- Creator:
- Catholic Church.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1410]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 100
- Image Count:
- 377
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a book of hours according to the Use of Sarum. The Latin text is followed by a brief treatise in Middle English on prayer, titled "Here begynneth in what man[ner] preyer sholde be vsed." The volume concludes with prayers in Latin and Middle English.
- Alternative Title:
- Book of hours
- Description:
- Binding: modern red velvet; red morocco box., Calendar contains three notes concerning births and a marriage of Cheyne family members., Decoration: three historiated initials with full-page borders; one smaller historiated initials and seven large foliate initials with borders. many smaller initals in gold with blue penwork or in blue with red penwork., Description of volume, in Latin, signed WA.1804 on recto of front flyleaf., Formerly owned by the Chenye (Cheney) family; Jone Ffyn; Henry Huth; Edward Cheney. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 17 lines., Ownership inscription of Jone Ffyn on verso of front flyleaf., and Script: gothic bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church.--Book of hours. and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Books of hours., Devotional literature, English (Middle), English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of hours : use of Sarum.
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- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 69
- Image Count:
- 292
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, containing the Penitential Psalms, the Litany of the Saints, the Psalms of the Passion, and other Latin prayers and devotions. The text is preceded by two pages of rubrics in Middle French; there are Middle English rubrics concerning indulgences on ff. 55-57. Several pages contain short pieces of music in the margins, probably in a contemporary hand. and The manuscript also contains two miniatures not original to the text. The first (f. 4) is a full-page miniature of St. Christopher in color against a stylized landscape and a gold ground with a title sewn to the top margin, possibly predating its current binding by 50 years. The second (ff. 62b-63) is a double-page miniature of the Adoration of the Magi; the figures are outlined in ink and finished with washes in green, red and blue. Possibly intended as a pattern for embroidery or for wall-painting.
- Description:
- Binding: 16th-century English blind-stamped calf, with panels of heads in medallions, rebacked., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 110 initials in blue with red penwork. Full-page minature illustration of St. Christopher; double-page illustration of the Adoration of the Magi., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Front and back pastedowns from a contemporary? printed German play about Adam and Eve., In Latin, with a small number of rubrics in Middle French (ff.1-2) and Middle English (ff. 55-57)., Layout: first section in single columns of 17 lines; second section in single columns of 12 lines., and Script: gothic liturgical script.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts,, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Penitential psalms and litany.
- Creator:
- Higden, Ranulf, -1364.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475-1500]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 114
- Image Count:
- 755
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of portions of the text of Higden's Polychronicon. mostly related to the history of England from Brutus to Richard II. Preceded by a table of contents.
- Alternative Title:
- Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane and Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti
- Description:
- Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf; blind-ruled, with crown stamp in the corners. The binder has been identified as a London binder who also worked for Samuel Pepys. Metal chain attached from the upper cover, fourteen links, a ring on either end, and a middle swivel., Bound with: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti (Strasburg, 1493); William Lyndwood, Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, (Paris, 1504)., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 60 large initials in red with penwork in brown ink., Ex libris Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of approximately 35 lines., MS is third of three works bound together. Paginated 1-195., Numerous marginal annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Marginal note on p. 136 refers to the death of Oliver Cromwell ("tyranno")., Script: English cursive bookhand., and Watermark: Briquet 11159?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Higden, Ranulf,---1364., Martinus, Polonus, d. 1279, and Thomas, Alan G.--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Incunabula in Yale Library., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and World history--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Polychronicon.
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- Published / Created:
- [1475-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 47
- Image Count:
- 422
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in at least two hands, containing the text of the psalter, preceded by prayers and a calendar, and followed by canticles and a litany. The calendar is very detailed and includes dates of various English battles, the latest of which is the battle of Dunkirk (1483).
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary binding of reversed skin over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on five double bands. Remains of clasps on the front board., Decoration: Rubricated. Small initials throughout in red and blue with contrasting penwork; seven large illuminated initials with two-sided borders; large illuminated initial on the first leaf of the text of the Psalter., Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Latin; a few notes in the calendar in Middle English., Layout: single columns of 21 lines., Note concerning the probable date of the volume in Latin, in a later hand (9v.), and Script: rounded gothic liturgical script.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy., Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions., and Thomas, Alan G.--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., Psalters., and Psalters--England--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1475-1499]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 33
- Image Count:
- 126
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, incomplete, in a single hand, of John Lydgate's and Benedict Burgh's Middle English verse translation of the twelfth-century Latin treatise Secretum Secretorum, itself a translation of the Kitab sirr al-asrar. In addition to this text, the volume also contains several prose pieces in Middle English and Latin, including one with illustrated diagrams and a Latin tract on the interpretation of dreams.
- Description:
- Binding: disbound, but with some original sewing intact; modern case., Decoration: 15 illuminated borders; other decorated initials, some gilt., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: various single-column., Script: English bookhand., Several medical recipes added on blank leaves and portions of leaves in a sixteenth-century? cursive hand., and Signature of John Bonen? in a seventeenth-century hand. Signature of Thomas Bowen in a seventeenth-century hand.
- Subject (Name):
- Burgh, Benedict. and Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
- Subject (Topic):
- Astrology--Early works to 1800., Astronomy, Medieval., Astronomy--Early works to 1800., Education of princes--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medicine, Medieval., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Secretum secretorum.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1427]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 41
- Image Count:
- 549
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in multiple hands, of a complete set of the statutes of England from 1327 to 1427. In Law French with Latin headings.
- Description:
- Binding: early flexible binding, designed to accomodate further additions of leaves, with stiff leather covers stitched on with leather thongs; original bands and sewing visible. "Edw. Bennett" cut into upper cover in a later hand., Decoration: blue initials with red penwork., Foliation provided by cataloger., Formerly owned by William Elwys; Edward Bennett; T. Butler; Colin Franklin. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 30-36 lines., Numerous contemporary marginal annotations in a number of hands., Ownership inscription: "T. Butler 1759" on first leaf (1r)., Ownership inscription: "Wilelmo Elwys" on first leaf (1r) and final leaf (269v)., and Script: several secretary scripts.
- Subject (Name):
- Elwys, William--Autograph., England.--Parliament., and Franklin, Colin--Ownership.
- Subject (Topic):
- Feudal law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--England--Early works to 1800., Law--Great Britain--Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Statutes of England from 1 Edward III to 4 Henry VI.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 31
- Image Count:
- 210
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page index of readings according to the liturgical calendar and the opening stanzas of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in Latin.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards., Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork., Ex libris Earl of Egremont; Boies Penrose; Boies Penrose II. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines., and Script: English bookhand.
- Subject (Name):
- Egremont, George O'Brien Wyndham,--Earl of,--1751-1837--Bookplate., Penrose, Boies,--1860-1921--Bookplate., Penrose, Boies,--1902-1976--Bookplate., Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?, and Wycliffe, John,---1384.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bible.--English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe., Bible.--New Testament., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Wycliffite New testament.