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19. Peace treaties and covenants between England and France, [ca.1515-1528].
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1515-1528]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 697
- Image Count:
- 209
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of peace treaties and other documents
- Description:
- Script: copied by four scribes. and Binding: original undecorated limp parchment binding.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., France, Great Britain., Great Britain, and France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval, Treaties, Foreign relations, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Peace treaties and covenants between England and France, [ca.1515-1528].
20. Satirae I-IV.
- Creator:
- Juvenal
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1650]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 74
- Image Count:
- 43
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (watermarks: trimmed and buried in gutter) of Juvenal, Satirae I-IV, in the English translation of Jo Billinge and Sir Thomas Hewitt. The text of the translation is accompanied by Latin footnotes, some drawn from the scholia uetustiora
- Description:
- In English., Written by a single scribe in a neat running hand., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled calf.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Juvenal.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Satirae I-IV.
21. Statuta collegii reginalis, etc
- Published / Created:
- 1704.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 11
- Image Count:
- 228
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (no watermarks) of the Statutes of Queens College Cambridge. With an Epistle from Queen Elizabeth I dated 1570; the Academic Statutes of the University of Cambridge; and Interpretations of these statutes
- Description:
- In Latin and English., Script: Written by a certain Langwith according to a note on f. i recto; a fine calligraphic italic hand., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Written upside down in a brown calf, blind-tooled, ready-made blank book. Split along spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. and Queens' College (University of Cambridge)
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Statutes
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statuta collegii reginalis, etc
22. The Lyfe of Sir Thomas More knighte
- Creator:
- Roper, William, 1496-1578
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1625]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 363
- Image Count:
- 166
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of The Life, Araignment, and Death, of the famous learned, Sir Thomas More Knight: Somtymes Lord Chauncellor of England. On f. iii verso, engraving of Sir Thomas More, half-length, to right, standing, pointing to scroll in right hand
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: Heawood, Coat of Arms 481., Script: Written in neat chancery script., Illuminated title-page, f. iii recto: double blue frame with sprigs of berries and leaves on both sides and gilt designs above and below. Gold initial on f. 1r marks the beginning of text., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Part of a book rebound in limp vellum, gold-tooled, with holes for two ties.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. and Roper, William, 1496-1578.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Lyfe of Sir Thomas More knighte
23. The Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ, etc
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450, between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 535
- Image Count:
- 302
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends incomplete in I.4. Part II: The Thirty-Nine Articles (doctrinal formulas accepted by the Church of England), articles 1-19 only, in diagram form, all pages being organized in three sections titled "the truth", "the creed", and "errors".
- Alternative Title:
- Meditationes vitae Christi. English
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., Majuscules are heightened in red (?) up to f. 8v. Red paragraph marks (?). Plain red 2- to 4-line initials. A 4-line red (?) flourished initial with rather coarse penwork in (?), including a human head and a fish, on f. 1r., and Two parchment fly-leaves of the original binding are inserted after f. 100: they have been taken from a 13th-century manuscript and contain fragments of Codex Iustiniani, VI.3.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Church of England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ, etc
24. The fawkners' glasse
- Published / Created:
- [between 1590 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 100
- Image Count:
- 58
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of The Fawkners' Glasse
- Description:
- In English., Script: Articles 1 and 2 written by a single person in a careful secretary script; other items added by several contemporary and later hands., One loose leaf, presently tipped in between ff. 1 and 2, has pen and ink sketch of falconer, with bird and dog. Inscription above drawing: "Lorde let me not, in Vanitie/Delight more, then I should in thee.", and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp vellum case with title lettered on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Falconry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fawkners' glasse
25. The jewell of artes
- Creator:
- Waymouth, George
- Published / Created:
- 1603-1604.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 565
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 1173
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of George Waymouth (fl. 1587-1611), The jewell of artes, an unfinished technical handbook of navigation, inventions, fortifications, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting of short textual parts and extremely numerous full-page technical drawings and diagrams of high quality
- Description:
- About the author, a somewhat mysterious navigator, scholar and engineer, see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, v. 51 (2004), pp. 777-778. He returned in 1602 from his unsuccesful expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, presented the King in 1604 with two versions of his treatise The Jewell of Artes and undertook in 1605 a new expedition to the American East coast, landing in Maine., In English., Script: Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., and Binding: Original armorial (rebacked). Brown calf over cardboard, both covers gold-tooled with a seme pattern of flowerets, corner pieces and a central piece with the arms of King James I. Spine with six raised bands and red title-label with inscription "JEWELL OF ARTES".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Waymouth, George.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Navigation
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The jewell of artes
26. The ordinal of alchemy
- Creator:
- Norton, Thomas, active 1477
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1610]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 46
- Image Count:
- 149
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in English verse with a Latin verse prologue of Thomas Norton of Bristol's Ordinall of Alchemy, written in 1477
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Script: Written by a single English hand writing a very fine and regular italic sloping to the right., No color, no illustration., Watermark: arms of Austria with the golden fleece, similar to Briquet 2291., and Binding: Original English binding of white, limp parchment, the covers blocked in gold with the armorial stamp employed by Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland: the badge of the Percy house, the white or crescent moon, within the representation of the garter, surmounted by an earl's coronet; fore-edges of each cover with overhanging flaps and with remains of two original green linin ties; flat back with four thongs used in the sewing-in exposed at regular intervals on each side of the backstrip, with traces of original lettering at head of backstrip now illegible, later writing in old style below probably the work of a modern repairer, possibly covering an original inscription; plain edges; a strip of parchment, cut from a manuscript in Latin, ca. 1100, is visible surrounding the back of the quires of the manuscript, used in the sewing-in, with writing visible at the front of the volume only.
- Subject (Name):
- Norton, Thomas, active 1477.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and English poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The ordinal of alchemy