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2.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment on paper of extracts from Laudabile sanctum. There follows on ff. 1r-7v an extended series of longer and shorter alchemical recipes and procedures, probably including excerpts from standard sources, a passage on transmutation, a brief account of the planets, etc., often with marginal captions. With a poem in English.
- Description:
- Binding: Parchment wrapper made from a bifolium of a late 13th-century French (or possibly English?) canon law manuscript written by two hands, one of them using a classical Littera parisiensis, the other slightly more rounded, the writing partly scraped away on what is now the front cover of the wrapper, the outer side of the lower cover with an inscription in a very large hand which has not been read., Script: Written by a single hand, very small (sometimes minute) and mostly very neat, using a good cursive italic for the Latin passages, and a secretary hand for the English, both sloping somewhat to the right., and Watermark: an extended hand with a five-pointed star extending on a stem from the middle finger, a quatrefoil (?) at the wrist, which is sharply cut off, the fingers partly articulated, of the type of Briquet 11341 and following, but more refined.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700, Formulas, recipes, etc, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
3.
- Creator:
- Ponet, John, 1516?-1556
- Published / Created:
- 1556
- Call Number:
- Me45 M333 D4
- Image Count:
- 92
- Description:
- Bound with Marcourt, Antoine de. A declaration of the Masse. Wyttenberge, 1547. and Imperfect: some head-lines and side-notes bled.
- Publisher:
- Christopher Froschauer I],
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An apologie fvlly avnsvveringe by scriptures and aunceant doctors : a blasphemose book gatherid by D. Steph. Gardiner, of late Lord Chauncelar, D. Smyth of Oxford, Pighius, and other Papists ...
4.
- Creator:
- Wilkins, John, 1614-1672
- Published / Created:
- 1668
- Call Number:
- F43 +W65
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- "An alphabetical dictionary, wherein all English works according to their various significations, are either referred to their places in the philosophical tables, or explained by such words as are in those tables": [157] p., with special title page. and Signatures: 2 l. unsigned, a-d2B-Z4Aa-Zz4Aaa-Mmm4 (Mmm4 blank) aaa4Aaa-Ttt4 (Ttt4 [blank?] wanting). Imperfect: lacks leaf Mmm4 (blank) and all plates and tables. With manuscript note on 1st preliminary leaf: "Eliphalet Adams. 1702/3 Donum D. Chip Medici."
- Publisher:
- Printed for Sa: Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal society,
- Subject (Name):
- Medici, D. Chip--Presentation inscription to E. Adams
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An essay towards a real character : and a philosophical language / by John Wilkins ...
5.
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 168
- Description:
- Imperfect: some pages removed; other pages mutilated with some loss of text., In four sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately., and Volume contains a mixture of foliation, pagination and unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons
6.
- Creator:
- Chauncy, Charles, 1592-1672
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book, 1631-1695
- Image Count:
- 189
- Description:
- In three sections according to orientation of text; each section paginated separately. and Volume contains unnumbered pages as well as text written in both directions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sermons --Early works to 1800 and Sermons, American --17th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chauncy family sermons
7.
- Creator:
- Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1670]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b420
- Image Count:
- 61
- Abstract:
- Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
- Subject (Name):
- Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book
8.
- Creator:
- Ogle, Richard, Sir, ca. 1554-1627
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn a40
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book. The work contains four sections. (1) "Loci animadvertendi in legendi epistolis, ad quos etia[m] om[n]ia quae annotaderis referenda sunt." This lists types of epistles under eight headings, or "libri," but the extensive framework is very incompletely annotated. (2) "Here are written divers notes phrases words & sentences collected out of severall bokes. 15 Novembr 1586. A[nn]o Reg.ie Eliz. 28." This is actually a seventeen-page selection from the "A Touchstone for the Time" section of George Whetstone's A Mirrour for Magistrates.... (London, 1584). It is preceded by a two-line entry quoting Mary Queen of Scots as saying at Fotheringay, "I come not as a criminal." (3) "Epistolae commendatiae Praecepta," summarizing extracts from the Epistolae of Paulus Manutius. (4) "Quaedam collecta ex liber The Breviarie of Health, compiled by Andrew Boorde." Eight pages of various entries in English from Boorde's work, including descriptions of and remedies for "scurffe," greensickness, "sikness of the prisones, "chappe," and nosebleed.
- Description:
- Binding: 18th century full calf, blind stamped, spine banded with gilt decorations., Bookplate: Maurice Johnson of Spalding, 1735., Bound with: 17th century manuscript on paper of legal precedents in a chancery hand. Most are from the reign of James I. The name "Richarde Wolfe" appears in an Italic hand on the last page., Ex libris Maurice Johnson. Purchased from Arthur Freeman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2002., In English and Latin., Several copies of prayers throughout in a later hand., Spine title reads, "M.S.S. 1586.", and Title page for volume (supplied by Johnson) in red and black lettering attributes the commonplace book to "Richardum Ogle Eq. Aur."
- Subject (Name):
- Manuzio, Paolo,--1512-1574 and Whetstone, George,--1544?-1587?
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--Great Britain, Medicine, Popular, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Rhetoric, Renaissance
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commonplace book, 1586.
9.
- Creator:
- Gardiner, Stephen, 1483?-1555
- Published / Created:
- xxvi. of Octobre. M.D.liii ...
- Call Number:
- Mhc5 G182 D32
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- A vindication of Henry VIII and his divorce from Catharine of Aragon., Bound with: An admonishion to the bishoppes of VVinchester. Roane, 1553. Bound with: VVhether Christian faith maye be kepte secret. Roane, 1553. Narcissus Luttrell's copy, with his manuscript ex-libris on fly-leaf., Errors in numbering of leaves., and Signatures: A8a4b-i8k4.
- Publisher:
- From Roane,
- Subject (Name):
- Luttrell, Narcissus--Ms. notes. and Luttrell, Narcissus--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Obedience--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De vera obediencia an oration made in Latine by the Ryghte Reuerend father in God, Stephan B. of VVinchestre, nowe lord chaũcellour of England, with the preface of Edmunde Boner ... : touchinge true obedience / printed at Hamburgh in Latine, in officina Fräcisci Rhodi. Mense Ia. M.D.xxxvi ; and nowe tr. into English and printed by Michal Wood ; with the preface and conclusion of the traunslatour.
10.
- Published / Created:
- 1694
- Call Number:
- Osborn fb143
- Image Count:
- 47
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
- Description:
- Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
- Subject (Name):
- Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
- Subject (Topic):
- Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Epitaphs collected 1694