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1. Biblical commentaries; Sermons

Published / Created:: [between 1250 and 1300]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 519
Image Count:: 354
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment (low quality), composed of several manuscripts bound together, of mostly unidentified sermons. Produced at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo
Description:: In Latin., Script: Small early Gothica Textualis or Semitextualis Libraria or Currens script by various hands, some very informal and difficult to decipher, often highly abbreviated., Short running titles are written above the right-hand columns of the recto pages in the following articles: 1, 3, 4, 9, 16, 18-23, which seem to be the original part of the codex; article 14 has running titles of a different type., The first folios are stained., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over cardboard, blind-tooled with triple fillets as in MS 517; spine with five raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Biblical commentaries; Sermons

2. De caelesti hierarchia, etc

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

3. De corpore christi, etc

Creator:: Eusebius Gallicanus
Published / Created:: [between 1150 and 1200]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 181
Image Count:: 66
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of an anonymous catena of Eucharistic proof texts
Description:: In Latin., Script: Written by several scribes, perhaps at different times, in early gothic bookhand., Plain initials in red or green (spaces left for others), followed by rustic capitals. Heading, in red, on f. 1r. Simple schematic drawings to explicate the text of art. 20 (ff. 21r, 22r)., Some loss of text due to trimming on f. 23v., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Eusebius Gallicanus.
Subject (Topic):: Catenae, Fathers of the church, Lord's Supper, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De corpore christi, etc

4. Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon

Creator:: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
Published / Created:: [between 950 and 1150]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 571
Image Count:: 234
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment (varying quality) of 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts and ends incomplete. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints. 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae
Description:: In Latin., Script: Written by more than five hands in Carolingian script and Praegothica., Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., and Binding: Twentieth century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription "S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X".
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon

5. Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon

Creator:: Gregory, I, Pope, ca. 540-604, creator
Published / Created:: between 950 and 1150
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 571
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Archives or Manuscripts
Description:: Art. 1 is decorated with red plain initials, more or less small decorated initials in various colours and large initials. Art. 3 has a title in mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. The part of art. 4 copied by hand B has some highlighting in yellow, red or green and plain initials; the part copied by hand C has a few plain initials; the 12th-century part copied by hand D has red headings with instructions in small script written in the outer margins, plain or flourished Romanesque initials and an explicit in decorated mixed Capitalis/Uncialis. Art. 5 is undecorated apart from its title and the opening initial. There are effaced drawings in the lower margins of some leaves in art. 1., Binding: Twentieth-century. Reddish brown morocco over cardboard, by Riviere and Son. Spine with five raised bands and gold-tooled inscription S. GREGORII DIALOGI. SAEC. X., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hans P. Kraus in memory of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1975., Gregory the Great, Dialogi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University., Manuscript on parchment of varying quality, some parts very bad (quire IX), with irregular edges. Contains 1) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Books I-III. Starts incomplete I, 3, 2 and ends incomplete III, 24, 3 followed by the title of III, 25. Between ff. 13 and 14 a page is missing which contained Dialogi I, 9, 8-13. 2) Sulpicius Severus, Sermo de transitu sancti Martini = Epistula III, 16-21. The beginning is missing. 3) Unidentified sermon for the feast of a Confessor in the Common of the Saints, containing 7 (?) Lessons. Above the line a twelfth-century hand has repeatedly identified the saint with St. Aderaldus archdeacon of Troyes (d. beginning of the 11th cent.). 4) Gregory the Great (Gregorius Magnus), Dialogi, Book IV. 5) Vita S. Symeonis Stylitae. There are more than five scribes: A (Carolingian script with very imperfect word separation, s. X2); B (large and bold Carolingian script, s. X2); C (smaller Carolingian script, very close to B, or same hand); D (Praegothica, s. XII); E (various hands writing Praegothica and succeeding each other at irregular intervals)., and T. E. Marston, A Manuscript of the Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great, Gazette, 50 (1976), pp. 15-18.
Subject (Name):: Catholic Church, I, Pope, Gregory, ca. 540-604, and Severus, Sulpicius
Subject (Topic):: Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven, and Sermons
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dialogi; Sermons; Life of St. Simeon

6. Enarrationes in Psalmos

Creator:: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Published / Created:: [between 1100 and 1200]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 699
Image Count:: 289
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of 1) St. Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus), Enarrationes in Psalmos 134-150. 2) First half of Ps.-Iohannes Chrysostomus, Sermo de martyribus. 3) Antiphons for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin (8 Dec.), with neumatic notation
Description:: In Latin., Script: Copied in Praegothica by three hands., Headings in red. Art. 1 has plain initials (Capitalis, ca. 4 lines) in red, followed by a word in Capitalis/Uncialis. The book opens with an 8-line Romanesque decorated initial in red and black. Art. 2 opens with a black capital followed by two words in Capitalis. Art. 3 is decorated with 1-line initials in black with heightening in red and opens with a 4-line red plain initial., Holes, original repairs and sometimes irregular lower edges., and Binding: Early (probably original) binding in pigskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards. The covers are blind-tooled with fillets. On the front cover the fillets make a St. Andrews cross, at a later time decorated with trees in Lederschnitt, countless small circular stamps and a few stars (?); the rear cover, with fillets in lozenge pattern, has only the circular stamps and the stars. Spine with three raised bands. On each cover marks of five brass and iron bosses. Two clasps attached to the rear cover. At the top of the front cover an original paper library label with the title (partly rewritten) "Expositio beati Augustini super Psalmo CXXXIIII et deinceps usque ad finem". The binding is strengthened by means of parchment strips placed around the first quire and taken from a 13th-century Latin manuscript.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Subject (Topic):: Antiphons (Music), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Enarrationes in Psalmos

7. Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc

Creator:: Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463
Published / Created:: [between 1400 and 1425]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 15
Image Count:: 230
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on parchment of Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini. With Johannes Shepey, Sermones
Description:: In Latin., Script: Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2) ff. 10v-30r; Scribe 3) ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4) f. 75r to the top of 76r (perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar)., Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new section of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. and Prosper, of Aquitaine, Saint, approximately 390-approximately 463.
Subject (Topic):: Epigrams, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Scholia, Sermons, and Theology, Doctrinal
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini, etc

8. Fragments of sermons

Published / Created:: [between 1400 and 1500]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 626
Image Count:: 46
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper of 19 Latin fragments, containing (unidentified) sermons and extracts from a collection of biblical "Distinctiones."
Description:: In Latin., Written in Gothic cursive., and Removed from pasteboards of a blind-stamped leather binder.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):: Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fragments of sermons

9. German miscellany

Published / Created:: 1466 (?).
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 653
Image Count:: 268
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript on paper, composed in 3 parts, of unidentified sermons. The three sections appear to have the same origin and to have been united soon after their making. The scribe and owner was a lay brother in the convent of Augustinian Canons St. Dorothea in Vienna
Description:: In German and Latin., Watermarks: Part I: balance, var. Piccard, Waage V.331?; star, var. Briquet 6077?. Part II: bull's head, unidentified?. Part III: column var. Briquet 4408?; bull's head var. Briquet 14825? (last three folios)., Script: Part I (ff. 1-76) copied by various hands writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part II (ff. 77-160) copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria with Bastarda features. Part III (ff. 161-261) copied by five hands in Gothica Cursiva Libraria., Part I: Headings in red, often missing; heightening of the majuscules in red; plain red 4-line initials; they are flourished with black penwork on ff.18v-19r. Part II: Headings in red, sometimes missing. Red heightening of majuscules on ff. 125v-126r only. Spaces and guide-letters for 2-3 line initials (4-line initial on f. 77r) , which have not been executed., Part III: The decoration of art. 15 consists of 3-4 line plain initials in red; at the opening a 5-line flourished initial in red. Art. 16 has red stroking of the opening majuscules of all verses and 2-line plain red initials. In art. 17 the majuscules are heightened with red. The Fables in art. 15 are illustrated with unframed watercoloured pen drawings., and Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over unbevelled wooden boards, worm-eaten. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the rear cover, containing several times the inscription in relief "Osan".
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Augustinian Canons. and Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, German
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > German miscellany