- Creator:
- Cockerell, Douglas, binder
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa1
- Image Count:
- 402
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
- Description:
- Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio Amantis (Middle English poem)
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- Published / Created:
- [1337?]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a37
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Documents on parchment of a process brought before Parliament ina property dispute between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory ofCoventry. and Parchment scroll of a process brought before Parliament in a property dispute between Queen Isabella de France and the Priory of Coventry.
- Alternative Title:
- Processus super quibusdam demonstracionibus et peticionibus prioris de Couentre et peticione domine Isabelle regine Anglie exhibitis coram domino rege in parliamento suo apud Westmonasterium, 1336.
- Description:
- Formerly "Osborn Rolls 2." and In Latin and Law French.
- Subject (Name):
- Coventry Priory--History, Edward--III,--King of England,--1312-1377, England and Wales.--Parliament, and Isabella,--Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England,--1292-1358
- Subject (Topic):
- Benedictines--England--Coventry and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Processus super quibusdam demonstracionibus et peticionibus prioris de Couentre et peticione domine Isabelle regine Anglie exhibitis coram domino rege in parliamento suo apud Westmonasterium, 1336.
- Published / Created:
- 1586
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa10
- Image Count:
- 47
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
- Description:
- Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, Cursive script., Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text., On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name ""John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."", Pages not numbered consecutively., Several blank pages throughout., and The margins contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
- Subject (Name):
- Accursius, glossator, ca. 1182-ca. 1260, Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
- Subject (Topic):
- Babington Plot, 1586 and Digesta. English & Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Babington Plot
- Creator:
- Boethius, d. 524
- Published / Created:
- Early 12th century
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 870
- Container / Volume:
- I-IV
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Alternative Title:
- Commentaria in Topica Ciceronis
- Description:
- Double columns on single page with diagrams., Imperfect: mutilated with loss of text., Manuscript fragment on parchment., and With: In Timaeum Platonis, by Calcidius; manuscript on parchment.
- Subject (Name):
- Calcidius. In Platonis Timaeum commentarius, Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Topica, and Plato. Timaeus
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Topica Ciceronis
- Creator:
- Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311
Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?
Ripley, George, d. 1490? - Published / Created:
- circa 1570
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 41
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper roll of George Ripley (?), Alchemy, in English verse, with additional verses attributed to Richard Carpenter. With Arnold of Villanova, Visio mystica, anonymously translated into English.
- Alternative Title:
- Ripley scroll
- Description:
- One roll with multiple illustrated sheets. and Paper rotulus consisting originally of thirteen folio sheets and half-sheets of differing lengths glued together, averaging 540 mm. in width (lateral margins and broad bordering line in black ink partly trimmed away), slightly defective with small losses at beginning and end; now cut into thirteen sections measuring about 435 x 540 each, except for the last which measures 625 x 540.
- Subject (Name):
- Ripley, George,--d. 1490?
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy, Astrology, and Occultism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Emblematic Alchemy in English verse, with an English version of the Visio mystica of Arnold of Villanova]
- Published / Created:
- [second quarter 14th century] and s. XIV^^2
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 3.34
- Container / Volume:
- No. 34
- Image Count:
- 54
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium and rhetorical works (23 pieces).
- Description:
- "The recovery of a fifteenth-century schoolmaster's book": Beinecke MS 3, no. 34, Voights and Shailor: Yale University Library Gazette, LX, (1985) pp. 11-31. and Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a binding.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language -- Grammar
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Grammar Handbook]