Manuscript copy, on parchment, in several scribal hands, of this English ordinary of arms, containing approximately 1600 coats of arms in full color, with descriptive annotations. The manuscript also contains approximately 300 shields outlined but left blank. This manuscript is the oldest recorded copy of the Queen Margaret version of this text.
Description:
Autograph and notes by Sir Syndey Cockerell on front flyleaf; autograph of Brian S. Cron on front flyleaf., Binding: contemporary binding of reversed white leather over wooden boards., Contemporary foliation omits ff. 11-12, 78-79, Decoration: coats of arms in full color; some initials in red or blue., Ex libris Sir Sydney Cockerell; ex libris Brian S. Cron., Layout: coats of arms arranged in three rows of four on each page, with descriptive notes above each., and Script: cursive bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle,--Sir,--1867-1962--Autograph. and Cron, B. S.--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry--Dictionaries., Heraldry--England., Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Re
Manuscript leaves, on parchment, in a single hand, containing lines 8198-8405 and 9612-9811 of this fourteenth-century religious poem.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red and blue., Ex libris Hermann Suchier. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of varying lengths., and Script: bâtarde script.
Subject (Name):
Guillaume,--de Deguileville,--active 14th century. and Suchier, Hermann,--1848-1914--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
French poetry--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time., In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., and Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law--Great Britain, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Four manuscript fragments from three leaves containing text from Version III of the Roman de Tristan.
Description:
Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renai, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment of Pope Nicholas IV, Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis (Papal Bull Supra Montem, issued 17 August 1289), in French translation.
Description:
Binding: Early, white deerskin over pasteboard, spine with four raised bands. Marks of two leather ties., Red underlining; paragraph marks alternately red and blue, and line fillers in the same colours. A few 1-line flourished versals, and 2-line flourished initials alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting colour, at the head of all chapters. A 3-line flourished initial in the same colours at the beginning of the Prologue, f. 2r., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Formata, careful but not without inconsistencies. A scribe with initials “F.R.” is not attested.
Subject (Name):
Franciscans and Nicholas--IV,--Pope,--1227-1292
Subject (Topic):
Bulls, Papal, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Monasticism and religious orders, and Third orders
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Instructions for a nun, addressed as "ma devote fille", by a priest, containing extensive Latin quotations, followed by their French translations, from the Bible, St. Augustine, St. Bernard, Cesarius of Arles, St. Gregory the Great, Isidore of Seville, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, Macrobius, Origen, Richard of St. Victor ("ung docteur nommé Richart"), Seneca, Thomas Aquinas. 2) The Passion according to the Gospel of St. John, as read in the office of Good Friday (Jn. 18:1-40; 19:1-42), to be read when a nun is dying, in French translation.
Alternative Title:
Instructions for a nun and the Passion according to St. John
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blue mottled paper over cardboard., Headings and stroking of majuscules in red., Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria/Currens., Watermark: Crowned Lily, var. Briquet 7252 (mostly 1468-1477)., and Written in campo aperto in one column, 20-23 lines.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, French, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Women--Religious life
Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings.
Description:
Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., Foliation provided by cataloger., Formerly owned by William Elwys; Edward Bennett; T. Butler; Colin Franklin. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., and Script: several secretary scripts.
Subject (Name):
Elwys, William--Autograph., England.--Parliament., and Franklin, Colin--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.