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.
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.
Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a version of this fourteenth-century pastoral manual. The text is in eight sections, or Tabulae, in Latin, with extensive passages in Middle English prose and interpolated Middle English verse.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century morocco., Decoration: red and blue initials with contrasting penwork., Ex libris Alfred Henry Huth; Sir Leicester Harmsworth; William and Christina Foyle. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya., Layout: single columns of 32 lines., and Script: written in an English bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Clergy--Early works to 1800., Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Foyle, William Alfred,--1885---Bookplate., Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership., and Huth, Alfred Henry,--1850-1910--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--Early works to 1800., English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500., English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Ma
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.