- Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 9
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 82
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of Chaucer's Treatise on the astrolabe
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 28 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork., Presentation inscription on verso of front flyleaf: Augustus W. Franks, the gift of Sir David Dundas., Ownership inscription on verso of front flyleaf: C. H. Read., Tipped in: autograph letter signed from D. D. to A. W. Franks, 1877 February 11., and Binding: nineteenth-century full calf; in case.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrolabes, English literature, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A treatise on the astrolabe
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- Creator:
- Walton, John, d. 1410
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa43
- Image Count:
- 226
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- John Walton's translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae. Written on vellum in Anglicana formata script in England in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript lacks the first quire, including the Preface and Prologue as well as stanzas 1-67.
- Description:
- In Middle English., The manuscript was copied by a scribe whose hand is also seen in several other vernacular manuscripts: Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 207 (John Gower, Confessio amantis), London, British Library, MS Arundel 119 (Lydgate, Siege of Thebes), and Tokyo, Private Collection, MS 54 (South English Legendary, second hand)., Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf recto (erased): "Ego domina Elizabeth domina de [?riche] Mont[e?] lego istum librum Roberto Godebowe armigero.", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf recto (erased): "Memorandum quod Iohannis Tr[...] istum librum de executum Roberti Godebowe [...]", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf verso (erased): "Iste liebr constat Iohanni.", Fifteenth-century inscription on front flyleaf verso: "Thome hyngham Monachi diui Edmundi de Bury." The script of the inscription matches that of an inscription in the Macro Plays manuscript (Folger Library, Washington, DC, MS V.a.354), which refers to a "monachus Hyngham.", Decoration includes two- to four-line pen-flourished initials., Binding: contemporary tawed leather on cushion wooden boards, re-backed and re-covered, preserving original sides., Colophon: "Explicit liber Boecii de Consolacione Philosophie de Latino in Anglicum translatus Anno Domini Millessimo CCCCmo decimo per Capellanum Johannem et cetera" (f. 104v)., and Schøyen MS 615.
- Subject (Name):
- Walton, John, d. 1410.
- Subject (Topic):
- Poetry, Middle English poetry, and Philosophy and religion
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De consolatione philosophiae; 1410
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 317
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper. Includes passages from the Lay Folks' Catechism; The Virtues of the Mass; and Symon Wynter's Amplification of the Life of St. Jerome, drawn from the Legenda aurea and from the apocryphal correspondence between Sts. Cyril and Augustine, and supplemented with revelations of St. Birgitta. Also contains excerpts concerning the Virgin Mary and confession
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified bull's head, small in size, buried in gutter., Script: Written primarily by a single scribe in Secretary script, with additions and corrections added in the 16th century., Edges frayed and upper portion of most leaves stained, with loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown calf, blind-tooled. Title, in gold, on spine: "Life of St. Jerome. M. S.". Remains of early place mark on f. 22.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
- Subject (Topic):
- Catechisms, Confession, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Devotional writings
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 45
- Container / Volume:
- Broadside
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand, of text from the "Lyfe of Sylvester" in the Gilte Legende
- Description:
- In Middle English., From Takamiya MS 45: Doheny Collection of single leaves., Layout: double columns of forty lines., Script: English bookhand., and Decoration: initials in blue with red penwork.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Saints
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gilte legende
- Published / Created:
- 1433 June 14.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 133
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Sir John Fastolf to purchase lands in Norwich from Richard Sellyng, who owned them through the inheritance of his wife Alice Heilsdon
- Description:
- In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Burdon.", Endorsed on the verso in the hand and with the ownership mark of Sir Edward Dering., and Layout: single column of 13 lines.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Fastolf, John, 1378?-1459. and Sellyng, Richard, -1467.
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Indenture between Sir John Fastolf and Richard Sellyng
- Published / Created:
- 1446 March 1.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 134
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Indenture, on parchment, containing an agreement by Thomas Tuddenham to sell his lands at Alestaneswyck (possibly Stanwick St. John, North Yorkshire) to Edward Grimston for 400 marks, to be paid over 3 years. The contract also specifies that a manor in Suffolk will be surety for the purchase of these entailed lands
- Description:
- In Middle English., Indented at head of document with chirographic letters., Signed: sign manual of Edward Grimston at end of text., Signed: document signed by the scribe, "Brampton.", Docketed in a later hand., Seal: red wax seal with the crest of Edward Grimston (damaged)., Layout: Single column of fifteen lines., and Script: anglicana.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England., England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Yorkshire (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Grimston, Edward, -1478. and Tuddenham, Thomas, 1401-1462.
- Subject (Topic):
- Entail, Land tenure, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Indenture between Thomas Tuddenham and Edward Grimston
- Creator:
- Idle, Peter, d. 1474?.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa50
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, of Peter Idley's Instructions to his son, an adaptation (ca. 1445-50) of Albertano of Brescia's treatises addressed to his own sons. The manuscript was produced in England at the end of the fifteenth century and is written in anglicana and secretary script
- Description:
- In Middle English and Latin., Idley's Liber Secundus, a separate poem, follows the Instructions on f. 31v., Fragments of late thirteenth-century graded calendar used as pastedowns., Numerous sixteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Thomas Dowse on flyleaves., Verses from William Warner, Erasmus, and Shakespeare copied on flyleaves in sixteenth-century hands., and Binding: contemporary white leather over wooden boards; spine sewn on five double tawed leather thongs; remnants of clasp (three foliate metal pins) on upper cover.
- Subject (Name):
- Idley, Peter, d. 1474?
- Subject (Topic):
- Conduct of life, Didactic poetry, English, English poetry, and Youth
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Instructions to his son
- Creator:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 101
- Image Count:
- 122
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Edward, the second Duke of York, Master of Game
- Description:
- In English., Script: Written by a single scribe in a careful English secretary script., Gold initials, 3-line, on blue and dark pink grounds with white highlights mark text divisions. Headings and marginal chapter references, in red, throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown skin, flesh side out, blind-tooled, over paper boards. Front cover detached.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and York (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415.
- Subject (Topic):
- English literature, Hunting, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Master of game
- Creator:
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa45
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Fragment, on vellum, of Piers Plowman, produced in Anglicana book script in Oxford or London at the beginning of the 15th century. The bifolium includes Passus II, line 200 to Passus III, line 44; and Passus IV, lines 123-174
- Description:
- In Middle English., The fragment was discovered during renovations in the Old Vicarage, Wickhambrook, Suffolk., and Schøyen MS 1953.
- Subject (Name):
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Subject (Topic):
- Poetry and Middle English poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Piers Plowman
- Published / Created:
- 1421 August 20.
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 132
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript document, on parchment, in a single hand, containing a quitclaim by John Burgh, parson of Huish Champflower in Somerset, releasing his rights in the lands and tenements of John Badyngton of Somerset
- Description:
- In Middle English., Layout: single column of 9 lines., and Script: secretary script.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Connecticut, New Haven., and Somerset (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Land tenure and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Quitclaim by John Burgh