- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 9
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork., Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas., Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read., Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11., and Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrolabes, English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A treatise on the astrolabe
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- Creator:
- Rolfe, John, 1585-1622
- Published / Created:
- 1616.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 567
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of John Rolfe (1585-1622), A true relation of the state of Virginia, autograph manuscript
- Description:
- The author, best known for his part in the colonization of Virginia under the governorship of Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619) and his marriage to the Indian princess Pocahontas (d. 1617), wrote this account after his return to England in 1616 to show the suitability of Virginia for colonization., In English., Script: Written in Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., The acidity of the ink has damaged the paper., and Binding: Original paper wrappers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Virginia
- Subject (Name):
- Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A true relation of the state of Virginia
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 12
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 460
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the "extended version" of the Brut Chronicle
- Alternative Title:
- Chronicles of England
- Description:
- In Middle English., First leaf and end of text lacking., Layout: single columns with varying numbers of lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. Later leather title tags on spine, gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 140
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing portions of chapters 214 and 221 of the Middle English prose Brut
- Description:
- In Middle English., Marginal note indicates that these two leaves served as a wrapper for a copy of Gabriel Harvey's The trimming of Thomas Nashe., Layout: single-column, 29-32 lines., Script: secretary., and Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle (fragment)
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 323
- Image Count:
- 332
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick) of 1) Notes on the baronial Clare family of Gloucester, in chart format, from a manuscript contemporary with or slightly earlier than the main text (art. 3). Name of the appropriate King of England appears on the left in a red circle [concludes with King Edward IV, 1327-77], and a short history of certain members of the Clare family are added on the right. 2) Genealogical tree, added between 1450 and 1500, establishing the claims of King Edward IV (1461-83) to the kingdoms of England, France, Castile and Leon. 3) Brut Chronicle, up to 1419, but the final leaf of text has been torn out
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in neat Anglicana formata. Running titles and marginal notes added by later hands., Illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 1r, pink on gold ground, with blue, green, and pink acanthus leaves, and white highlights; full bar-border with swirling acanthus leaves in same colors as for initial; black hair-spray in outer margins. Heading and chapter numbers in red. Small initials, 2-line, blue with red flourishes, for most chapters. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue., Parchment is well thumbed and worn, especially f. 1r; some loss of text., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled, with a brick-colored, gold-tooled label, probably a later addition.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Clare family. and Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 494
- Image Count:
- 219
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Brut Chronicle to 1333, the earliest stage of the Middle English text
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written by at least two scribes in neat Anglicana formata., Plain initials, 9- to 2-line, in blue, throughout text. Headings and chapter numbers in red, with blue spiral line-fillers. Paragraph marks for headings in blue, for text in blue or red. Remains of guide-letters for rubricator., Parchment is stained and worn; some portions of text illegible., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original wound, caught up sewing on four tawed, slit straps. Boards made of bifolios of vellum with a piece of leather wrapped around them, but not covering the spine. Sewing breaking.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc
- Creator:
- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
- Published / Created:
- [after 1464]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 6
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 261
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the "second version" of John Hardyng's Chronicle. While the manuscript has lost perhaps 36 leaves from the beginning of the work, it is textually complete from the reign of Vortigern on. There is a final entry referring to Elizabeth Woodville as the queen of Edward IV. The final leaves of the volume contain an anonymous sixteenth-century poem, A lamentable complaint of our saviour Christ; an eighteen-line carol in Middle English which begins "By resone of ii and power of one;" and a page of notes in a single sixteenth-century hand on executions at Smithfield in London between 1531 and 1534
- Description:
- In Middle English., Ownership inscription of "John Ravell" at the end of the Chronicles text, along with other notes., Layout: single columns of approximately 42 lines., Script: English bookhand., Binding: seventeenth-century full calf. Red leather spine tag, gilt: "M. S. Hist: of England / From Vortvmrk to Edw. 4.", and Previous shelfmark: MS. L. J. I. 10.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicles of England
- Creator:
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 815]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 401
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 32
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of portions of Saint Aldhelm, De laude virginitatis, copied probably in Canterbury or Worcester. With glosses in Anglo-Saxon added between 950 and 1000, which may be of Kentish origin
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Written by two scribes, Scribe 1, ff. 1r-9v: a vigorous and well spaced Anglo-Saxon minuscule; preference for minuscule d; strokes of letters often extend well into margin at end of line. Scribe 2, ff. 10r-26v: slightly cramped hand; preference for uncial d. Anglo-Saxon glosses added by several hands either in small upward-leaning Caroline minuscule or in a somewhat larger script that uses insular letter-forms., Decorative initials, 5- to 2-line, in black surrounded by red dots; smaller initials, 2- to 1-line, in red, often with traces of yellow. Letters, stroked with red, many now oxidized; occasional punctuation in red., Folios 8, 9, and 22 have been used as wrappers; mutilated with loss of text. Significant water damage on ff. 19r-20v, 26r; rewritten by later scribe., and Binding: ca. 1850. Olive paper case with "Middle Hill boards," bound by George Bretherton of Gloucester who worked for Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1848-51.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De laude virginitatis
- Creator:
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709
- Published / Created:
- [between 800 and 815]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 401A
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on parchment bifolium. Conjugate leaves originally from the same manuscript as Beinecke MS 401. Stitching holes in center of bifolium; outer margins trimmed with some loss of text
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., For the script see MS 401; MS 401A was written by Scribe 2., and Decorative T on f. 2r, black initial surrounded by red dots.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Aldhelm, Saint, 640?-709.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)., English literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De laude virginitatis
10.
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1222
- Image Count:
- 317
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, of this narrative poem by John Lydgate. The text was almost certainly originally complete but now lacks the Prologue and the opening stanzas of Book I, opening at the line "For to be crowned in that regeous" and lacking the final few leaves of text as well. There is also a textual lacuna between f92v and f93r, Contemporary textual corrections and insertions marked by red crosses. Occasional pen trials and names in contemporary hands, and Autograph letter signed from Frederic Madden to Lord Braybrooke, 1840 March 9, tipped in at front of volume. The letter contains a description of the manuscript and advises that it be rebound while preserving the initials of Mary Sidney
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: anglicana and secretary; in the hands of at least two scribes., Decoration: initials in red and blue, some with marginal scroll decoration., Layout: 56 lines in two columns, 15 stanzas per page. Catchwords., and Binding: 19th-century calf over wood, covers inlaid with fragment of 16th-century binding preseving the initials "M.S." (Mary Sidney).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fall of princes