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
Followed by short chapters on the description and preparation of medicines, pastes and drinks. and On the body and sickness. Ends abruptly in Maqālah 7, faṣl 43 (of 60).
Description:
According to most sources, Hippocrates did not write a work with this title; Dioscurides did, but the text differs from the present one., May be later than sixteenth century., Purchased from Hassan Sami in 1991 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Water-stained and badly worm-eaten, affecting text., and With: 1 other title.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
13
Abstract:
Commentary on the author's own al-Risālah al-zawrāʾ (a Sufi tract). and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 14 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., Sparse marginalia., and Title supplied by a modern hand in laid-in slip.
Subject (Name):
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13. Risālah al-zawrāʾ. and Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad,--1426 or 7-1512 or 13.--Risālah al-zawrāʾ.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 7-1512 or 13.
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
5
Abstract:
Copied in Constantinople about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525)., Essay in praise of the reed pen., and Preceded by 1 page of notes.
Alternative Title:
Risālat al-yarāʻah.
Description:
Alternate title: Risālat al-yarāʻah., Hasty nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 13 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355?
Published / Created:
[1525]
Call Number:
Arabic MSS 550
Image Count:
3
Abstract:
Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525). and Tract on the expression of ideas.
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 9 of 15 titles bound together., and Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund.
Commentary on al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah (on the expression of ideas) of ʻAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī. and Copied about A.H. 931 (A.D. 1525).
Description:
Fair nastaʻlīq., Islamic binding, in brown., No. 8 of 15 titles bound together., Purchased from Captain Tekeş, Istanbul in February 1965 on the Beinecke fund., and The ḥamdalah is the same as in Berlin catalog 5311 (7) (variant form of al-Qūshjī's commentary) but the incipit is different.
Subject (Name):
Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355? Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. and Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad,--d. 1355?--Risālah al-waḍʻīyah.