Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of annotated coats of arms for 177 members of the Knights of the Round Table. Each knight is represented by a coat of arms drawn in trick and followed by an explanation of each device and its appropriateness to that knight. The main text is preceded by a nine page text, "De l'invention des armes," and followed by a "Briefue narration de la table ronde."
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century green velvet over boards; silver castle ornament mounted on front cover., Decoration: 177 pen and ink drawings in trick of coats of arms., Ex libris Edward Rowe Mores; Thomas Astle; Philip Hills; H. J. B. Clements; John MacDonnell. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: Single columns of varying length. Armorial entries begin with the name of the knight and a pen and ink drawing of his coat of arms in trick, followed by a descriptive paragraph,, Modern title page in English bound in before original title page., Ownership inscription of Philip Hills, 1785 December 21., Printed bookseller description pasted in on verso of rear flyleaf., and Script: secretary.
Subject (Geographic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Arthur,--King--Early works to 1800., Astle, Thomas,--1735-1803--Ownership., Clements, Henry J. B.--(Henry John Beresford),--1869-1940--Bookplate., Hills, Philip,--1768-1830--Autograph., MacDonnell, John--Bookplate., and Mores, Edward Rowe,--1730-1778--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Dictionaries., Heraldry--Dictionaries., Heraldry--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment of a Devotional miscellany of a Celestine priest containing texts on the Passion and the Sacraments by Augustine, Jerome, John Chrysostom, Anselm, and Bernard, with prayers, hymns, and other anonymous texts.
Description:
Numerous errors in contemporary foliation.
Subject (Name):
Celestines, Jerome,--Saint,--d. 419 or 20, Jesus Christ--Passion, and John Chrysostom,--Saint,--d. 407
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Sacraments--Catholic Church
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