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
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In Anglo-Norman., Script: Written in Anglicana bookhand by one scribe., Decorative initials, blue with red penwork, appear only on ff. 1-12; initial strokes and headings, in red, throughout., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment (thick) of 1) Notes on the baronial Clare family of Gloucester, in chart format, from a manuscript contemporary with or slightly earlier than the main text (art. 3). Name of the appropriate King of England appears on the left in a red circle [concludes with King Edward IV, 1327-77], and a short history of certain members of the Clare family are added on the right. 2) Genealogical tree, added between 1450 and 1500, establishing the claims of King Edward IV (1461-83) to the kingdoms of England, France, Castile and Leon. 3) Brut Chronicle, up to 1419, but the final leaf of text has been torn out
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In Middle English., Script: Written by a single scribe in neat Anglicana formata. Running titles and marginal notes added by later hands., Illuminated initial, 6-line, on f. 1r, pink on gold ground, with blue, green, and pink acanthus leaves, and white highlights; full bar-border with swirling acanthus leaves in same colors as for initial; black hair-spray in outer margins. Heading and chapter numbers in red. Small initials, 2-line, blue with red flourishes, for most chapters. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue., Parchment is well thumbed and worn, especially f. 1r; some loss of text., and Binding: 17th-18th centuries. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled, with a brick-colored, gold-tooled label, probably a later addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clare family. and Edward IV, King of England, 1442-1483.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
Manuscript on parchment of Brut Chronicle to 1333, the earliest stage of the Middle English text
Description:
In English., Script: Written by at least two scribes in neat Anglicana formata., Plain initials, 9- to 2-line, in blue, throughout text. Headings and chapter numbers in red, with blue spiral line-fillers. Paragraph marks for headings in blue, for text in blue or red. Remains of guide-letters for rubricator., Parchment is stained and worn; some portions of text illegible., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original wound, caught up sewing on four tawed, slit straps. Boards made of bifolios of vellum with a piece of leather wrapped around them, but not covering the spine. Sewing breaking.
Manuscript on paper of Carta de foresta, a collection of hunting and forestry laws. With a collection of extracts, in Latin, all concerning laws of forestry
Description:
In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written in a well formed chancery hand by a single scribe., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Endleaves reinforced with vellum, two leaves originally pasted to each board. Sewn on five single, tawed skin thongs laced into paste boards rounded on the outside of the spine edge. Beaded endbands sewn on leather or cane cores but not laced to boards. The spine is square, with traces of adhesive. Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple line border and a small central ornament. Two ribbon fastenings, now wanting. Leather broken at joint, sewing reinforced.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment of a collection of laws governing hunting and forestry
Description:
In Latin, with passages in English and French., Script: Arts. 4-14 written in a neat chancery script with Anglicana influence; arts. 1 and 15 in similar, but less elegant hands; arts. 2-3 are in gothic textura., Plain initial, in red, with crude ink penwork flourishes on f. 1v; KL monograms and portions of calendar also on red., Some stains on ff. 2r-7v render text illegible., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Rebinding in quarter pigskin, tanned, not tawed, with a strap and pin fastening. The oak boards, cambered on all four outer edges and with rectangular pegs, are probably contemporary with the manuscript. Front pastedown composed of a small fragment of prayers in Latin (15th century).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forests and forestry, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on paper containing a collection of hunting and forestry laws
Description:
In English., Watermark: similar to Briquet 12781., The text includes: 1) Table of Contents of art. 2, referring to the early foliation. 2) A collection of hunting and forestry laws similar to those published by John Manwood, A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest (London, 1592) and A Treatise and Discourse of the Lawes of the Forrest ... (London, 1598). 3) Two extracts. (1) De placito forestarum. B. Thorpe, ed., Ancient Laws and Institutions of England ( London, 1840), p. 228; (2) Dialogus de Scaccario, W. Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (Oxford, 1913), pp. 221-222. 4) Consuetudines et assisa de foresta. 5) Ordinatio forestae., Script: written in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), often difficult to read. Gothica Cursiva Antiquior is used as display script., and Binding: grey paper over pasteboard; on the spine a leather label with gold-tooled inscription: "FOREST / LAWS / MS. / CIRCA /1580".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Forestry law and legislation, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on Romans, begins imperfectly at 1. 24; missing Romans 9.17-21 (and portions of 9.16, 22). 2) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on 1 Corinthians; missing 7.39-15.44. 3) Robert of Bridlington, Catena on 2 Corinthians; ends abruptly at 12.20.
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In Latin., Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by three scribes. Scribe 1) ff. 1r-2v; 2) 3r-22v, 51r-71v; 3) ff. 22v-50v, 72r-96v., Large elegant initial, 26-line, in red penwork, on f. 72r; smaller similar initial, 16-line, in green with red highlights, also on f. 72r; simple decorative letters, 14- and 6-line, green and red respectively, on f. 51r. Quotations from Bible and marginal notes referring to authors cited, in red. Modern illuminated title page inserted as f. iii: "Catena Commentariorum S. S. Patrum, in Epistolis ad Romanos et Corinthios. M. S. Saeculi XIV"., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Russia leather, blind-tooled, over wooden boards; 4 metal bosses on each cover; leather thong.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Robert, of Bridlington, 1167.
Subject (Topic):
Catenae, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism
Cursive bookhand script of the late 16th century. Title page illustrated with columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription ""Christ adsit et praesit,"" and signed by I. S. Bound in thick vellum, with mathematical calculations on back c and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England and dated October 8, 1584. It includes psalms arranged as 66 prayers in prose, songs in praise of Christ's birth and the Lord's supper, metrical versions of 66 psalms by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, and "an exhortation unto ye praise of God to be songe before morning and evening praier."
Description:
Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Binding: thick vellum; mathematical calculations on back cover., Illustration on title page of columns wreathed with scrolls bearing the date and the inscription "Christ adsit et praesit," and signed by T. S., On f. 152r, Rose Silvester signed it as her book on July 5, 1649. Next follows the signature of William Silvester and the inscription "his booke and hee that Steles him shall bee hanged upon a hoke as hie as William Silvester can looke.", On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673., On the verso of the title page are recorded the births of William Silvester's five children from 1663 to 1673. On folio 151v, after the exhortation, two hands repeat the last four lines, dated 1649, one by Rose Silvester. On 152r, Rose Silvester signs it, and Watermark: pot, Briquet 12725 (Bruges, 1581).
Subject (Topic):
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Psalters
In English., Script: Written in a careful cursive hand sloping slightly to the right in a single column 170 x 110 mm without bordering lines or ruling. the text has been partly corrected by another hand and with significant marginalia throughout by this hand in inks of different hues., Watermarks: Paper watermarked with a crowned coat of arms, probably a Dutch paper not certainly identified., Binding: English binding of diced brown Russia leather, a border of gilt dots around the edges of the covers, inside and out, the backstrip in compartments similarly treated, original title label on second compartment from top gold-lettered: "Anonimo Manuscritto di un Vero Adepto." Plain edges. Hinges and corners repaired., Tome 1: 1 smaller leaf 220 x 140 mm inserted after first leaf of index., and Tome 2: 1 smaller leaf 190 x 112 mm inserted after page 157.