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- Creator:
- Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450; between 1500 and 1510]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 12
- Image Count:
- 650
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a collection of pseudo-Lullian alchemical writings, translated from the French and Catalan originals, with a little additional matter. The codex underwent a transformation in the early 16th century when considerable new matter was added by another English hand on different, thinner paper; leaves have been inserted throughout the original codex.
- Description:
- Binding: Eighteenth century, English. Dark calf, sides paneled in blind with a roll tool of vine pattern, leafy sprays at the corners, back with six plain compartments and five raised bands, probably original parchment label on second compartment from top bordered with ink rule and lettered in ink: "RAYM. LULLII | OPERA | MANUSCRIPTA". The binding considerably repaired and some leather renewed. Original plain edges, the top blackened., Original text: Headings in red, rubricated. Some pages with diagrams or drawings. The illustrations include Lullian alphabets and tables in the form of wheels, an Arbor philosophorum, a group of flasks, and a good, large drawing of a furnace. Inserted leaves: Red headings, and capitals with slight decoration., Script: The original portion written by a single English gothic cursive hand with heavy standard abbreviation. The inserted leaves (first 4 ff. now extant, ff. 88-96, 163-169, 268-274, and 307-319 [of which f. 167 is a blank and f. 315 is a parchment leaf]) written in another gothic cursive habitually employing writing of different sizes., and Watermarks: Original paper: 1) an extremely primitive-looking unicorn with very short horn and long tail somewhat like Briquet 9962 and 10176; 2) a less primitive unicorn rather similar to Briquet 9985; 3) bullshead with defined eyes and nostrils and with cross above, rather like Briquet 15054. Inserted leaves: a very elegant unicorn mark, more developed than Briquet 10104; and some leaves with a gothic "P" with cinquefoil above, rather like Briquet 8809.
- Subject (Name):
- Llull, Ramon,--1232?-1316
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--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 > A collection of alchemical texts attributed to Lull, with some additional matter
- Creator:
- Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609.
- Published / Created:
- 1594 November 10.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 126
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Acquittance for Edward Greville.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1575]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 43
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1480-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 44
- Image Count:
- 76
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in at least seven hands, containing the text of the wills of Jankyn (or John) Smyth and his wife, Margaret Odeham, detailing their bequests to the Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds, as well as to other religious foundations, and the funeral expenses for Smyth. Also included are the grant of probate for Smyth's second will, dated 1481; and lists of lands donated by the couple, by name and location.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary binding of tawed white leather over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on four leather thongs. Remains of clasp; brass pin and mount on lower cover., Decoration: Rubricated. Large blue initial with red penwork (f. 8)., Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns, mostly of 32 lines., Numerous marginal annotations in both contemporary and later hands., and Script: manuscript is in at least seven hands.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bury St. Edmunds (England)--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Finance--Early works to 1800., Odeham, Margaret,--1492., Smyth, Jankyn,--1481., and Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charitable bequests--Early works to 1800., Endowments--Catholic Church., Legacies--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 > Benefactors' book of the Candlemas Guild of Bury St. Edmunds.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 86
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Fragments of a Brut Chronicle. Begins imperfectly in chapter 36 (Constantine) and has several lacunae. The work ends in chapter 86 (beginning on f. 11r) with the thirty-first year of Edward III. With art. 3) A note (in Latin) stating that King Henry IV was consecrated in 1399 and documenting his descent from Adam. 4) A list (in Latin) of 86 kings (each numbered) from Brutus to Edward III. 5) Names of prisoners captured and killed at the battle of Poitiers (19 Sept. 1356). 6) Terms of the treaty of Bretigny (8 May 1360). 7) Parliamentary text.
- Description:
- Acquired from Henry Fletcher in 1950., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Stab sewn to a vellum folder made up of a legal document (trimmed with some loss of text) dated 1766 and involving the manors of Whitechurch and Milbourne in Wiltshire. The outside has an inscription, 19th century, "Some leaves of early English History in Norman French supposed to have come from Malmesbury Abbey." A similar inscription occurs on f. i verso., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., In Anglo-Norman., and Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--14th century
- Subject (Name):
- England.--Treaties, etc.--France,--(1360 May 8)
- Subject (Topic):
- Anglo-Norman literature, Chronicles of England, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brut chronicle, etc.
- Creator:
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1135
- Image Count:
- 157
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment.
- Description:
- Imperfect: Water damaged with some loss of text. Mutilated at head. and Preliminary leaves (modern binder's blanks) not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--N.T.--John, Bible--Commentaries, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on the Gospel of John
- Creator:
- Upton, Nicholas, 1400?-1457.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 86
- Image Count:
- 252
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of this work on heraldry, chivalry and the laws of war. Bound with two illustrated heraldic treatises copied from printed editions: Sensuyt le blason des armes (Lyons: Claude Nourry, 1527) and Treatyses perteynyng to coatarmour (Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1496).
- Alternative Title:
- De studio militari
- Description:
- Binding: modern parchment over boards, rebacked., Bookseller's printed description pasted in on front pastedown., De officio in Latin; other texts in French and English., Decoration: Headings and initial letters in red and blue; decorated throughout with more than 270 emblazoned coats of arms in colors., Ex libris Lord William Howard; from the collections of H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence and Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Ownership inscription at top of first page: "William Howard 1591.", and Script: each work in a different professional book hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Howard, William,--Lord,--1563-1640--Autograph. and Upton, Nicholas,--1400?-1457.
- Subject (Topic):
- Chivalry--Great Britain., Chivalry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Heraldry--Great Britain., Heraldry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Nobility--Great Britain., and Nobility--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De officio militari : and other works.
- Creator:
- Walter, of Châtillon, fl. 1170-1180
- Published / Created:
- [between 1200 and 1235, 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 252
- Image Count:
- 196
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed in three parts. Part I consists of short aphorisms, prayers, recipes, etc. added in the 15th century; and the recopied Prologue to Part II. Part II: Gautier de Chatillon, Alexandreis, with Bks. I-VIII.307 (ff. 1-70) written by a 13th-century scribe and the remainder of the text (Part III) copied in the 15th century. Followed by short texts in Latin and Middle English similar to those in Part I.
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, England. Covered first with thin, white tawed skin, second with a tawed skin chemise, third with heavy tawed skin originally sewn to the chemise. One fastening, the catch on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the strap which is wanting. Sewn on three supports attached to oak boards and pegged with wedges set at an angle. The spine is back beveled. Later additions include title, in ink, near head of upper board: "Gesta Alexandri Magni M.S." Repaired at head and tail of spine; rebacked., Loss of considerable text from f. 56 to end due to severe rodent damage., Part I: At the beginning of art. 6, text begins with blue 3-line initial with red herringbone penwork designs and the additional letters R and N, in blue, whose significance is unclear. Part II: Divided initial red and black with simple penwork designs in one or both colors for major text divisions; plain red initials elsewhere. First letter of each verse separated from text between bounding lines and stroked with red; paragraph marks in black. T-O map of the world, f. 7v. Part III: Decorative initials similar to those in Part I., Purchased from C.A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston., and Script: Part I (ff. i recto-iv verso): Written by several cursive hands of a decidedly English character. Part II (ff. 1-70): Written in early gothic bookhand, above top line. Part III (ff. 71-88): Written in well-formed English cursive script. Texts in art. 8 in a variety of cursive hands.
- Subject (Name):
- Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C and Walter,--of Châtillon,--fl. 1170-1180
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Prose poems, Latin (Medieval and modern)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gesta Alexandri Magni, etc.
- Published / Created:
- 1546 July 10.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 127
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grant of a crest to Robert Revell of Shorlonglegge.