Manuscript, on vellum, incomplete, in a single hand, of John Lydgate's and Benedict Burgh's Middle English verse translation of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum Secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also contains several prose pieces in Middle English and Latin, including one with illustrated diagrams and a Latin tract on the interpretation of dreams.
Description:
Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case., Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: various single-column., Script: English bookhand., Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand., and Signature of John Bonen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand.
Subject (Name):
Burgh, Benedict. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
Astrology--Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Medieval., Astronomy--Early works to 1800., Education of princes--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine, Medieval., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Illuminated manuscript, on vellum, of the Sextus liber decretalium, with the commentary of a Johannes Andreae.
Description:
Bifolium formerly used as an archival wrapper., Binding: modern boards., Decoration: two historiated initials against burnished gold., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., L1r contains a pecia copyist's notation: "F xviii.", Layout: Principal text in double columns of up to 30 lines; surrounding commentary in 89 lines., and Script: rounded gothic (two sizes).
Subject (Name):
Boniface--VIII,--Pope,---1303.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century morocco., Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., and Script: written in an English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Clergy--Early works to 1800., Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Foyle, William Alfred,--1885---Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--Early works to 1800., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Ma
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings.
Description:
Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., Foliation provided by cataloger., Formerly owned by William Elwys; Edward Bennett; T. Butler; Colin Franklin. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., and Script: several secretary scripts.
Subject (Name):
Elwys, William--Autograph., England.--Parliament., and Franklin, Colin--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment of a bifolium, containing part of the text the Summa theologica, II. ii, Quaestiones 20-21 and 24, v-ix.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork., Fragment recovered from a binding; damaged and incomplete., Layout: double columns of 54 lines each., Phillipps MS 30945. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership. and Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on paper of Petrarch, Trionfi (ff. 1r-47r), and Dati, Sfera (48r-76r).
Alternative Title:
Sfera.
Description:
Binding: contemporary, blind-tolled calfskin over wooden boards, sewn on three double thongs. Both covers decorated with a frame and lozenge design. The remains of two brass clasps extant on the front cover., Decoration: In art. 1, space reserved for, but unfilled with, headings between all trionfi; but each trionfo opens with a 3-line blue plain capital. Space similarly reserved for, but unfilled with, headings in art. 2; but also 2- or 3-line blue capitals., Purchased in July 2001 from a private collector on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: copied by two hands both writing Humanistica Cursiva: A, ff. 1r-47r (art. 1); B, ff. 48r-76r (art. 2), in a smaller handwriting.
Subject (Name):
Dati, Gregorio, 1362-1436. and Dati, Leonardo, d. 1425.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, from an unidentified work on Church rites.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 35 lines., and Script: protogothic.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript bifolium, on parchment, containing portions of the lives of saints Nazarius, Celsus, Abdon, and Sennen from the Vitae sanctorum.
Description:
Fragment removed from a binding., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 32 lines., and Script: late Carolingian.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Saints--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of a writ issued in the name of King Henry V of England for the recovery of lands unlawfully entered into, citing acts of Parliament in Westminster, 31 October 1391 and 1420-1421.
Description:
From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Issued at Westminster. Endorsed by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, as Regent of England., Layout: single column of 42 lines., and Script: secretary-influenced Anglicana script.
Subject (Name):
Henry--V,--King of England,--1387-1422. and Humphrey,--Duke of Gloucester,--1391-1447.
Subject (Topic):
Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800., Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Writs--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.