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1. Calendar and handbook for the Carthusian Order of Wuerzburg
- Published / Created:
- 1463
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1044
- Image Count:
- 38
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Carthusian calendar, prescriptions for diet, drinks and blood-letting, and collects and prayers for various occasions
- Description:
- In Latin and German., Script: copied by six hands in various scripts., Writing in black and red ink. Red stroking of majuscules (not in last section) and red paragraph marks. Red plain initials, 1-5 lines., and Binding: undecorated s. XVIII (?) parchment binding over pasteboard, with green marbled endleaves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Würzburg (Germany)
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Religious calendars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Calendar and handbook for the Carthusian Order of Wuerzburg
2. Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 11
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, incomplete, of a Carthusian psalter with the Canticles and the Creed, with musical notation
- Description:
- In Latin., Incomplete. Text ends with Psalm 77., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Script: large gothic script., Decoration: smaller initial in alternate red and blue; 12 historiated initials; full illuminated border to one page with figures of Carthusian monks and an abbot., and Binding: contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; metal clasps, corner pieces and central bosses.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church and Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Prayers and devotions, Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carthusian Psalter with Canticles and Creed
3. Carthusian breviary
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 690
- Image Count:
- 620
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment. Copied in the Charterhouse Val de Benediction (Vallis Benedictionis) at Villeneuve-les-Avignon
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Copied by one hand in small Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., All important illuminated leaves missing. Headings in red. Yellow heightening of the majuscules. 1-line flourished initials alternately red and blue. Numerous 2-line flourished initials in the same colours. 3-line dentelle initials with partial floral borders in gold (on f. 56r with bar-shaped extensions, on f. 57v no border)., The manuscript is heavily mutilated, some leaves are out of order and many (presumably all illuminated) leaves are cut out., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Light-brown leather over pasteboard; the covers gold-tooled with floral border and centre-piece. Gold-tooled spine with four raised bands. One large modern silver clasp attached to rear cover. Edges gilt and gauffered.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Breviaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carthusian breviary
4. Diurnale of Carthusian use
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 696
- Image Count:
- 349
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Carthusian breviary
- Description:
- Script: written by multiple hands in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata., Binding: undecorated sheepskin over pasteboard. Rebacked in the eighteenth century. Spine with four raised bands, gold-tooled with a floweret. Remnants of a gold-tooled title label., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diurnale of Carthusian use
5. Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1484]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 882
- Container / Volume:
- Vol. 1
- Image Count:
- 415
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript of a Manual containing 18 works, including instructions of Mass, moral instructions, meditations for prayer, a calendar, and two works ascribed to Thomas Aquinas
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. and Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Third orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Manual of a Carthusian lay brother and member of the Rosenkrantzbruderschaft
6. Sermones Quadragesimales and other works
- Creator:
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1068
- Image Count:
- 471
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Jacobus de Voragine, O.P. (ca. 1230-1298), Sermones Quadragesimales. Also contains two collections of excerpts from various sermons, with lemmata; and Pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury, Planctus de passione Domini
- Description:
- Script: The main body of the manuscript (artt. 2-5) is copied by various hands in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens. Art. 1 is in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Bastarda); and art. 6 is in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria., Decoration: Limited; art. 1 is undecorated; artt. 2-6 contain red headings, stroking of majuscules, paragraph marks, and 2-line plain initials. There are three identical 15th century ownership inscriptions of the Salvatorberg Charterhouse, belonging to the Carthusians in Erfurt, Germany., Binding: Original undecorated red pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs. There are remnants of two leather straps attached to the rear that would clasp to the front board by (now lost) pins. Five bosses on each cover., and In Latin.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298., Catholic Church, Dominicans., and Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermones Quadragesimales and other works
7. Siege of Thebes
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 661
- Image Count:
- 128
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of John Lydgate (1375?-1449?), Siege of Thebes
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria/Formata (Anglicana). The scribe has been identified as being Stephen Doddesham, a Carthusian monk, first in Witham Priory, afterwards in the Charterhouse at Sheen, near London, d. 1481/1482., Red headings and running titles. The latter are preceded by alternately blue paragraph-marks with red penwork and golden paragraph-marks with blue penwork. 6-line foliate initials in pale blue and pink with left-margin floral borders extending into the upper and lower margins, at the beginning of Parts II and III (ff. 13v and 33v); the same type of initial with similar but four-margins border at the opening of the Prologue (f. 1r). There were only two 3-line dentelle initials with short marginal extensions, namely on f. 20v (now cut out, v. 1569, speech of Adrastus) and 25r (v. 1901, speech of Tideus)., and Binding: Nineteenth century. White parchment over pasteboard by Edward Parry. On the gold-tooled spine two bordeaux leather labels with gold-tooled inscriptions: "DESTRUCTION / OF / THEBES / BY/ LYDGATE" and "MANUSCRIPT".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? and Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry |y Middle English, 1100-1500, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Siege of Thebes
8. Statuta antiqua ordinis cartusiensis in tribus partibus comprehensa (fragment).
- Published / Created:
- [between 1390 and 1410].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 481.124
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment of a portion of old statutes related to the Carthusian order
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: written by two scribes in gothic script, one writing littera hybrida script (fols. 1-2) and the other writing littera textualis (fols. 3-4)., and Decoration: there are spaces for 2-line initials and rubrics, but they have not been added; 1-line capitals within text are in black; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus flexus; hyphenation is in the same ink as the text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Carthusians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statuta antiqua ordinis cartusiensis in tribus partibus comprehensa (fragment).
