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- Published / Created:
- ca. 16th c.?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century.
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Container marked: 29, and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Passion--Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Religious poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi Roll
- Published / Created:
- ca. 16th c.?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century.
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Container marked: 28, and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Passion--Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Religious poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi Rolls
4.
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1240-approximately 1250.
- Call Number:
- Osborn a73
- Image Count:
- 716
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
- Description:
- In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bible
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1390-1420
- Call Number:
- Osborn a44
- Image Count:
- 483
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The manuscript contains a book of hours, use of Sarum (ff. 1-138v), and a Missal (ff. 139r-236v). It was produced in England, in liturgical Gothic bookhand on vellum, in two phases. The first section, consisting of quires 1 and 3-18 (ff. 1-6, 17-83, and 86-137), was produced around 1390, perhaps in London. Around 1420 the manuscript was augmented with a second section, consisting of quires 2 and 19-31 (ff. 7-16, 84-85, and 138-236).
- Alternative Title:
- Book of Hours
- Description:
- Binding: early nineteenth-century English calf over carved wooden boards, blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked with spine laid on; gilt edges with traces of painted landscape., Decoration includes thirty-two historiated initials and three half-page miniatures (f.11v, the martyrdom of St. Elmo (St. Erasmus); 109v, Christ at the Tomb, surrounded by the instruments of His passion; f. 118r, the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St. John)., Modern paper binder's blanks (2 l.) at end not digitized., Peyton coat of arms gilt on covers., and Seventeenth-century coat of arms on flyleaf and on f. 139r (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a castle or, 2 and 3, gules 2 foxes or).
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours, Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Missal, and Peyton family--Coat of arms
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sarum Rite
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours and missal, [circa 1390-1420]
- Published / Created:
- 1584 October 8
- Call Number:
- Osborn a3
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Cursive bookhand script of the late 16th century. Title page illustrated with columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription ""Christ adsit et praesit,"" and signed by I. S. Bound in thick vellum, with mathematical calculations on back c and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated October 8, 1584. It includes psalms arranged as 66 prayers in prose, songs in praise of Christ's birth and the Lord's supper, metrical versions of 66 psalms by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, and "an exhortation unto ye praise of God to be songe before morning and evening praier."
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: thick vellum; mathematical calculations on back cover., Illustration on title page of columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription "Christ adsit et praesit," and signed by T. S., On f. 152r, Rose Silvester signed it as her book on July 5, 1649. Next follows the signature of William Silvester and the inscription "his booke and hee that Steles him shall bee hanged upon a hoke as hie as William Silvester can looke.", On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673., On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673. On folio 151v, after the exhortation, two hands repeat the last four lines, dated 1649, one by Rose Silvester. On 152r, Rose Silvester signs it, and Watermark: pot, Briquet 12725 (Bruges, 1581).
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Certaine prayers out of the Psalmes, for divers purposes
- Creator:
- Cockerell, Douglas, binder
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa1
- Image Count:
- 402
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
- Description:
- Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio Amantis (Middle English poem)
- Creator:
- Colman, Morgan
- Published / Created:
- 1592.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa56
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 91
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript, signed, of a highly decorated and illustrated genealogy of the rulers of England from Egbert of Wessex to Queen Elizabeth I. The genealogical trees are illustrated with coats of arms, in full color, as well as marriage symbols and other decorations. Pages 13-14 and 33-34 are parchment rather than paper and contain an abbreviated and stylized family tree for Elizabeth I; color illustrations of an angelic figure with a trumpet and an armored knight; and a full-color chart with the white and red roses of York and Lancaster as the central roundel containing the name of Elizabeth I. The charts are followed by "Briefe observations of the disposition, of everie severall kynge of England from William the Conqueror untill this present 1592." The text concludes with Colman's monogram in red ink. The volume concludes with a full-color illustration of the coat of arms of Sir Francis Bacon
- Description:
- In English., Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: H. Crofts., Bookplate: Sir John Saunders Seabright., Script: English secretary script., Decoration: numerous illustrations of coats of arms and other genealogical decorations. Full-page, full-color illustrations on pages 13-14 and page 34., Title from spine., and Binding: eighteenth-century half russia, gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. and Colman, Morgan.
- Subject (Topic):
- Heraldry, Kings and rulers, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Genealogies of the kings of England
- Creator:
- Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1459]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa54
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 335
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, containing the complete text of Richard Rolle's De emendatione vitae. This is followed by a complitation of extracts from texts mainly by Rolle, including portions of the Incendium amoris and the Melum and a passage from the Speculum peccatoris of Pseudo-Augustine. Followed by Thomas Fishlake's Latin translation of both books of Walter Hilton's The Scale of Perfection. William Jordaen's Latin translation of Willem Ruusbroec's van den blinckenden Steen appears between Books 1 and 2 of the Hilton
- Alternative Title:
- De Emendatione vitae and other works
- Description:
- In Latin., With: multiple entries on front and back flyleaves in Latin and English containing notes on the family history of various members of the Heneage family, 1528-1820 and undated. Also 6 pages of similar notes, laid in., With: two horoscopes on back flyleaves for Michael Heneage, 1532 March 28., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: anglicana., Decoration: two full-page borders accompanied by three-line foliate initials on a gold ground (ff.1, 40); three three-sided borders (ff.32, 35, 92v), four- and five-line initials in gold on a ground of blue and red with white ornament and leafy sprays extending into the margin (ff.20v, 90v, 92v), one three-line foliate initial on a gold ground with extensions forming a two-sided border (f.81), two-line and three-line initials alternately in gold with blue penwork, or blue with red penwork, usually forming reserved leafy designs within the body of the initial and extending up and down the left margin, one- to six-line paraphs in the text and margins alternately gold with blue penwork or blue with red penwork,, and Binding: contemporary white doeskin over cushioned boards, sewn on six double bands; remains of two clasps including nails. Lower edge of leaves inscribed "hylton" in a contemporary hand. Center of upper board inscribed with a capital E and W-B in a nineteenth century hand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Heneage family. and Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), Translations into Latin, Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Translations from English (Middle)., Manuscripts, Medieval, Mysticism, Catholic Church, and Spiritual life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hic incipiunt duodecim capitula secundum Ricardum de Hampole
- Creator:
- Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
- Published / Created:
- circa 1225-1249.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa75
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 322
- Abstract:
- Manuscript volume, on paper, containing the complete text of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica, with marginal glosses and later annotations. This work is preceded in the volume by the Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi of Peter of Poitiers, with complex genealogical diagrams in color. It is followed by the Prophesies of Pseudo-Methodius and the Allegoriae of Hugh of St. Victor
- Description:
- In Latin., Two original flyleaves. Manuscript preceded by three paper leaves to which bibliographical and historical notes about the texts contained in the volume have been affixed., Script: small gothic book script., Decoration: chapter headings in red; red and blue penwork initials., and Binding: twentieth-century full red morocco.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ and Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.
- Subject (Topic):
- Genealogy, History Bibles, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia scholastica, with other works