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1. A true relation of the state of Virginia
- Creator:
- Rolfe, John, 1585-1622
- Published / Created:
- 1616.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 567
- Image Count:
- 22
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of John Rolfe (1585-1622), A true relation of the state of Virginia, autograph manuscript
- Description:
- The author, best known for his part in the colonization of Virginia under the governorship of Sir Thomas Dale (d. 1619) and his marriage to the Indian princess Pocahontas (d. 1617), wrote this account after his return to England in 1616 to show the suitability of Virginia for colonization., In English., Script: Written in Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., The acidity of the ink has damaged the paper., and Binding: Original paper wrappers.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Virginia
- Subject (Name):
- Rolfe, John, 1585-1622.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A true relation of the state of Virginia
2. Account book
- Creator:
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622
- Published / Created:
- 1576-1579/80.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 195
- Image Count:
- 87
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper tablet of Account book, being a record of Stiffkey mill belonging to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622) for the time period 8 December 1576-1579/80. Contains weekly statements of George Brigges, John Wilson, Thomas Shorten, William Fether, Robert Merkyn, and Henry Corye
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written by several individuals in informal cursive scripts., Most folios are wrinkled, torn; some have been mended., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half green goatskin with green cloth sides, gold- and blind-tooled. Leaves of a didactic theological text (Germany, ca. 1250) bound at beginning and end; probably a bifolium. Parchment; 291 x 196 (220 x 155) mm. Written above top line in a small gothic bookhand. Initials in red or green with penwork designs of the other color. Stained, but with little loss of text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book
3. Astrological treatise, [circa 1575-1600].
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa7
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in cursive script, produced in England during the late sixteenth century and The text claims to be the Book of Virtue which the Angel Raphael gave to Adam, with Solomon's Hebrew additions. The work consists of seven treatises: 1) Clavis, 2) virtues of stones, herbs and beasts, 3) Tractatus thimiamatum, 4) Treatise of time, 5) Treatise of Cleanness, 6) Samaym, and 7) Book of Virtue
- Description:
- In English., Includes two staffs of music on f. 1r., Incipit: "In the name of allmyghtie God livinge trewe & everlasting and without all end, wch ys said Cephar razyell with all his portenaunce in wch be 7 treatises complete.", With astrological signs in margins., and Binding: limp vellum.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology and Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astrological treatise, [circa 1575-1600].
4. Attainder of Lord Cromwell
- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 40
- Image Count:
- 24
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a later copy of the Act of Attainder of Thomas Cromwell
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: similar to Heawood 348., Script: Written in a neat cursive script by one scribe., and Unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540. and Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
- Subject (Topic):
- Attainder, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Attainder of Lord Cromwell
5. Book of arms
- Creator:
- Dethick, Gilbert, Sir
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1564]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 97
- Image Count:
- 134
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick and furry) of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Book of Arms. Illustrations of coats of arms, in color, one per folio recto or verso; above each except the first, the name of the bearer, as given below. No mottoes given. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I of England (1558-1603).
- Description:
- In English., Script: Introduction and labels of illustrations in cursive with loops, by one scribe., Each shield enclosed in shaded pink border designed to look like worked metal, and surmounted by a jousting helm in profile, mantling gules doubled argent with gold tassels; wreath in colors from shield. Only shields (in up to 17 quarters) and crests vary. Slight variations from this scheme on f. 2r (royal arms) and f. 3r (mantling sable doubled argent). Fair quality of workmanship., Bookblock detached from the binding. Illustration badly smeared on f. 11r, slightly smeared f. 28r., and Binding: ca. 1873. Gold-stamped red goatskin case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Dethick, Gilbert, Sir. and Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devices (Heraldry), Heraldry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of arms
6. Bouche of courte
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1571]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 610
- Image Count:
- 194
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. The documents in this archival register cover the period from King Henry VIII (1509-1547) through Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603).
- Description:
- In English., Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., and Binding: Limp vellum with remains of leather ties. Preserved in a modern cardboard folder covered with paper decorated with vertical red and purple stripes. On the brown leather spine the gold-tooled inscription: "KING HENRY VIII'S OWN MS. BOUCH OF COURT".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Courts and courtiers, Manuscripts, Medieval, Court and courtiers, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bouche of courte
7. Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- 1562.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 89
- Image Count:
- 214
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Carta de foresta, a collection of hunting and forestry laws. With a collection of extracts, in Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written in a well formed chancery hand by a single scribe., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Endleaves reinforced with vellum, two leaves originally pasted to each board. Sewn on five single, tawed skin thongs laced into paste boards rounded on the outside of the spine edge. Beaded endbands sewn on leather or cane cores but not laced to boards. The spine is square, with traces of adhesive. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple line border and a small central ornament. Two ribbon fastenings, now wanting. Leather broken at joint, sewing reinforced.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
8. Carta de foresta
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1580]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 618
- Image Count:
- 139
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing a collection of hunting and forestry laws
- Description:
- In English., Watermark: similar to Briquet 12781., The text includes: 1) Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation. 2) A collection of hunting and forestry laws similar to those published by John Manwood, A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (London, 1592) and A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest ... (London, 1598). 3) Two extracts. (1) De placito forestarum. B. Thorpe, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutions of England ( London, 1840), p. 228; (2) Dialogus de Scaccario, W. Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (Oxford, 1913), pp. 221-222. 4) Consuetudines et assisa de foresta. 5) Ordinatio forestae., Script: written in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), often difficult to read. Gothica Cursiva Antiquior is used as display script., and Binding: grey paper over pasteboard; on the spine a leather label with gold-tooled inscription: "FOREST / LAWS / MS. / CIRCA /1580".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Forestry law and legislation, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Carta de foresta
9. De sphaera, etc
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
- Published / Created:
- 1526-27.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 337
- Image Count:
- 220
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, translated into English and supplemented by Anthony Ascham. With calendar for the years 1529-35; "The Complaynt Off Sanct Cipriane, The Grett Nigromancer," a poem by Anthony Ascham. Includes individual zodiac volvelles with descriptions in Latin (several volvelles attached to the incorrect month).
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettres et Monogrammes 9890 and Pot 12863., Script: Text written in English secretary script., Numerous explanatory drawings and tables appear throughout the manuscript, including 40 drawings of constellations; nineteen maps, accompanied by tables of longitude and latitude; nine devices that explain the movement of the heavenly bodies. All drawings are carefully drawn in brown ink, tinted with washes of green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and labelled in red or brown ink., Many leaves pasted together, some of which have become unglued. Cropped, resulting in loss of some marginalia., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown sheepskin, blind-tooled with central panel and outer border colored dark brown. Pink spattered edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology, Astronomy, Medieval, Calendars, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Early maps
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De sphaera, etc