- Creator:
- Waymouth, George
- Published / Created:
- 1603-1604.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 565
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 1173
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The jewell of artes
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- Creator:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1425-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 16
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 116
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The master of game
- Creator:
- Edward, of Norwich, 1373?-1415
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 141
- Container / Volume:
- File
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Description:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The master of game (fragment)
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 171
- Image Count:
- 74
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The treatise of fishing with an angle
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450; between 1300 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 163
- Image Count:
- 390
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment, composed of 2 parts, both of uneven quality. Part I of the codex written in the 15th century. The final quire, written probably in the 14th century, was bound in with the first 186 ff. in the 16th or 17th century. Contains excerpts of historical tracts, medical recipes, charms, prayers, notes on parliament, philosophy, and dream interpretation, proverbs, poems, notes on horses and hunting, and excerpts from astronomical and religious tracts
- Description:
- In English and Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-186): Written in Anglicana, by 2 main scribes, with abundant notes and texts added in margins and blank spaces by other hands. On ff. 179r-181r the scribe begins in Anglicana formata but lapses into a more cursive grade. Initials (3- and 2-line), underlining, rubrics and slashes at ends of sentences in red. From ff. 103r-140v, 3- and 2-line initials in blue with red penwork and long flourishes; on ff. 30r-31v (on the exchequer), checkerboards in blue, red and black in upper and lower margins. Water stains on ff. 1-2, only affecting a few words of the text. Part II (ff. 187-193): Written by one scribe in an uneven 14th-century Anglicana. Three-line initial on f. 187r not filled in. Outer column of f. 187 cut off., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries. Limp, flush boards are made up of fibrous, felted material (paper?) sandwiched between two layers of vellum, which extend across the spine. This case is glued and tacketed to the bookblock with three tackets consisting of at least six threads each. Stitches go through the spine linings around three threads at head and tail. Covered with tawed skin, originally pink, the turn-ins glued over the pastedowns. The cover extends in fore-edge and envelope flaps. Some rodent damage on the upper board and part of the envelope cut away. Discoloration and traces of adhesive on three outer edges of envelope flap.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Topic):
- Charms, English literature, Hunting, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medicine, and Medicine, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wagstaff miscellany