:
- Available on microfilm, On leaf 230 recto is an ijāzah by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī, presumably the author's son; the owner's note under it, implying that the ijāzah is by the author himself, is patently mistaken. Another ijāzah on leaf 230 verso is also dated A.H. 507., Hasty naskhī, in red and black., and Islamic binding, in red, with flap.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Kitāb al-wajīz fī al-fiqh / 1114
35.
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Published / Created:
- 1423.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 393
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (coarse) composed of two distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-84): 1) Long extracts from Hugh of Strasbourg. 2) Speculum humane saluacionis. 3) Statutes of Prague. 4) Commentary of Joannes Andreae on the second Clementine decree Ad nostrum qui desideranter promulgated against Beghards and Beguines in November 1311. 5) Theological notes. 6) Albert of Diessen, Speculum vel lavacrum sacerdotum. Part II (ff. 85-234): 7) Conrad of Brundelsheim, Sermones de sanctis
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I similar to Piccard Kreuz III.805; unidentified mountain and unidentified bull's head. Part II has two similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 15229 and to Piccard Ochsenkopf XII.288; unidentified horn and elongated bell., Script: Part I: Written by three scribes in a running hybrida script: 1 (ff. 1r-75r; arts. 1-3); 2 (ff. 75r-79v, 84v; arts. 4, 5); 3 (ff. 80r-84r; art. 6). Part II: Written by several scribes, all in various styles of running hybrida; ff. 133r-145v, 234r-v is the same hand as Scribe 2 of Part I., Part I: Plain initials, 6- to 2-line, in red; headings in red or black in gothic textura, those in black often enclosed by red rectangles; initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for rubricator in margins. Part II: Plain initials, 5- to 2-line, in red; headings and final colophon enclosed in red rectangles; initial strokes in red. Guide-letters for rubricator., Pattern of stains on ff. 84v-85r suggests parts were originally separate books., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original sewing on tawed slit straps laced through a tunnel in edge to outside channels in flush wooden boards, pegged with rectangular pegs and the channels filled in. Plain, wound endbands sewn through the spine lining onto tawed cores laced into the back cornering of the boards. The spine is rounded with a parchment lining (unidentified liturgical text: Germany, 12th century) that extends on the inside of the boards between sewing supports; parchment reinforcement strips from same manuscript and from others. Remains of parchment bifolios of a liturgical manuscript (Germany, 13th century) glued inside both covers. Length of page and written space: 121 (88) mm.; 6 mm. between rulings for text. Covered in cream colored, tawed skin. Five hat-shaped bosses and two strap-and-pin fastenings, the pins on the upper board. The lower board is cut in to accomodate the straps. Parchment label glued to upper board: "de sacramentis Speculum humanae saluationis/ Questiones bone Sermones de sanctis;" added below in another hand: "de Sacra questione [?] bo. S. de. S." Lettering on tail: "de sacra question: bo. S. de." Straps wanting.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Prague (Czech Republic)
- Subject (Topic):
- Beguines, Church year sermons, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hugh of Strasbourg extracts, etc
36.
- Creator:
- Adhraʻī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān, 1308-1381
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 650
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 720
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Commentary on the Minhāj al-ṭālibīn (manual of Shafiʻi law) of Yaḥyá al-Nawawī. Volume VI only and Incomplete at beginning and end
- Description:
- The title is written on the lower edges as: al-juzʾ al-sādis min al-Ghunyah al-Adhraʻīyah., Old (14th century?) naskhī., Islamic binding, in brown, front cover and part of flap missing., and Other volumes wanting.
- Subject (Name):
- Nawawī, 1233-1277.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ghunyat al-muḥtāj ilá sulūk al-Minhāj : al-juzʾ al-sādis / [13--?].
37.
- Creator:
- William of Tournai
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 376
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. Text supplied on f. 10v in the second half of the 15th century. With excerpts from St. Bernard (?) on the Virgin Mary
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in compact gothic script with numerous corrections and notes in contemporary and later hands, 13th-15th centuries., Decorative initials, divided red and blue, 3-line, with extensive penwork designs and cascades also in red and blue, for the beginning of each book of art. 5 and for art. 6. Simple initials, red or blue, 2-line, with penwork designs of the opposite color throughout the codex. Running titles (e.g., FLO. B. I) in red and blue; headings, chapter numbers, and underlining, in red., Outer column of f. 140 cut off; no loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case with two ties and two black, gold-tooled labels: "Flores ex operibus B. Bernardi" and "M. S. XIII-XIV C." Wound, caught-up sewing, wound endbands, and vellum lining on the spine between sewing supports. On front and back flyleaves: Deed, in Latin, dated 26 March 1450, issued by Antonius Longobardus [several letters or words lost in binding] neapolis Reginalis ad contractus Iudex. The document was cut in half and trimmed to serve originally as pastedowns; considerable loss of text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. and William of Tournai.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Flores Bernardi
38.
- Creator:
- Eugippius
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 810]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 912
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (fragments) of Eugippius (c. 500), Excerpta ex operibus sancti Augustini
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in early Carolingian handwriting of the type described by B. Bischoff as "Arn minuscule"., and Binding: twentieth century quarter binding, parchment and purplish decorated paper over pasteboard.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Eugippius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini
39.
- Creator:
- Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320
- Published / Created:
- 13 February 1466
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 798
- Image Count:
- 689
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, and other texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: (1) Lion rampant holding a sword and surmounted by a fleur de lis: Piccard, Wasserzeichen Raubtiere, 1699-1700 (1465-1466); (2) and (3) Mountain: var. Briquet 11702, 11709 (1440, 1466)., Script: copied by one hand in an idiosyncratic Gothico-Humanistica Libraria, with f and straight s with long pointed descenders, Uncial or Half-Uncial d, round or straight s in final position and e caudata used in a totally unorthodox way; unexplained stray letters appear in the text., Headings, paragraph marks and stroking of some majuscules in red. All other decoration is missing: there are guide letters in the margin; space for initials of various heights, but generally exceptionally wide, has been provided at the opening of books and chapters., The manuscript contains: 1) Augustinus Hipponensis (St. Augustine, 354-430), note on Lactantius, shortened version of Contra Faustum Manichaeum (CPL 321). 2) Augustinus Hipponensis, note on Lactantius, shortened after Epistula 143.2-3. 3) Hieronymus Stridonensis (St. Jerome), note on Lactantius, from Epistula 58.10. 4) Hieronymus Stridonensis, note on Lactantius (in fact on Origen), after Epistula 62.2. 5) Hieronymus Stridonensis, note on Lactantius, from De viris illustribus, 80 (CPL 616). 6) Table of Contents (list of chapters) of Divinae institutiones. 7) Firmianus Lactantius (d. c. 325), Divinae institutiones (CPL 85)., and Binding: 20th century. Quarter binding, white pigskin and oak boards with rounded edges, the leather blind-tooled with fillets and flowerets. Spine with three raised bands. Brown edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Divinae institutiones
40.
- Creator:
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 373
- Image Count:
- 345
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of two separate and incomplete segments. Part I: Isidore, De summo bono. Part II: John of Wales, Communiloquium (Summa de regimine vitae humanae).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-40): Written in small gothic bookhand. Part II (ff. 41-168): Written in small gothic bookhand; later 15th-century hand added appropriate pars and distich numbers as running headlines; scattered marginalia throughout, some in Anglicana script., Part I: Initials, 4- to 2-line, alternate blue with red penwork designs and red with blue penwork designs. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Spaces left for rubrics. Part II: Decoration similar in style and scope to Part I. Part II of the manuscript was well used in the 15th century, for there are several series of numbers in the margins that appear to be chapter or indexing references, in addition to the running headlines., and Binding: Twentieth century. Bound in tan suede (?) with early, printed board pastedowns.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholasticism, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De summo bono and John of Wales, Communiloquium
41.
- Creator:
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
- Published / Created:
- [between 1125 and 1150]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 153
- Image Count:
- 188
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Ambrose, 1) De paradiso. 2) De Cain et Abel. 3) Exhortatio virginitatis. 4) De institutione virginis. Written perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe to which it belonged
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by two scribes in late caroline minuscule. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-61r): preference for uncial d, angular abbreviation strokes, and a slightly larger module of script than that used by Scribe 2 (ff. 61r-83r)., Plain red initials, 6- to 4-line, with small "pearls" on the thin strokes of the letters, introduce each text. Headings in red. Instructions to rubricator and guide letters., Heavily stained but with no loss of text., and Binding: 1800-1810, Italy. Half bound with a brown calf spine and goatskin corners, bright pink paper sides and red edges. Three green, gold-tooled labels on the spine: "Manuscri," "S Ambrosi de Cain" and "Seculi XII". Bound in the same distinctive style as Marston MSS 50, 125, 128, 135, 151, 158, 159 and 197, all of Hautecombe provenance.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Celibacy, Christianity, Fathers of the church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De paradiso, De Cain et Abel, etc
42.
- Creator:
- Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1445-50]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 55
- Image Count:
- 280
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in a small upright humanistic cursive script by a single scribe who began copying the text with a single line of majuscules; written below top line., Folio 1r with partial border in upper and inner margins; white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and pink ground with grey and pale yellow dots, terminating in penwork with gold balls. At the left upper corner vine-stem ornament is inhabited by a red-winged putto being attacked by a bird. Historiated initial, 9-line, gold, against a blue, green and pink ground with white vine-stem ornament, and a medallion with the profile of a man, dressed in a red and green cap and red robes against blue ground. Numerous small initials, 4-line, gold on blue, pink and green or blue and pink rectangular grounds with white and pale yellow filigree., and Binding: Twentieth century, after 1926, England. Dark green pigskin, gold-tooled with the arms of C. H. St. John Hornby on the upper side; title on spine. Edges gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De compendiosa doctrina
43.
- Creator:
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1610]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 260
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
- Description:
- In Greek., Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dionysius, the Areopagite, Saint, active 1st century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De caelesti hierarchia, etc
44.
- Creator:
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
- Published / Created:
- 1469
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 952
- Image Count:
- 242
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on calfskin parchment of Augustine's Confessions, with alphabetical index; also includes Augustine's Retractions
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Formata., Decoration: Stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks, underlinings and headings all in red. 3-line plain initials alternately in red and blue at the opening of the chapters, sometimes with white decoration. Generally undecorated after f. 36., and Binding: original, brown leather over wooden boards. Spine has four raised bands. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges traced in triple fillets and floral designs. Red leather tabs at the beginning of each book of the art. 2 and at the beginning of art. 3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Subject (Topic):
- Biography, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessions
45.
- Creator:
- Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 14
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 368
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single scribal hand, of this widely popular theological work dealing with the creation, the fall of man, the Incarnation, grace, the sacraments, and the Four Last Things
- Description:
- In Latin., Work formerly attributed to Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280); now attributed to Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (Hugo Argentinensis) and dated to 1268., Ownership inscription on rear flyleaf: "Mastre Roger Walle off Lychfeld Chanone.", Layout: double columns of 30 lines., Script: gothic script., Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in red and blue ink with penwork decoration. F1r decorated with a small historiated initial in gold containing drawing of a man's face., and Binding: early limp tawed leather wrapper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280., Hugo, Argentinensis, approximately 1210-approximately 1270., Walle, Roger, of Lichfield., and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Doctrines, Eschatology, Fall of man, Grace (Theology), Incarnation, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sacraments, Catholic Church, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Compendium theologicae veritatis
46.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 861
- Image Count:
- 698
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of commentaries on the Sunday Epistles and other theological and moral texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by several similar hands in Gothica Cursiva or Semihybrida Currens; Libraria in art. 5. The headings and the commented texts are in a large, bold and more careful form of the same script; Gothica Textualis Formata at the opening of art. 1, the first section of art. 2 and the opening of art. 3., Red underlining, stroking of majuscules and plain initials of various sizes. A littera duplex (black and red) on ff. 1r and 38r. The decoration is missing at the end of art. 1 (starting f. 32r)., The manuscript contains: 1) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, with commentary. 2) Epistles for the Sundays, from Easter to Palm Sunday, with commentary. 3) Summa poenitentiariorum, a commentary on the poem Poeniteas cito. 4) Short instructions for confession, followed by an extensive list in tabular form of sins, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Works of Bodily Charity, the Works of Spiritual Charity, the Beatitudes, the Cardinal Virtues, the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 5) Lumen animae. Theological and moral treatise in alphabetical form based on hundreds of quotations, mostly from texts of a scientific nature (medicine, natural history, astrology, alchemy, philosophy, etc.). 6) Jean Gerson, Donatus spiritualis. 7) Note on sexual perversities., and Binding: 19th century. Quarter binding, dark brown flat leather spine, the cardboard covers covered with dark brown paper paper.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
- Subject (Topic):
- Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Christianity, Science, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentaries on the Sunday Epistles; theologico-moral treatises
47.
- Creator:
- Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Image Count:
- 276
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Iohannes Cassianus, Collationes
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Headings and running headlines in red. 2-line flourished initials, protruding into the margin or intercolumn, alternately in red and blue with penwork in the contrasting colours, at the opening of the chapters. Historiated initials on square background and with long marginal extensions (foliate bar borders) at the opening of the Prologue and of the Collationes., and Binding: de luxe binding s. XIX by Thibaron (d. c. 1880): blind-tooled brown morocco over cardboard boards, both covers decorated with fillets and flowery ornaments.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, Theology, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Collationes
