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.
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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.
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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?
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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 (scraps, endpieces) of the Canticum canticorum, with glossa ordinaria.
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Text written in large round late caroline minuscule; commentary in a similar, but smaller script with many abbreviations.
Subject (Name):
Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon and Glossa ordinaria
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Correspondence of C. A. Dawson Scott and her daughter Marjorie Watts. The bulk of the letters from Dawson Scott to her daughter date from 1920 to 1921. The lengthy letters, written in diary form, contain details of Dawson Scott's divorce, her writing, the Tomorrow Club, the founding of the P.E.N Club, and news and discussion of her literary associates. Later letters to her sister Nellie (Ellen Maude Dawson) include mention of the Survival League. There are letters to Dawson Scott from Karel Capek, E. M. Delafield, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, and Rebecca West. Manuscript copies of two poems, "The Forest Road" and "The Pedlar" by Charlotte Mew, presumably were enclosed with letters from Mew. Letters to Marjorie Watts, many of them concerning her 1971 book about her mother and the early years of PEN, are written by E. M. Delafield, Storm Jameson, Francis King, Robert Neumann, and Rebecca West.
Subject (Name):
Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--20th century--Archives and Women authors--England.
Manuscript on parchment (single leaf) of 1) Last article of an unrecorded Capitulary, probably from the beginning of the reign of emperor Louis the Pious (814-840). 2) Capitula adhuc conferenda, i.e. Memorandum for a Capitulary, ca. 819 (?). This is a list of 18 questions to be discussed in view of a planned new Capitulary.
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“Cap. XV” in art. 1 is written in Uncialis in red ink, and the opening letter V, in the same colour, is a 2-line initial. In art. 2 all the opening capitals (D, Q, S or U) are said to be likewise red, but their colour is hardly distinguishable from the colour of the text., Script: Copied by one hand writing Carolingian script., and The fragment was perhaps the final leaf of a codex, which would explain the smudges and offsets visible on the verso.
Subject (Name):
Louis--I,--Emperor,--778-840
Subject (Topic):
Franks--History--814-843, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian, was born on July 28, 1820 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War and as a government official in the Territory of New Mexico (1853-1857)
2 of 2 folders completely digitized. and The collection contains typescripts of four undated novels by Aleta B. Baker: Captive Amid the Astral: A Romance (355 pages); The Double Bridal (366 pages); The Mysterious Opal Globe: A Mystical Romance (67 pages); and Rathbone, Son of the Sun: A Romance of Reincarnation (287 pages).
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Aleta Blanche Baker, American author, was born in Maine in 1880, and died in Miami, Florida, on January 19, 1943. Baker was the founding director of the Order of the Portal, a Christian occultist group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924 she married Leslie Talbot Baker (born 1875), who earned both his AB (1900) and MD (1906) degrees from Harvard University., Box 1 contains manuscripts; Box 2 contains the original boxes that held the manuscripts., and Purchased from Ian Brabner on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century and Occultism--United States