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- Published / Created:
- s. XIII/XIV
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 525.5
- Collection Title:
- The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Abundant decoration consisting of line-fillers in gold and paint containing animal and hybrid bodies and ending in human or animal heads; 1- and 2-line initials, the latter ending on f. 1r in borders consisting of a horizontal bar in the upper and lower margin on which grotesques are painted: in the upper margin an animal (its head partly cropped) shooting a bird and in the lower margin a monkey looking at a hybrid., f. 1r-v //Nam et testimonia tua meditacio mea est ... Et ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usque//[quaque]. Ps. 118 :24-43, On parchment., Ruled with lead for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 31, 170 x 105 mm). The horizontal ruling is double, lines being traced for the headlines as well as for the baselines., and Written in a narrow Northern Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Rotundus).
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Hours or Psalter[?]
- Creator:
- Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Hours
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1390-1420
- Call Number:
- Osborn a44
- Image Count:
- 483
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The manuscript contains a book of hours, use of Sarum (ff. 1-138v), and a Missal (ff. 139r-236v). It was produced in England, in liturgical Gothic bookhand on vellum, in two phases. The first section, consisting of quires 1 and 3-18 (ff. 1-6, 17-83, and 86-137), was produced around 1390, perhaps in London. Around 1420 the manuscript was augmented with a second section, consisting of quires 2 and 19-31 (ff. 7-16, 84-85, and 138-236).
- Alternative Title:
- Book of Hours
- Description:
- Binding: early nineteenth-century English calf over carved wooden boards, blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked with spine laid on; gilt edges with traces of painted landscape., Decoration includes thirty-two historiated initials and three half-page miniatures (f.11v, the martyrdom of St. Elmo (St. Erasmus); 109v, Christ at the Tomb, surrounded by the instruments of His passion; f. 118r, the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St. John)., Modern paper binder's blanks (2 l.) at end not digitized., Peyton coat of arms gilt on covers., and Seventeenth-century coat of arms on flyleaf and on f. 139r (quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a castle or, 2 and 3, gules 2 foxes or).
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Hours, Catholic Church--Liturgy and ritual--Missal, and Peyton family--Coat of arms
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sarum Rite
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours and missal, [circa 1390-1420]
- Published / Created:
- mid 14th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 405
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of the Brut Chronicle, up to 1333.
- Description:
- Binding: 18th century. Brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and a red label., In Anglo-Norman., In Part II, Crude initials, 2-line, alternate red with purple penwork designs and blue with red, many with three-leaf clover design in body of letter., Script: The codex is composed of two distinct parts that were early on bound together. Part I (ff. 1-16): Written in delicate Anglicana bookhand. Running titles, trimmed. Part II (ff. 17-74): Written in bold Anglicana bookhand., and Worn, stained, and repaired throughout.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Chronicles of England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut Chronicle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1794-97]
- Call Number:
- OSB MSS 148
- Collection Title:
- George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- This collection, with its painstaking accounts and administrative receipts, shows the daily complexities of managing a secret service.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --History --George III, 1760-1820
- Subject (Name):
- Aust, George, 1749-1829, Great Britain. Foreign Office --Officials and employees, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Thomas Coutts & Co, and Wickham, William, 1761-1840
- Subject (Topic):
- Ciphers, Cryptography --Great Britain, and Intelligence service --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Cryptographic key
- Creator:
- Iohannis Belet
- Published / Created:
- 4, XII, s. XII^^4, and XIII [ca. 1175-1200, 12th-13th centuries]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 315
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment composed of three distinct parts. Part I (ff. 1-64): Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae. Part II (ff. 65-80): Pseudo-Hugh of St. Victor, Speculum de mysteriis ecclesiae. Part III (ff. 81-122): Jean Beleth, Summa.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum case with a black label, gold-tooled, and arms of Athelstan Riley on covers. Bound by John R. Hering, London, active 1817-35., Part I: Initials, 12- to 2-line, red, green, blue, with exuberant designs in contrasting colors that often extend full length of folio, some trimmed. Headings in red. Part II: Decorative initials, 8- to 2-line, alternate red and blue, with designs in contrasting colors; plain initials, 1-line, some with simple ornamentation, in red or blue throughout. Heading in red. Guide-letters in inner margin. Part III: Simple initials, a few with designs. Paragraphs marks in red and/or black. Guide-letters in outer and inner margins; notes to rubricator perpendicular to written space in gutter and outer margin. Headings in red., and Script: Each part written by a different scribe, all in early gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Honorius,--of Autun,--ca. 1080-ca. 1156
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Honorius of Autun, Gemma animae, etc
7.
- Published / Created:
- 1750s
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc181
- Image Count:
- 187
- Abstract:
- This manuscript cookery book, with leaves from a sixteenth-century Bible as endpapers, offers a collection of mid-eighteenth century recipes ranging from plague water to chocolate puffs. It contains 502 recipes arranged in 14 sections, with such titles as Wet Sweet Meats; Dry Sweet Meats; Creams and Cheeses; Possetts and Sillibubs; Puddings and Pyes; Soups and Made Dishes; To Pickell; and The Side Dishes. These sections contain recipes for preserves; syrups; biscuits; dried fruit; jellies; creams; wines; and cakes; as well as savory dishes such as calves’ foot pudding; hedgehog pudding; roast eel and lobsters; mutton; veal; shrimp; and chicken. These recipes are followed by a section titled Bills of Fare, which contains lists of exemplary first and second course dishes, accompanied by two bills of fare in illustrated form.
- Description:
- Printed endpapers from 16th century bible.
- Subject (Topic):
- Canning and preserving, Cooking (Puddings), Cooking, English, Menus, Recipes --Great Britain, and Wine and wine making --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recipe book
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa10
- Image Count:
- 47
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
- Description:
- Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, Cursive script., Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text., On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name ""John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."", Pages not numbered consecutively., Several blank pages throughout., and The margins contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
- Subject (Name):
- Accursius, glossator, ca. 1182-ca. 1260, Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
- Subject (Topic):
- Babington Plot, 1586 and Digesta. English & Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Babington Plot
- Creator:
- Arundel, Philip Howard, Earl of, Saint, 1557-1595
Hanslopp, Nicolas - Published / Created:
- ca. 1600
- Call Number:
- Osborn a5
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- For more information on the text, see notes to Osborn a6. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600. The text is a devotional poem, also known as The Fourfold Meditation. After the introduction of 216 lines, the poem begins "O wretched man which louest earthlie thinges..." Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England around 1600.
- Alternative Title:
- The fourfold meditation. and The pathe to paradise, [circa 1600].
- Description:
- Also known as The Foure-Fould Meditation., Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: nineteenth-century paper boards., Pasted in before the title page is a slip which reads, "The Rev. Charles Churchill, Halifax, Nova Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda.", and The title page has crosses in gold ink surrounding the name of Mary Yeate.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Pathe to Paradise
- Creator:
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
- Published / Created:
- 1899
- Call Number:
- 2006 S27
- Collection Title:
- The writings in prose and verse of Rudyard Kipling
- Image Count:
- 1
- Collection Created:
- New York : Charles Scribners Sons, 1897-1938
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Autographed letter signed by Kipling, dated Oct. 2, 99, on front pastedown]