- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 9
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork., Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas., Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read., Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11., and Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrolabes, English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A treatise on the astrolabe
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 317
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional writings
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 45
- Container / Volume:
- Broadside
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of text from the "Lyfe of Sylvester" in the Gilte Legende
- Description:
- In Middle English., From Takamiya MS 45: Doheny Collection of single leaves., Layout: double columns of forty lines., Script: English bookhand., and Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Saints
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gilte legende
- Published / Created:
- 1433 June 14.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 133
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Sir John Fastolf to purchase lands in Norwich from Richard Sellyng, who owned them through the inheritance of his wife Alice Heilsdon
- Description:
- In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Burdon.", Endorsed on the verso in the hand and with the ownership mark of Sir Edward Dering., and Layout: single column of 13 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Fastolf, John, 1378?-1459. and Sellyng, Richard, -1467.
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Indenture between Sir John Fastolf and Richard Sellyng
- Published / Created:
- 1446 March 1.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 134
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Thomas Tuddenham to sell his lands at Alestaneswyck (possibly Stanwick St. John, North Yorkshire) to Edward Grimston for 400 marks, to be paid over 3 years. The contract also specifies that a manor in Suffolk will be surety for the purchase of these entailed lands
- Description:
- In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: sign manual of Edward Grimston at end of text., Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Brampton.", Docketed in a later hand., Seal: red wax seal with the crest of Edward Grimston (damaged)., Layout: Single column of fifteen lines., and Script: anglicana.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Yorkshire (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Grimston, Edward, -1478. and Tuddenham, Thomas, 1401-1462.
- Subject (Topic):
- Entail, Land tenure, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Indenture between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston
- Creator:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 101
- Image Count:
- 122
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Edward, the second Duke of York, Master of Game
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a careful English secretary script., Gold initials, 3-line, on blue and dark pink grounds with white highlights mark text divisions. Headings and marginal chapter references, in red, throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown skin, flesh side out, blind-tooled, over paper boards. Front cover detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and York (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Hunting, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Master of game
- Published / Created:
- between 1400 and 1450.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 40 vault
- Image Count:
- 104
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, written on paper (leaves 1-92) and parchment (leaves 93-102). Contains medical recipes and lists of herbs in Middle English (incipit: Here begynne goode medecynes; ff. 5-71), French provers in verse (incipit: Ce sont les proverbes des philosophes), Macer's De virtutibus herbarum (ff. 76-92), Honorius Augustodunensis' Imago mundi (f. 93-100).
- Alternative Title:
- Medical recipes [in English] ; Imago mundi de Asia, Africa et Europa: Asia a regiam [in Latin] and Imago mundi de Asia
- Description:
- In Middle English, Middle French, and Latin., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: gothic cursiva., Decoration: some two-line initials in red ink. Rubrication., Layout: single column of 48-56 lines., Binding: contemporary wooden boards portion of back cover missing., and Watermark is a variant of Briquet 5353 (Bologna 1432) and Briquet 5351 (Sienna 1410).
- Subject (Topic):
- Cosmology, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Medical recipes. Imago mundi... [etc.]
- Published / Created:
- 1421 August 20.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 132
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing a quitclaim by John Burgh, parson of Huish Champflower in Somerset, releasing his rights in the lands and tenements of John Badyngton of Somerset
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single column of 9 lines., and Script: secretary script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Somerset (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Quitclaim by John Burgh
- Published / Created:
- between 1350 and 1450.
- Call Number:
- Manuscript 27 vault
- Image Count:
- 168
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
- Description:
- In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
- Subject (Topic):
- Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Receipts in physic and surgery
- Published / Created:
- 1492 May 11.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 135
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Indenture, on parchment, in a single hand, containing a sale and quitclaim deed by Thomas Hatfield of Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire, "Squyer" of all rights, title, rents and service from lands in Reddreth in Guilden Morden to George Nicholl, "cytezen and Scryvaner of London."
- Description:
- In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: document signed by the scribe, Gardyner., Layout: single column of 25 lines., and Script: secretary script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Cambridgeshire (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sale and quitclaim agreement between Thomas Hatfield and George Nicholl