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1. 47 letters and papers from the Office of the Exchequer, 1554-1706.
- Published / Created:
- 1554-1706
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa18
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 47 letters and documents, on paper (one document on parchment) in various cursive scripts, produced in England between 1554 and 1706. Mostly from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, they consist of claims for expenses, wages, and other benefits. They include an account of a banquet (15 November 1561), signed by the Marquis of Winchester and Sir Walter Mildmay; a Claim for Allowances (1563) by Sir Thomas Chaloner, Ambassador to Spain; L. S. (1578) by Lord Burgley about money to be sent to Ireland and mentioning Sir Philip Sidney; A. L. S. (1597) by George, Lord Hunsdon; A. K. S. (Chester, 11 Aug. 1601) by the antiquary and mathematician Edward Brerewood to the Privy Council. The documents also include signatures of other government officials and nobles. and The documents derive from the papers of Robert Petre, Auditor for the Exchequer, and his colleague Vincent Skinner.
- Description:
- Binding: Middle Hill boards, spine missing., Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps (unnumbered MS)., and Modern pencil pagination employed. Wanting p. 43-46, 65-68, 109-114, 119-120, 125-132, 139-142, 161-168, 177-178.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1533-1603 and Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1625
- Subject (Name):
- Elizabeth--I,--Queen of England,--1533-1603, Great Britain.--Exchequer, James--I,--King of England,--1566-1625, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- Finance, Public--Great Britain and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 47 letters and papers from the Office of the Exchequer, 1554-1706.
2. A consolatorye letter to a traitor neare ye gallowes founde at Bellamyes at Uxenden : Peers Plowghman hys answer to the doctours interogatoryes, 1582 May 27.
- Published / Created:
- 1582
- Call Number:
- Osborn a18
- Image Count:
- 39
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated May 27, 1582.
- Description:
- A note on f. 18v reads: "A verry tratoroos Worke pretended to bee the answers of Peyres Plowman to the prynted interrogatores of alleageaunce. Butt in treuthe a Waye to instruct papists how to answer tratorooslye & defende the trators for Martyrs that dyed at Tyburne in August 1582." and Binding: vellum wrapper, with front cover cut away. Disbound. Box also contains remains of silk binding thread in separate envelope.
- Subject (Name):
- Langland, William,--1330?-1400?--Piers Plowman
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic Church--England--Controversial literature, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Tyburn gallows (London, England)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A consolatorye letter to a traitor neare ye gallowes founde at Bellamyes at Uxenden : Peers Plowghman hys answer to the doctours interogatoryes, 1582 May 27.
3. Arma Christi Roll
- 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
4. Arma Christi Rolls
- 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
5. Certaine prayers out of the Psalmes, for divers purposes
- Published / Created:
- 1584 October 8
- Call Number:
- Osborn a3
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Cursive bookhand script of the late 16th century. Title page illustrated with columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription ""Christ adsit et praesit,"" and signed by I. S. Bound in thick vellum, with mathematical calculations on back c and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated October 8, 1584. It includes psalms arranged as 66 prayers in prose, songs in praise of Christ's birth and the Lord's supper, metrical versions of 66 psalms by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, and "an exhortation unto ye praise of God to be songe before morning and evening praier."
- Description:
- Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: thick vellum; mathematical calculations on back cover., Illustration on title page of columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription "Christ adsit et praesit," and signed by T. S., On f. 152r, Rose Silvester signed it as her book on July 5, 1649. Next follows the signature of William Silvester and the inscription "his booke and hee that Steles him shall bee hanged upon a hoke as hie as William Silvester can looke.", On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673., On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673. On folio 151v, after the exhortation, two hands repeat the last four lines, dated 1649, one by Rose Silvester. On 152r, Rose Silvester signs it, and Watermark: pot, Briquet 12725 (Bruges, 1581).
- Subject (Topic):
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Certaine prayers out of the Psalmes, for divers purposes
6. Christianus medicus. Sive, disceptatio quaedam instituta adversus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere
- Creator:
- Hubbell, Rose Strong
Trippe, Simon - Published / Created:
- 1752 May 15
- Call Number:
- Osborn a43
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in a single Italic hand of a treatise on the compatibility of the science of medicine with belief in Christianity and a vindication of Galen against four traditional attacks on him, including the "calumnies" that Galen favored reason over religion and that he scoffed at both Judaism and Christianity. Trippe frequently alludes to and quotes other medical and scientific authors in developing his argument, including Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Nicander, Avicenna, and his contemporaries Antonio Guainerio, Jean Fernel, Pietro Andreas Mattioli, and Leonhard Fuchs, as well as the humanist thinkers Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Guillaume Bude, and Ramus (Pierre de la Ramee). and Text prefaced (p. 5-7) by a dedicatory epistle to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who was Chancellor of Oxford and from whom Trippe was soliciting recommendation for appointment as Physician of Corpus Christi.
- Alternative Title:
- Christianus medicus, siue disceptatio quaedam instituta aduersus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere, in qua comprimis Galenus vindicatus a 4. calumnijs..., 1572 May 15.
- Description:
- Annotation by Edward Turner on added p. 1 containing detailed biographical information on Simon Trippe., Annotation on recto of front flyleaf: "Presented to Chas. Leeson Prince M.R.C.S by The late Revd. Edward Turner Rector of Maresfield Sussex. 1870.", Binding: contemporary full paneled calf, extensive gold tooled decoration on boards and spine; cloth ties not present. Possibly bound for the dedicatee, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester., Bookplate: Ex libris Robert Hoe., Bookplate: T[homas] J[efferson] Coolidge, Jr., Ex libris Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Ex libris Edward Turner. Ex libris Charles Leeson Prince. Ex libris Robert Hoe. Ex libris Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2004., Pages are ruled in red; marginal annotations in the same hand in the marginal compartments., and Tipped in on recto of front flyleaf: printed dealer description.
- Subject (Name):
- Corpus Christi College (University of Oxford), Galen, Hoe, Robert--1839-1909--Bookplate, Leicester, Robert Dudley,--Earl of,--1532?-1588--Library, Prince, C. L. (Charles Leeson),--1821-1899--Presentation inscription from Edward Turner, and Turner, Edward,--1794-1872--Presentation inscription to Charles Leeson Prince
- Subject (Topic):
- Humanism--England, Medicine--Early works to 1800--History, Medicine--Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Physicians
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Christianus medicus. Sive, disceptatio quaedam instituta adversus receptam publice opinionem, bene medicum male christianum existere
7. Commonplace book, 1586.
- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed.
- Description:
- Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations., Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Ex libris Maurice Johnson. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2002., In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", and Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur."
- Subject (Name):
- Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586.
8. Elizabeth Cottan
- Creator:
- Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1584]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a42
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Inscription on back flyleaf recto. and Manuscript on paper in a secretary hand of the complete text of Stephen Hopkins' translation of de Granada's Libro de oracion y meditatcion.
- Alternative Title:
- Of prayer and meditation, wherein are conteined fowertien deuoute meditations for the seuen dayes of the weeke..., [circa 1584]
- Description:
- Annotation on blank p. 684: "Elizabeth Cottan.", Annotation on p. 1: "Ex Bib. S. Wilfredi.", Binding: blind-ruled parchment; fragments of parchment ms. (ca. 1600) used as liners., No title page, but Hopkins is identified as the author in the Prologue to the Dedicatory Epistle, which includes his attack on the English Puritans and which opens the work., Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2003., and Text follows the 1584 Rouen edition.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--English, Hopkins, Stephen,--d. 1594?, and Luis, de Granada,--1504-1588--Translations
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholics--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Meditations (Religious), Meditations--Catholic Church, and Puritans--England--Controversial literature
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Elizabeth Cottan
9. Inventions of military machines and other devices
- Creator:
- Rabbards, Ralph
- Published / Created:
- [1580-1590]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a8
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Drawings and plans for various implements and instruments, including printing presses. and Manuscript, on paper, in italic script, produced in England after 1591.
- Description:
- Author possibly an English military adventurer who traveled through the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy., Binding: contemporary brown calf, with gold tooling of Lyonese style with semis of eaglets., Descriptions of military machines are accompanied by colored illustrations., Ex libris Rhys Jenkins. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., In the preface to "The Compound of Alchemy" (Osborn fa16), Rabbards notes that he has "these fortie yeares amongst manie other most commendable exercises and inventions of so warlike Engines, founde out divers devices of rare service, both for Sea and land" and expresses his intention to "impart some other rare experiments of Distillations and Fire-Workes of great service, not hitherto committed in writing or put in practise by any of our nation." This apparently refers to Osborn a8, the only known copy of the work., Raphe (or Ralph) Rabbards, born slightly before 1531, published "The Compound of Alchemy" by George Ripley (see Osborn fa16) in 1591., and Signature on f. 1 of W. Bayntun, Gray's Inn.
- Subject (Name):
- Jenkins, Rhys--Ownership and Rabbards, Raphe
- Subject (Topic):
- Measuring instruments, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Military art and science--Early works to 1800, Military art and science--Great Britain--History--16th century, and Military art and science--Technological innovations--History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Inventions of military machines and other devices