- Published / Created:
- 16th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 558
- Image Count:
- 17
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of short texts including a manual on the astrolabe, treatises on the zodiac, several horoscopes, and a map of England.
- Description:
- 1 map; parchment, some col.; 20.5 x 31 cm. and The manuscript is a composite of many separate treatises, some on paper,others on vellum, of varying sizes bound together. Bound in brown calf, gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England --Maps, Manuscript --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Astronomical and astrological treatises
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- 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)
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- 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.
- Creator:
- Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, ca. 1100-1160
- Published / Created:
- [between 1250 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 222
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Peter Lombard, Sententiarum libri IV. With a Commentary on Eccles. 38.
- Description:
- Binding: 1837, England. Bound by Gough in London. Dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with a light brown gold-tooled label with title "Liber Sententiarum"., Purchased in 1957 from Quaritch, London, by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston., Red and blue divided initials, 4- to 3-line, for prologue and beginning of books, with penwork designs in the same colors. For other text divisions, 3- to 2-line initials in red or blue with flourishes in opposite color. Distinctio numbers and running headlines in red and blue; rubrics in red. Initial letters of each entry in chapter lists alternate red and blue., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand, below top line; annotations added in less formal, later hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Peter Lombard,--Bishop of Paris,--ca. 1100-1160
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--O.T.--Ecclesiastes, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Philosophy, Scholasticism, Scholia, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sententiarum libri IV
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- Published / Created:
- between 1300 and 1325
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 472
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thin, poor quality) of unidentified sermons.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth-century. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled, with a red gold-tooled label Manuscript. Earlier fastenings covered over. Boards detached., Cataloged from microfilm by Albert Derolez., Crude 3- and 2-line initials in red, the initial on f. 1r with red flourishes. Many small initials not executed. Rubrics and paragraph marks in red, many missing or erased. Guide-letters for rubricator., Library of Arthur Hugh Smith Barry of Marbury Hall (1843-1925; bookplate, with Case 22, Shelf 9). Purchased from S. Harrison Thomson (MS 14, note inside front cover) in 1970, with the Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke Fund., Manuscript on parchment (thin, poor quality). Numerous folios were end pieces; corners and edges have been squared and straightened by adding pieces of coarse paper. Folio 84, very poor quality and thin at the center, was reinforced on verso (blank) with a strip of paper. Written by three (?) scribes in small, neat Anglicana. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-145r, 174r-188v, rubrics and marginal notes throughout, and all catchwords except that for quire XIV. Scribe 2: ff. 145r-173r. Scribe 3: f. 173v (traced over hand of Scribe 2?)., and Sermons. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons
- Creator:
- Boethius, d. 524
- Published / Created:
- Early 12th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 870
- Container / Volume:
- I-IV
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Commentaria in Topica Ciceronis
- Description:
- Double columns on single page with diagrams., Imperfect: mutilated with loss of text., Manuscript fragment on parchment., and With: In Timaeum Platonis, by Calcidius; manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Calcidius. In Platonis Timaeum commentarius, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Topica, and Plato. Timaeus
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Topica Ciceronis
- Creator:
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311
Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
Ripley, George, d. 1490? - Published / Created:
- circa 1570
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 41
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
- Alternative Title:
- Ripley scroll
- Description:
- One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
- Subject (Name):
- Ripley, George,--d. 1490?
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Astrology, and Occultism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova]