Five manuscript charters, including land grants and indentures, produced in England between 1352 and 1599. On parchment in cursive charter hand, Chancery script, and Secretary script.
Description:
Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 32220). Purchased and Four of the charters have partially or fully preserved wax seals.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Charters, grants, privileges
Subject (Name):
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Subject (Topic):
Charters, Legal manuscripts--England, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Appeared in Jode's Speculum orbis terrarum, Blank on verso., Engraving attributed to Antonie Wierix., Manuscript number on verso "No. 114.", Margins include descriptive text and four allegorical-historical vignettes (each 7 cm in diameter)., Relief shown pictorially., and Watermark.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a choir breviary, containing part of the offices for Epiphany.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Initials in blue with red penwork. Large illuminated initial "A" with full border on verso, gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 51 lines., Musical notation on four-line red staves., References to Thomas Becket struck through on verso., and Script: gothic liturgical hand.
Subject (Topic):
Breviaries--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Musical notation--Early works to 1800.
Woodblock depicting scene of the miracle of Christ stilling the wind and waves.
Description:
Accompanied by: Christmas card from "the Wilsons," dated 1930, containing a print made from the woodblock and attributing the block to a craftsman in the Netherlands, circa 1480., Binding: modern cloth case., Bookplate: Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., Collection of Elmer Adler. Ex libris Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., and Date uncertain.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ--Miracles--Art, Vershbow, Arthur--Bookplate, and Vershbow, Charlotte--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
Christian art and symbolism, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on paper of the A-recension of Twinger's Chronicle which was written in 1386. Chapter 1: History of the Ancient World, based on the Bible and classical sources (ff. 2r-32v); 2: History of the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to King Wenceslas (ff. 32v-101r); 3: History of the Popes (ff. 101v-135r); 4: History of the Bishops of Strasbourg (ff. 135v-158v); 5: History of Strasbourg and Alsace (ff. 159v-225v). With a short passage referring to the war of the Swiss in Alsace and the Black Forest in 1468, added in a later hand
Description:
In German., Watermarks similar to Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.151., Script: Written in a cursive book hand by a single scribe. Numerous annotations to the text in margins by a later hand., Two uninspired initials, 7- and 5-line, in red with crude penwork in green. Plain initials, headings and rubrics in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries (?). Vellum over wooden boards with two brass clasps. Blue/green edges and title in ink on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Germany
Subject (Name):
Twinger, Jakob, von Königshofen, 1346-1420.
Subject (Topic):
German literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History