- Published / Created:
- [between 1225 and 1275]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 115
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of text from a Brut chronicle in Anglo-Norman rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
- Description:
- Decoration: initial C in blue and initial Q in red., Formerly owned by Martin Schøyen (MS 650). From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: two columns of 39 lines., Script: gothic hand., and Stained and somewhat worn from use as a pastedown, with some later pen trials.
- Subject (Name):
- Schøyen, Martin--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature., Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character), Chronicles of England., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle (fragment).
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- Creator:
- Chartier, Alain, active 15th century.
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1455-1460; circa 1475]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1216
- Image Count:
- 288
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- "AA" (otherwise unidentified). Formerly owned by Louis-Jean Gaignat. Formerly owned by Louis de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière. Formerly owned by Abbé Lecuy. Formerly owned by Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Park). Ex libris Maurice Burrus. Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017., Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti., Byname: Clumber Park Chartier., Contents: Le quadrilogue invectif (1r-17r) -- Les complaintes des quatre dames (Le livre des quatre dames) (18r-38v) -- Lay de paix (39r-40v) -- Le livre d'esperance (41r-83r) -- Le breviaire des nobles (83r-86v) -- copy the rest from the thing in EC folder) get the format for the note from DCRMMSS and AMREMM, and Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.
- Subject (Name):
- Burrus, Maurice--Bookplate., Caulier, Achille., Chartier, Alain,--active 15th century., Dunois Master,--active 1430-1465., Ferrell, Elizabeth E, Ferrell, James K.--Ownership., Gaignat, Louis Jean,--1697-1768, Granson, Oton de,---1397., Gréban, Simon,---approximately 1473., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780, Lecuy, Abbé., Newcastle, Henry Pelham,--Duke of,--1811-1864, and Taillevent,--approximately 1315-1395.
- Subject (Topic):
- French literature--To 1500., French poetry--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Clumber Park Chartier
- Creator:
- Bracton, Henry de, -1268.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1275 and 1299]
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa53
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a portion of Bracton's treatise on English law.
- Description:
- A fuller description of the contents is found in Baker and Taussig, Catalogue (London: 2007), pp. 13-14., Annotated on f. 1 in the hand of Sir Thomas Phillipps: H. Bracton De Legibus Angliæ. From Sir G. P. Turner's Library. Phillipps MS 3097., Binding: nineteenth-century full russia, blind-stamped. Gilt title on spine: Bracton De Legibus Angliæ., Decoration: headings, paragraph marks, and running titles in red or blue; two-line initials throughout in red and blue; two large initials in red and blue., In Latin; one lengthy marginal annotation in Law French., Layout: double columns, 32 lines., Part of the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts (OSB MSS 184). Taussig catalog number: MS 82.12.7 (number 19 in main catalog numbering)., Previously owned by Sir Gregory Osborne Page Turner; Phillipps MS 3097; William Carr; W. J. Carr. Purchased from Anthony Taussig on the Hazel M. Osborn and the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Funds, 2012., Script: Gothic Textura., Some early marginalia. Lengthy annotation in Law French (ff. 182v-183) concerning a dictum by "Denam" (probably John or William de Denum)., and Title from incipit.
- Subject (Name):
- Bracton, Henry de,---1268. and Taussig, Anthony.
- Subject (Topic):
- Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ.
- Published / Created:
- [1500-1599]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 124
- Image Count:
- 216
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of annotated coats of arms for 177 members of the Knights of the Round Table. Each knight is represented by a coat of arms drawn in trick and followed by an explanation of each device and its appropriateness to that knight. The main text is preceded by a nine page text, "De l'invention des armes," and followed by a "Briefue narration de la table ronde."
- Description:
- Binding: eighteenth-century green velvet over boards; silver castle ornament mounted on front cover., Decoration: 177 pen and ink drawings in trick of coats of arms., Ex libris Edward Rowe Mores; Thomas Astle; Philip Hills; H. J. B. Clements; John MacDonnell. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: Single columns of varying length. Armorial entries begin with the name of the knight and a pen and ink drawing of his coat of arms in trick, followed by a descriptive paragraph,, Modern title page in English bound in before original title page., Ownership inscription of Philip Hills, 1785 December 21., Printed bookseller description pasted in on verso of rear flyleaf., and Script: secretary.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Arthur,--King--Early works to 1800., Astle, Thomas,--1735-1803--Ownership., Clements, Henry J. B.--(Henry John Beresford),--1869-1940--Bookplate., Hills, Philip,--1768-1830--Autograph., MacDonnell, John--Bookplate., and Mores, Edward Rowe,--1730-1778--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Arthurian romances--Dictionaries., Heraldry--Dictionaries., Heraldry--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devise des armes des chevaliers de la table ronde : lequels estoyent du tres renomme et verteux Artus Roy de la grand Bretaigne avecq la description de leurs armoires.
- Creator:
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1509 and 1525]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1201
- Image Count:
- 178
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
- Description:
- Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v., Ex libris Catherine d'Amboise; Remy Megret of the Premonstratensian abbey of Notre Dame de Thenailles in Douay. Previously owned by Allan Heywood Bright. Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Christie's London sale, 16 July 2014, lot 24) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Script: gothic bastarda., and Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r).
- Subject (Name):
- Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550, Bright, Allan Heywood--Ownership., Megret, Remy., and Megret, Remy--Autograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Allegories., Devotional literature, French--Early works to 1800., French prose literature--Early works to 1800., Illumination of books and manuscripts, French., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Repentance--Early works to 1800., Soul--Early works to 1800., Women authors, French., and Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La passe solitaire.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1275-1300]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 121
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript binding fragment, on parchment, of part of the text of Lancelot du Lac.
- Description:
- Accompanied by three unidentified manuscript fragments that were part of the 2002 sale lot., Decoration: illuminated initial with brown penwork., Script: gothic script., and Sotheby's 2002 June 18 sale, lot 4. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
- Subject (Name):
- Lancelot--(Legendary character)
- Subject (Topic):
- Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., Lancelot (Prose romance), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lancelot du lac (fragment)
- Creator:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter, undated, to Henry IV, King of England.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 99
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Livre du Lancelot du Lac: three miniatures.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 61
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 107
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Meliadus / Guiron le courtois (fragment).