- 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:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 12
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 460
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of the "extended version" of the Brut Chronicle
- Alternative Title:
- Chronicles of England
- Description:
- In Middle English., First leaf and end of text lacking., Layout: single columns with varying numbers of lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: sixteenth-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards. Later leather title tags on spine, gilt.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 140
- Container / Volume:
- file
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing portions of chapters 214 and 221 of the Middle English prose Brut
- Description:
- In Middle English., Marginal note indicates that these two leaves served as a wrapper for a copy of Gabriel Harvey's The trimming of Thomas Nashe., Layout: single-column, 29-32 lines., Script: secretary., and Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle (fragment)
- 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
- 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
- Creator:
- Hilton, Walter, -1396
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 3
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 363
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of Hilton's Scale of Perfection. Volume also contains the complete text of Hilton's brief tract, Of angels' song
- Description:
- In Middle English., Ownership inscription of John Price on recto of front flyleaf., Ownership inscription of Samuel Courthope Bosanquet on recto of second front flyleaf., Layout: single columns of approximately 30 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., and Binding: contemporary white tawed leather over wooden boards; remains of hardware. Modern case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Hilton, Walter, -1396.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Mysticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scale of perfection
- 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:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 16
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 116
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the treatise on hunting by Edward Plantagenet, second Duke of York
- Description:
- In Middle English., Presentation inscription from John Shirley to Richard Halsham follows the text., Ownership inscription of Sir Gregory Page-Turner on f. 1., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: full illuminated border on f. 1, with small illuminated initials at chapter openings (six of these have been cut away)., and Binding: nineteenth-century full blind-tooled diced russia.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English prose literature, Hunting, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The master of game
- Creator:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 141
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- In Middle English., Script: Anglicana., and Decoration: large initial "H" in red and blue penwork and other smaller initials in alternating red or blue.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, English prose literature, Hunting, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The master of game (fragment)