Letter signed, on parchment, from Pope Leo X to Cardinal Albrecht (Albert) of Brandenburg concerning the appointment of Marino Caracciolo as papal nuncio to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. The body of the letter is in the hand of Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe.
Description:
Formerly owned by Mark Lansburgh. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of five lines., and Script: italic cursive.
Subject (Name):
Albrecht,--of Brandenburg, Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, Cardinal,--1490-1545., Arrighi, Ludovico degli,--approximately 1480-1527., Caracciolo, Marino., Charles--V,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1500-1558., Lansburgh, Mark--Ownership., and Leo--X,--Pope,--1475-1521.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, Papal States., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Papal nuncios.
Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, 1526-1586.
Published / Created:
1560 September 10.
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 128
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Letter, signed, thanking Queen Elizabeth for conferring the Order of the Garter on him. The Duke apologizes in advance for his absence from the ceremony, owing to his war with the Swedes, and requests that he be represented by Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Description:
Annotated with probable catalog number (Phillipps?): 33068., In Latin., Layout: single column of 14 lines., On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Script: Italic., Seal: pendant red wax seal of Duke Adolf., and Signed: "Adolf Holsatia Dux," with monogram SH as the initial letter of the second word.
Subject (Geographic):
England--Foreign relations--Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)--Foreign relations--England.
Subject (Name):
Adolf,--Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf,--1526-1586., Elizabeth--I,--Queen of England,--1533-1603., Essex, Walter Devereux,--Earl of,--1541-1576., and Order of the Garter.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Orders of knighthood and chivalry.
Joan of Navarre, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of England, 1370?-1437.
Published / Created:
[ca. 1402]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 118
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript letter, on parchment, in a Chancery hand, containing a petition by Joan of Navarre to her husband, King Henry IV of England, for the right of the Aurum Reginae, revenues alloted to the queen of England out of fees for offices or franchises paid to the king.
Description:
Accompanied by: transcript, on paper, in a 17th century italic hand., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 10 lines., Script: Chancery hand., and Two endorsements, on verso, in a different contemporary hand, one of which notes the grant of the Aurum Reginae to Joan at Eltham on the Tuesday after Epiphany, 13 Henry IV (1412).
Subject (Name):
Henry--IV,--King of England,--1367-1413. and Joan of Navarre,--Queen, consort of Henry IV,--King of England,--1370?-1437.
Subject (Topic):
Kings and rulers., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Taxation--England--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on paper of Georgicorum, Aeneidos et Bucolicorum Vergilii vocabula, an alphabetical compilation of words used by Virgil (and other authors), with their explanations, based on the Virgil commentary by Servius (4th-5th centuries). With two Latin and two Italian proverbs, and an Italian poem (10 verses).
Description:
Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards (worm-eaten), spine with three raised bands; both covers blind-tooled with a frame of strapwork; in its interior two horizontal rows of quadrangular stamps at the top and at the bottom (a rosette and a Pascal Lamb) and a lozenge-shaped central part of the same strapwork. Five pointed brass bosses on each cover (together eight of them are preserved) and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover by means of two nails with engraved heads; the quadrangular brass catches on the rear cover are engraved with a Pascal Lamb., In art. 3 the opening letter of each lemma is a pale red 1-line capital projecting into the left margin. Each new alphabetical section begins with a 2- or 3-line capital alternately in red and blue (with a guide letter in the left margin), placed within the text area and followed by a black capital. Between the sections a space of two or three lines is left free., MS 108 in the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (CA). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., and Script: Art. 3 copied by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The title on the first front flyleaf (art. 1) is by another hand writing a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (the same hand wrote the beginning of the alphabet on the facing pastedown). Art. 2 is copied by an unexperienced hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens, but the date and the first line are by another hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Subject (Name):
Servius,--active 4th century. and Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Scholia.
Manuscript volume, on paper, containing two secular vernacular romances attributed in the dedication to a single unidentified author. The first, I Nobili Fatti di Alessandro Magno, is an Italian translation of the Latin version of the life of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes. The second text is The Romance of Troas. Troas, a descendant of Hector, is the king of Thessaly; his son Troiano journeys to Britain and joins the army of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, who is leading an army of Britons, Trojans and Romans against the Greeks.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked., Bookplate of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front pastedown; Phillipps MS number inscribed on recto of f1., Decoration: Rubricated (ff. 1-91 only)., Formerly owned by Alessandro dale Carte; Sir Edward Dering. Phillipps MS 23252 On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of variable length., Modern binder's blanks at front [15] and back [15] not digitized., Ownership inscription and drawing of arms of Alessandro dale Carte on rear flyleaf., and Script: Italian cursive bookhand.
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Legends.
Subject (Name):
Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Early works to 1800., Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Legends., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate., and Pseudo-Callisthenes.--Historia Alexandri Magni.--Itailian & Latin
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Italian prose literature--To 1700., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Uther Pendragon (Legendary
Three miniatures, on vellum, from the copy of the Livre du Lancelot du Lac illustrated by the Dunois Master. They depict: 1) the Duke of Clarence and esquire, meeting a knight cutting off a woman's hair; 2) King Baudemagnus leading the battle against the Romans; 3) Lancelot's arrival at the city of Gorre.
Description:
Binding: individually mounted. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Name):
Lancelot--(Legendary character)
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances in art., Arthurian romances in art--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin.
Description:
Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800., English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript bifolium, in a single hand, containing text from chapters 34, 35, and 39 of this prose romance.
Description:
Decoration: Rubricated. Three-line initials in gold against blue and rose grounds., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 52 lines., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--To 1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Méliadus de Léonnoys.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of the text of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi. Interpolated is an anonymous Middle English translation of the Meditationes de passione Christi.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century vellum., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork; six initials in red., Layout: single columns of 24 lines., Ownership inscription of Sir John Gage on f. 126., Previously owned by the Gage family. Ex libris Viscount Gage. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Gage, Henry Raynald Gage,--Viscount,--1895-1982--Bookplate., Gage, John,--Sir,--1479-1556--Autograph., Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi., Love, Nicholas,--active 1410., and Love, Nicholas,--active 1410.--Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Love's translation of the Meditationes vitae Christi.
Description:
All corners repaired, not affecting main text block. Approximately 34 missing leaves; replaced by manuscript copies of the missing text in a modern cursive., Binding: nineteenth-century blind-tooled brown morocco., Decoration: rubricated. Some marginal note initials in blue with red penwork., Ex libris Harry Keryng of Rede; Robert Doraunt; St. John's Cathedral Church, Colchester; Lord Aldenham (Henry Hucks Gibbs); J. P. R. Lyell; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence (MS 9). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Includes bibliographic note and Vol. 4 No. 5 of Monthly Notes of The Library Association of the United Kingdom, dated May 15, 1883, at end., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Ownership., Dourant, Robert--Autograph., Gibbs, Henry Hucks,--1819-1907--Bookplate., Johannes, de Caulibus, active 14th century. Meditationes vitae Christi., Love, Nicholas,--active 1410., Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871---Bookplate., and St. John's Cathedral Church (Colchester, England) Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.