Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154
Published / Created:
[between 1175 and 1250]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 590
Image Count:
278
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (sheepskin?) of 1) Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfredus Monemutensis, d. 1154), Historia regum Britanniae. The text, containing the double dedication, to Robert of Gloucester and Waleran Count of Mellent, and wanting the epilogue addressed to Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury, is believed to be the earliest version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work. 2) Unidentified French poem of which the end is missing (1276 verses preserved), on the vanity and corruption of the world. 3) Le Roman des Romans
Description:
In French and Latin., Script: Art. 1: Copied by one hand, writing a large Praegothica. Art. 2: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria. Art. 3: Copied by a single hand in early Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria., Art. 1: The decoration consists of Romanesque flourished (in one or two colours) or plain initials (2 lines, on f. 1r 4 lines), alternately in red and green. Guide-letters in the margins. On f. 55r, at the beginning of the history of Merlin, a male bust is drawn in the margin., and Binding: Original white leather over rounded oak boards; spine with four raised bands. Marks of one strap fixed to the front cover and clutching over a pin in the rear cover. The front pastedown (detached) consists of fragments of a court roll (from a trial of 1334), identified by N.R. Ker (note kept in the documentary folder in the Beinecke Library) and copied in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior (Anglicana).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Quintus Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in rounded gothic bookhand (gothico-humanistica)., and Decoration: 1-line initials are brown capitals; there are brief notes on the text written in the margin in a cursive humanistic script of the fifteenth century; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Greece
Subject (Name):
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. and Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, History, and Historiography
Manuscript of parchment roll composed of 8 membranes, written in 4 columns. Column 1) Chronology of the popes from Peter to the antipope John XXIII. 2) Chronology of the rulers of the Empire from Augustus to Louis of Bavaria, Holy Roman Emperor from 1328-47. 3) Chronology of the Monarchs of France, beginning with the Trojan nobles and concluding with Charles VI, king from 1380-1422. 4) Chronology of the kings of England, from King Lud in the time of Julius Caesar to King Henry IV (d. 1413).
Description:
In French., Script: Written in batarde script by a single scribe., Text is accompanied by parallel schematic genealogical diagrams in red consisting of connected roundels inscribed with the names of various rulers in succession, between the columns. The genealogical diagrams are periodically interspersed with 58 roundels framed in red with lively pen drawings in brown ink with washes in blue, pink and green, depicting cities and churches whose foundations are ascribed to particular rulers or occurred during their reigns. Each of the genealogical diagrams begins at the top of the text with a roundel, depicting respectively (I) Mount Calvary, (II) Rome, (III) Venice (whose foundation is ascribed to Trojan nobles) and (IV) London. Included are drawings of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, Santiago de Compostela; the majority of the drawings appear in the chronology of the French monarchs, with depictions of Paris, St. Genevieve, St. Denis, St. Martin-de-Champs, and others. The buildings are all late medieval in character and do not bear resemblance to the monuments themselves., Four illuminated initials, 4-line, at the top of each column, blue with white filigree against gold ground with stylized foliage or geometric patterns in red and blue. At the top of each initial, black inkspray with gold leaves; at the first initial (left column), decoration extends into the left margin to form a partial border. Numerous smaller initials, 2-line, gold on blue and mauve grounds with white filigree. Headings in red., Binding: Unbound., and Art. 3 also known as "A tous nobles."
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., France, Great Britain, and Holy Roman Empire
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Church history, Chronology, Kings and rulers, Legends, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
Accompanied by: Supplementband zum fünften, sechsten und siebenten Theil des historisch-statistischen Gemäldes des russischen Reichs. 22 cm. 70 p. Chiefly tables. Published separately in 1802.
Publisher:
Bei Johann Friedrich Hartknoch
Subject (Geographic):
Russia and Russia.
Subject (Name):
Paul I, Emperor of Russia, 1754-1801.
Subject (Topic):
Commerce, Description and travel, History, and Travel
