Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
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, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
Description:
Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
Subject (Topic):
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 fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
Description:
Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment), Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines), Script: formal bastard anglicana., and Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
Subject (Name):
Gower, John,--1325?-1408.--Confessio amantis.
Subject (Topic):
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Med, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
Bernard, de Gordon, approximately 1260-approximately 1318.
Published / Created:
[ca. 1400-1425]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 60
Image Count:
107
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Bernard of Gordon's treatise on diseases and the determination of their outcomes.
Description:
Binding: lower cover of original vellum and original stitching; modern case., Decoration: headings and paragraph marks in red., First gathering of eight leaves missing., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30 lines., and Script: gothic bookhand.
Diagnosis--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing Middle English versions of several works by Rolle, including Emendatio vitae; Ego dormio; The Commandment; and Form of Living. Also contains a Middle English version of Walter Hilton's Mixed Life. and The volume also contains Johannes de Rupescissa, Tractatus de Quinta Essentia (ca. 1470). 84 l. Manuscript on paper, in a single gothic bookhand. In Latin. Preceded by a title page dated 1650.
Description:
Binding: seventeenth-century limp vellum., Decoration: some rubrication., Formerly owned by James Cobbes; Cox Macro (MS 101); Hudson Gurney; Q. E. Gurney; J P. R. Lyell; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (MS 10). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 25-31 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Hilton, Walter, -1396. Epistle on the medled life., Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365., Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871-, and Rolle, Richard,--1290?-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--N
Manuscript, on paper, in three hands (Anglicana and early secretary), produced in northern England, probably Durham, during the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Description:
Binding: original oak boards, with leather or vellum spine missing. The middles of the quires are bound with fragments of a Latin theological manuscript of the fourteenth century., Contains name "Roger? Willims" on f. 56r., and The text of the poem is incomplete, beginning at line 2501 and ending at line 12363, with gaps. It includes an "interpolation" of 126 lines between lines 6546 and 6547 which consists of lines 5377-5414 of the Anglo-Norman poem on which Mannyng's translation is based, "Le Manuel des Pechiez (Peches)."
Subject (Name):
Mannyng, Robert,--fl. 1288-1338.--Handlyng synne
Subject (Topic):
Confession--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Poetry, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sin--Poetry
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--
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Richard de Caistre's popular hymn.
Description:
Binding: modern full red morocco., Bound with Fifteen Joys of Our Lady., Decoration: red and blue penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., and Script: gothic liturgical script.
Subject (Name):
Richard,--of Caistre.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Hymns, English--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin.
Description:
Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.