Manuscript on paper of Giovanni Gigli, Quaestiones de observantia quadragesimali
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Heawood 2473, 2475., Script: Written by a single scribe in English secretary script., Large crude initials, in red, at beginning of each section of text, accompanied by simple penwork designs in brown ink; paragraph marks in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords. No endbands. Cords laced through slanted round holes in oak boards. Covered in dark brown calf with traces of two sets of strap and pin fastenings, not contemporaneous, going from upper to lower board and vice versa. An outer covering of 19th century leather and marbled paper has been added. Sewing breaking. Covers lined with a parchment fragment of a Missal (England, 13th century); (front pastedown:) portions of the Gospel and the Secret for the Annunciation (25 March); (back pastedown:) portions from the Masses for the Nativity of John the Baptist (24 June), for John and Paul Martyrs (26 June), and for the Vigil of Apostles Peter and Paul (28 June).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gigli, Giovanni, d. 1498.
Subject (Topic):
Lent, Manuscripts, Medieval, Missals, and Theology, Doctrinal
Manuscript on parchment (one leaf and one interior tagged leaf) of the record of proceedings confirming the claim of Robert Bogas to a property in Brantham, Suffolk, against Queen Elizabeth I's assumption of the rights in wardship for Henry Moptyde
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in English chancery script., and Wax seal.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Court records, Land titles, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Politics and government
The text is an examination of the confessions of the conspirators in the plot against Queen Elizabeth and the role of Mary Queen of Scots in the conspiracy.
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Bound in a parchment bifolium from an early thirteenth century English Latin manuscript of the Digest of Justinian, Cursive script., Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text., On the front of the vellum wrapper is the name ""John Rigbye barrister, Cliffordes Ynne."", Pages not numbered consecutively., Several blank pages throughout., and The margins contain the glossa ordinaria of Accursius, as well as some later commentary in an Anglicana script.
Subject (Name):
Accursius, glossator, ca. 1182-ca. 1260, Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
Manuscript on paper composed of two parts. Part I: The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ (Meditationes vitae Christi), tr. Nicholas Love. Includes Adam of Dryburgh (Adam Scotus) O. Praem, later O. Carth. (d. 1212), De instructione animae; ends incomplete in I.4. Part II: The Thirty-Nine Articles (doctrinal formulas accepted by the Church of England), articles 1-19 only, in diagram form, all pages being organized in three sections titled "the truth", "the creed", and "errors".
Alternative Title:
Meditationes vitae Christi. English
Description:
In English and Latin., Script: Part I: Written by two scribes in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary very close to Anglicana). Part II: Written in careful Gothica Cursiva (Secretary)., Majuscules are heightened in red (?) up to f. 8v. Red paragraph marks (?). Plain red 2- to 4-line initials. A 4-line red (?) flourished initial with rather coarse penwork in (?), including a human head and a fish, on f. 1r., and Two parchment fly-leaves of the original binding are inserted after f. 100: they have been taken from a 13th-century manuscript and contain fragments of Codex Iustiniani, VI.3.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Church of England.
Subject (Topic):
Devotional literature, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Theology, Doctrinal
Cursive bookhand. Bound in original limp vellum. and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England during the fourth quarter of the sixteenth century.
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Binding: original limp vellum, cut away except for spine., Ex libris John Plimly. Ex libris John Jones. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Inscription on f. 53r of John Jones of Bala, 1815: "John Jones Bala Meirionydd Sydd yn gwneuthur rhodd o hwn Lyfr gell Ysgoldy Iesu Chwefror 10fed 1815 wedi ei gael gerllaw y Bala gan hen offeiriad.", Inscription on f. 56v: "John Plimly his Booke.", Inscription on f. 57r: "Mary Mall, 1660.", and On 57r: ""Mary Mall ... her book ... 1660
Subject (Name):
Jones, John,--of Bala--1815--Ownership, Mall, Mary--Ownership, and Plimly, John--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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, in the hand of the author, of Walter Cromer's treatise on medicine and surgery in Latin. First page in English explains contents of the work; incipit: The contents of this littell boke be the followinge: fyrste the originall beginning of phisike and churgery... First 7 and final 38 leaves are frame-ruled, but blank
Alternative Title:
[Treatise of medicine and surgery / signed] Walt. Cromer
Description:
In Latin and English., Title devised by cataloger., Script: humanist cursive., Layout: 1 columns of 31 lines., Binding: armorial brown leather binding over pasteboard, with coat of arms of Edward VI gold-tooled on both front and back covers., and Signed (f. 8v): Walt. Cromer.