- Creator:
- Meghen, Peter, scribe
- Published / Created:
- 1502
- Call Number:
- Osborn a50
- Image Count:
- 300
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, containing copies of several treatises: 1) Tractatus de Sacramento Corpus Christi, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (ff. 1-26); 2) De Vero Sapientia, Dialogus I and II, attributed here to Petrarch (now believed to be by Nicholas of Cusa) (ff. 27-50v); 3) De Invidia, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a sermon by Basil the Great, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 51-63); 4) De invidia et odio, Niccolò Perotti's translation of a work by Petrarch, with a preface addressed to Pope Nicholas V (ff. 63v-68v); 5) De fortuna virtute ve nominum: ad Nicolaum quintum pontificem maximum, by Niccolò Perotti (69-73v); 6) Epistle LXVII to Simplician, by St. Ambrose (ff. 74-79v); 7) Ex sermonibus quadragesimalibus: Sermone de correctione fraterna, by Leonardo di Utino, O.P. (80-86v); 8) Speculum regis Edwardii tercii, attributed here to Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury (now recognized as the work of William Pagula) (ff. 87-148, with skip from 89 to 100); 9) De tenenda obedientia et evitanda superbia, by St. Augustine (ff. 148-152).
- Description:
- In a Humanistica script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England--Economic conditions--1066-1485
- Subject (Name):
- Meghen, Peter,--scribe
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Moral and theological treatises copied for Christopher Urswick].
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- Creator:
- Mandeville, John, Sir
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a55
- Image Count:
- 156
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Middle English text of the Book of Sir John Mandeville, probably related to the "Defective Version." Biblical quotations in Middle English on f63v-f64v.
- Alternative Title:
- Itinerarium. English
- Description:
- Annotation, in a later hand, on f1r: Sir John Mandevile's Travails., Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, gilt. Spine label reads: Mandevil's travails., From the collection of John Theyer; from the collection of John Barwick of Charing; ex libris Walter Sneyd; ex libris Sir Thomas Brooke; from the collection of Sir John Arthur Brooke (Sotheby's London sale 25 May 1921, lot 921); from the collection of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth (Sotheby's London sale 15 October 1945, lot 2023). Purchased from Martayan Lan Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011., Opening illuminated initial with ivy-leaf sprays into margins and 17 blue initials with extensive red penwork flourishing. Three contemporary or near-contemporary marginal drawings, one with color wash, of manicula., Script: cursive anglicana hand in brown ink; 32 lines per page., Side notes and notation marks in various hands, 15th-17th century., Sir John Mandeville is the suppositious author of the "travel" book known as the Book of Sir John Mandeville, or Mandeville's Travels. Written in the 14th century in Anglo-Norman French, it was widely popular and thought to be an accurate account of a knight's journey through Europe, the Middle East and Asia., and Title supplied by cataloger.
- Subject (Name):
- Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership, Mandeville, John,--Sir, Sneyd, Walter,--1809-1888--Bookplate, and Theyer, John,--1597-1673--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Sir John Mandeville's travels]
- Published / Created:
- 1568
- Call Number:
- Hfa5 851
- Collection Title:
- Renaut de Montauban (Chanson de geste)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Collection Created:
- A Lyon : Par Francois Arnoullet,
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Title page with woodcut of knights, "quatre fils Aimon"]
- Published / Created:
- 1567
- Call Number:
- Mellon Alchemical 39
- Collection Title:
- La geomance dv seigneur Christofe de Cattan ... Liure non moins plaisant & recreatif, que
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Subject (Name):
- Pythagoras
- Subject (Topic):
- Geomancy
- Collection Created:
- A Paris, Pour Iean Corrozet, au premier pillier de la grand salle du Palais, deuant la chambre des Consultations,
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Title within ornamental border]
- Published / Created:
- 1562
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 40
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of an untitled Kunstbuechlein containing hundreds of recipes for a variety of alchemical processes, chiefly metallurgical.
- Description:
- Foliation in first section almost entirely illegible, Foliation of volume is difficult due to both mutilated and missing leaves., On first flyleaf recto: an elaborate pen-drawing of a double coat of arms, probably of a husband and wife of minor German noble families, which may be seen in the photographic reproduction. Above the left coat are the letters ""I.W.G.W."" and above the right, ""I.W.D.G.,"" while the date ""1.5.6.2."" is written below and between the letters., On the first end flyleaf recto (numbered f. 155) is a table of alchemical symbols possibly by the original copyist., Paper codex., and Standing in a slight landscape with ruined buildings below and between the two coats of arms is a female figure seen in left profile wearing a long dress; in her lowered right hand she holds a banner which bears an inscription: ""Mich beisst der Floch"" [sic], apparently for ""Floh"", i.e., ""The flea bites me""; her left hand has raised the skirt of her dress and is concealed beneath it.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Untitled Kunstbuechlein]
256.
- Published / Created:
- 1581?
- Call Number:
- 2004 Folio 20
- Collection Title:
- Opera astrologica perpetva ridotta secondo la nvova riforma dell'anno. Per la qvale ciascvno
- Image Count:
- 1
- Collection Created:
- Roma?, 1581
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Volvelle] Sfera facile per trovare in ogni tempo sia passato presete, et fvtvroli segni celesti ascedetlet...
257.
- Creator:
- Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?
- Published / Created:
- 1539 October 23
- Call Number:
- Osborn a35
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service. and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household.
- Description:
- Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000., In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family; not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Draycott, Eleanor, Fitzjames family, and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholics--England, Decedents' estates--England, Inheritance and succession--England, Manors--England, Material culture--England, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Prayers for the dead, Saints--Cult, and Wills
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Will], 1539 Oct 23.
- Published / Created:
- 1526
- Call Number:
- Idz +d526
- Collection Title:
- Here begynneth the boke of Fame, made by Geffray Chaucer : with dyuers other of his workes
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Manuscript inscription above woodcut
- Collection Created:
- [Colophon: Imprinted at London : in Fletestrete by Richarde Pynson, [1526?]]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Woodcut illustration with botanical, natural, and religious imagery surrounding a shield]