11/17/2023 0 Comments Illuminated text examples![]() ![]() ![]() Records for these can be found in Orbis, the Yale University Library’s online catalog. In addition to its manuscript holdings, the Beinecke Library holds extensive collections of incunabula, or early printed books. Images can be searched by way of the “Search within this collection” box on the upper-left corner of this page and through the Library’s Digital Images database. The Beinecke Library is actively scanning its medieval and Renaissance holdings. The Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Catalog also contains records for manuscripts in the Mellon Alchemical Collection as well as short descriptions of manuscripts acquired by the Library since the publication of the Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. ![]() Commonly used abbreviations are available here (pdf, 5 p.) and the Introduction, by Barbara Shailor, can be downloaded here (pdf, 8 p.). The full-text of these catalogues can be searched in the Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Catalog. The manuscript collections have been described extensively in the Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, volumes 1-3 of which were edited by Barbara Shailor, and volume 4 of which was edited by Robert Babcock, Lisa Davis, and Philip Rusche. The systematic collecting of medieval manuscripts at Yale, however, dates from the late nineteenth century, and the most active period for collecting was after 1930. An illustrated copy of the Speculum humanae salvationis, it attracted the special attention of Yale President Ezra Stiles, who read the manuscript and annotated it in the 1790s. The first medieval manuscript recorded in the Yale collection was acquired in 1714, and was the gift of Elihu Yale. The Beinecke Library’s Medieval and Renaissance collections document the history of human thought from the Byzantine era through 1600. ![]()
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