- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 46
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine.
- Description:
- Binding: modern vellum boards., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Herbals--Early works to 1800., Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herbal in prose and verse.
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 51
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing twelve long lines of verse.
- Description:
- From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
- Subject (Name):
- Robin Hood--(Legendary character)--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robin Hood.
- Creator:
- Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 59
- Image Count:
- 323
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper and parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English translation of de Chauliac's treatise on surgery and other aspects of practical medical treatment, particularly of wounds.
- Description:
- Binding: fifteenth-century blind-stamped full calf over wooden boards, rebacked; remains of later hardware. Binder's label on back pastedown: W. H. Woods & Co. / Manchester / 1879., Decoration: seven large decorated initials; numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork., Includes 5 inserted slips., Layout: double columns of 54 lines., Previously owned by Sir Thomas Nott; John Byrom; Chetham's Library, Manchester. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Script: cursive bookhand., Support: mixed. 101 paper leaves, 52 parchment leaves., and Wanting ff. 2-3. Some gaps and errors in foliation.
- Subject (Name):
- Byrom, John,--1692-1763--Ownership., Chetham's Library Ownership., Guy,--de Chauliac,--approximately 1300-1368., and Nott, Thomas,--Sir,--1606-1681.
- Subject (Topic):
- English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine, Medieval., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Surgery--Early works to 1800., and Surgery--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The inventory of chirurgy.