Beinecke MS 3                                  
Fragments

          MS 3 is a box of fragments, many of which were removed from
     bindings. Library records contain little information on these
     fragments; most are in a poor state of preservation. Since some have
     been reclassified as separate manuscripts or relocated in other
     collections, the numbering is not consecutive.

     1. Gregory IX, Decretales    S. France, s. XIII^^2

          From Bk. 3, Tit. 21 (two fragments).

          Parchment, each ca. 337 x 55 mm. (length of written space 185
     mm.). Ruled in lead, 2 columns of 48 lines; between guide-lines for
     text, 4 mm.; writing below top line. Written in small cramped gothic
     textura, with at least 3 contemporary and later hands in the glosses.
     Initial, 2-line, in blue with red flourishes; guide-letters visible
     beneath. Text divisions, paragraph marks and headings in red. Removed
     from a binding; stains, creases and holes.

     2. Breviary    France, s. XII^^2

          Contains parts of the offices for Christmas, Stephen and Silvester
     (four fragments).

          Parchment, ranging in size from ca. 90 x 245 mm. to 132 x 245 mm.
     (width of written area 225 mm.). Ruled in hard point, 2 columns;
     writing above top line; between guide-lines for text, 9 mm. Written in
     2 sizes of late Carolingian minuscule, with exaggerated ascenders on
     the smaller size. Initials 3- or 2-line, red or green, both with red
     dots attached. Headings and strokes on 1-line initials in red. Holes,
     stains, tears and traces of glue; removed from a binding.

     3. Breviary    Germany, s. XIII^^2

          Contains part of the office for Simeon (one fragment).

          Parchment, 178 x 139 (179 x 112) mm. Written in 10 long lines of
     text with staves, ruled in lead, double vertical bounding lines full
     across; between guide-lines for text, 15 mm. Written in early gothic
     bookhand. Initials of one staff plus one line in red; 1-line initials
     in blue or red; rubrics and 4-line staves in red; square musical
     notation. Probably a pastedown; portions missing at lower and outer
     edges, including some text and music; traces of glue at inner edge.

     4. Missal    France, s. XII^^1

          Five fragments of a missale plenum. Portions of Dominica X post
     Pentecosten, Feria IV of that week, Dominica XI, and of votive masses
     for a priest to say on behalf of himself, and for the shedding of
     tears. Where they occur, the texts of the proper chants are notated in
     a compact, well executed, distinctive script of mixed Breton and French
     aspect. Some of the chants are cited by incipit. Unusually, the first
     of the votive masses is prefaced by a listing of chants which would be
     appropriate to it. The Alleluia for Dominica X is Domine refugium, and
     the proper collect for Vespers of that Sunday (not present in the
     fragment) was entered after the post communion.

          Parchment, ranging from 215 x 98 to 161 x 42 mm. 2 columns (each
     69 mm. wide), ruled in lead; between guide-lines 7 mm.; writing above
     top line. Written in 2 sizes of early gothic, with neumes above the
     smaller size. Initials 6- to 2-line, in blue and/or red, with red or
     blue flourishes; rubrics in red. Binding reinforcement from spine;
     rubbed, creased and stained, with traces of glue.

          Written in France, probably in the diocese of Le Mans. The
     peculiarities of notations with mixed Breton and French forms are found
     in a similar mixture in various surviving manuscripts from Le Mans
     including a portion of the Office of St. Julian of Le Mans contained in
     Oxford, Bod. Lib. MS 596, ff. 211v-213r (W. H. Frere, Bibliotheca
     Musico-Liturgica [London, 1901-32] no. 126, and plate 6 [212v]). M.
     Huglo in Acta musicologica 25 (1963) 75f. The most distinctive neume is
     the porrectus whose left portion resembles an incomplete standard
     mathematical symbol for infinity. (We thank K. D. Hartzell for his
     assistance with these fragments.).

     5. Theological text, in Lat.    France, s. XIII^^1

          Possibly a sermon (two fragments).

          Parchment, ca. 245 x 117 and 40 x ca. 100 mm. Written in 2 columns
     (each 203 x 65 mm.) of 25 lines, ruled in lead [?]; between guide-lines
     for text, 9 mm. Written in early gothic bookhand. One-line initials
     with red strokes. Torn, stained, and with remains of paste; much text
     obliterated. Removed from a binding.

     7. Thomas Aquinas, In libros Ethicorum Aristotelis    Italy, s. XIV^^in

     Sancti Thomae Aquinatis...Opera omnia..., V. J. Bourke, ed. (New York,
     1949) v. 21, pp. 140-45; parts of Bk. 4, lectiones 12 and 13. Opening
     words of the text of Aristotle underlined, followed immediately
     (without paraphrases) by the full text of Aquinas' comments (one leaf).

          Parchment, 291 x 197 (228 x 168) mm. Written in 2 columns of 48
     lines, ruled in lead; between guide-lines for text, 5 mm.; written
     below top line. In small round gothic with many abbreviations. Space
     left for a 2-line initial. Stained and creased, with much text lost due
     to rubbing and two holes; once a pastedown.

     8. Lectionary or Choir Breviary    Germany, s. XIV^^2-XV^^1

          Readings (up to 3), including one from Luke 9.1 (one leaf).

          Parchment, 396 x 292 (300 x 204) mm. Written in 2 columns of 27
     lines; ruled in brown ink, double horizontal and single vertical
     bounding lines, full across; between guide-lines for text, 11 mm.
     Written in well formed gothic textura with few abbreviations.
     Calligraphic initials, 5- to 2-line, in red or blue with blue and/or
     red penwork and flourishes. Rubrics and strokes on 1-line initials in
     red. Part of a dismembered manuscript.

     10. Unidentified text, on Civil Law [?]    Germany, s. XV

          Includes rubrics De ludo (two fragments).

          Paper (thick, with broad laid lines; watermarks similar to Piccard
     Ochsenkopf I. 113), 193 x 153 mm. Written in 2 columns frame-ruled in
     ink (each column 71 mm. wide). Written in small gothic cursive with
     many abbreviations. Initials, 2-line, in red or blue; rubrics and
     paragraph marks in red; in margin, Arabic numerals to mark sections of
     text, each bracketed by red dots. Once the cover of a pamphlet in the
     Yale University Library ("Curieuse Staats-Frage Wer in dem grossen
     Monarchischer Koenigreich Spanien der rechtmaessige Successor seyn soll
     im Fall der jetztregierende Koenig Carolus II" [Cologne: Peter Marteau,
     1699]); removed ca. 1929.

     11. Legal Contract, in Lat.    Italy, 1474

          Agreement between nuns of a convent of Sta. Lucia and one
     Raynaldus, concerning a house.

          Parchment scroll, measuring 470 x 255 mm. Written in humanistic
     notarial script, on one side only. Worn.

     12. Simone da Cremona [?], Sermones    Germany, s. XV^^2

          Sermons for the Temporale, including the beginning of one for the
     third Sunday after the octave of Epiphany (two leaves). (Text: Nolite
     esse prudentes apud vos [Rom. 12.16]...Augustinus sermone .4. ad suos
     fratres heremitas sic inquit Beatus qui prudens est et felix...).
     Attribution from a sales slip; as yet unverified.

          Paper (watermarks: unidentified bull's head), 300 x 212 (211 x
     138) mm. Written in 2 columns of ca. 45 lines; frame-ruled in lead,
     prickings at corners of columns. Consecutive folios from 2 different
     quires; catchword in inner lower margin of first, quire signed (as the
     fourth) on second. Written in a large gothic cursive with many
     abbreviations; marginal notes by original and later hands. Initial, 4-
     line, red and green; headings, underlining, and initial strokes, in
     red.

          Dealer's slip in library files (dated 1926) states that the leaves
     were taken from a manuscript prepared in the Carthusian monastery at
     Buxheim, and signed by Caspar Misnensis, 1434; see Colophons v. 2, no.
     4840-42. Early provenance listed in De Ricci: sale of Graf Hugo von
     Waldbott-Bassenheim (Munich, 20 Sept. 1883, no. 2756); Charles F.
     Gunther sale (New York, 11 Nov. 1926, no. 268) to Ellner. Sold leaf by
     leaf by the Foliophiles, New York (1926, T. F. 1); folios now in Tampa,
     Fla. Public Library, no. 1 (De Ricci v. 1, p. 508) and Geneva College
     Library, Beaver Falls, Pa., no. 1 (De Ricci v. 2, p. 1984).

     13. Unidentified text, in Lat.    Italy [?], s. XV^^med

          Possibly sermons (one leaf).

          Parchment, 325 x 205 mm. Written in 2 columns of 45 lines (each
     column 232 x 70 mm.), no rulings visible. Written in highly abbreviated
     gothic cursive. Initial, 3-line, in blue with elaborate red flourishes,
     followed by a line of gothic textura, then text. Probably a pastedown;
     most of text illegible due to tears, stains, creases and mold.
     Signature in outer margin: "Samuel Johnson, 1884 [?]".

     16. Legal document, in Fr.    France, s. XVI

          Involving Nicolas Hubert, maestre Claude Hesines, Jehan Cousin and
     his sheep; probably incomplete at end.

          One strip of parchment, 68 x 320 mm. French notarial script.
     Apparently used as a binding reinforcement.

     17. Theological notes, in Lat.    Italy [?], s. XV/XVI

          Notes on the definitions of consilium, fortitudo, and
          pietas (one fragment).

          Paper (no watermarks), 90 x 80 mm. Written in 22 long lines, no
     ruling. Written in tiny gothic cursive. Creases and stains.

     27. Philosophical text, in Lat.    Germany, s. XIII^^1

          Major theme of this section of the work is voluptas (one
     fragment). Portion of text reads: Cum autem indefinitum est problema
     uno modo contingit destruere ut si dixerit uoluptatem bonum esse uel
     non bonum....

          Parchment, 127 x 40 mm. (width of written space 70 mm.). Written in
     long lines, ruled in lead, double vertical bounding lines; between
     guide-lines for text, 4 mm. Written in small early gothic bookhand,
     with later marginal notations. One 1-line red initial. Binding
     reinforcement, with remains of glue.

     28. Hours    France, s. XV^^med

          Contains part of the Penitential Psalms (one bifolium). Portions
     of Pss. 6.7-11; 31.1-4; 50.6-16.

          Parchment, 177 x 125 (101 x 62) mm. Written in 15 long lines;
     ruled in pale red ink, single horizontal and vertical bounding lines,
     full across; between guide-lines for text, 7 mm. The text shows that
     one bifolium was between these two leaves. Written in a well formed
     liturgical gothic bookhand. Initials 2- and 1-line in gold, against
     irregular blue and red grounds with white filigree, infilled red or
     blue with white or gray filigree; trailing black hairlines at corners.
     Line-fillers red or blue with white and gray filigree and gold dots or
     designs. Well preserved. Removed from Nicolaus de Hanapis' Biblia
     pauperum (Venice, 1480), which was a gift of Laurence Gilman Noyes in
     1950.

     29. Psalter    Franco-Flemish [?], s. XIII-XIV

          Contains Psalms 106.40-107.11 (one leaf).

          Parchment, 109 x 80 (74 x 54) mm. Written in 16 long lines, ruled
     in lead, single vertical bounding lines, full across; writing below top
     line; between guide-lines, 4 mm. Written in liturgical gothic bookhand.
     Original decoration: simple 2- and 1-line initials in red with blue
     penwork; 1-line initials in red or blue; helical line fillers in red
     and green. Over the 2-line initial with penwork was added, ca. 1300, a
     3-line initial in gold edged with black, against an irregular blue and
     red ground, infilled red with white filigree; ground, red, blue and
     gold with white filigree and cusped terminals, extends the full length
     of the inner margin. Much worn and darkened.

     30. Corpus Iuris Civilis    Italy, s. XIV^^1

     Digesta 46.3.36-37, 44-47 and 46.6.5-47.5; P. Krueger and T. Mommsen,
     eds., Corpus Iuris Civilis, v. 1 (Berlin, 1892) pp. 749, 750 and 759-60
     (fragment of a conjugate leaf).

          Parchment, total size 200 x 290 mm. (width of written space 107
     mm. without glosses, 180 mm. with glosses). Written in 2 columns, ruled
     in lead, double outer, single inner vertical bounding lines, with 4 mm.
     between guide-lines for text; ruling in all margins for commentary.
     Written in round gothic; tie marks are used to link text to commentary.
     Initials 3- to 2-line, blue, in margins; 1-line red initials in text;
     paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrics. Stains and holes; verso
     partly illegible due to rubbing. Probably removed from a binding.

     31. Gradual    Germany, s. XIV/XV

          Services from the first Sunday in Lent through part of the
     following Tuesday. In the margin, in red, XXIX and XXX (one bifolium,
     continuous text).

          Parchment, 275 x 198 (223 x 137) mm. Written in 10 lines of text
     with music; no ruling visible; 1 line plus 1 staff equals 22 mm.
     Written in liturgical gothic bookhand. Initials 1-line or 1-line plus 1
     staff, in red, one with a face inside; line fillers and rubrics in red.
     Black square notes on 4-line red staves. Fragment of an unidentified
     15th-century manuscript pasted on the first folio recto; remains of a
     parchment place-marker. Stained and rubbed. Probably used as flyleaves.

     33. Commentary on an unidentified Lat. legal text, in Fr.    France, s. XIV^^2

          Two fragments of parchment, 211 x 177 and 211 x 145 mm. (width of
     written space 142 mm.). Written in 2 columns; ruled in lead, single
     vertical bounding lines; between guide-lines for text, 5 mm. Written in
     rounded gothic bookhand; a few contemporary marginal notes. Lord's
     Prayer in English (s. xvi/xvii) between columns. Pen trials by one
     "Thomas". Crude 16th-century drawings of flowers in margins. Removed
     from the binding of Yale's copy of Aristotle, Ethica, ed. P. Vettori
     (Paris, 1560).

     34. Grammar Handbook    England, s. XIV^^2/4

          Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium
     and rhetorical works (23 pieces).

          Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-
     48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in
     lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of 
	an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the 
	codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a 
	binding.

     37. Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica    France, s. XIII^^1

          Portions of Historia numeri: De recessu israel a monte
          synai to
	De xii. exploratoribus, accompanied by many marginal glosses (2
     fragments).

          Parchment, each fragment 137 x 159 mm.; the 2 fragments fit
     together, with a written space 200 x 103 mm. Written in 2 columns of 52
     lines; ruled in lead, double outer and triple center vertical bounding
     lines, double horizontal bounding lines, all full across; additional
     ruling in outer margin for glosses; between guide-lines for text, 5 mm.
     Remains of prickings in outer margin. Written in early gothic bookhand,
     with very neat contemporary marginal notes. Initials 3- to 2-line in
     red or blue with blue or red penwork; 1-line initials in text red or
     blue; paragraph marks, headings and chapter numbers in red. Probably
     used as flyleaves.

     38. Giovanni Boccaccio, Filocolo    Italy, s. XIV/XV

          Contains 5.2.5 to 5.4.5 and 5.11.1 to 5.14.1 (3 fragments, the
     third without text). The text is quite close to the printed text of A.
     E. Quaglio, ed., Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio (Verona, 1967) v.
     1, pp. 551-53 and 569-71.

          Parchment; the 2 fragments with text are 335 x 210 (233 x 154) mm.
     each. Written in 2 columns of 51 lines, ruled in lead; between guide-
     lines for text, 5 mm. In a beautiful fere-humanistic script. Initials
     4-line, in blue or red, with fine elaborate penwork in red and a color
     which has completely faded out, extending full length of text column.
     Written in Tuscany (Florentine decoration?). Holes and stains;
     octagonal white paper tag with blue edging, holding "No. 333" (crossed
     out and replaced with "111"). Probably used as pastedowns. We thank D.
     Dutschke for information on the text and localization of these
     fragments.

     39. Sermon, in Lat.    England or Germany, s. XIII^^2-XIV^^1

          Portions of an unidentified sermon and a sermon for Dominica
     decima (one bifolium).

          Parchment, 165 x 270 mm. (width of written space 116 mm.). Written
     in 2 columns, ruled in lead; between guide-lines for text, 3 mm.
     Written in small gothic textura. One 4-line initial in red; remnants of
     a long red flourish; rubrics. Used as a book binding; reinforced with a
     printed text of s. XVI or later which covers the entire back of the
     parchment. Removed from a rare book in the Yale University Library.

     40. Legal document, in Lat.    Italy, s. XVI

          Subject unidentified, as much of the upper portion of the document
     is missing. Signed at bottom by "Guillermus de fonte, clericus".

          One piece of heavy parchment, 284 x 190 mm., and a very small
     fragment. Written in cursive with heavy batarde influence. Used as a
     cover; upper right corner as well as right edge of text missing, with
     charred edge. Stains, holes, and remains of glue.

     41. Legal document, in Lat.    Italy, s. XVI

          Florence is mentioned, also the date 157* [trimmed]. Subject
     unidentified, as much of the text is missing.

          Parchment, 194 x 302 mm. No ruling. Written in an untidy running
     hand. Used as a binding; creased and rubbed, with large holes.

     42. Unidentified liturgical work, in Lat.    Germany [?], s. XIII-XIV

          Includes rubrics for responses, versicles, and a sermo (2
     fragments).

          Parchment, each fragment a portion of a conjugate leaf, each 30 x
     168 mm. (width of written space 70 mm.). Written in long lines, ruled
     in lead; writing begins below top line; between guide-lines for text, 5
     mm. Written in small gothic textura. Initials (3- to 1-line), headings,
     underlining, and strokes on 1-line initials in red. Probably used as a
     binding reinforcement.

     44. Hours    France, s. XV^^med

          Contains Psalm 5. 6-13, perhaps from the Office of the Dead (one
     leaf).

          Parchment, 163 x 115 (104 x 73) mm. Written in 17 long lines,
     ruled in pale red ink, single horizontal and vertical bounding lines,
     full across; between guide-lines for text, 6 mm. Written in liturgical
     gothic bookhand. Initials, 1-line, gold against an irregular pink and
     blue ground with white filigree; line-fillers pink and blue with white
     filigree and gold. According to an unidentified printed note (from a
     bookseller?), the manuscript was found in Lyons, and its identification
     verified by La Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve of Paris. Bought in New
     York by Mrs. Arthur Greenfield; her gift to Yale in 1973.

     45. Prayers, in Armenian    Armenia, 1454

          Three prayers, including the Lord's prayer; part of a set for use
     as a talisman (3 strips).

          Paper (soft but heavy, no watermarks), each piece ca. 364 x 68 mm.
     Written in long lines on one side only, no ruling, varying number of
     lines. In a small neat script by the priest Melkiseth in 1454.
     Headpiece with palmette ornament, in yellow, red and blue. All pieces
     damaged by water. Gift of Harold S. Burr in 1963.

     46. Ecclesiastical document, in Lat.    France, s. XVI

          Precise subject unidentified; mentions Brother Robertus Guelloti,
     papal bulls and the date 148* [trimmed] (2 fragments).

          Parchment, each piece ca. 135 x 102 mm. Written in long lines on
     one side only; ruled in hard point; between guide-lines for text, 7 mm.
     In an informal batarde. Used as pastedowns; a few holes, remains of
     glue, portions of text obliterated by rubbing.

     47. Unidentified scholastic text, in Lat.    England, s. XIV^^ex

          Two fragments of parchment, each 206 x 72 mm., which fit together
     to form a single leaf measuring ca. 210 x 140 (161 x 115) mm. Written
     in 2 columns of ca. 38 lines; frame-ruled in brown ink; prickings at
     corners of the written space. Written in Anglicana bookhand with many
     abbreviations. Creased; perhaps a binding reinforcement.

     50. Sermons, in Lat. and It.    Italy, s. XV

          Short sermons on death, 2 full [?] and 2 partial (one leaf).

          Paper (unidentified watermark in upper corner, partly trimmed),
     150 x 113 (119 x 93) mm. Written in 23 long lines, not ruled. In a neat
     italic. Probably used as a flyleaf.

     52. Unidentified work, in Lat.    England, s. XIV^^1

          Possibly a sermon (one fragment).

          Parchment, 170 x 110 mm. Written in 2 columns of 36 lines (1
     column 140 x 46 mm.); ruled in lead; between guide-lines for text, 4
     mm. Written in small gothic textura (on recto); a less formal style of
     gothic, with marginal notations of s. XVI (verso). Used as a pastedown.
     Gift of James Tanis in 1965.

     53. Legal documents, in Fr.    France, s. XVI

          Subjects unidentified. One document mentions the date 1525.

          Two leaves of parchment, each ca. 555 x 441 mm. Written in 66 or
     79 long lines; one side only, no rulings. Written in 2 different hands,
     both informal batarde. Stains and remnants of paste; used as pastedowns
     and binding reinforcements.

Barbara A. Shailor