Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana formata script, produced in southern England around 1450
Description:
In English., Decorations include initials with gold, blue, and red at chapter beginnings., The text begins at line 32, "And no quyk creature bot thay." Lines 3672-3742 are missing at blank f. 55. Lines 9479-9614 are missing between ff. 138 and 139., and Binding: leather over boards, seventeenth century.
Manuscript on paper of The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle, attributed to Dame Juliana Berners
Description:
In Middle English., Watermarks: unidentified hand., Script: Written by a single scribe in a bold English secretary script., Simple flourishes and initial strokes, in red., Stains throughout, some obscuring text. Severe trimming has resulted in loss of marginalia., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Russia leather, gold-tooled, by C. Lewis in 1823. Rebacked.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Fishing, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of astrological information and a treatise on the signs of the zodiac, including lists of activities appropriate for each sign, and descriptions of the characteristics of those born under the influence of different planets
Description:
In Middle English., Tipped in: astrological chart, on paper, for the years 1646-1664., Layout: single columns of 17-25 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: some capitals and words rubricated., and Binding: nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Astrology, and English prose literature
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Christian literature, English (Middle), Humility--Religious aspects--Christianity, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of the Wycliffite New Testament. Begins imperfectly in Matthew 3.4 and breaks off at 1 Timothy 1.15; also missing Romans 9.22 to 1 Corinthians 1.23 (2 bifolios lost after f. 73). Contains the Gospels without prologues, and the Epistles with prologues. The text has been altered in places by a near contemporary hand that has written over erasures. Since the alterations correspond to those adopted in the later edition of John Purvey, MS 125 may reflect an intermediate stage between the Wycliffite Bible and Purvey's version
Description:
In Middle English., Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe who carefully corrected his errors; changes by at least one nearly contemporary and one later writer., Blue initials, 10- to 4-line, with extensive penwork designs in red, introduce each chapter. Headings, running titles, and underlining in red; paragraph marks in red or blue., Bookblock chewed by rodent in upper right corner; margins of many leaves trimmed resulting in some loss of text, marginalia, and catchwords., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown leather, flesh side out, blind-tooled. A black calf spine, gold-tooled, added.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand: a leaf from the table of readings at the beginning or end of a Wycliffite New Testament. The text is from the Sanctoral, from the feast of the Purifcation to the feast of St. Mark
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: single columns of 36 lines., Script: small gothic bookhand., Decoration: headings in red, capitals in red and blue., and Binding: Inlaid into a large paper leaf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Matthew's gospel and the Book of Acts from the "Early Version" of the Wycliffe Bible by Nicholas Hereford and his collaborators. The final page of the manuscript is added in a sixteenth-century secretary script
Description:
In Middle English., Ownership inscription of James West, 1732, on recto initial blank parchment leaf., Detailed provenance history of manuscript in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on verso of initial blank parchment leaf., Layout: single columns of 19-23 lines., Script: rounded English gothic bookhand., Decoration: large initials in blue with red penwork., and Binding: early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Subject (Topic):
Versions, Wycliffe, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval