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

Volume II: Manuscripts 251-500

“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 II of this reference work describes a further 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 64 pages of illustrative plates as well as extensive indices, all relating to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Amongst the items catalogued in Volume II are:

• A fifteenth century commonplace book named the Book of Brome (MS 365).
• The Rothschild Canticles (MS 404).
• The elaborate Heures de Savoie (MS 390). 
•  Album of 105 watercolour drawings of Italian costumes and scenes of daily life, Venice 1575 (MS 457).
• Book of Hours produced in the Netherlands, c1475 (MS 434).
• The richly decorated Albergoti Bible written in Italy in 1428 (MS 407).
• The capitularies of Charlemagne, his son Louis the Pious, and Charles the Bald (MS 413).
• Book of Hours written near Lyons at around the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century (MS 435).
• Documents relating to Christopher Columbus (MS 430 and 431)