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1. Book of Brome
- Published / Created:
- [between 1475 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 365
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 167
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a common-place book. The main texts of the manuscript, which are primarily devotional in nature, were written in East Anglia by an unidentified scribe toward the end of the 15th century; a second individual, identified as Robert...
- Description:
- Robert Melton was the co-executor of the estate of John Cornwallis (d. 1506), Lord of the Manors of Brome, Stuston, Okley, and Thranston, whose family possessed Brome Hall from early in the 15th to the 19th century.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Melton, Robert.
- Subject (Topic):
- Devotional literature, English (Middle)., English poetry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Book of Brome
2. Wagstaff miscellany
- 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 exc...
- Description:
- In English and Latin.
- 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