Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898, illustrator Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Works. 1896. Kelmscott Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver Morris, William, 1834-1896
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1310
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1 - Folder 2
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Two page proofs from the edition of Chaucer published by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press in 1896. The first proof is pages 26-27, with an illustration designed by Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by William Harcourt Hooper; it bears an autograph note by Sydney Carlyle Cockerell: "Kelmscott Press Chaucer 1896 - proof with illustration by Burne-Jones." The second is page 63, with Morris's autograph corrections and notes, and an autograph note by Sydney Carlyle Cockerell: "Kelmscott Press Chaucer 1896. Pressman's query on proof submitted to William Morris with his indignent comments."
Description:
Page 63: Gift of Frederick W. Hilles (Yale 1922), 1967., Pages 26-27: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund., Text in English., Title devised by cataloger., and William Morris (1834-1896), English textile designer, artist, writer, publisher, and socialist
Subject (Name):
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley,--1833-1898, Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Works.--1896.--Kelmscott, Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle,--Sir,--1867-1962--Ms. notes, Hooper, William Harcourt,--1834-1912, Kelmscott Press, and Morris, William,--1834-1896
Manuscript chronicle roll, on parchment, in two hands. The first three membranes contain a late thirteenth-century chronicle in Latin prose on the kings of England from Atheldred to Henry III. The last two membranes contain John Lydgate's Middle English Verses on the kings of England
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Layout: single column., Script: two gothic bookhands., Decoration: decorative frames around names of kings and families., and Binding: modern case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Kings and rulers
Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana script, produced in England during the early fourteenth century
Description:
In English., The text is incomplete, ending at line 4902 of 5166 lines., One of the flyleaves has the name Thomas Redyng in a late sixteenth-century hand., Bought from Lord Kingsborough by Lord Derby (Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl) in Dublin, Nov. 1, 1842., and Binding: nineteenth-century brown morocco with gilt Derby crest.
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
Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium and rhetorical works (23 pieces).
Description:
"The recovery of a fifteenth-century schoolmaster's book": Beinecke MS 3, no. 34, Voights and Shailor: Yale University Library Gazette, LX, (1985) pp. 11-31. and Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a binding.
Manuscript, in two unidentified hands, on parchment, including a Latin Chronicle (imperfect beginning, ends with Henry VI; ff. 1-5), and a collection of medical recipes and remedies in Middle English (ff. 16-65). The manuscript ends with a number of miscellaneous 16th century notes and inscriptions (ff. 63-80).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title from manuscript note on front pastedown., Script: gothica cursiva., Decoration: 4-line red and blue initials. Rubrication., Layout: 1 column of about 25 lines., Binding: original sheep leather binding, with vestiges of two strap-and-pin clasps, fastening from the upper to the lower boards., and Also available on microfilm.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, Manuscripts, and Recipes
Manuscript fragment, on vellum, in a single hand, of text from Book IV of Gower's Confessio Amantis
Description:
In Middle English., Taken from the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17) and used as binding waste., Layout: double columns of 36 lines (complete columns are of 46 lines), Script: formal bastard anglicana., Decoration: initials in gold, red, blue and purple., and Byname: Stafford Gower (fragment)
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Gower, John, 1325?-1408.
Subject (Topic):
English literature, English poetry, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Psalter in English, in the 8-part liturgical division, beginning defectively. Text is the later version of the Wycliffite translation of the Psalms. 2-7) Book of Hours, use of Sarum. 8) St. Jerome's Psalter, with introductory prayer and text followed by a suffrage to the Virgin. With Notes on Historia, Alegoria, Anagogia, Tropologia
Description:
In Middle English and Latin., Script: Written in small, well formed gothic bookhand., Five 6- to 5-line initials at the liturgical divisions of the Psalter (Psalms 26, 52, 68, 80, 97; initials for Psalms 1, 38, and 109 missing, offset initials on ff. 35v, 109r, and 156r), pink and blue with white highlights against cusped gold grounds, filled with brown, blue, and pink foliage with curling foliate serifs; pink, blue and gold bar border in outer margin with foliate shoots, terminals and horizontal extensions full across in upper and lower margins. Eleven 5- to 4-line initials (ff. 139v, 158v, 161r, 162r, 163r, 163v, 164r, 165v, 168r, 169v, 176v), gold, edged in black against a cusped ground, quartered in blue and pink, with white highlights and floral hair-spray. 3-line initials, blue with red penwork throughout. Capitals alternating red and blue. Rubrics throughout. Red and blue line-fillers in litany., and Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Brown leather case, blind-tooled. Red edges. Smells like a Middleton binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Devotional literature, English (Middle), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Psalters
