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10. The fire of love, etc
- Creator:
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 331
- Image Count:
- 92
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of 1) Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love. 2) Poem added, 16th century, by Richard Hutton. 3) Richard Rolle, The Mending of Life. 4) Verse life of John of Bridlington (d. 1379). Written in a Northern dialect; numerous marginal and interlinear notes in hands of 16th-17th centuries illustrate that the text was being read for comprehension in this period. Annotations include corrections (often by one individual on comments made by another), glosses on particular words, and whole passages transcribed in the margins
- Description:
- In English (Northern dialect)., Script: Written by a single scribe in bastard Secretary script. Marginal and interlinear glosses by several hands, 16th-17th centuries., Blue initials, 2-line, with elaborate pen-work flourishes, in red: zigzags along the margin and foliage designs in and around the body of letter. Underlining, initial strokes, and simple helical line-fillers, in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Original, wound sewing on seven small, double, tawed-skin supports laced into grooves on the inside of oak boards and pegged. Covered in pink, tawed skin with two strap-and-pin fastenings, flower-shaped pin bases on the lower board. Fastenings wanting and supports breaking. Original pastedowns from an antiphonal (England, 13th century) with parts of the office for Stephen at Matins and at Lauds; musical notation on 4-line red staves.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Rolle, Richard, of Hampole, 1290?-1349.
- Subject (Topic):
- Antiphonaries, Devotional literature, English (Middle), English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The fire of love, etc
11. The ordinal of alchemy
- Creator:
- Norton, Thomas, active 1477
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1610]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 46
- Image Count:
- 149
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper in English verse with a Latin verse prologue of Thomas Norton of Bristol's Ordinall of Alchemy, written in 1477
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Script: Written by a single English hand writing a very fine and regular italic sloping to the right., No color, no illustration., Watermark: arms of Austria with the golden fleece, similar to Briquet 2291., and Binding: Original English binding of white, limp parchment, the covers blocked in gold with the armorial stamp employed by Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland: the badge of the Percy house, the white or crescent moon, within the representation of the garter, surmounted by an earl's coronet; fore-edges of each cover with overhanging flaps and with remains of two original green linin ties; flat back with four thongs used in the sewing-in exposed at regular intervals on each side of the backstrip, with traces of original lettering at head of backstrip now illegible, later writing in old style below probably the work of a modern repairer, possibly covering an original inscription; plain edges; a strip of parchment, cut from a manuscript in Latin, ca. 1100, is visible surrounding the back of the quires of the manuscript, used in the sewing-in, with writing visible at the front of the volume only.
- Subject (Name):
- Norton, Thomas, active 1477.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy and English poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The ordinal of alchemy