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1. Canterbury tales.
- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425-1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 32
- Image Count:
- 366
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, containing the text of Chaucer's Canterbury tales; selections from the Confessio amantis of John Gower; and the anonymous poems Speculum misericordis, The adulterous Falmouth squire, Partenope of Blois, The vision of Tundale, and The gast of Guy.
- Description:
- Binding: nineteenth-century full red morocco., Byname: Delamere Chaucer., Decoration: blue and red penwork initials., Ex libris Hugh Cholmondeley, Baron Delamere; Boies Penrose. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 39-44 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400., Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley,--Baron,--1870-1931--Ownership., Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis., and Gower, John,--1325?-1408.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Narrative po
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canterbury tales.
2. Canterbury tales.
- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440-1460]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 24
- Image Count:
- 588
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. John Lydgate's Life of St. Margaret follows the Chaucer text.
- Description:
- Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco., Bookplate: Chatsworth., Byname: Devonshire Chaucer., Decoration: full illuminated border on first page of text, including large portrait initial of author; other illuminated initials with decorated borders and elaborate penwork initials., From the collections of Sir Edmund Knyvett; John Walpole; Thomas Skarlet; Sir Henry Spelman; Hamon L'Estrange; George Mason; John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe; William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, and his descendants. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 39-42 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400., Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish,--Duke of,--1790-1858--Bookplate., Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Life of St. Margaret., and Lydgate, John,--1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Canterbury tales.
3. Chronicle of the kings of England.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1275, ca. 1435]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 35
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England.
- Description:
- Binding: modern case., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column., and Script: two gothic bookhands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
- Subject (Name):
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of the kings of England.
4. Chronicle of the kings of England.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 52
- Image Count:
- 12
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, in a single hand, of the complete text of this anonymous verse chronicle. This version includes a brief chronicle in Latin prose.
- Description:
- Binding: modern case., Decoration: numerous roundels containing crowns., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Middle English, with a small addition in Latin., Layout: single column., and Script: English cursive bookhand.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Chronology.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chronicle of the kings of England.
5. Confessio amantis.
- Creator:
- Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1393]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 98
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis.
- Description:
- Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment), Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines), Script: formal bastard anglicana., and Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John,--1325?-1408.--Confessio amantis.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Med, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio amantis.
6. Herbal in prose and verse.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 46
- Image Count:
- 114
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, containing an herbal in prose and verse. The volume opens with two Middle English poems, showing traces of East Anglian dialect, describing a variety of herbs and their medicinal properties, as well as accepted cures and prescriptions for a number of ailments. These are followed by Middle English and Latin prose texts also concerning herbal medicine.
- Description:
- Binding: modern vellum boards., Decoration: some initials, headings and words in red ink., Laid in: parchment fragment probably recovered from earlier binding., Layout: single columns of 33 lines., On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Herbals--Early works to 1800., Herbs--Therapeutic use--Early works to 1800., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herbal in prose and verse.
7. Ihesu lorde that madyste me.
- Creator:
- Richard, of Caistre.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 17
- Image Count:
- 34
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Richard de Caistre's popular hymn.
- Description:
- Binding: modern full red morocco., Bound with Fifteen Joys of Our Lady., Decoration: red and blue penwork., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 20 lines., and Script: gothic liturgical script.
- Subject (Name):
- Richard,--of Caistre.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., Hymns, English--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 > Ihesu lorde that madyste me.
8. Medical and alchemical miscellany.
- 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.
9. Mirour of mans salvacioune.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 97
- Image Count:
- 144
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of the English verse translation of this work of popular theology and devotional meditation.
- Alternative Title:
- Speculum humanae salvationis. English, Middle (ca. 1100-1500)
- Description:
- Binding: nineteenth-century full brown morocco, gilt., Decoration: some initials, line fillers, underlining, in red ink., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Script: gothic bookhand., and Some errors in contemporary foliation.
- Subject (Name):
- Foyle, William A.--(William Alfred),--1885-1963--Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian life--Early works to 1800., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., and Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mirour of mans salvacioune.