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

Volume I: Manuscripts 1-250
Volume II: Manuscripts 251-500
Volume III: Marston Manuscripts

Publisher's Note

"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, this three volume reference work describes nearly 750 literary manuscripts from the holdings of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Each volume describes the contents of each codex or manuscript fragment, including incipits and explicits, parchment or watermarks, foliation, dimensions, collation, scribes, scripts, decoration, binding and provenance. Each volume contains 64 pages of plates as well as extensive indices, all relating to medieval and renaissance literature.

The collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts preserved in the the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, is one of the major holdings in the United States. Although Yale University has been acquiring early manuscripts since 1714 when Elihu Yale presented a copy of Speculum Humanae Salvationis, the collection at the Beinecke is a relatively new one, with many manuscripts purchased in the 1960's and 1970's. Volumes I & II describe these manuscripts including the Albergati Bible, the Rothschild Canticles, many Books of Hours, Arthurian Romances and the Ziskind Collection. Most are not listed in De Ricci. Volume III covers the collection of manuscripts assembled by Thomas E Marston and acquired by Yale University in 1962.

Volume I: Manuscripts 1-250
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Volume II: Manuscripts 251-500
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Volume III: Marston Manuscripts
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