Bernard, de Gordon, approximately 1260-approximately 1318.
Published / Created:
[ca. 1400-1425]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 60
Image Count:
107
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Bernard of Gordon's treatise on diseases and the determination of their outcomes.
Description:
Binding: lower cover of original vellum and original stitching; modern case., Decoration: headings and paragraph marks in red., First gathering of eight leaves missing., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30 lines., and Script: gothic bookhand.
Diagnosis--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
John Walton's translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae. Written on vellum in Anglicana formata script in England in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript lacks the first quire, including the Preface and Prologue as well as stanzas 1-67.
Description:
In Middle English., The manuscript was copied by a scribe whose hand is also seen in several other vernacular manuscripts: Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 207 (John Gower, Confessio amantis), London, British Library, MS Arundel 119 (Lydgate, Siege of Thebes), and Tokyo, Private Collection, MS 54 (South English Legendary, second hand)., Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf recto (erased): "Ego domina Elizabeth domina de [?riche] Mont[e?] lego istum librum Roberto Godebowe armigero.", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf recto (erased): "Memorandum quod Iohannis Tr[...] istum librum de executum Roberti Godebowe [...]", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf verso (erased): "Iste liebr constat Iohanni.", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf verso: "Thome hyngham Monachi diui Edmundi de Bury." The script of the inscription matches that of an inscription in the Macro Plays manuscript (Folger Library, Washington, DC, MS V.a.354), which refers to a "monachus Hyngham.", Decoration includes two- to four-line pen-flourished initials., Binding: contemporary tawed leather on cushion wooden boards, re-backed and re-covered, preserving original sides., Colophon: "Explicit liber Boecii de Consolacione Philosophie de Latino in Anglicum translatus Anno Domini Millessimo CCCCmo decimo per Capellanum Johannem et cetera" (f. 104v)., and Schøyen MS 615.
Subject (Name):
Walton, John, d. 1410.
Subject (Topic):
Poetry, Middle English poetry, and Philosophy and religion
Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
Description:
In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Subject (Topic):
Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Middle English., Watermarks: unidentified flower similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6654-56., Script: Text written in sprawling English secretary by two scribes, who added notes to mark sections in the margins., Several crude initials and line-fillers in red and brown. References to and quotations from the Bible, as well as running headings and marginalia, underlined in red., Water stains on many folios at front and back, not affecting text., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown spattered calf, blind-tooled.
Full-page pen drawing, in brown ink, of King Edmund the Martyr holding an arrow. Accompanied by four lines of verse in Middle English
Description:
In Middle English; original text on bifolium is in Latin. and Drawn on the blank page of a bifolium once used as the flyleaf of a Latin Psalter (circa 1290-1310) that may have been written for the church of St. Botolph in Essex.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing Middle English versions of several works by Rolle, including Emendatio vitae; Ego dormio; The Commandment; and Form of Living. Also contains a Middle English version of Walter Hilton's Mixed Life. and The volume also contains Johannes de Rupescissa, Tractatus de Quinta Essentia (ca. 1470). 84 l. Manuscript on paper, in a single gothic bookhand. In Latin. Preceded by a title page dated 1650.
Description:
Binding: seventeenth-century limp vellum., Decoration: some rubrication., Formerly owned by James Cobbes; Cox Macro (MS 101); Hudson Gurney; Q. E. Gurney; J P. R. Lyell; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (MS 10). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 25-31 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Hilton, Walter, -1396. Epistle on the medled life., Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365., Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871-, and Rolle, Richard,--1290?-1349.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--N
Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two scribal hands, of this narrative poem by John Lydgate. The text was almost certainly originally complete but now lacks the Prologue and the opening stanzas of Book I, opening at the line "For to be crowned in that regeous" and lacking the final few leaves of text as well. There is also a textual lacuna between f92v and f93r, Contemporary textual corrections and insertions marked by red crosses. Occasional pen trials and names in contemporary hands, and Autograph letter signed from Frederic Madden to Lord Braybrooke, 1840 March 9, tipped in at front of volume. The letter contains a description of the manuscript and advises that it be rebound while preserving the initials of Mary Sidney
Description:
In Middle English., Script: anglicana and secretary; in the hands of at least two scribes., Decoration: initials in red and blue, some with marginal scroll decoration., Layout: 56 lines in two columns, 15 stanzas per page. Catchwords., and Binding: 19th-century calf over wood, covers inlaid with fragment of 16th-century binding preseving the initials "M.S." (Mary Sidney).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
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