Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing four of the Canterbury tales: the Clerk's tale; the Wife of Bath's tale; the Friar's tale; and the Summoner's tale.
Description:
Annotated on f. 78 with the names "William Cooke" and "Morris Barckley.", Binding: eighteenth-century full paneled calf, gilt., Byname: Sion College Chaucer., Decoration: six initials in red., From the collections of Henry R. Grissil; William Cooke; Sir Maurice Berkeley. Ex libris Sion College Library. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Library stamp: Sion College., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400. and Sion College. Library Stamp.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the text of Chaucer's Canterbury tales; selections from the Confessio amantis of John Gower; and the anonymous poems Speculum misericordis, The adulterous Falmouth squire, Partenope of Blois, The vision of Tundale, and The gast of Guy.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco., Byname: Delamere Chaucer., Decoration: blue and red penwork initials., Ex libris Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron Delamere; Boies Penrose. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 39-44 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Narrative po
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco., Bookplate: Chatsworth., Byname: Devonshire Chaucer., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., From the collections of Sir Edmund Knyvett; John Walpole; Thomas Skarlet; Sir Henry Spelman; Hamon L'Estrange; George Mason; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe; William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and his descendants. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400., Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret., and Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper, incomplete, containing a catalogue of acts of Parliament from approximately 1488 to 1610 ("septimo Jacobi Reg."). Formerly part of a larger volume; the leaves are numbered 280-370.
Description:
Binding: disbound., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: secretary script.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Session laws--England--
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a choir breviary, containing part of the offices for Epiphany.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in blue with red penwork. Large illuminated initial "A" with full border on verso, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 51 lines., Musical notation on four-line red staves., References to Thomas Becket struck through on verso., and Script: gothic liturgical hand.
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Musical notation--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
"AA" (otherwise unidentified). Formerly owned by Louis-Jean Gaignat. Formerly owned by Louis de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière. Formerly owned by Abbé Lecuy. Formerly owned by Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Park). Ex libris Maurice Burrus. Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017., Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti., Byname: Clumber Park Chartier., Contents: Le quadrilogue invectif (1r-17r) -- Les complaintes des quatre dames (Le livre des quatre dames) (18r-38v) -- Lay de paix (39r-40v) -- Le livre d'esperance (41r-83r) -- Le breviaire des nobles (83r-86v) -- copy the rest from the thing in EC folder) get the format for the note from DCRMMSS and AMREMM, and Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.
Subject (Name):
Burrus, Maurice--Bookplate., Caulier, Achille., Chartier, Alain,--active 15th century., Dunois Master,--active 1430-1465., Ferrell, Elizabeth E, Ferrell, James K.--Ownership., Gaignat, Louis Jean,--1697-1768, Granson, Oton de,---1397., Gréban, Simon,---approximately 1473., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780, Lecuy, Abbé., Newcastle, Henry Pelham,--Duke of,--1811-1864, and Taillevent,--approximately 1315-1395.
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500., French poetry--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript leaves, on parchment, in a single hand, from a text of Terence's Comedies.
Description:
Attributed to the Florentine scribe "Messer Marco" (Giovanni d'Astore?)., Decoration: initials in blue ink., From a manuscript previously owned by Otto Ege. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30 lines., and Script: humanist script.
Subject (Name):
Terence.
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.