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19. Speculum Christiani.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 96
- Image Count:
- 110
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse.
- Description:
- Binding: nineteenth-century morocco., Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., and Script: written in an English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Early works to 1800., Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Foyle, William Alfred,--1885---Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian life--Early works to 1800., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Ma
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum Christiani.
20. Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 94
- Image Count:
- 449
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum and paper, in several hands, containing a collection of texts in Latin and Middle English. Almost two-thirds of the volume consists of a collection of Latin sermons, followed by a Latin verse text, Stimulus compassionis. Middle English texts include The three kings of Cologne, a devotional work in prose; Prester John, a travel narrative; John Lydgate's Middle English poem Stans puer ad mensam; and the Middle English verses The myrour of mankind and The treatise of a gallant.
- Description:
- Binding: early eighteenth-century sheep over pasteboards. Nineteenth-century green morocco case with spine title: Ancient English Poetry M. S., Bookseller's description tipped in at front of volume., Decoration: numerous initials in blue with red penwork., Formerly owned by Gregory Lewis Way; William Waldorf Astor. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26-31 lines., Most of the volume is parchment; 15 leaves toward the end of the volume are paper., Script: several English cursive bookhands., and Spine title in gilt: M. S. Vellum.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451? and Prester John--(Legendary character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Verse and prose in Latin and Middle English.
21. Wycliffite New testament.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 31
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page index of readings according to the liturgical calendar and the opening stanzas of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in Latin.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., Ex libris Earl of Egremont; Boies Penrose; Boies Penrose II. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Egremont, George O'Brien Wyndham,--Earl of,--1751-1837--Bookplate., Penrose, Boies,--1860-1921--Bookplate., Penrose, Boies,--1902-1976--Bookplate., Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?, and Wycliffe, John,---1384.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe., Bible.--New Testament., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wycliffite New testament.
22. [Grammar Handbook]
- Published / Created:
- [second quarter 14th century] and s. XIV^^2
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 3.34
- Container / Volume:
- No. 34
- Image Count:
- 54
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium and rhetorical works (23 pieces).
- Description:
- "The recovery of a fifteenth-century schoolmaster's book": Beinecke MS 3, no. 34, Voights and Shailor: Yale University Library Gazette, LX, (1985) pp. 11-31. and Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a binding.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language -- Grammar
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Grammar Handbook]