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- Published / Created:
- ca. 16th c.?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century.
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Container marked: 29, and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Passion--Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Religious poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi Roll
- Published / Created:
- ca. 16th c.?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa24
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in cursive script, produced in England during the sixteenth century.
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Container marked: 28, and Frequent illustrations of the text.
- Subject (Name):
- Jesus Christ--Passion--Poetry
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Religious poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arma Christi Rolls
- Creator:
- Cockerell, Douglas, binder
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa1
- Image Count:
- 402
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
- Description:
- Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio Amantis (Middle English poem)
- 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
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1466-67]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 242
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment roll, composed of 15 membranes, of a Chronicle of biblical world history and the genealogy of the kings of England.
- Description:
- Binding: Unbound., One large illuminated initial for the prologue, 8-line, mauve and blue with white filigree against gold ground thinly edged in black. The initial is filled with a large flower, red, yellow and green, and curling acanthus, orange and green extending into the margin and continued as black inkspray with large leaves, heart-shaped or acanthus, blue, pink, orange, white and green with white filigree, a large orange and gold flower, smaller leaves in gold with blue and pink, gold dots and small green leaves, extending into the upper and left margin to form a partial border. Smaller illuminated initial for the beginning of the main chronicle, 5-line, gold on blue and mauve ground with white filigree. Numerous small initials, 2-line, alternate in gold with blue penwork and blue with red. Paragraph marks alternate in red and blue., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by a single scribe in a somewhat rough textura., and The genealogical diagrams, which are fitted into the empty spaces between the columns of text, begin with a roundel formed of concentric bands of blue, gold and red with a miniature of Adam with Eve, who is being handed an apple by the serpent. From the roundel of Adam and Eve to the Ascension of Christ the successive Biblical names, framed in orange or green squares, are linked by a continuous band in blue, red and gold. The names of the ancestors of the Kings of England, starting with Brutus, appear in red or blue circles, surmounted by gold crowns. Other names are in plain red circles. Linking lines in the genealogies are in red or green. At the appropriate places in the text are inserted schematized diagrams in red and green ink of Noah's Ark, a plan of the Israelite camp in the desert and a plan of the city of Jerusalem.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible--History of Biblical events, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Kings and rulers--Genealogy, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and World history--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Genealogical roll chronicle
7.
- Published / Created:
- [1337?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a37
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Documents on parchment of a process brought before Parliament ina property dispute between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory ofCoventry. and Parchment scroll of a process brought before Parliament in a property dispute between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory of Coventry.
- Alternative Title:
- Processus super quibusdam demonstracionibus et peticionibus prioris de Couentre et peticione domine Isabelle regine Anglie exhibitis coram domino rege in parliamento suo apud Westmonasterium, 1336.
- Description:
- Formerly "Osborn Rolls 2." and In Latin and Law French.
- Subject (Name):
- Coventry Priory--History, Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377, England and Wales.--Parliament, and Isabella,--Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England,--1292-1358
- Subject (Topic):
- Benedictines--England--Coventry and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Processus super quibusdam demonstracionibus et peticionibus prioris de Couentre et peticione domine Isabelle regine Anglie exhibitis coram domino rege in parliamento suo apud Westmonasterium, 1336.
8.
- 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