- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1740]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 97
- Image Count:
- 344
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Blank pages not digitized. and Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Formulas, recipes, etc, Herbs--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 > Alchemical recipes
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- Creator:
- Cockerell, Douglas, binder
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 - Published / Created:
- ca. 1400
- Call Number:
- Osborn fa1
- Image Count:
- 402
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.", Manuscript on parchment in Anglicana (Scribes 1 and 2) and Secretary script (Scribe 3). The text is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-1393.The manuscript was produced around 1400 or the beginning of the fifteenth century in the same manner as the other surviving manuscripts from this time, presumably under the author's supervision., and The text of the manuscript is the third recension of the Confessio Amantis, written in 1392-93. Also contained are the Latin and French poems "Explicit iste liber," "Epistola super huius," "Quam cinxere," "Traitie," "Carmen de variis in amore passionibus," and "Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia.
- Description:
- Binding: yellow morocco on wooden boards, by Douglas Cockerell and Son, 1962., Ex libris Sir George Meyrick. Gift of James M. Osborn, 1961., First and third quires wanting., Imperfect: stained by mildew throughout; rubbing; multiple repairs with some loss of text., Rubrications at running titles, initials, Latin commentary., Sir George Meyrick, Bart., who sold the manuscript after his father's death in 1960, said that the manuscript had been in his family's possession for over 100 years and that in 1775 the house was almost destroyed by fire. Many family papers were lost and perhaps it was then that the manuscript became damp and mildewed., and There are red and blue 1-3 line initials at small and large paragraph breaks. Books II (f. 13r), V (76r), VI (125r), VII (140r), and VIII (175v) contain initials with full page demi-vignette borders in gold, red, blue, green, orange, and brown.
- Subject (Name):
- Gower, John,--1325?-1408 and Meyrick, George,--Sir--Ownership
- Subject (Topic):
- English poetry--14th century, English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500, French poetry--14th century, Latin poetry--14th century, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Confessio Amantis (Middle English poem)
- Published / Created:
- [14--]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 841
- Image Count:
- 28
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Bound in a contemporary document, ms., in Latin, 1371.
- Subject (Name):
- Nicholas, Saint, Bp. of Myra --Drama
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ludi Sancti Nycholai : eight miracle plays on the life of St. Nicholas
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1275-1299].
- Call Number:
- Osborn a1
- Image Count:
- 330
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in Gothic script, produced in Flanders during the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century.
- Description:
- Binding: dark brown calf skin over pasteboards (sixteenth or seventeenth century)., Decorations include a half-page initial on f. 43r (six other half-page initials have been cut from the manuscript) and illustrations of the labors of the months in the calendar., On the calendar page for December, St. Thomas of Canterbury's name has been erased from its place, indicating English ownership at least in the sixteenth century., and The back flyleaf has, in two fourteenth century hands, a French song "Une bon chanson ay troue" and a Middle English carol "Mayde and moder, glade thou be."
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter, [circa 1275-1299].
- Creator:
- Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1680
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 100
- Image Count:
- 70
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Imperfect: sections of manuscript wanting.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Treatise ...]