YALE UNIVERSITY
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Beinecke MS 1172
France, [ca. 1175-1225].
Usuard, -876 or 877, Martyrology of Usuard.
In Latin.
182 l. : parchment ; 235 x185mm.
- Material is open for research.
- Manuscript on parchment, in several hands, containing the Usuard Martyrology, with
many added marginal obituary notices of Beauvais Cathedral from the twelfth through
the early fourteenth centuries.
- Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's London sale, 2013 July 2, lot 51) on
the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
- Rubricated.
- Decoration: Rubricated. Four large ornamental initials in red penwork, including scrollwork,
geometric knotwork and animal masks.
- Endleaves reused from other manuscripts and contain notes and pen trials. Last endleaf
contains polyphonic music on a five-line stave.
- Binding: white leather over beveled boards. Spine title in a later hand: Martyrolog.
d'alia Obituarium...
- Martyrology of Usuard. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University.
Subjects:
- Usuard, -876 or 877.
- CatheĢdrale Saint-Pierre (Beauvais, France)
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Martyrologies -- Early works to 1800.
- Necrologies -- France -- Beauvais.
- Beauvais (France)
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- France -- 12th century.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- France -- 13th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.