CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BEINECKE RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY

Volume I: Manuscripts 1-250

“One of the best manuscript catalogs ever published…This is an excellent piece of scholarship – knowledgeably and carefully written and beautifully produced.”
Philip Rider
American Reference Books Annual

• Edited by Barbara Shailor, Volume I of this reference work describes 250 literary manuscripts from the holdings of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• The volume describes the contents of each codex or manuscript fragment, including incipits and explicits, parchments or watermarks, foliation, dimensions, collation, scribes, scripts, decoration, binding and provenance.
• This volume contains 33 pages of illustrative plates as well as extensive indices, all relating to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Amongst the items catalogued in Volume I are:

• Cicero’s Tusculanae disputationes, written in Italy in the first half of the 15th century (MS 152).
• A bible written in Southern France at the beginning of the 14th century (MS 83).
• Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, written in about 1229 for the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Quentin in Northeastern France (MS 214).
• A French translation of Caesar’s Gallic Wars (MS 226).
• Lavishly illustrated Arthurian Romances (MS 227 and 229)