In English., Script: Articles 1 and 2 written by a single person in a careful secretary script; other items added by several contemporary and later hands., One loose leaf, presently tipped in between ff. 1 and 2, has pen and ink sketch of falconer, with bird and dog. Inscription above drawing: "Lorde let me not, in Vanitie/Delight more, then I should in thee.", and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp vellum case with title lettered on spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Falconry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of George Waymouth (fl. 1587-1611), The jewell of artes, an unfinished technical handbook of navigation, inventions, fortifications, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting of short textual parts and extremely numerous full-page technical drawings and diagrams of high quality
Description:
About the author, a somewhat mysterious navigator, scholar and engineer, see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, v. 51 (2004), pp. 777-778. He returned in 1602 from his unsuccesful expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, presented the King in 1604 with two versions of his treatise The Jewell of Artes and undertook in 1605 a new expedition to the American East coast, landing in Maine., In English., Script: Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary)., and Binding: Original armorial (rebacked). Brown calf over cardboard, both covers gold-tooled with a seme pattern of flowerets, corner pieces and a central piece with the arms of King James I. Spine with six raised bands and red title-label with inscription "JEWELL OF ARTES".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Waymouth, George.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Military art and science, and Navigation
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of the treatise on hunting by Edward Plantagenet, second Duke of York
Description:
In Middle English., Presentation inscription from John Shirley to Richard Halsham follows the text., Ownership inscription of Sir Gregory Page-Turner on f. 1., Layout: single columns of 34 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: full illuminated border on f. 1, with small illuminated initials at chapter openings (six of these have been cut away)., and Binding: nineteenth-century full blind-tooled diced russia.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, Hunting, and Manuscripts, Medieval
In Middle English., Script: Anglicana., and Decoration: large initial "H" in red and blue penwork and other smaller initials in alternating red or blue.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English prose literature, Hunting, and Manuscripts, Medieval
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 parchment in two parts. Part I: Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. Due to the loss of quires or leaves the following parts are missing: Ps. 23:1-31:6; Ps. 44:14-50:21; Ps. 88:48-95:10; Ps. 131:8-147:14. The contents of the first quire, which is equally lost, is unknown. Written at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Part II: Unidentified definitions and theological and ethical discussions of Biblical terms and quotations without apparent order, on behalf of preachers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by various hands close to each other in small late Carolingian script, with sudden changes in the shade of ink and sometimes badly following the lines. The handwriting on ff. 77-84 (quire XI) and ff. 112-113 (quire XVI) has markedly different features. Part II (ff. 114-133): Written by a single hand in tiny Southern Gothica Textualis Currens, at different times and in many different ink shades. The scribe opens both quires with "Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia" in the upper margin., Part I: The very simple decoration is uneven and consists of plain Romanesque initials, 2 or 3 lines, in red ink; on f. 41r (Ps. 51) 5 lines; many initials are not executed or later coarsely added in black ink. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled with triple fillets. Spine with three raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bede. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Preaching
Manuscript on paper in two parts. Part I: Aristoteles, Topica. First folio of De sophisticis elenchis inserted after f. 137. Many folios replaced on 16th-century paper. Part II: 1) Heraclius (attributed author), Brontologion (Rules for interpreting thunder). 2) Ezra the Prophet (attributed author), Prognosis (Weather prophecies). 3) Stories from the Old Testament. The 2 parts of the book were probably bound together in Venice about 1500
Description:
In Greek., Headings in red., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Italian blind-tooled calf with unidentified arms in gilt on both covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Aristotle.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Philosophy, and Science, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of St. Bernardine of Siena, Tractatus de restitutionibus. The sermons are part of the De christiana religione of St. Bernardine, O.F.M., often copied as a separate work
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script., Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red., and Binding: ca. 1900. Vellum case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Bernardino, da Siena, Saint, 1380-1444. and Franciscans.
Subject (Topic):
Catechetical sermons, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508
Published / Created:
[between 1500 and 1525]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 659
Image Count:
34
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment of Berault Stuart (Bernard Stewart, ca. 1452/53-1508), Traite sur l'art de la guerre
Description:
In French., Script: Copied by one hand in a small Gothica Hybrida Formata (loopless Bastarda)., Line-fillers in liquid gold on red, blue or brown ground. 2-line (rarely 3- or 4-line) initials on square background, in liquid gold on coloured background or in colour, heightened with white, on liquid gold background decorated with leaves and flowers. Six miniatures., and Binding: Early nineteenth century. Cross-grained red leather over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled with a decorative border, the turn-ins gold-tooled with dentelle border; brownish marbled endpapers; the spine gold-tooled with flowerets and the title "L'ORDRE D'UN CHEF DE GUERRE PAR D'AUBIGNY".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Stuart, Bérault, seigneur d'Aubigny, ca. 1452-1508.
Subject (Topic):
French literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Military art and science