Legal document, in a professional hand, signed by the first Baron Lumley, containing an acquittance for 2500 pounds received from Edward Greville for the manor of Mickleton in Gloucestershire.
Description:
Attached seal (worn)., Docketed in later hands., Part of Phillipps MS 40459. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Signed: "Lumley.", and Signed: "Ric. Lewkenor."
Subject (Geographic):
Gloucestershire (England)--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Greville, Edward,--Sir,--1542-1616., Lewkenor, Richard,--1542-1616., Lumley, John Lumley,--Baron,--1534?-1609., and Lumley, John Lumley,--Baron,--1534?-1609--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Land tenure--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
BEIN Mey34 F83 +1563: Imperfect: t.p., dedication, calendar, and almanac (quire *6), and colophon-leaf (VVVV4) wanting and supplied in facsimile; woodcut mounted on E1 wanting and replaced by the one from the 1570 edition; some leaves frayed and repaired; some side notes bled. and Signatures: *6B-F6G-I8*I8*I*2**I*1K-Y6Aa-Tt6Vv8Xx-Yy6AA-YY6AAa-KKk6*KKk6LLl-YYy6AAA-YYY6AAAa-VVVv6*VVVv6XXXx-YYYy6AAAA-MMMM6NNNN8OOOO-PPPP6PPPP[symbol]1QQQQ-VVVV4.
Publisher:
by Iohn Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, [beneth Saynt Martins
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
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294 Freelove, Robert Jean, de Meun, d. 1305? Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent
Published / Created:
[ca. 1550]
Call Number:
Mellon MS 33
Image Count:
277
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
Description:
Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case., No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing., Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65., and Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
"The Epistle Dedicatorie" to Robert Dudley., A8, B-Z4, Aa-Cc4.(A1 and A2 (both unsigned) are conjugate; apparently a cancel for the original A1). 4to. 18.3 x 13 cm., In reply to A discouerie of I. Nicols minister, misreported a Iesuite, latelye recanted in the tower of London ..., generally ascribed to Robert Parsons., and Slightly stained; slightly wormholed. Folger Shakespeare Library.
Publisher:
Imprinted by Iohn wolfe, for Iohn Harrison, and Thomas manne, dwelling in Pater noster rowe, and are there to be folde,
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Church history --16th century
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church --History --16th century, Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?, and Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Discovery of I. Nichols minister.
Church of England, creator Church of England. Book of common prayer. Litany
Published / Created:
the XXVII day of May, the yere of our Lorde M.DXLVI [i.e. 1544?]. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum
Call Number:
Mzj141 1544
Image Count:
28
Alternative Title:
An exhortation unto praye
Description:
Probably an early printing of one of the editions of 1544 (Sayle 477), in which the error in date was corrected to 1544--cf., Signatures: A-B8C4., The Brand-Heber copy (Heber VI, 2753)., and Title within architectural border; black letter; the Litany printed in red and black.