Bound with: An heauenly acte. [London] 1547. Ponet, John. An apologie. [Zürich] 1556. Munday, Anthony. A discouerie of Edmund Campion. London, 1582. and Signatures: A-D8(D8 blank).
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
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.
Aristotle Grouchy, Nicolas de, 1520-1572 Lhéritier, Catherine, d. 1558, printer Périon, Joachim, 1499?-1559
Published / Created:
1554
Call Number:
2009 1818
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
De anima. Latin
Description:
Extensive contemporary manuscript notes in a single hand throughout and on [39] p. at front and [10] p. at end. No. 2 of 4 works bound together. and Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁶ E⁴.
Manuscript on parchment containing 1) Benedictus XII papa (1334-1342), Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), c. 1, first part. 2) Benedictus XII papa, Constitutio pro reformatione Ordinis Cisterciensis (1335), cc. 1 (second part) - 42. 3) Statutes of the General Chapter of Cîteaux of 1335. 4) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Regularem vitam professis", 4 July 1335. 5) Benedictus XII papa, Bulla "Pastor bonus diligens", 17 June 1335. 6) Statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 24. 7) Part of the statute of the General Chapter of 1422, c. 23. 8) Carta caritatis, a later version of the original constitution of the Cistercian Order. 9) Statutes of the General Chapter of 1317, incomplete at the end: cc. 1-13.
Description:
Binding: Blind-tooled white parchment over wooden boards, decorated with fillets in a frame and lozenges pattern. Spine with two raised bands., Foliation s. XVII in ink 2-109, but ff. 37-39 are missing., Script: The original text (artt. 2-5, 8, 9) is probably copied by a single hand (A) writing a small Gothica Textualis/Semitextualis Libraria. The additional texts are copied in 16th century hands: artt. 1 and 6 in Gothica Hybrida Libraria by hand B, who wrote also the majority of the marginal notes and additions; art. 7 by hand C, who used a bold Humanistica Cursiva., and The additional texts are not decorated. The original parts have red headings, red paragraph marks, and red 2- or 3-line plain initials. Art. 2 opens f. 2r with a 7-line littera duplex with extensive penwork and extension in the inner margin in red and blue; art. 8 opens f. 42v with a 3-line flourished initial (Prologue) and a 4-line littera duplex with penwork, as in art. 2 (text). All initials are half inset and have guide letters in the margin.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Monasticism and religious orders
De partitione oratoria M.T. Ciceronis dialogvs and Partitiones oratoriae
Description:
From the collection of E.K. Schreiber (Firm). Ms. ownership inscriptions on t.p.: Ex conventu minimorum Romanens[is][?]. Bookplate on front pastedown: Sem. Maj. Valentin. Some ms. notes in margins (bled). Ms. remnants used in binding., Includes index., and Signatures: a-x⁸ y¹⁰.
Publisher:
Seb. Gryphium excudebat Lugduni,
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.--Partitiones oratoriae., E.K. Schreiber (Firm) Ownership., Gryphius, Sebastianus, 1493-1556, printer., Minims (Religious order) Ownership., Sem. Maj. Valentin Bookplate., Strébée, Jacques-Louis, d. ca. 1550., and Valla, Giorgio, 1447-1500.
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.
Delle cose antiche della citta di Roma. and Roman antiquities. Italian
Description:
From the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal. On slip tipped onto the free front endpaper is a note in an 18th cent. hand, probably by Matteo Luigi Canonici, stating that the extensive ms. notes are in the hand of Remigio Fiorentino [i.e. Remigio Nannini]., Imprint from colophon., Multiple folded untrimmed leaves., and Signatures: *⁴ A-4M⁴.
Publisher:
Per Nicolo Bascarini á instantia de miser Michel Tramezzino,
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--Antiquities. and Rome--History.
Subject (Name):
Bascarini, Niccolò, active 1541-1554, printer., Canonici, Matteo Luigi,--1727-1805--Ms. notes., Nannini, Remigio,--1521?-1581?--Ms. notes., Rosenthal, Bernard M.--Ownership., Tramezzino, Michele, -1579, printer., and Venturi, Francesco.