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.
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
Manuscript on paper, incomplete, containing a catalogue of acts of Parliament from approximately 1488 to 1610 ("septimo Jacobi Reg."). Formerly part of a larger volume; the leaves are numbered 280-370.
Description:
Binding: disbound., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Script: secretary script.
Subject (Topic):
Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Session laws--England--
Autograph manuscript of a collection of pedigrees and genealogical charts, accompanied by many small illustrations of "arms in trick." Some of the pedigrees are taken from the Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire visitations of the early 1680s. An alphabetical index of the coats of arms represented preceeds the pedigrees.
Description:
Attributed to Robert Dale by Sir Thomas Phillipps in a pencil note on recto of front flyleaf. Several additional pages at the end of the Dale collection are attributed by Phillipps to Samuel Stebbing., Binding: nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards., Bound with: An Alphabetical List of Crest's copied from a list in the handwriting of Mr. Ra: Thoresby, late of Leeds, Antiquarian, which Manuscript was bought at the sale of his Library in London on 7th May 1763. Manuscript on paper in copperplate script, corrections in a different hand in red ink, 36 p., undated. Phillipps MS 13396., Ex libris George Macartney. Phillipps MSS 13394. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., and Spine title: Stemmata. List of Crests.
Subject (Name):
Dale, Robert,---1722., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., Stebbing, Samuel, -1719., and Thoresby, Ralph,--1658-1725.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians--Great Britain., Gentry--Great Britain., Gentry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Heraldry--Great Britain., Heraldry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., and Nobility--Great Britain.
Manuscript document, signed by William Fellow, Norroy King of Arms, granting Richard Revell of Shorlonglegge (Shirland) in Derbyshire a crest for his coat of arms.
Description:
Decoration: Portrait figure of Norrey King of Arms within the initial "T," in full color; illustration of Revell's coat of arms with the newly granted crest filling left margin, in full color; floral border, top and right margins, in full color., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single column of 20 lines., Script: secretary script., Seals of William Fellow and of the office of Norroy King of Arms suspended from document., and Signed: "Norrey King of Arms of the north."
Subject (Name):
College of Arms (Great Britain)--Early works to 1800., Fellow, William,---1546., and Revell, Robert,--1502-1555.
Subject (Topic):
Heraldry--England., Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Visitations, Heraldic--England.
Manuscript on paper of the inventory of the archives kept at Whitehall palace.
Description:
Binding: paper cover., Manuscript on paper of the inventory of the archives kept at Whitehall palace, the principal royal residence in London from 1530-1698., Many leaves blank; modern foliation does not include blanks., and Script: copied by various hands in Gothica Cursiva (Secretary). Many blank pages.
Subject (Name):
Whitehall Palace (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archives, Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript, on paper, in the hand of John Stow, of the opening section of John Leslie's Historie of Scotland. This copy ends in the middle of the account of the year 1512.
Description:
From the library of Sir Henry St. George. Phillipps MS 13761. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In English., Layout: single column of 46-48 lines., and Script: mixed cursive.
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland--History--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Leslie, John, 1527-1596. Historie of Scotland., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., St. George, Henry,--Sir,--1625-1715--Ownership., and Stow, John,--1525?-1605.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians--Great Britain., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Autograph manuscript, signed, on paper, of a list of many of the Knights of the Round Table and summaries of their histories as given in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Some entries are accompanied by pen and ink drawings of coats-of-arms. The work may have been modeled on Les devise des armes de chevaliers de la table ronde, published by Antoine Verard. Grimken's preface notes that he has not included "many faned and vaine taylles" and connects his interest in the Round Table with the archery fellowship founded by "Kynge Henry of fames memory," Prince Arthur's Knights. The preface concludes with "vivat Regina."
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt., Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil., Ex libris John Louis Goldsmid; ex libris Sir Isaac Heard; Phillipps MS 100. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26 lines each., and Script: secretary.
Subject (Name):
Arthur,--King--Early works to 1800., Goldsmid, John Louis,--1789-1835--Bookplate., Grinken, John., Heard, Isaac,--Sir,--1730-1822--Bookplate., and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Dictionaries., Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, in several different hands, of a compilation of grants of arms, pedigrees registered by the College of Arms, rules of precedence and orders of ceremonies, and related documents. Thought to have been largely compiled by John Philipot, Somerset Herald of Arms (1589?-1645), the volume contains copies of documents originally created between 1563 and 1688.
Description:
Binding: contemporary limp parchment; remains of ties., Contents preceded by "A Table of the Graunts of Armes contained in this booke" and "A Callender of what is contained in this Booke.", Formerly owned by Henry St. George; Phillipps MS 13762. On deposit from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Imperfect: wanting ff. 119, 162., In English, with a small amount of Latin., Printed bookseller's description pasted on inside front cover., and Title transcribed from front cover.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
College of Arms (Great Britain)--Early works to 1800., Philipot, John,--1589?-1645., Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership., and St. George, Henry,--Sir,--1625-1715--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Gentry--Great Britain., Gentry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Heraldry--Great Britain., Heraldry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieva