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- Creator:
- Biblesworth, Walter de
Bozon, Nicole, fl. 1300-1320
Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253
Hues, de Tabarie - Published / Created:
- [circa 1300-1349]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a56
- Image Count:
- 154
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in two Gothic bookhands, containig copies of Walter of Biblesworth (Bibbesworth), Le tretiz ff.1-27v; Nicholas Bozon (c.1280-1320), Les proverbes de bons enseignements, here called Liber de proverbiis sapientie, ff.28-40v; Hue de Tabarie, Ordre de la chevalerie ff.42-53v; Le mariage des ix filles du diable, often attributed to Robert Grosseteste (1170-1253), bishop of Lincoln but here described as St Maurice, bishop of Paris's translation from the Latin, ff.54-67. The text of Le tretiz contains numerous interlineations and side notes in Middle English.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary chemise binding of white leather over corded boards., Decoration: some rubrication of initials., From the library of Lacock Abbey. From the library of Sir Henry Sharington. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. (Christies sale 8002, lot 12) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011., In Anglo-Norman French with Middle English glosses and annotations., Ownership inscriptions of Sir Henry Sharington (d. 1581)., and Script: Gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Biblesworth, Walter de, Lacock Abbey (England)--Ownership, and Sharington, Henry,--Sir,--d. 1581--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Administration of estates--Early works to 1800, Anglo-Norman dialect, Chivalry--Early works to 1800, Conduct of life--Early works to 1800, French language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800, French language--To 1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatises in Anglo-Norman verse].
- Published / Created:
- 1562
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 40
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
- Description:
- Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled Kunstbuechlein]
484.
- Creator:
- Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?
- Published / Created:
- 1539 October 23
- Call Number:
- Osborn a35
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service. and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household.
- Description:
- Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000., In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family; not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Draycott, Eleanor, Fitzjames family, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholics--England, Decedents' estates--England, Inheritance and succession--England, Manors--England, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Prayers for the dead, Saints--Cult, and Wills
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Will], 1539 Oct 23.
485.
- Published / Created:
- 1813
- Call Number:
- Arabic MSS 571
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Copied in A.H. 1228 (A.D. 1813).
- Alternative Title:
- Koran
- Description:
- Calligraphic naskhī, in red, green, and black; ʻunwāns in gold and colors. and Islamic binding, in brown, elaborately gilt, in Oriental slip-case. In brown morocco case.
- Subject (Topic):
- Islamic binding. and Theology--Koran--Text
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > al-Qurʾān. -- 1813
486.
- Creator:
- Nawawī, 1233-1277
- Published / Created:
- [18--?]
- Call Number:
- Landberg MSS 501
- Image Count:
- 332
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Explanation of the difficult words in al-Tanbīh fī al-fiqh (handbook of Shafiʻi law) of Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī., Preceded and followed by 1 leaf of notes., and The work ends on leaf 130, and is followed by Nukat al-Tanbīh, by the same author, on the same subject.
- Alternative Title:
- Taḥrīr fī sharḥ alfāẓ al-Tanbīh
- Description:
- Islamic binding, paper covered, with flap., Modern (19th century) naskhī, in red and black., Modern pagination employed., and Same as Berlin catalog 6969.
- Subject (Name):
- Nawawī, 1233-1277. Nukat al-Tanbīh and Shirāzī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī,--1003-1083.--Tanbīh fī al-fiqh
- Subject (Topic):
- Arabic language and literature--Lexicography, Islamic binding., and Theology--Law--Shafiʻi
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > ʻUmdat al-muftī wa-al-ṭālib al-nabīh fī tahdhīb taṣḥīḥ al-Tanbīh / Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī. -- [18--?].