- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 365
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 167
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a common-place book. The main texts of the manuscript, which are primarily devotional in nature, were written in East Anglia by an unidentified scribe toward the end of the 15th century; a second individual, identified as Robert Melton of Stuston in Suffolk, added numerous accounts and notes at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century
- Description:
- Robert Melton was the co-executor of the estate of John Cornwallis (d. 1506), Lord of the Manors of Brome, Stuston, Okley, and Thranston, whose family possessed Brome Hall from early in the 15th to the 19th century., In Middle English., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Armoiries 1038 for part of quire I and all of II; similar to Briquet Main 11399 for remainder of quire I, all of quires III and IV, part of V; similar to Briquet Navire 11971 on ff. 68, 79 only; similar to Briquet Lettre P 8586 on ff. 72, 75; similar to Briquet Main 11152 on ff. 73, 74; unidentified watermark on f. 81., Script: Written primarily by two persons: Scribe 1) ff. 1r-26v, 28r-44r, 68r-77r, 79v, 80v-81r. Written in small, well formed Anglicana script with first line of each text in formal bookhand. Scribe 2: ff. 27r-v, 45r-60r, 62v-67v, 77v-78v, 80r, 81v. Written in a large sprawling script; no ornamentation. A third person added art. 17 at a later time., Only scribe 1 included decoration. Initials in red, 4- to 2-line, with penwork flourishes in brown; initial strokes in red. Portions of text underlined in red; rhyming verses often bracketed, in red, at end of lines. On f. 14v, a fine half-page drawing in red and brown of the monogram IHS which incorporates both a heart pierced by a lance and vine patterns and tendrils. Art. 4 is illustrated with drawings of dice, in red, in outer margins., First leaves heavily stained; lower right corner waterstained ff. 1-43., and Binding: Between 1490 and 1500. Original sewing with long stitches through a thick rectangular piece of leather on the outside of a vellum wrapper. Contemporary scroll design added to upper cover with unidentified inscription, in red, mostly illegible.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Melton, Robert.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle)., English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Brome
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- Creator:
- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
- Published / Created:
- [after 1464]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 6
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 261
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the "second version" of John Hardyng's Chronicle. While the manuscript has lost perhaps 36 leaves from the beginning of the work, it is textually complete from the reign of Vortigern on. There is a final entry referring to Elizabeth Woodville as the queen of Edward IV. The final leaves of the volume contain an anonymous sixteenth-century poem, A lamentable complaint of our saviour Christ; an eighteen-line carol in Middle English which begins "By resone of ii and power of one;" and a page of notes in a single sixteenth-century hand on executions at Smithfield in London between 1531 and 1534
- Description:
- In Middle English., Ownership inscription of "John Ravell" at the end of the Chronicles text, along with other notes., Layout: single columns of approximately 42 lines., Script: English bookhand., Binding: seventeenth-century full calf. Red leather spine tag, gilt: "M. S. Hist: of England / From Vortvmrk to Edw. 4.", and Previous shelfmark: MS. L. J. I. 10.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Narrative poetry, English (Middle)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicles of England
- Published / Created:
- [between 1550 and 1625]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 621
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594) published in 1587 for Sir William Stanley's action in the Netherlands in the preceding year. 4) Accounts regarding tenements; one is headed "Lambeth". 5) Account of a journey through the Middle East, made in 1578 and attributed by another hand to an unrecorded Sir Anthony Standen. 6) Definition of terms related to the Turkish empire encountered in art. 5. 7) Description of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under Francesco Maria de' Medici (1541-1587). 8) Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-1582), Proposal addressed to King Philip II of Spain regarding the conquest of Portugal, made 25 May 1579, in English translation. 9) Description of the Benedictine convent of Camaldoli near Arezzo. 10) Short description of England and Scotland. 11) Accounts signed William Garnett; the last one is dated from the 33d year of Queen Elizabeth (1591/1592). The upper outer corner of the page is missing, with loss of text. 12) Collection of state letters. 13) Estate accounts partly dating from 1586/1587 and addressed to unknown person
- Description:
- In English., Script: Part I (between 1550 and 1600): Art. 1, 3 and the group 5-10 are each written by a different scribe, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The quotations and headings in art. 3 are in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 2 is also written in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 4 is in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary)., Script: Part II (between 1600 and 1625): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), some quotations and headings in Humanistica Cursiva., Script: Part III (between 1575 and 1600): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Secretary)., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown (?) sheepskin over pasteboard, rebacked. On the spine the gold-tooled titles (s. XIX-XX) "JENKINSON RELATION 1561" and "STATE PAPERS?? MS.".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > English miscellany on travels, foreign countries, Catholicism and politics
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- approximately 1450.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1222
- Image Count:
- 317
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- 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)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fall of princes
- Creator:
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 660
- Image Count:
- 190
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of 1) John Lydgate (ca. 1370-ca. 1451), Life of Our Lady. The beginning is missing (Book I, verses 1-70 ). 2) The Privity of the Passion, an anonymous English translation, here attributed to Walter Hilton (d. 1396), of part of Ps.-Bonaventura, Meditationes vitae Christi
- Description:
- In Middle English with some Latin., Script: Probably copied by one scribe, writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The headings in art. 2 are in a larger form of the same script, more close to Anglicana., In art. 2 the scribe left space for 2-line initials (a 3-line initial at the opening) and generally wrote guide-letters, but initials were never added and all other forms of decoration are missing., Low quality parchment, with holes and irregular edges. The upper outer corner of f. 79 is torn away with loss of text., and Binding: Twentieth century. Glossy brown leather over pasteboard, both covers framed with blind-tooled fillets; spine with four raised bands; in the second compartment the gold-tooled inscription "LYDGATE - LIFE OF OUR LADY"; at the bottom: "C. 1450". Sprinkled edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English poetry, Literature, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Life of Our Lady; The Privity of the Passion
- Creator:
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 4
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the complete text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi, a text often attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. The manuscript also contains John Lydgate's Fifteen joys of Our Lady and the anonymous poems, The fifteen ooes of Christ and The charter of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 45 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: illuminated initial and three-quarter border on first page of text; three other illuminated initials with gold., Verse ownership inscriptions of Erkynwald Gyttyns on three back flyleaves, accompanied by pen trials and sketches., Ownership inscription of Francis Layton on verso of third front flyleaf., and Binding: eighteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Love, Nicholas, active 1410. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christ
- Creator:
- Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 493
- Image Count:
- 282
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Thomas Hoccleve, Complaint. 2) Hoccleve, Dialogue with a Friend. 3) Hoccleve, Tale of Jereslaus' Wife. 4) Prose moralization of the text in art. 3, preceded by a prologue in verse. 5) Hoccleve, How to Learn to Die. 6) Hoccleve, The Joys of Heaven, in prose, preceded by a prologue, in verse. 7) Hoccleve, Tale of Jonathas, preceded by prologue. 8) Prose moralization of the tale in art. 7. 9) John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre. 10) Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Written in a current mixed hand, Anglicana with Secretary forms, by a single scribe who wrote in a more cursive and compressed style of script for the prose sections of text., Blue initials, 6- to 2-line, for major text divisions, with several distinct styles of red flourishing. Headings and marginal notes in red; paragraph or stanza marks alternate red and blue. Written by a scribe who paid careful attention to the presentation of the text: stanzas are divided by red lines that extend width of written space; metrical arrangements are marked by brackets in red; notes are added, in red, in outer margins and preceded by blue paragraph marks that are often joined together to form a vertical wavy line. In addition, the scribe has also paid attention to minor ornamental features: decorative flourishes, mostly in red, have been added to many lower margins; ornamental ascenders in top line of text extend into upper margin and are often decorated with red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Tan pigskin, blind-tooled, with title, in gold, on spine: "Hoccleve/ Manuscript/ XV Cent." Edges spattered red.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Regiment of princes, etc
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 139
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript leaf, on parchment, containing portions of the life of Saint Mary of Egypt and the opening of the life of Saint Alphage
- Description:
- In Middle English., Leaf has been trimmed for use in a binding., Layout: single-column. Now 28 lines., Script: early Anglicana., and Decoration: rubricated.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > South English legendary (fragment)
- Creator:
- William, of Nassington, -1354
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 15
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 174
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing the text of William of Nassington's poem. The Speculum vitae is followed by several other devotional texts in prose and verse, including Walter Hilton's prose commentary on Qui habitat and Bonum est; and poems on Purgatory, the evils of covetousness, a prayer to Jesus, and two dialogues, one between Christ and Man, and the second between Christ and a sinner
- Description:
- In Middle English, with rubrics in Latin., Ownership inscription for the Francisan convent at Lichfield?, dated 1486., Layout: double columns of 50-58 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., and Binding: original wooden boards, rebacked.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- William, of Nassington, -1354. and Franciscans
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Purgatory
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Speculum vitae
- Creator:
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 331
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of 1) Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love. 2) Poem added, 16th century, by Richard Hutton. 3) Richard Rolle, The Mending of Life. 4) Verse life of John of Bridlington (d. 1379). Written in a Northern dialect; numerous marginal and interlinear notes in hands of 16th-17th centuries illustrate that the text was being read for comprehension in this period. Annotations include corrections (often by one individual on comments made by another), glosses on particular words, and whole passages transcribed in the margins
- Description:
- In English (Northern dialect)., Script: Written by a single scribe in bastard Secretary script. Marginal and interlinear glosses by several hands, 16th-17th centuries., Blue initials, 2-line, with elaborate pen-work flourishes, in red: zigzags along the margin and foliage designs in and around the body of letter. Underlining, initial strokes, and simple helical line-fillers, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original, wound sewing on seven small, double, tawed-skin supports laced into grooves on the inside of oak boards and pegged. Covered in pink, tawed skin with two strap-and-pin fastenings, flower-shaped pin bases on the lower board. Fastenings wanting and supports breaking. Original pastedowns from an antiphonal (England, 13th century) with parts of the office for Stephen at Matins and at Lauds; musical notation on 4-line red staves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fire of love, etc