Postilla super psalterium; Postilla super libros prophetorum

Creator:

Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349, creator

Published/Created:

England
ca. 1430

Physical Description:

ff. ii + 272 + ii : parchment ; 495 x 360 (357 x 234) mm.

Materials:

parchment

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/ms640.pdf

Notes:

Manuscript on parchment written in late gothic bookhand.
Illuminated initials in red, purple, blue, and gold leaf. Elaborate marginal vine-and-floral ornamentation at beginnings of chapters in red, blue, green, brown, and gold leaf. Occasional multi-colored diagrams. Traces of indexing tabs on the first leaf of every book.
Binding: Modern parchment over boards. With embossed floral border in blue ink and a central embossed design of an interlocking lozenge and rectangle in red and black with floral ornamentation in gold and blue. Red leather labels on spine with embossed gold letters reading: Explicationes
Prophetarum and Nicholas de Hira
Illuminated MS
Nicholas of Lyra, Postilla Super Psalterium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Christie's (NY) Catalog, 8 Dec 1982; Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge: 1856; reprinted Munich: 1980), vol. 1, nos. 415-419, pp. 327-328 (other mss. in the series); Barbara Shailor, A New Manuscript of Nicolaus de Lyra, Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 58 (Oct 1983), pp. 9-16.

Topics:

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Topics:

of Lyra, Nicholas, ca. 1270-1349

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Decorated initials
Diagrams
Manuscripts, Medieval
Miniatures (Illuminations)

Format:

Mixed Material

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 640

Orbis Record:

9614690

Orbis Barcode:

39002104687398

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

11188093

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

9998921

PID:

digcoll:3702467